Abandoned - Waverly Hills Sanatorium
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Since the enormous rise of Tuberculosis in America and especially the state of Kentucky, Waverly Hills Sanatorium has stood on the top of a hill near the city of Louisville for decades. It was once a massive hospital which saw thousands of patients, a terrifyingly high portion of which dying within its walls. It was abandoned for the better part of 20 years and miraculously still stands today as the paranormal epicentre. Join me today to find out why!
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Interesting fact: My great grandfather was the chief engineer there from around 1950 until it closed in 1961. My father would tell me stories of playing in the body chute as a kid which always weirded me out, lol.
Thanks for the upload! :)
❤❤❤❤ nice 😂 much love from Cleveland Ohio
@@StrangeRealityVlog Canton here. Too bad we didn't preserve our local places like they did here.
Good thing your great grandfather got enough exercise there while he was fighting Tuberculosis as a boy. Did your father want to become an engineer or did he have another career goal in mind at first while being a freshman?
@Knight-of-Sarcasm they let it rot for 50 plus years, how is that preservation? Should still be open, many people need to be in asylums today
I love that you made this video on Waverly Hills. Other videos go on about how "haunted" it is, but they never go into the depth of its history that you did.
I grew up in Louisville and fondly remember sneaking into Waverly with friends in the 1980's. This was before the scrappers started tearing the place apart. We used to scare the crap out of one another with spooky stories but never saw anything paranormal.
This sounds like the most fun ever!!
This thing was built in 2 years ????? Wish they could throw up solid building like that now.
No Union slugs in that era
One thing I never understood was debate over what the tunnel was used for. How hard is the concept it was used for multiple things to understand?
Finally, something abandoned that fits the Halloween season.
YUP! This'll be fun
Yes!
Not abandoned to where it can be explored..
I am one of a few who have actually been inside the building whileit was functional. My mother volunteered there in the early 1980s. I barely remember remember it
The only fact you got wrong is stating Waverly hills sanatorium is outside of Louisville. At the time it was built it was but now Louisville is basically Jefferson County.
One thing you missed and is talked about is the body shuit.
I live 5 minutes away and im to scared to visit it.
Nashville TN - Tenn State Prison has an incredible amount of history and looks like a castle. This would be a Great episode to film.
I lived in Louisville for a while, and every time I passed Waverly Hills I would get a little chill. Not from ghosts or anything, just thinking about how much suffering and death happened in that place. Glad to see you cover it for spooky season!
Only in Kentucky would someone try to build a 100 foot tall Jesus statue on the site of an old sanatorium
What does that supposed to mean exactly?
Only in Kentucky would the government start a zombie virus outbreak
They should reuse it for Coronavirus.
There is much I don't understand about Kentucky. Was that newspaper article about the same McConnell that is still in Congress today?
It makes Mitch McConnell freeze
What’s up jake, its Steve. Watching this on Amtrak crescent out Of Atlanta. What a cozy surprise to nightcap for the overnight northbound! Thx!!!
Jake- BSF was the first and only channel on YT I subscribed to for years... it has been awesome to watch your skills grow and flourish in this space! Thank you for holding strong and assembling such interesting videos! WHS is near where I live now and you did it justice with this video!
Thank you so much!
My grandmother was a patient there back in the '30s. She was there for about a year. When I interviewed her for school about her time there she had nothing but good memories and said her time was pleasant there. She had a milder case compared to other people
I’ve been subscribed since 2015 and your Abandoned series is what got me hooked on your channel! So cool to see how far it’s come
Suggestion for an episode: Frontier Village in San Jose that first opened in 1961. It was a small park with western themed rides and attractions that would also host corporate events. It provided summer jobs for older teens and college students (I worked in the saloon and my best friend ran the Ferris Wheel and drove the narrow-gauge railroad train) In the mid-70s Fess Parker wanted to develop a bigger park in Santa Clara--that ended up becoming Marriott's Great America. Frontier Village couldn't compete and closed down in 1980.
Love the channel...keep up the good work!
