The History of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium

In the early 1900s, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the US. Patients were quarantined far from society and subject to archaic treatments. Now, the site of those treatments is said to be home to countless ghosts. Today, we tell the story of one of the most haunted places in the US, Waverly Hills Sanatorium.

Content warning: self-harm, patient abuse.

If you'd like to listen to past mysteries we discuss, they are: Pennhurst Asylum(podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Czg7KKOqXDW57B5WvMmOM?si=629a4d77aaad432c, ghost hunt: https://youtu.be/i29GahSJTRA) and Sleep Paralysis (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IJ34BiJlTJyAVd165XuHH?si=efcd464873f54dc3)

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