7 Most Haunted Places in America

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3. Waverly Hills Sanatorium – Louisville, Kentucky

Once the last hope of thousands suffering from tuberculosis, the Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 to treat just a handful of patients. By 1926, the facility had been expanded to treat over 500. Death was a daily affair at Waverly, and corpses were discretely removed from the hospital using a “death tunnel.” By some estimates, over 63,000 people died there before the doors closed in 1981.

The most common apparitions at Waverly are shadow people: dark shadows that take the form of people, but lack definition. While the shadow people are assumed to be the spirits of deceased patients, there is another spirit at Waverly whose presence isn’t so easily explained. Simply called the creeper, this spirit crawls along floors, up walls, and occasionally along the ceiling. Many feel the creeper is much darker than a human spirit.