Waverly Hills Sanatorium: The Hospital on the Hill That Never Really Emptied

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium building in Louisville, Kentucky

About 4 min readBuilt to fight tuberculosis, Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, treated thousands of patients between 1910 and 1961 — and an estimated 6,000 of them died there. Today it is one of America’s most famous haunted places, and its real history is grim enough without the ghosts.