Ghost hunter tours abandoned hospital’s ‘body chute’ for corpses
nypost.comWaverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, last month, filming the freaky expedition for social media. The hospital first opened in July 1910 and was initially designed to handle around 40 to 50 patients at a time.
However, as tuberculosis rapidly spread, the hospital expanded, with 400 beds installed by 1926. A staggering 63,000 patients reportedly passed away at the hospital, with building managers even installing a “death chute” for doctors to drop corpses down for their quick disposal. “The building has its own body chute, which had a dark energy to it, considering it was a 500-foot-long tunnel that was used to send [out] … countless bodies of dead patients,” Smith told Jam Press following his trip to Waverly Hills. “You get that.
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