Скачать или смотреть The Death Tunnel: America's Darkest Tuberculosis Hospital

Fifty thousand people died inside Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky—their bodies transported through a secret tunnel workers called "The Death Tunnel." This is the true story of America's deadliest tuberculosis epidemic and the hospital built to hide the dying.
📍 Location: Louisville, Kentucky, USA (Southern United States)
📅 Abandoned Since: 1982 (Operational 1910-1982)
🇺🇸 Filmed in: Kentucky, America's Historic South
🎥 What You'll Discover:
The 537-foot Death Tunnel used to secretly remove bodies from America's largest tuberculosis hospital
How tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 Americans during the White Plague epidemic of the early 1900s
Experimental medical procedures attempted on desperate patients before antibiotics existed
Why this Kentucky landmark became one of America's most investigated paranormal locations
The architectural design meant to hide death from the living
📖 The Story:
In 1910, Louisville, Kentucky confronted an American nightmare. Tuberculosis—the White Plague—ravaged the nation, claiming one in seven American lives. With no cure available, city officials constructed Waverly Hills Sanatorium on a remote hilltop to isolate the dying from healthy populations. What began as a forty-bed facility expanded by 1926 into a massive five-story, four-hundred-bed hospital that became one of the largest tuberculosis treatment centers in the United States.
For decades, Waverly Hills represented the cutting edge of American medicine's desperate fight against an invisible killer. Doctors implemented experimental treatments: collapsing lungs, removing ribs, exposing patients to ultraviolet radiation for hours. The death rate remained catastrophic—at peak capacity, one person died every single day. When mortality overwhelmed the facility, staff utilized a 537-foot supply tunnel carved through the hillside for a darker purpose: secretly transporting bodies to waiting hearses below. Workers called it the Body Chute. The Death Tunnel.
The 1943 discovery of streptomycin finally provided an effective antibiotic treatment. By the 1960s, tuberculosis cases plummeted across America, rendering Waverly Hills obsolete. After a brief conversion to a geriatric facility, the building closed permanently in 1982. Today, this Kentucky landmark stands as a protected historical monument to American medical history—and reportedly one of the most haunted locations in the United States.
This documentary explores the abandoned corridors, patient rooms, surgical theaters, and the infamous Death Tunnel itself. Discover the true history behind fifty thousand deaths, the medical innovations born from desperation, and why this American tuberculosis hospital continues to captivate investigators, historians, and documentary audiences worldwide.
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Credits & Disclaimer:
🎨 All visuals: AI-generated for educational purposes
🎵 Music: Royalty-free
⚠️ Safety Notice: Waverly Hills offers official tours. Never trespass on abandoned properties. This is educational documentary content only.

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