Waverly Hills Sanatorium

5 of the Most Haunted Places in the World Beechworth Asylum Beechworth Asylum, originally known as Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum, was founded in 1867. It closed in 1995. The asylum is located in Victoria, Australia. One of the famous features it used was a creation called “Ha-ha Walls.” Ha-ha Walls consisted of a trench, one side was vertical and faced with stone or bricks, the other side sloped and turfed. From the inside, the walls presented a tall face to patients, preventing them from escaping, while from outside, the walls looked low so as not to suggest imprisonment. One of the ghosts most often seen at Beechworth is of Matron Sharpe; her apparition has been seen in several different parts of the hospital. Matron Sharpe's ghost has…

Waverly Hills was proposed in 1906 by the Kentucky legislature as an aid to staunching the epidemic of tuberculosis known as the White Plague. By 1910, the hospital was fully operational, with a capacity of 40 people. The hospital, though minimal at first, was provided further funding, allowing for the hospital to expand to a capacity of more than 400 patients. Waverly Hills became a strangely isolated community. It even had its own postal code! Patients and staff alike were made to say their…

Celebrity, Beverley Mitchell The Pennhurst State Mental Hospital, located in Spring City, Pennsylvania has been dubbed as being one of the most legendary asylums when it comes to hauntings and putting humans to the ultimate fear factor test. This legend became even more amplified when Beverley Mitchell was on set at Pennhurst filming the movie under the same name. While on set, Beverley Mitchell, who played younger sister "Ruthie" on 7th Heaven witnessed firsthand, the overwhelming feeling of…

travelers that only disappear from the vehicle without a word? Why are they attached to this world? Why do they need to keep traveling? Many ghost stories are rooted in folklore and are simply stories told around a fire or to a group as something “they say” others are stories that are documented and proven. Many places are only thought to be scary or creepy, others are proven to be haunted. Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville has been called the scariest and most haunted place on Earth. The…