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Speaker 2: this stuff going. So yeah, we've done some of my
Speaker 2: creepy hotspots. We've been broadcasting from right there at Waverley
Speaker 2: Hills and just amazing things have happened, just with our
Speaker 2: live events that we do there and the times that
Speaker 2: I've been there, Amazing crazy things that happened now before.
Speaker 2: So we have teeny teeny, teeny. We got teeny Tina teenie.
Speaker 2: We've got Tina Holy Cow teen and then it's like
Speaker 2: help me out here. We have Tina Mattinglee. She's the owner,
Speaker 2: her and her husband Charlie, and so Tina, there's amazing stories.
Speaker 2: But before we get to the ghosts stories and encounters
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff, I just want to
Speaker 2: let people know a little bit more about the background
Speaker 2: Country Club place to go, that this is the elite
Speaker 2: of the elite, go for for uh hopefully living, you know, wait,
Speaker 2: waiting list. It was the place to be and it
Speaker 2: had even something cool like in each room didn't have
Speaker 2: something new that was very new at the time. Was
Speaker 2: it radio in each one of the rooms or something.
Speaker 3: They had radio and each room we got pictures of
Speaker 3: them with their headsets on and listening to the radio.
Speaker 3: And it was the top of the line. You know.
Speaker 3: That's where electric blankets started out and Tuberculosi's hospitals because
Speaker 3: people were laying out on those breezeways and a lot
Speaker 3: of things started because of that to try to make
Speaker 3: people comfortable. And you know, they couldn't see their families,
Speaker 3: a lot of them, and you know they just run,
Speaker 3: probably lonely, probably loved sitting there and you know, listening
Speaker 3: to the radio, just kicking back and trying to relax,
Speaker 3: and they felt horrible.
Speaker 2: And hoping to be cured. There was like a huge restaurant,
Speaker 2: cafeteria and everything, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had everything. I met a lady, one dame,
Speaker 3: her name, her name was Phyllis Byers, and when she
Speaker 3: was telling me about you could smell the ros I
Speaker 3: mean when she was telling me the story, you could
Speaker 3: just taste this food talk because it was all really good.
Speaker 3: You know. They raised their own livestock, they owned, They
Speaker 3: had their own eggs and milk, you know, cows to
Speaker 3: milk and everything they raised their own potatoes and tomatoes,
Speaker 3: and they're totally self contained. But I remember her sitting
Speaker 3: there saying, man, you'd smell those roes cooking and you
Speaker 3: just couldn't wait to get them. And they would just
Speaker 3: oh they were so good. And all of a sudden
Speaker 3: she stopped and said, but you know they had bugs
Speaker 3: in them. Oh gee, they had bugs in them. And
Speaker 3: she's like, yeah, you know, the flower would get weavils
Speaker 3: and stuff in it. I guess, And I guess when
Speaker 3: the you know, those rolls would heat up, those bugs
Speaker 3: would go right to the middle, so you had a
Speaker 3: ball of bugs right in the middle there. But oh,
Speaker 3: you just pluck that ball out of there and eat
Speaker 3: that road. It was still good.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, it's funny.
Speaker 3: Actually it now, you know. Yeah, you know, I guess
Speaker 3: when they purchased things, if they did purchase things in
Speaker 3: the flower, they had to purchase big quantities.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So I'm sure we will we here and there more.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, never, never, I don't even want to
Speaker 2: think about it. So all these people are coming in,
Speaker 2: they're sick, they're trying to figure out the cure. They're
Speaker 2: believing that the breezeway. I mean, there's no windows. It's
Speaker 2: all open. There's like where windows could be, but it's
Speaker 2: there's no windows. That's part of the treatment. And and
Speaker 2: they they've got this huge cafeteria. You know, if you
Speaker 2: ever go to this, I mean everything is huge. Everything
Speaker 2: is cool. Like they could dance, they go to they
Speaker 2: would dance with each other. They just live their lives.
