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Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions
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Product Description A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on. Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums, which house some of society’s worst offenders and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and physically ill find themselves trapped, even after death? Journey inside the history of these macabre settings and learn about the horrors from the past that live on in these frighteningly eerie tales from Canada, the United States, and around the world. About the Author Mark Leslie is the author of Creepy Capital and Tomes of Terror, as well as many other books on the fascinating and paranormal, and is editor of Campus Chills and Tesseracts Sixteen. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario. Rhonda Parrish is driven by a desire to do All. The. Things. She is an Assistant Editor at World Weaver Press, edits anthologies, and has had her shorter works included in dozens of publications including Tesseracts 17 and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2012 & 2015). Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Waverly Hills Sanatorium: The Most Haunted Location on Earth? Louisville Shadow people, spectral nurses, ghostly children, and distorted human forms crawling along ceilings: these are just some of the disturbing things people have encountered at Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. Originally a two-storey building, the sanatorium eventually grew to be a massive structure. In fact, in its heyday Waverly Hills was like a small city — self-sustaining and possessing its own zip code. Waverly Hills operated as a sanatorium, or tuberculosis hospital, housing and treating over four hundred patients at a time for many years. It closed its doors in 1961 after the development of streptomycin, an antibiotic proven to be effective in treating tuberculosis, rendered the facility obsolete. It reopened the next year as Woodhaven Geriatrics Hospital but was closed by the state in 1981 due to allegations of patient neglect and abuse. With a history like that, is it any wonder that Waverly Hills has been called one of the most haunted places on earth? Shadow People One thing Waverly Hills is known for is the sheer number of shadow people purported to reside within its walls. Shadow people are exactly what the term implies — people-shaped shadows. Except that these shadows don’t have a source — there is no one standing in a light to cast them. They just are. Shadow people take on several different shapes, everything from clear representations of humans to wispy or smoky mists. Though there are exceptions, usually shadow people are formed of darkness so dense that light cannot penetrate them. Theories about what causes shadow people are widely diverse, running the gamut from overactive imaginations to ghosts, demons, aliens, or even time travellers. Whatever they are, and whatever they want, many who have witnessed a shadow person have been irrevocably changed by the experience. The Body Chute Waverly Hills Sanatorium is massive, and it sits atop a very big hill, so getting supplies up to it could be a nightmare. It was also a cold trip to the bottom of the hill for staff in the wintertime. To solve this problem, they built a five-hundred-foot-long tunnel from the hospital to the base of the hill. One side of the tunnel had stairs so people could get up and down; the other side was a sloped “slide” used for carts and railcars — things with wheels. In time the facility began using the tunnel to transport disturbing cargo — human bodies. Urban legend says the tunnel found this purpose when the hospital death rate peaked — the stories say one person was dying at the facility every hour, but thankfully the real rate was much lower than that — an avera
