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The Haunted Hospital With a 500 Foot “Body Chute” | Waverly Hills Sanatorium

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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) Sponsored by Rocket Money (go to http://rocketmoney.com/redweb to cancel unwanted subscriptions with Rocket Money) and Shady Rays (go to http://shadyrays.com and use code REDWEB for 50% off 2 or more pairs of polarized sunglasses). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In the early 1900s, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States.

0:13.8

Patients were quarantined far from society and subject to archaic treatments.

0:18.0

Now, the site of one of those treatment centers is said to be home to countless spirits.

0:22.9

Today, we tell the story of one of the most haunted places in the US, Waverly Hills,

0:27.9

Sanatorium.

0:29.3

This is Redweb.

0:30.3

Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Redweb, the show all about the unsolved

0:42.7

and the creepy underneath our very noses in this very unnatural world.

0:47.0

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me, hearing this mystery

0:51.6

for the very first time, bringing that gut check and those psychic instincts.

0:56.0

I like to think Alfredo Diaz.

0:58.2

But to the traditional ghosting ghouls, it's been a while.

1:02.9

I got to reach to the top shelf, get the good stuff, dust off some of those ghost stories.

1:07.7

Yeah, it's pretty dusty.

1:09.7

Yeah, I don't know why is it always the most haunted place ever that I've never heard

1:18.0

of.

1:19.0

Then I haven't heard of a lot of stuff, but there's a lot of places I seem, I'm like

1:22.8

seeing now that are just like this, the most haunted place.

1:25.7

No one claims to be the most haunted place, unless it's like a unique thing, like a submarine

1:31.2

from the World War era, right?

1:34.0

World War I or something.

1:35.0

They're like, we are the most haunted submarine in country.

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