Ep. 569 - Return to Waverly Hills Sanatorium

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In April 2018, Diane visited Waverly Hills Sanatorium for the first time and several listeners joined her on a tour of the place. The group experienced some unexplained things and Diane has been dying to get back and show me the place. Covid thwarted our plan to investigate privately with a group of listeners in April 2020. So, with an unexpected trip to Louisville in December 2024, we couldn't pass up a chance to do a tour. Gargoyles maintain sentinel duty atop the imposing structure of the sanatorium. Are they keeping ghosts locked inside or protecting the interior from spirits? It's hard to say. Perhaps a little of both as Waverly Hills Sanatorium quite possibly is one of the most haunted locations in America. Join us for this return to the history and hauntings of Waverly Hills Sanatorium! The Moment in Oddity feature New Year's Eve in Times Square's Origin and This Month in History features Hank Williams dying at the Andrew Johnson Hotel. Listener Dwight Shepherd suggested and wrote both segments.

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Music used in this episode:

Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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(This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

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Broken and The Emptyness Is Real by Tim Kulig(timkulig.com)
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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.4	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.4	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump
0:41.5	podcast. Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 569th episode of the History
0:52.3	Ghostbump podcast. Ghost toursours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:55.6	I'm your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode, we're returning to Waverly Hill
1:01.7	Sanatorium. I'm so excited. And actually, it's me returning. You got to go for your very first time.
1:08.6	This is true. We went back for Jerry Pauley's Memorial in Louisville, Kentucky, and we were like, you know,
1:15.5	Louisville.
1:16.5	Louisville.
1:17.0	I can't say it like they say it.
1:18.7	I at least get it close.
1:20.1	I thought that it was their off season, so there would be no way we'd be able to visit,
1:24.2	but I just went online to see if there was maybe a chance and they do holiday
1:28.3	tours. So we got on the very last holiday tour that they did. We lucked out. We did luck out. So we got to go
1:35.3	check out Waverly Hill Sanatorium. We were also joined by Bailey, who investigated the Dixie
1:40.7	house with us in St. Augustine and also joined us about the Andrew Lowe House in Savannah here on the podcast, and she had her friend Ellie along. Yeah, it was a blast. So we had a really good time. We're looking forward to sharing that with you. So this is kind of like a redux, but also new. And we had some stuff happen. Yes, we did. Before we get into sharing the history and hauntings of Waverly Hill Sanatorium,
2:04.0	we want to welcome into the Spooktacular Crew, Stephen with a Ph.
2:07.5	Jaden, Jay, and Sonia.
2:09.8	Thank you so much for joining the Spooktacular Crew.
2:12.9	And now this moment, Nodity.
2:14.6	Music this moment in oddity.
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