I went there often as a child growing up in San Jose. Always wondered what happened to it and Santas Village
This is so cool how a couple have taken it on and are trying to restore it. It’s nice to see a positive ending. There are a couple of places in the town I live in - where couples have taken on a massive project In order to restore them to the former glory.! People call them crazy - but if we don’t have them our history will be lost!! Another great episode Jake!! 👍🏻😁
Hey Jake. Have you ever thought about doing a video on the "old" Williamsburg Pottery in Williamsburg, VA? A LOT of people have great memories of going there! I would love to see a video on the abandoned grounds and buildings still standing!
Hey Jake! You should cover the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center and the adjacent Metropolitan State Hospital both in Waltham, MA. From what I know, they're both abandoned metal hospitals with a lot of history
Thanks for covering something near my hometown of Louisville!!!
My parents visited Waverly Hills for a ghost tour once. They remember others in the tour group claiming to see ghosts and even being touched by one. And at the end of the tour everybody has to say goodbye to the ghosts or the ghosts will follow you home.
Years ago I spent a night in November in Waverly Hills. Some of the folks who stayed, all gathered together on the 4th floor to await paranormal activity. I preferred to go to the 3rd floor by myself and just be peaceful. I must not be attractive to spirits as I had no experiences. All was quiet and peaceful. What an amazing facility for it's time. It had headsets on the screened porches so patients could listen to news and music as they rested and breathed fresh air. Amazing history.
My wife and I love watching your chill and fascinating videos. Your research and videography is respectable and well tuned. Keep up the good work Jake.
I grew up in Louisville during the 80s and 90s. Me and my friends would sneak into Waverly a few times. My last time inside there made me a believer of some the rumors of being haunted
Love that you did this video!!! Always so informative and you're a great factual story teller!!
Thank you so much!!
Yay new Bright Suns Films video!! You are one of my favorite channels such high quality videos and you have a great voice for narrating
I love this series so much, it's so interesting taking a peak into the past, and your preservation work (because that's what this is!) through this series is phenomenal. So many of these places often fall into complete disrepair and/or are completely demolished, leaving future generations unaware of their history. Thank you for not just making incredibly interesting videos, but also preserving the past.
You should do an episode on The Enchanted Forest in Ellicott City, Maryland. It opened in 1955, closed for good in 1995, and sat abandoned for 10 years (until active preservation began in 2005).
It closed years before I was born, but my mom used to go when she was a kid and most of the structures were moved to a nearby farm for preservation, so I've actually seen some of the original pieces of the park!
This reminded me of Eloise Asylum in Westland, MI (Metro Detroit). That facility has a crazy history from poorhouse to sanatarium to one of the largest mental hospitals in the country.
Excellent documentary, very thorough! This was truly fascinating.
Chris is here, oh no.
well i suppose it being used as some sort of space for local activities or ghost tours etc is better than it getting torn down altogether
You're very good at talking about abandoned, bankrupted and canceled things. Keep it up.
Maybe someday for your next bankrupted episode do: Lyricks Studios (aka Lyons Group), the company that first created and produced the early Barney the Dinosaur eras,
Jake, If you do read this, I would love for you to make a video about one if my favorite buildings, AMC Headquarters, in Detroit, it’s been demolished now, but I think it deserves a video on your channel, it was such an amazing building, even in it’s final days, it was still so amazing to see.
HI SUN ,, I LOVE ALL YOUR TEACHING VIDEOS .. I AM GLAD THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO SAFE THIS BUILDING IN WHAT EVER WAY ,,CAR SHOW , HORROR WALKS,, THIS BUILDING IS HISTORY I AGREE WITH YOU.. I WAS IN THE ARMY MILITARY THEN WAS A R.N. NURSE IN MY LIFE AT A HOSPITAL FOR MANY YEARS ,,. WATCHING YOUR VIDEO DOES TELL THE OLD DAYS OF TRUTH,, ITS AWFUL TO SUFFER,, I HAD PNEUMONIA IN 2016 IN THE LEFT LUNG THAT WAS HELL I FEEL FOR THOSE PT.S,,, I FINALLY GOT BETTER .. THEN IN 2019 WE ALL WORKED WITH THE COVID PT.S WE DIDNT KNOW IF WE WOULD GET SICK,,, WE HAD PT.S DIEING , GOING HOME , THEN OTHER PT.S IN THE HOSPITAL FOR A MONTH .. I CAN FEEL THE PAIN FROM THESE PT.S AND THE DR.S AND NURSES IN THOSE DAYS ,,.. THANK YOU .. ARMY MEDICAL VETERAN ,(RET)-- (RET) R.N.
