Throughout the tour, they would each say that they saw things that I couldn't see. We had a main tour guide, and there was at least one other person in our group who either also worked for Waverly or was volunteering and did this a lot. I've been wanting to go to Waverly since I was a kid watching ghost-hunting shows, but I will say that my experience was more fun and exciting than scary. I can imagine how much worse that would have been if we'd had 25 people on one floor, so I definitely sympathize with other reviewers who didn't have the opportunity of a smaller group. We would occasionally have to deal with people making noise when we were trying to listen to something, or turning on their flashlight so we would have to readjust our eyes to the dark all over again, but it didn't happen often enough to ruin our experience. Fortunately, Waverly seems to have listened to those other complaints, because they hired more tour guides and split everyone up into 4 groups of 12-13 people. I was prepared to be bumping into other people for most of the tour. I was even more worried when I read that Waverly was adding 10 spots to every public overnight tour in 2021, so we would have 60 people instead of 50. They would have a group of 50 people split into 2 groups of 25, and reviewers said they felt crowded. Most of the complaints were that the group sizes were too big. I read a lot of reviews before we went for our own 6-hour public overnight tour, and they had me worried. All tour guides both nights were great and every employee we came across was helpful and kind. I highly recommend the historical tour to anyone wanting to experience this wonderful building and all the significance of its history. Not only could we enjoy seeing this magnificent building but we could take some wonderful pictures. On the flipside, the historical tour the following day was fantastic. We've done many paranormal tours in different locations, such as Eastern State Reformatory, Bobby Mackeys, and Rolling Hills Asylum to name a few and we have never walked in complete pitch black where we couldn't experience our surroundings. We left after that tour slightly disappointed as we spent the whole tour in practical darkness walking around not seeing anything in the building but pitch black hallways and rooms. The paranormal tour had a lot more historical information and a lot less paranormal aspects than I thought it would. We decided to choose a weekend where we could do the paranormal tour one night and the history tour the next day. While many of these structures have been lost, others have found new uses as housing developments, medical facilities, and even museums.We had been looking forward to going to this location for quite some time. Located away from local urban populations, these self-sufficient medical complexes became isolated communities containing a series of buildings that provided housing for patients and staff, medical and administrative offices, utility plants, and other uses. At these sites, consumptives spent years seeking a cure through prescribed regimens of fresh air and sunlight. These sanitariums mark the beginning of government-funded campaigns to address tuberculosis. State and local anti-tuberculosis organizations led social movements to improve sanitary conditions through anti-spitting laws and health regulations encouraged consumptives to seek medical treatment and persuaded state and local governments to create a network of state and county hospitals that isolated consumptives. Bacteriologist Robert Koch’s germ theory in 1882 provided better insight into the disease, and lent itself to explaining the spread of tuberculosis.
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