November
26 2003:
On the morning of the 26th, the day
before thanksgiving, I wake still thinking of our
adventure at Waverly. If ghosts are real, then this
is the chance that I've been waiting for to prove
or disprove them. For about an hour I search the internet
and learn all that I can on Waverly Hills. I find
this one website called WaverlyHillsSanitorium.com
maintained by a guy named Ron. I send him an E-mail,
letting him know who I was and what I wanted to do,
figuring he might be the owner. I didn't expect much
to come from it except maybe a reply that said thanks
for the interest but no. A little after noon, I checked
my E-mail and to no surprise the E-mail said "Sorry,
I can't help you, but here's a number to the preservation
society" or something to that effect.
So I called the number, just to see
what it was and to my surprise a woman answered. I
explained to the woman what I had said in the E-mail,
asking them if there was anyway I could get clearance
to go up there and just take a few photos and some
film. Little did I know that the person on the other
line was the owner herself. Tina Mattingly. She agree
to meet us up there around 11pm, on the night before
Thanksgiving, and let us walk around. She gave me
her cell number and told me an easier way to get up
there.
We arrived
at 11pm sharp. Tina was waiting for us. She
walked us around the whole entire building telling
us all of the stories she has heard and all
of the experiences she has had. The first place
she took us was to the death tunnel, which wasn't
much of a tunnel any longer. Apparently the
previous owner attempted to tear it up or something
by unearthing some of it and tearing the top
off.
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Tina then took us to the courtyard
area. She said the courtyard was the most active spot
on the property. Nothing really happened there, except
for Matt getting a little spooked, and for some weird
photos. By weird I mean orbs or dust, and something
seems to be in one of the windows. It appears to me
like someone's head peaking out the window. Then a
few minutes later in the same picture a different
shape is there. I blew up every picture and examined
every window closely since everyone I have talked
to says things show up in them. Below you can see
the picture in question, and the one I took a few
minutes later.
 First
Picture. Look at the third story
on the right side. window is in
the middle. Blown up to the right
is the same window from this picture. |
 Second
Picture. Not sure how much time
elapsed between these two shots,
but you can clearly see a different
shape in a different area of the
same window. |
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Here
are a couple pictures of the window up
close, taken on the same night, and there
is nothing in the window. |
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Now, I am not sure if this is a ghost
or not, but I can say for sure that this was not on
the video, and we did not notice anything at the ordinary
while we were looking at the building. My guess is
that maybe there was a security person inside, and
they saw flashing, and they peeked their head out
of the window to see who we were and what we were
doing. That is, if the security personnel that busted
us before were telling the truth about having people
inside of the building.
Tina went on to share with us some
stories that I had until this point not heard. One
story was that quite frequently people will smell
strange smells that cannot be explained, and that
there has been apparitions of a white dog seen there.
She also shared with us how something flipped her
hair over her head inside in an interior room.
We then went on and walked around
the rest of the building snapping pictures and videoing.
We took close to 100 pictures and got nearly two hours
of film from both nights. The best of all the pictures
are all listed below. You can see in many of them
some type of orbs. I think it maybe dust since there
was construction going on there, but you can be the
judge of that.
All of the pictures were run
through a program I have that automatically adjusted
the color in the photos. This brought details that
you couldn't see to the surface, but none of them
were doctored in any way.
Examples:
Courtyard Unedited |
Front of Building Unedited |
Courtyard Edited |
Front of Building Edited |
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Now, I have to say I am so thankful
to Tina for meeting us up there and walking us around
on the night before Thanksgiving. She spoke with such
passion about the things she's experienced while owning
the building and I truly do believe that she wasn't
just making the stories up. I believe she saw lights
and animals and had her hair flipped over her head.
Now do I believe that those things are ghosts? I seriously
doubt it, but will not rule out the possibility of
it. We were there two separate nights and saw nothing.
The girl in the gas station said she'd heard stories,
but despite her being up there many times has never
personally seen anything.
I will have to say for right now,
that the Waverly Hills TB Sanatorium is not haunted,
depending on further investigation.
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