Myrtle's Ghost. UNEXPLAINED AMERICA - UNSOLVED MYSTERIES! Hollow Vision Paranormal - Strange Stories, Occult and Ghosts Videos. Waverly Hills Sanitorium - Historical and Paranormal Site. WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM! During the 1800s and early 1900s, America was ravaged by a deadly disease known by many as the “white death” --- tuberculosis.
This terrifying and very contagious plague, for which no cure existed, claimed entire families and sometimes entire towns. In 1900, Louisville, Kentucky had one of the highest tuberculosis death rates in America. Built on low, swampland, the area was the perfect breeding ground for disease and in 1910, a hospital was constructed on a windswept hill in southern Jefferson County that had been designed to combat the horrific disease.
The hospital quickly became overcrowded though and with donations of money and land, a new hospital was started in 1924. While the patients who survived both the disease and the treatments left Waverly Hills through the front door, the majority of patients left through what came to be known as the “body chute”. This enclosed tunnel for the dead led from the hospital to the railroad tracks at the bottom of the hill. UNEXPLAINED AMERICA - UNSOLVED MYSTERIES! Ghost Tracks Legend. This is the legend of the haunted "Ghost Tracks" in San Antonio, Texas. The story is that in the early 1930's or '40's, there was a school bus carrying kids, making it's route and dropping them off after school.
When the bus was going uphill over some railroad tracks, it stalled. Suddenly, a train, going too fast, crashed into the bus, killing all of the passengers. While the ghost tracks is known to be the place to go on Halloween, it's visited by regular folks on any day of the week. We've tried it different ways and each time, it worked. It is said that the spirits of the kids who died on the bus push the cars away from the train tracks so the passengers don't experience the same fate. Another creepy thing is that the roads near the railroad tracks are named after the children who died in the accident. Editor's Note: The following video shows an investigation by Jonathan Levit on the TV show, Miracle Hunters, titled, "The Ghost Tracks of San Antonio. " More Urban Legends. Arizona's Haunted Ghosts and Hauntings. Bell Witch. Ghosts and Ghost Stories. Ghosts and Legends of the Queen Mary.
San Antonio Ghost Tracks. Strange Death of Nell Cropsey. Ella Maud "Nell" Cropsey (1882 - 1901. She was known as Nell Cropsey, and there have been books written about her murder under this name. She was less than 20 years of age when she disappeared from the home of her father, William H. Cropsey, on Riverside Ave. in Elizabeth City, NC. She had had an argument one evening with a suitor, Jim Wilcox, son of the Republican county sheriff. She disappeared on Nov. 20th., 1901, and was found floating in the Pasquotank River 37 days later.
Those interested in reading more on this real "unsolved mystery" may want to read 'The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel" by Bland Simpson.