Do you scare easily?
Do you believe in ghosts and the supernatural -- the paranormal?
Would you jump at the chance to spend a night in North America's purportedly most haunted institution?
Sun Media photographer Mark O'Neill and I -- along with a small but hardy group of brave (or just plain foolish) souls did just that several weeks ago when we were invited to spend a night -- a blue moon night, no less! -- at the famous Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky.
Waverly Hills -- once one of the country's top TB hospitals in which it's reported more than 60,000 patients died during its 60-plus years in existence -- stars in an episode of the upcoming Celebrity Paranormal Project eight-part series, which premieres July 4 on the Slice network.
The premise of the episodes is based on taking various actors, musicians, athletes and comedians and have them visit some of North America's most haunted locations to investigate signs of the paranormal.
The Waverly Hills experience -- which has Gary Busey, Hal Sparks, Survivor winner Jenna Morasca, Toccara from America's Next Top Model and Baywatch original Donna D'Errico rummaging around the hospital (these ridiculous looking cameras strapped to their bodies) -- is the first episode to air.
And, to be honest -- had I viewed the episode before leaving for the trip, I wouldn't have gone, as the show reveals some pretty startling, creepy yet unexplainable, happenings to the various members.
Waverly Hills is huge, desolate, and ominous looking, even in daylight. But we spent the night -- walking its once glorious interiors, now totally destroyed by vandals, in the dark, the lights from our flashlights -- and the close company of each other -- our only sense of safety.
As the hours ticked on, a sense of the surreal took over. Perhaps it was the constant bobbing of the flashlights or the odd groaning of the floors, but there was always this tremendous sense that you were constantly being watched.
True, several members of the troop basically yawned through the experience, but as one member said, "We must be respectful of this place, for the suffering that took place here, those who died here, and the tragedy of a disease that took so many lives before a cure was finally found."
He was right, of course, and, joking aside, we were all mindful of the hospital's history.
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Do you believe in ghosts and the supernatural -- the paranormal?
Would you jump at the chance to spend a night in North America's purportedly most haunted institution?
Sun Media photographer Mark O'Neill and I -- along with a small but hardy group of brave (or just plain foolish) souls did just that several weeks ago when we were invited to spend a night -- a blue moon night, no less! -- at the famous Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky.
Waverly Hills -- once one of the country's top TB hospitals in which it's reported more than 60,000 patients died during its 60-plus years in existence -- stars in an episode of the upcoming Celebrity Paranormal Project eight-part series, which premieres July 4 on the Slice network.
The premise of the episodes is based on taking various actors, musicians, athletes and comedians and have them visit some of North America's most haunted locations to investigate signs of the paranormal.
The Waverly Hills experience -- which has Gary Busey, Hal Sparks, Survivor winner Jenna Morasca, Toccara from America's Next Top Model and Baywatch original Donna D'Errico rummaging around the hospital (these ridiculous looking cameras strapped to their bodies) -- is the first episode to air.
And, to be honest -- had I viewed the episode before leaving for the trip, I wouldn't have gone, as the show reveals some pretty startling, creepy yet unexplainable, happenings to the various members.
Waverly Hills is huge, desolate, and ominous looking, even in daylight. But we spent the night -- walking its once glorious interiors, now totally destroyed by vandals, in the dark, the lights from our flashlights -- and the close company of each other -- our only sense of safety.
As the hours ticked on, a sense of the surreal took over. Perhaps it was the constant bobbing of the flashlights or the odd groaning of the floors, but there was always this tremendous sense that you were constantly being watched.
True, several members of the troop basically yawned through the experience, but as one member said, "We must be respectful of this place, for the suffering that took place here, those who died here, and the tragedy of a disease that took so many lives before a cure was finally found."
He was right, of course, and, joking aside, we were all mindful of the hospital's history.
More at Source