My hometown's most notorious place! I've been in a few times for the haunted house, and another time for a nighttime tour.
It's honestly refreshing to see a more analytical video that is professionally done on a quote-unquote haunted place. I listen to podcasts and always find myself questioning when the notoriety for places like this got their start,vAnd when did it become Financial for the ownership, who perpetuates these stories. I would like to see more videos in this same vein as, like you said, you can actually visit places like this and it would be cool for those of us who aren't into breaking and entering / trespassing to be able to visit places like this
I agree with your last sentence specifically. So much of our local history has been destroyed by urban explorers or vandals.
Should do one on Eloise hospital in Michigan. I had a great aunt that worked there. Definitely an interesting place to talk about.
Yes!!! Eloise is an awesome abandoned building that needs a high quality video going over the history!!
@@GARRISON1 And bright sun films is the only one that can do it!!!! There is a cool video here on UA-cam. It’s a bunch of still pictures of the hospital and what they did inside. The Metallica song “Sanitarium” is playing in the video.
You should look into Central State Hospital in Milledgeville Georgia. It was an insane asylum that started in 1854 and ran until the 70s. It’s full of tragic stories about “treatments” for mentally ill and mass graves. It held over 15,000 patients at its height.
I’ve lived right down the street from waverly hills most of my life and I didn’t even know some of these facts. Thank you for your research!
Thanks for watching!
I visited Waverly last November. I can't really say if it's truly haunted or not (I'm not really a believer but I tag along with friends that ghost hunt), but the building is beautiful. There's something amazing about seeing it in person, you just have to stop for a minute to take it all in. I really want to go back someday. Although most of the outbuildings have been torn down, there's still foundations and staircases where they once were and there are maps within the building of where they all once stood. If you haven't been, I definitely recommend the place if you like abandoned buildings as much as I do 😅
But Waverly isn’t abandoned to wear u can just walk in to explore. The property is owned and watched and it’s used for ghost hunts.
Great now I have to go watch Shane and Ryan investigate this place again. Thanks.
Love this documentary - amazing job and super informative. I’ve been to Waverly Hills, and I can say it’s a very ominous but awesome place that I hope to visit again. I recommend to anyone that they visit if they’re able, and I highly suggest taking the night tour.
Dude, this was incredible! If you ever plan on doing abandoned videos similar to this place, I would say the Statler Hotel in Buffalo is a really cool spot! It was plagued with mafia activity, and I’ve heard that it’s in the process of currently being remodeled!
I’ve heard of this places on another video of most haunted places on earth. Some of the photos give it an eerie feeling, like something used in a horror film.
Would love to see you do a piece on the Buffalo Central Terminal. I volunteered there in college and it's where I fell in love with architecture, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse. It's in ok shape now but the exposure you could bring to it would be invaluable.
Great video! My Uncle Jack was in a Sanatorium for TB, late 1940's. He survived and lived to be 85. The building is gone but a memorial exists in its place and the foundation can still be seen.
I grew up 5 minutes from Waverly Hills, which kids snuck in there frequently. I've always been intrigued by it and watched tons of videos about it. This video has info and photos I've never seen! Excellent job!!!❤
I'd love to see you do a bit on the Metro North Mall in Kansas City. What used to be a booming mall is now all torn down except for what is now a freestanding, out of place, Macys. And the land all around it is currently being redeveloped.
Why are abandoned sanitariums so cozy?
Fascinating bit of history. Thanks for covering!
Great video based in my home city! Louisville (and Kentucky in general) have a lot of great, often overlooked, abandoned places and ruins to explore.
Along the lines of this video, you should do one on the brushy Mountain State penitentiary in Tennessee. This is probably one of the best preserved abandoned buildings I've ever been able to tour.
My dad was there before it shut down. There’s also been several ‘famous’ people that have been there.
Great video Jake! I am with you, I am glad to see the structure saved from the wrecking ball. I think the structure is pretty nice looking because it dates from the time when buildings were made aesthetically pleasing.
Another great episode. Love the content. Please never stop.
You should do Greystone Psychiatric Center in NJ, it was unfortunately torn down a couple years ago. The building was amazing, was the largest foundation in the US until the Pentagon was built.
