![]() ![]() Youtube user Dead Explorer perfectly captured what it’s like to walk through the tunnel in the video above. The official estimates were admitted at more than 60,000 individuals died from TB or some of the questionable treatments utilized as attempted cures for the ailment. Fewer than 5% of patients initially survived. It has been estimated that the death tunnel actually saw more dead people than most modern hospitals do in its first three years. The second purpose was to protect those who had to transport the dead to the pickup spot to be laid to rest. They would not be subjected to seeing dead patients taken away for burial/burning. The tunnel’s main purpose was to protect the morale of other patients. The video above is the movie’s trailer posted by YouTube Movies & Shows. They focused less on the tunnel and more on a college kid storyline, highlighted with a little bit of history. To be honest, it is very much a “B” flick… at best. There was even a movie written and produced at Waverly. This video by Youtube user JustAVideoPage shows a hauntingly beautiful collage of many faces that may have eventually traveled down the death tunnel. Nothing that went down the death tunnel ever came back up. It was the workers that would be detached to gather the bodies of the dead and either burn, bury, or transport them elsewhere. The patients that passed on at Waverly were left at the end of the tunnel. The dead were left at the end of the tunnel. The tunnel itself was originally 525 feet long and ran out to the bottom of the hill. The path towards the light connected to the main building via a railway system on the first floor of the original hospital. ![]()
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