Speaker 3: You know, they're very party was a Halloween push.
Speaker 2: Their first party was a Halloween party.
Speaker 3: In October, and they're very Halloween party. And they would
Speaker 3: you know, crown the King and Queen at the Halloween party.
Speaker 3: And you know, they liked it. Whatever they could do
Speaker 3: to keep people's morale up, they would do it if
Speaker 3: you felt like getting out and doing something. You know,
Speaker 3: some people that had a disease, you know, they weren't
Speaker 3: you know, they weren't bedridden, right, they got really bad.
Speaker 3: You know. So you know, I'm sure the grounds was beautiful.
Speaker 3: I've heard you could just go outside and walk around
Speaker 3: on the grounds you had set on. At one point
Speaker 3: it set on about six hundred acres and started out smaller,
Speaker 3: but they kept purchasing more lands. So yeah, it was
Speaker 3: kind of like a resort. You know.
Speaker 2: Well, you had said you said you know, the families
Speaker 2: couldn't come visit them because they're sick with TV. And
Speaker 2: there's all these people with TV. But you but I know,
Speaker 2: I've heard some stories that there was a little love
Speaker 2: American style going on too, because they would just go
Speaker 2: from one floor to the other floor and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden go boyfriend and girlfriends.
Speaker 3: I met people that married their nurses, I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: and I remember this one person telling me that they
Speaker 3: would take because you know, the men and women were
Speaker 3: separated and on these different floors, and they said that
Speaker 3: they would just tear a little hole in the screen,
Speaker 3: the copper screens, and they would tie a note and
Speaker 3: a string around this note and drop it down to
Speaker 3: the next floor, you know, for them to get a
Speaker 3: note from them or whatever. And they would meet and
Speaker 3: you know, they snuck out of their rooms and all
Speaker 3: kinds of things, and they'd play poker. And you know,
Speaker 3: I'll forget another lady who had told me about they
Speaker 3: would sneak out and they'd play poker. And she was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, fourteen when she was there. You know,
Speaker 3: they didn't have their parents there, you know, they couldn't.
Speaker 3: And she was playing poker with a bunch of them.
Speaker 3: There was this one guy, he was eighteen, and he
Speaker 3: let her win all the pennies. They had pennies, and
Speaker 3: she tried to give them back to him, and he said, oh, no,
Speaker 3: you want them. He was getting ready to have surgery,
Speaker 3: you know, one of his lungs removed the next day,
Speaker 3: and he said, you keep them and I probably won't
Speaker 3: need them after tomorrow. And he didn't. He didn't make it. Oh,
Speaker 3: and I remember she cried and she said that was
Speaker 3: my first love.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, instead of sad, some things, there's really sad.
Speaker 2: But you know, the reason that I'm even bringing up
Speaker 2: these stories is the fact that later on, after you
Speaker 2: bought the bill, after it was no longer used anymore,
Speaker 2: and you guys purchased it and turned it into what
Speaker 2: it is today. A lot of these stories are seen
Speaker 2: in a haunted kind of way where people pick it
Speaker 2: up as psychics or or people see it and there's
Speaker 2: stories behind it. So all these things that were happening
Speaker 2: back then, you know, they're like being relived and people
Speaker 2: are seeing them now today, and it's amazing.
Speaker 3: That is true. You know, when we purchased it, we
Speaker 3: talked about it that you know, we bought it to
Speaker 3: favor a piece of history, but didn't even think about
Speaker 3: it being haunted. And when I found out right off
Speaker 3: the bat, it didn't take long.
Speaker 2: How did you find out it was haunted?
Speaker 3: You know? So what'd you say? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: How did you find out it was haunted?
Speaker 3: Well? The first time I sat up there, you didn't.