It's not abandoned any more but the H.H. Richardson complex that was formerly the buffalo psychiatric center might be a spoopy exploration. Its now(partially) a hotel and events center.
What is spoopy?
@@insertnamehere2635 its like spooky but me being cute about it
I used to explore this all the time as a kid. My grandma worked there.
Hi Rico!
HEREE WE GO GUYS!! Bright sun films posted!!
The building with no windows has temperature changes? Im shocked 😀
Jake, you should check out “American Flats” in Virginia City Nevada for your next abandoned video. A lot of history old and new to cover. Just a suggestion!
I was JUST watchign the ghost adventures episode on this place. Glad to see it's got a new use!
I suggest you look into the Lake Delores waterpark in Southern California. This place was one of the early, and sucessful for a time, concepts for the modern waterpark. Built in the 1950s, it has quite a story but has been abandoned since fall of 2004.
Hey Brightsun, can you do a video on the Plaza Tower in Downtown New Orleans? It been abandoned since 2002, and it’s a pretty cool sight to see.
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Boogara!!! Hahaha watching this after watched the ghost files version
I would love to see an abandoned episode on DeSoto Square Mall in Bradenton, Fl. I worked there back in the 90’s.
Another fantastic video! Been watching your content from the very beginning and it just keeps getting better and better. The addition of Bankrupt and your new travel reviews really makes it one of the best channels on UA-cam! I would love to see a video on “The Ridges” in Athens, Ohio. It’s an abandoned asylum.
First found out about it on Scariest Places on Earth. The Mattingly’s daughter was a teen & camaras filled them around during a night stay. 👻
So cool to see you cover something from my hometown! Great video!
Every ghost hunter has been here. Love that you're talking about it.
I've been to the Waverly Hills! A fascinating place! I would go again!
Another great video, Jake! For a future video, how about considering the Buffalo Central Terminal? I'm sure you've heard of it, being close by, and restoration work is slowly but surely being done.
Here’s a little exploration idea there’s abandon golf course and golf building in Leesburg Virginia off of the major highway and a bunch of random stuff, and since I was one of the last few people ever visit the place before it closed when I was like six years old I wanna see what is become now what do you think?
All the "Lou-e-ville's" in this video have me cracking up. I forget that we have a ton of towns and cities in this region where it's just commonplace to completely butcher the pronunciation until an outsider pronounces it the way it's spelled
Kentucky and French names don’t mix well. 😂
Loo-ah-vull I can live with, but every time I hear someone call Versailles “Ver-sails”, I want to claw their eyes out and just scream “Ver-sai” over and over. 😂
And yes, technically “berr-bonn” is “boor-bo”, but that one ain’t changing anytime soon.
Love you, jake! Have you thought about checking out Richmond va, USA? My favorite building is the central national bank. It sat abandoned for a long time. Now it’s extremely high priced condos. I heard that there were a lot of issues (possibly a s……de) when the depression hit. Would love your take on our beautiful art deco masterpiece.
I would love for you to do more research on the Buffalo Psychiatric Center which used to be an insane asylum! It is now a hotel!
Omg that building needs to be restored..... I would love nothing more than spending every day showing that building the tlc it deserves. It would cost, but it would be worth it! I miss architecture that had more details to it on the inside. It's the little things that add up. And it was built to be solid.... omg give it a beautiful garden to just stroll through.... 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I always love your videos and this does not disappoint.
For a suggestion, I would say to take a look at Gwinnett Place Mall in Georgia. It’s mostly abandoned with an anchor store or two opened, but it’s interesting as this is where they filmed the mall scenes in Stranger Things along with a couple other shows.
I'm hoping they add this or something inspired by it on Project Zomboid. It's iconic.
I remember I first heard about this place in an episode of buzzfeed supernatural
Thanks for sharing this colorful part of my hometown.
I loved watching Ghost Adventures, and they made an episode or Waverly in the early years in the series, It gave me chills
Love Jake's channel and other urbex stuff. I've got to work in loads of abandoned buildings from the late '80's onwards, but there were no cameras in phones back then, plus we are never allowed to film or take pictures of any interiors, I had to sign a secrecy clause back in 1988. Creepiest empty building I ever worked in was Queen's Hospital in Croydon.
