The Waverly Hills Sanatorium was a hospital dedicated to the treatment of tuberculosis patients.  Tuberculosis was a common disease in the early 20th century known as "white death," and had no cure at the time.  An estimated 63,000 people died in the sanatorium, possibly due to reports of mistreatment and experimental procedures on patients...It's no wonder why its haunted to this day.  While some patients survived both the disease and the treatments,  the majority of patients left through what came to be known as the “body chute”.  This was an enclosed tunnel for the dead which led from the hospital to the railroad tracks at the bottom of the hill and was created so that living patients would not see the dead.  The spirits of children playing, the smell of cooking food in the kitchen, footsteps in the hallways, and countless other ghostly phenomena have been reported over the years.

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