Season 09 Episode 16: Primum Non Nocere
Unexplained
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4.4 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In the early 1900's Kentucky's Jefferson County was struggling to contain an outbreak of TB. In the end, a vast new facility was built to try and get control of it, and treat all those who had ocntracted it. Many did not survive.
The hospital was called the Waverley Hills Sanatorium.
Today, some believe it is the most haunted hospital in the United States.
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | No gloss, no filter. |
| 0:03.1 | Just stories. |
| 0:04.8 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:06.5 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:09.4 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
| 0:14.3 | Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw on the IHeart Radio app, |
| 0:18.5 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.0 | Come for the honesty. |
| 0:24.9 | Stay for the fire. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, this Richard McLean Smith here. |
| 0:31.2 | To let you know that I now have a substack page, if you enjoy unexplained and want to go deeper |
| 0:35.4 | into the world of the show, I've created a new space for all the bits that don't quite fit into the podcast, including the unexplained addendum, a weekly companion piece to each new episode, expect essays that lean more academic and analytical, explorations of folklore, psychology, and the shadowy corners of history that have shaped the stories you hear on the show |
| 0:55.5 | but it's also a home for something more personal my fiction my strange amusings and the odd |
| 1:01.4 | fragments that don't belong anywhere else search for richard mclean smith on substack or go to |
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| 1:11.8 | If you'd like a little bit more of me and unexplained in your week, |
| 1:15.1 | join me on Substack and let's keep exploring the unknown together. |
| 1:18.9 | New writing most Tuesdays. Deep beneath Edmondson County, in the central belt of Kentucky, there is a hidden world of rock and shadow. |
| 1:39.3 | Mammoth Cave is the largest known cave system in the world. To date, over 420 square miles of passageway have been surveyed with additional mapping every year. |
| 1:51.0 | The vast honeycomb structure encompasses cathedral-like vaults, claustrophobic tunnels, |
| 1:57.0 | and the so-called bottomless pit that drops for 105 feet straight down, ready |
| 2:03.7 | to swallow anyone who takes an unwary step. |
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