I grew up very near the Sanatorium. As a teen in the 80's, a frequent summer break activity was to ride our BMX bikes to the Sanatorium, then enter the building to explore a bit. I suppose this time frame coincided with the doctor's purchase for the sake of it being cheap?
What I can say is that it was awesome: creepy, quiet, certainly abandoned and messy and in disrepair. Friends said they saw faces or ghosts. Certain they were full of uh, crap? But intense nonetheless. I've been down the chute and it was creepy for sure. Knowing the history then and now, I feel very fortunate to have experienced it the way I did. My parents would have killed me had they known, but maybe it was my "Stranger Things", in a very lame kinda way.
Thanks, this brought back memories and filled in some missing info.
In my fictional world, this place never gets abandoned and still operates
Abandoned places you might find interesting (at least i do) the abandoned turnpike/highway tunnels in PA some being converted into bike trails. Also in PA we Yellow Dog Village. Also the Westinghouse Atom Smasher.... idk if that counts? its cool and historical and just laying on its side in parking lot...
You should do an abandoned episode on Pennhurst State School. Probably just as infamous, if not more than Waverly Hills.
I really enjoyed watching this video! Your videos are always filled with great facts, historical information and great insights. I live in MurrietA CA, there is an abandonment Mill (KEA Mill) I have yet to see a good historical video of this site. Just thought I recommend this place.
Your videos are really interesting and well made, I especially enjoy the bankrupt videos that are more unique then the abandoned ones.
I will never understand grown adults believing in ghosts etc but to each his own...at least the building has been spared from demolition for now.
Do Regency Mall in Augusta GA, it closed in 2002 and still sits empty today! Can't wait for Jamestown thanks for taking my suggestion on that one!
I’ve been watching you for years, love your videos! You should do an episode on the Harlem Valley psychiatric center!
You should look into central state hospital in milledgeville, ga. It has a lot of history and there are 1000 acres worth of abandoned building on it.
You should do a series on all the abandoned places in Gary, Indiana. Check out all the abandoned schools (Wirt and Horace Mann are two cool ones).
Abandoned train station in Buffalo NY would be a cool ep.
I found out about this place from Ghost Hunters and been wanting to check it out with my main bff and my dad.
I used to go on ghost hunting expeditions with a friend who was a professional ghost hunter and some others who were members of her meetup group. Let me tell you something I learned from her. She would only allow those who came on the tours to be very respectful and do exactly as she told us to do. She could easily communicate with the dead and always asked permission to enter their areas first. She told us if you are not respectful of their space they can get nasty. And in worst case or cases they will haunt those who are disrespectful. So please NEVER go on a ghost hunting expedition without a seasoned professional who can communicate with the dead. And not only could she communicate with them she could see them too like they were alive. In her lectures she had lots of recording she made of those who would communicate with her and many did because they liked her for being respectful.
You should cover the T&P Warehouse in Fortworth Tx. Its one of the most recognizable buildings in the city and helped build it in the early 1900s. Unfortunately, it is abandoned with many trying to renovated with nothing coming from it. Last I heard of plans was from a document that estimated that the building would take $3 million dollars in order to be structurally sound.
WH was my 1st urbex vid many years ago. I am happy it is alive. It was amazing that after so many failed and finally this couple pulls off the impossible and revives WH somebody doesn't like how they did it.
it's nice that it isn't depicted into a paranormal look for once, just a more historic depiction of the place. Still is a bit scary, but every place that have seen death tend to create fears, especially at night when badly lit...
You should definitely do a abandon episode on Central State Hospital in milledgeville ,ga . It opened in 1842 as the “Georgia state lunatic , idiot and epileptic asylum” and closed in the 1990s and is now the largest abandoned mental institution in the world. (Like this so he see’s it y’all)
I've been to Waverly many times for the paranormal. While I have had experiences here, I don't buy into all of the stories, i.e., the nurse in 502. The building is massive and amazing to see in person.
I've been hoping you would make a video of Waverly hills. I live right down the road from there. Been there many times
I’ve wanted to go here for so many years! Thank you! I have been to Milledgeville Central State Hospital in Georgia so many times. I just heard they are about to tear some of it down. So sad. I think it’s the second largest asylum in the US to this one.
Good stuff with seeing an abandoned building get some TLC. A strange process, but the goal is noble.
As a Kentucky resident, Waverly Hills is an absolute LEGEND. Ive always wanted to go