..SPOOKED:
THE GHOSTS OF WAVERLY HILLS SANITORIUM ..Directors:Christopher
Saint Booth / Shane Dax Taylor
..This
is a documentary of a long abandoned medical facility located in
Louisville, Kentucky that has be fought with spirit activity, according
to the filmmakers. The hospital at long ago was basically"ground
zero" to receive plague ridden patients,
eventually turning into a hospice. Stories, sometimes conflicting,
of a suicide o
f
a head nurse, her spirit is said to be on the highest
floors, witnesses stating that they are seeing shadows of people
in the windows, to a child that will roll a ball back and forth
toward investigators. The history of the building alone is enough
to get investigators interest in finding out their own answers
{including us here at VISIONS}. As
seen on the Sci Fi Channel,
this documentary follows local filmmakers as they uncover the
shocking history within the haunted halls of "The
Scariest Place On Earth", Waverly
Hills Sanatorium, a monster of a building where
it is said over 63,000
people died during
it's many years of operation.
..The
DVD is basically a 5 floor walk through of this building. The show's
tour guide, Keith Age,
has been there, done that before.. you can just see that he breathes
in this place and is very familiar with not only the reports of findings,
but those claims backed up by his own experiences. The place has
been closed for some tome, but paranormal investigators seem to have
rather the red carpet treatment there. One area investigated as a
suspected area of paranormal was the "The
BODY CHUTE", a place where the dead were literally
hauled out back echoing the hospital for mass burial. One
of the most talked about and famous aspects of the Waverly Hills
Sanatorium is the Body Chute or Death Tunnel. The Body Chute is the
preferred name.
..The
Body Chute was once used to transport the bodies of deceased TB patients
from the hospital to the bottom of the hill to waiting hearses or
trains. At the peak of the TB epidemic, many patients died everyday.
In order to keep morale up and not upset living patients, the hospital
administration 
decided to use the Body Chute to discretely send bodies
away from the hill. The logical step was to transport the bodies
down the tunnel that was used to carry supplies and heat to the hospital.
A railcar wench-type system was used to carry the bodies from the
top to the bottom of the hill. Alongside of transporting bodies,
The tunnel was also a good way for employees to get up and down the
hill during the winter and keep warm at the same time. {BODY
CHUTE SOURCE: http://therealwaverlyhills.com/chute.htm}
..One
has got to remember that this hospital flourished some 70 years ago.
Medical technology was still in it's infancy, and at a level that we
ourselves today would consider barbaric by any means. 
Treatment for
some {know}
fatal illnesses was just to wheel patience outside for fresh air. This
was a place to slowly suffer.. this was a place to die.
Few made it out alive to recount their experiences as both cruel and
lacking in medical care. This was a hospital that was receiving patients
from outside the state to wait around to die out of the major cities
site, out of the major cities mind. We barely new anything about virus
control back then - this was the 30's and most new medical procedures,
radical as some might have been, came from war.
..Actual
interviews of former patients and workers at the facility, as well
as newsreel footage and old photographs add a sense of realism about
the place, were focused on the facility & treatment, not interviewed
about anything "paranormal",
and that is the way it should be - confirmation of historical facts
about the place. Let the Paranormal Researchers find something if they
can, and sometimes do find.
..The
story being told here is one thing… I am personally looking at
how the story
is told and presented as a film. The
history and first-hand accounts and 
interviews
with actual workers of the facility, as well as the now original owners
of the facility are all there. The location is absolutely incredible,
even today, in its scope of building design and its place in Kentucky
State History. The filmmakers really did their research on their topic
of investigation, and they seem to do it well in their series of films
leaving no stone unturned. The history of the haunt can hopefully help
to explain and assist in further investigations of this historically
relevant and incredible location. Recommended...
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..OUR
ADVICE TO THE FILMMAKERS would be to burn
the original camera negative asap so no further contamination
to the viewing public will occur. If your eyesight and hearing
is impaired, you won't be adversely affected as the rest
of us. |
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..GOOD
ATTEMPT, and maybe
- possibly entertaining to some, but not most. I got through
it without gouging my eyes out, yet have a sense of dizziness
due to the film's stupidity level. |
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..RECOMMENDED.
Sat through it with no feelings of nausea and dare I say it, I
was entertained! |
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..VERY RECOMMENDED. Finally
we have what can be called an actual film. Both entertaining
and accurate in detail. Recommended HIGHLY by Visionsmagazineonline.com |
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..FILMMAKING PERFECTION.
Worthy of the archival process. Own it in your own film library.
No questions asked. |
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