7/23/2023 0 Comments Waverly hills sanitarium kentucky![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The area where his extensive digging took place can still currently be seen. Fortunately, the structure refused to give way and his efforts failed. If this happened, then he believed he could get the building condemned and would be able to legally tear it down. The owner then dug around the foundation, in some places as deep as 30 feet, to try and make the foundation crack. After breaking windows, porcelain sinks, toilets and doors, they began spraying graffiti on every available wall. He let vandals come into the building and tear it up. He then decided that if he couldn’t’t legally tear it down then he would do everything in his power to get it condemned. He succeeded in demolishing all of the buildings except for the main hospital and was only stopped by an injunction because the building is on the National Historic Register’s “endangered” list. The second owner of the property wanted to tear all the buildings down to construct the world’s largest statue of Jesus Christ. The building and land changed hands several times over the next 18 years. The buildings, contents and land were auctioned off and the doors were locked for good. Apparently Woodhaven was no different because the state of Kentucky closed it down in 1982 due to patient abuse. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, a time of budget cuts for facilities of this type, there were many well documented cases of horrible conditions and unusual treatments at mental institutions all across the country. Even today, it has been used with great results but now, as it was then, tragic losses sometimes occurred. Electroshock therapy was widely used, although it was considered to be a very effective treatment in those days. It was such a wild night we caught disembodied voices saw shadow figures and much moreMake sure you. Some have been proven false, while others unfortunately have turned out to be true. We stayed the night a Waverly Hills with THEPARAHOLICS. There have been many tales of patient mistreatment and unusual experiments that have filtered down from the hill over the years. ![]()
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