When it comes to haunted places, Waverly Hills is at the top of the list. When it comes to a haunted tunnel in Kentucky, the death tunnel, aka body chute, will send shivers down your spine. It is located in Louisville at 4400 Paralee Drive, but you can’t just show up uninvited. They have tours available.

What is this death tunnel?
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It was built at Waverly Hills, extending from the first floor out onto the grounds. It was utilized as a way to transport the dead to be buried or cremated without upsetting other patients. No one knows the exact number of patients that rolled down this tunnel.
A common misconception is that it is a chute.
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It was a 525 foot tunnel, but only 425 feet remain due to a collapse. It had a cart transport, so the dead could be loaded more easily and transported with less human labor.

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The sanatorium opened in 1910.
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As you can imagine, with little actual medication and knowledge of the white plague, doctors were desperate to find cures. They utilized quite a few experimental and highly questionable treatments. Things like leaving the patients ribcage open and exposed while draining liquid from the lungs.
Many patients died in severe misery.
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Some were killed by the disease, others by the treatments, and some by both. All these patients took their trip down the death tunnel. There were a variety of emotions experienced moments before death. Some say angry spirits dwell in the tunnel now.

This tunnel is both famous and infamous. It has been the subject of many a paranormal series, and even the subject of a B (possibly C) movie. The investigators say their equipment goes wild at Waverly, and in the death tunnel itself.

 

Have you ever visited this haunted tunnel in Kentucky? Would you walk down it at night by yourself? Personally, I’d rather have an escort than go on my own, but I’d take a stroll for sure. We have the making of a haunted bucket list with some hair-raising haunted places scattered across our state.

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