Speaker 3: I was in my vehicle. We had called lgn E
Speaker 3: and the water company to come up and, you know,
Speaker 3: to see about getting some electric and water up there
Speaker 3: because there was nothing. And I'm sitting in my pickup
Speaker 3: truck waiting for him to show up. You didn't want
Speaker 3: to get out because I mean, it was a mess
Speaker 3: up there. It was pretty much used it for a
Speaker 3: dump and the building was kind of left kind of
Speaker 3: open where you know, people could go in there, and
Speaker 3: so you didn't want to. You don't want to be
Speaker 3: in there by yourself, but you just didn't know what
Speaker 3: you're going to run into. And I'm sitting there in
Speaker 3: my pickup truck and I'm waiting for them to show up,
Speaker 3: and I hear this noise and I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 3: And I look over I hear this like a motor,
Speaker 3: you know, something moving and I look over and my mirrors,
Speaker 3: my electric mirrors on my truck were moving on their own. Oh,
Speaker 3: And I was like, what the heck, because I didn't
Speaker 3: even I'm like, really, well, then I thought I saw
Speaker 3: somebody in the building, which I could have been somebody,
Speaker 3: you know, a live person, because you know, like I said,
Speaker 3: it was open to the public. Well, I sat there
Speaker 3: for as long as I could, and get started getting dark,
Speaker 3: and of course they you know who I was waiting for,
Speaker 3: and never showed up, and I I just left. I
Speaker 3: didn't say, but that was my first thing that I
Speaker 3: had happened. And Chris scary, really, I mean, it startled me.
Speaker 2: No, that's interesting. Yeah, that's kind of funky. That's a
Speaker 2: little weird. That's a little strange. Yeah, but let's go
Speaker 2: back to the history for a minute again, because there
Speaker 2: was something.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of.
Speaker 2: Unique things about that building, not just huge and not
Speaker 2: just you know, the TV and being like one of
Speaker 2: the top places to be in state of the art treatments.
Speaker 2: And I think there was even something in between there too,
Speaker 2: like a nursing home or something. But there was there
Speaker 2: were so many deaths along the way, so many people
Speaker 2: were dying, yes, that they had created that shoot. How
Speaker 2: did the how did the body shoot come about?
Speaker 3: What a body shoot? Originally was not built to take
Speaker 3: bodies down. It was built to bring materials up to
Speaker 3: build that building. You know, they built that building in
Speaker 3: less than two years. But they couldn't do that now
Speaker 3: because they needed it. And I mean in that buildings
Speaker 3: built you know it it is it, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: I mean it's made out of concrete and marble and
Speaker 3: drazzle and bricks. A lot of bricks were made on
Speaker 3: the property also. But they built that body sheet. You know,
Speaker 3: it was a maintenance tunnel that went down towards the
Speaker 3: railroad tracks for them to bring things up to build
Speaker 3: that building. Because it's up on the hill and the
Speaker 3: body sheet is you know approximately you know, close to
Speaker 3: six hundred feet long, and it's it's a kind of
Speaker 3: a hard walk. If you can walk down it, boy,
Speaker 3: you better be prepared to come back up.
Speaker 2: Man, walking down its just trying to go down there.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, somebody go with me.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But coming back up, it's gravity pushing to you.
Speaker 3: You know, You're like.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh no, no, I'd run, I would run. I'm okay, No,
Speaker 2: and then they it's scary morale reasons.
Speaker 3: They started using it, you know, to take the bodies down,
Speaker 3: and they had to make ship more get the bottom.
Speaker 3: And I've had people tell me that they've seen it. It
Speaker 3: would actually say more get the bottom and a hears
Speaker 3: or a train, come on the train or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The bodies were diseased a lot of times. Families you know,
Speaker 3: they didn't claim these bodies. You know, they couldn't, so
Speaker 3: you know, I'm to a cremature, remember where they needed
Speaker 3: to go. But that's why they used it, because they
Speaker 3: didn't want the patients to see hearses and different things
Speaker 3: coming up or pick up the bodies, you know, because
Speaker 3: people were dying left and right, and how would that
Speaker 3: make you feel your morales? Like, well, I guess I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be next. It's gonna be me tomorrow. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: but that's why they started using the body shoot makes
Speaker 3: sense though, and I think it's a great I thought
Speaker 3: it was a great idea. You might as well utilize it.
