 Horror/Scary: September 06, 2006 Issue [#1253] |
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This week: Edited by: Nikola~Asked Santa for a Pony!  
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Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
~Sir Francis Bacon
No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~Edmund Burke
When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
~Nietzsche |
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Waverly Hills Sanitorium was opened in 1926 on a bluff overlooking Louisville, Kentucky. Standing five stories high and consisting of over 500 rooms, it was built to treat patients who had the "white plague" or tuberculosis. Louisville was set in a low, marshy area, a perfect breeding ground for tuberculosis. Waverly treated thousands of patients during the outbreak in the 1920's. Approximately 60,000 died at the hospital during its years of operation.
The hospital was self contained, including a laundry, kitchen, dentist and library among other amenities. Staff lived, and often died, alongside their patients. Waverly was considered one of the most advanced hospitals of the time.
There was even a discreet way in which to dispose of the dead. Known as the "death tunnel," this over 500 foot long passageway had motorized rail and cable system with which to lower bodies to the railroad tracks below. In this manner, the living patients didn't need witness the removal of bodies thus lowering their morale.
Rumors of mistreatment and unusual experiments filtered out of the sanitorium. After the hospital had closed, rumors of another kind began. Locals and visitors alike claimed Waverly was haunted.
Among the tales are a little girl running down the third floor playing hide and seek with visitors and a little boy playing with a leather ball. Rooms light up as if there were still power to the building, doors slam and disembodied voices can be heard. An old woman can be seen running from the front doors, both wrists bloodied, legs and hands in chains, screaming, "help me, somebody save me!"
Most activity is reported on the fourth and fifth floors.
The fourth floor consisted of the patient's rooms. It opened onto the "porch," a long room with glassless windows. It was widely thought that fresh air, no matter the season, was the main ingredient for a cure. Pictures exist of patients sitting in their beds, covered in snow! This floor is also known as the most frightening. Shadows move along the hallways and investigators have been physically attacked.
The fifth floor housed the mentally insane. Tales abound that during the hospital's operating years, that scores of people jumped from the windows to their death. Today, images can be seen standing at the windows, a man dressed in a white coat walks the floor while smells of food cooking wafts from the kitchen area. Not scary enough? Disembodied voices also tells visitors to "get out!"
Waverly Hills is legend among the paranormal community. Websites are dedicated to it. At least one documentary has been made. I, for one, would love to visit. Would you?
Until next month, try to sleep well!
~Nikola~Asked Santa for a Pony! |
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From writeone  : Congrats on your first newsletter. Where I grew up, there was a haunted bridge. The bride to be hanged herself on it. Years have passed and the road - closed now - is grown over. Wonder if she's still swinging there?
Keep up the great work!
Writeone
From Tom Calistan : Hey, you sure live in a haunted area! My school was voted one of the most haunted places in Malaysia, you should check it out sometime. The name of my school is Malay College Kuala Kangsar or MCKK for short.
From terryjroo: Good job on your first Horror NL Nikola! Look forward to reading more!
Hugs,
Ter
From Waltz Invictus  : I've never knowingly seen a ghost, or witnessed the effects of one. But there are too many accounts, too many people with stories, for me to dismiss the idea. Whatever the actuality of it - spirits or some other phenomenon - ghost stories can make very effective horror - or other genre, even - writing!
From Justice : Welcome to the newsletter. I really enjoyed your childhood ghost stories. I look forward to your future newsletters.
From Jade : Hey there, good luck with this newsletter!! You've did a fine job already.
From bazilbob: Great idea to use local legends and watnot! I'm sure everyone knows at least one! Unfortunately I only vaguley know mine, but the most chilling is something about a girl on the tube (underground railway in london) who just goes round and round the circle line...
From Starr Phenix  : Great newsletter Nik! Congrats on becoming an editor!
From Darkened_Skies : Hey thanks for the newsletter, I thought you made it really interesting with the spooky tales!
From lightandshadow: I live in the Republic of Ireland in an old farmhouse that is haunted by the spirit of a girl who died during the potato famine. For the first few years that we moved in there was a lot of activity then with people who we hadn't mentioned the haunting to saying that they had seen or felt something too. One day I was upstairs sitting in the windowsill, which in are almost all the way down to the floor. I was sitting there daydreaming when inspiration hit me for a story about the potato famine, I'd never got an inspiration hit me before my ideas normally come slowly, but this was an almost complete story embroider with emotion and the idea left me feeling extremely sad. A few months later a friend was talking to me about ghosts and why they appear and that they sometimes try to pass on a message. A realisation came over me that sent shivers to my core the girl who haunted our house had given me the story of the time surrounding her death, or so I
believed. I made a promise to myself and I've told my parents and her too that I will
write this story and strangely enough the activity in our house has almost stopped.
Now the most chilling part of this is to come. Obviously I told my parents the whole of her story and one night at the local pub they were talking to a man a local writer who liked to collect stories from local people. The conversation, as can often happen, went
to taking about superstitions and ghosts. My parents told him the story and he looked shaken, for he had heard a story from one of the oldest local residents and it was extremely close to the story that hit me. Now this may just be coincidence, but for me this was one step to far and I now without a doubt believe that the basics of the story that hit me are true. She did actually give me a something that may help me verify the story, but to be honest I'm too much of a chicken to actually check it out.
Sorry if I sound like a rambling loony.
Lightning
Thank you one and all for the warm welcome! And thank you to those who shared their stories! ghostly hugs all around! |
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