Death Tunnel – Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Le tunnel de la mort – Sanatorium de Waverly Hills

Ce matin, j’entends parler pour la premiĂšre fois d’un hĂŽpital amĂ©ricain abandonnĂ© et trĂšs connu pour ĂȘtre un hĂŽpital hantĂ©!
Il est situé à Waverly Hills prÚs de Louisville dans le Kentucky (USA), le Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
Ce genre de lieu abandonnĂ©, ça m’a toujours attirĂ© et me voilĂ  parti dans une recherche fascinante.
Il s’agit d’un sanatorium qui a Ă©tĂ© construit en 1910, sur une colline au sud-ouest de Louisville, pour accueillir des malades atteints de tuberculose et ferma en 1962. Il rĂ©ouvrit la mĂȘme annĂ©e mais comme hĂŽpital gĂ©riatrique. En 1981 il dut fermer dĂ©finitivement pour mauvais traitements aux patients.
Le lieu devint mythique et il est dit qu’il y eut jusqu’Ă  63.000 dĂ©cĂšs… et il est considĂ©rĂ© aujourd’hui comme un des principaux lieux hantĂ©s des États Unis!
Et surprise… je dĂ©couvre que le bĂątiment principal du sanatorium possĂšde un tunnel inclinĂ© de 150 mĂštres de long qui relie le rez-de-chaussĂ©e du bĂątiment avec le bas de la colline en direction d’une voie ferrĂ©e en contrebas.
Ce tunnel inclinĂ© avait d’un cĂŽtĂ© un escalier et de l’autre un plan inclinĂ© muni de rails sur lequel un chariot tirĂ© par un cĂąble pouvait monter et descendre des charges. Ce tunnel Ă©tait un moyen de se rendre au sanatorium sans emprunter la route. Pour Ă©clairage et ventilation, le tunnel Ă©tait Ă©quipĂ© de plusieurs puits verticaux dĂ©bouchant dans la forĂȘt.
Le tunnel était aussi utilisé pour évacuer discrÚtement, aux yeux des autres patients, les corps des personnes décédées. La légende veut aussi que les corps aient été jetés directement dans le tunnel en pente!
Le tunnel a pour nom  “Death Tunnel” tunnel de la mort) et pour surnom “Body Chute” (la chute des corps)!

Death Tunnel – Waverly Hills Sanatorium

This morning I heard for the first time about of a deserted hospital which is very famous to be a haunted hospital!
It is located at Waverly Hills near Louisville, Kentucky (USA), the Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
This kind of deserted places always fascinates me a lot so I made some research about it.
In fact it is a sanatorium which was built in 1910 on a hill, south-west Louisville, to accommodate tuberculosis patients. It closed in June 1962. It reopened the same year but as a geriatrics hospital. In 1981 it was forced to close allegedly due to patient abuse.
The place became a mythical place with some urban legends. One of them says that “63,000 deaths” occurred at the Sanitorium. The deserted building is today one of the most famous haunted place of USA!
During my research I discovered that under the old building there is an inclined tunnel (150 meters length) which links the first floor to the bottom of the hill near a railroad.
On one side of the inclined tunnel there are steps and on the other side  there is an inclined plane on which there were rails and a carriage which was pulled by a motorized cable to carry supplies.
The tunnel was a way to reach the building without using the main road. The tunnel was lighted and ventilated by some vertical air ducts leading from the roof of the tunnel to above ground level.
The tunnel was used to discreetly evacuate the bodies of the dead patients away in full view of other patients. Another urban legend says that the bodies were tossed and thrown on the slope of the tunnel!
The name of the tunnel is “Death Tunnel” or “Body Chute)!

 

Photo Texas Paranormal Research Society

Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Photo Texas Paranormal Research Society)


Death Tunnel (Photo Christina Gnadinger)

Death Tunnel (Photo Christina Gnadinger)

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Videos – One nigth in Haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium and Death Tunnel
VidĂ©os – Une nuit dans le sanatorium hantĂ© de Waverly Hills et son tunnel de la mort

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