Speaker 3: It's already it's there, you know, but driven on a
Speaker 3: Pulley system.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And if you ever go on a tour there,
Speaker 2: you're going to see it. You guys, you're going to
Speaker 2: see it and if you if you get to go
Speaker 2: and do research there, you'll be that's one of the
Speaker 2: places you'll want to go. And a lot of activity
Speaker 2: happens you don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you got any health problems whatsoever, you
Speaker 3: do not need to walk down that bud of shoes.
Speaker 3: Then you can get activity anywhere. I mean sitting right now.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 3: You don't have to go down to get activity in
Speaker 3: it or so, but a lot.
Speaker 2: But it adds to it, Tina. Then it adds to
Speaker 2: it when you're there.
Speaker 3: It's it's come down and come up, break out in
Speaker 3: an attack, and then come up. I answer, of course, Segarette.
Speaker 4: You're like, really, hey, they were doing it back then,
Speaker 4: why not it's crazy anyway, Yeah, it's it's an amazing place.
Speaker 3: And you were talking earlier about this building. When you
Speaker 3: come up that hill. Yeah, And I remember the first
Speaker 3: time I saw it, I was just like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: It's not real. It doesn't look real.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, it just turns out when you get
Speaker 3: up there, it's just so amazing. It takes your breath away.
Speaker 3: It's just something like you've never seen before. And it's
Speaker 3: the energy that comes off of it too. It draws you.
Speaker 3: And she called I call her she because she has
Speaker 3: an attitude in that building. And the reason I think
Speaker 3: it's hard. It sounds crazy that that building had so
Speaker 3: many people in it, so many many hopes and prayers
Speaker 3: and dreams of living. Yeah, coming out of everybody that
Speaker 3: walked through those first those doors. That that building is
Speaker 3: like it's it's it's not like any other buildings that
Speaker 3: can walk into. It's like it's alive. It's just the
Speaker 3: feeling that comes from it. And it's like I said,
Speaker 3: I know anybody else, that's going to sound crazy, but
Speaker 3: if you've ever been there, I know, Connie, you have
Speaker 3: to tell me that you feel it too.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, that building is alive. It's exactly the way
Speaker 2: to say it. And and a lot of people did
Speaker 2: survive and they are so thankful that they were there
Speaker 2: because they did live.
Speaker 3: And you know, I found out from a lady that
Speaker 3: I had up there that they interviewed on when Ghost
Speaker 3: Adventures was there, was that she said, you never talked
Speaker 3: about it. People didn't. You didn't want to talk about
Speaker 3: it after you left there. You were happy you survived. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but you never talked about it, she said, because people
Speaker 3: would treat you like you still had a sure so
Speaker 3: you just never talked about it her again. And the
Speaker 3: day that she came up here, this is a woman
Speaker 3: almost ninety years old, she came up there on a
Speaker 3: walker and she was just she just wanted to be
Speaker 3: there just one more time, because that's what that place
Speaker 3: saved her life. Yeah, and she said, I just Tina,
Speaker 3: you don't understand how this makes me feel today, just
Speaker 3: being able to be here. And you know, she couldn't
Speaker 3: hardly explain it, but and it is hard to explain.
Speaker 2: It's like wow, especially losing so many other people around you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just if you haven't never had anything
Speaker 3: life changing like that happened to you, it's just so
Speaker 3: hard for you to understand. And she was just a
Speaker 3: beautiful woman and I'm talking inside now and thankful and
Speaker 3: just I think once she made that, you know, through
Speaker 3: that disease, that she must have decided that she was
Speaker 3: just going to live a happy life. And you could
Speaker 3: just being around her, you know, just made you want
Speaker 3: to be around her because she loves a very positive person.
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