Articles for tag: Haunted Houses, Pitch Black, Waverly Hills

Karla News

Louisville Kentucky Haunted Houses Guide

Louisville, Kentucky is home to a wide variety of haunted houses, though they’re often hard to discover. This guide offers all of the information you’ll need to plan visits to all of the best Louisville haunted houses. Waverly Hills Sanatorium Waverly Hills Sanatorium was built as a Tuberculosis hospital in the early part of the ...

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Must-See Haunted Houses in Louisville, Kentucky

Many haunted houses have already opened their doors for the 2007 Halloween season. Louisville, Kentucky, is home to some of the scariest haunted houses in the United States. So which of the haunted houses in Louisville are must-see attractions? The Baxter Avenue Morgue The Baxter Avenue Morgue has been rated by Haunted House fans as ...

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Top Ten Real Haunted Hospitals

Hospitals are places where many people suffer great disease and even death. There are legends that some hospitals may still be haunted by the souls that pass within them. In this article, we will discuss ten of the most famous haunted hospitals in the United States. The tuberculosis hospital in Lima, Ohio is said to ...

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The History of the Waverly Hills Sanitorium

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, is a historic tuberculosis hospital that is considered to be one of the most haunted buildings in the United States by believers in the supernatural. Its history goes back nearly 100 years and is shrouded in mystery and myth. Nevertheless the facts that are known about the Waverly ...

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History of Waverly Hills and the Efforts to Preserve It

In 1883 a man by the name Major Thomas Hayes bought land which he built a school for his daughters to attend. It started out as a one room school house on pages lane in Louisville. He hired a woman by the name of Lizzie Lee Harris to teach at the new school. She loved ...

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Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky was once a school. Major Thomas H. Hays bought the land for it in 1883, and had a one room school house. Lizzie Lee Harris was the teacher there, and she loved the writings of Scott Waverley, so the school was named “Waverley School”. Somewhere along the line ...