So what happened to YOU at Waverly?

There were so many experiences to report I know I'll forget some and have to add them later....here's what's coming to mind for now:

1. I'll get this out of the way right off the bat since I'm sure elise, krzy, DL, nightowl and spook are DYING to tell the story. My bag talked to me. It actually talked to all of us. DL & elise kept hearing talking like a radio coming from the back of the van on our way to Waverly. Spook & I heard it too. Nightowl said the radio was turned off and you could see clearly that it wasn't on. We kept hearing it. We get there and we *still* hear it. I open up the back of the van and pinpoint the noise to my duffle bag. I freak out. All that is in that bag is my parabolic mics, EMF detectors, laser thermometer, flashlights, extra batteries and cables/wires. Nothing that should be making any noise. I fling the bag to the ground. I'm FUH-REAKING out....okay, I was a total spaz. onlyelise, god bless her, searches out the bag and discovers the DVR that I thought was in my camera bag with all files erased had actually gotten put in my duffle and the files somehow did NOT get erased. The stupid recorder was talking to us. DEBUNKED! LOL

2. Saw numerous shadow people/beings throughout the night, the majority of them being on the third floor. They appeared all throughout the night. After a while, it was second nature to see them and big deals weren't really raised too much.

3. When Chastam and I were on first floor in the main lobby, the motion detector went off - I assume now it was probably a bat.

4. I was overcome with emotion after a particularly intense dousing rods session in room 502. I began sobbing and took several minutes to calm down. I can be an emotional person, but this was not in character for me to be that worked up.

5. Spook and I were downstairs in the gift shop talking to Tina and her son(?) Anthony. We heard what sounded like a woman's voice on a walkee talkee behind us (coming from what we thought were the bathrooms, but no one was in them at the time). I looked at spook and she looked at me and Tina just smiled and said "Yup...we hear it all the time." The origin of the voice came from several different places throughout the gift shop (which is the old laundry room, btw) and then jumped ahead of us as we entered the tunnel to go back into the main building, then jumped back behind us as we climbed the stairs to go up to the main floor. You could still hear it behind us as we were part of the way down the hall.

6. Ghostwatcher, spook and I decided to walk around the front of the building to get some pictures - to do this, you had to walk on a blacktop bath up the right of the death tunnel, then over the top of it and around to the front. About halfway up the hill, I noticed that I could see my breath and pointed it out to Spook and GW. They could see theirs too. GW said "it must be cold!" I got out my laser therm and took several readings...it wasn't any colder than 56° on any readings I got. We thought maybe it was because our body temps were hotter than normal. So we continued to walk up and around to the front of the building. Flat surfaces, slow paces, didn't see our breath from the time we reached the level ground until we returned to the slope again about 15 mins later. Again, we saw our breath until we got back down to the concrete by the death tunnel. I can't understand how it was cold enough to see our breath when it didn't feel cold to our skin and we didn't have the chills.

7. I won't go into the details of the dousing session Spook and I had, but Mackenzie and I walked down to the middle of the third floor and feel that a spirit of a 12 yr old boy was with us. I asked him (the spirit) to stay there in that room and the balcony area directly outside that room. I took a picture of the balcony area from the room we were in and noticed that it had a reddish/orange mist in the center. I took another one immediately following. The mist was still there. I showed Mackenzie and switched back and forth for a few seconds showing the difference in how it had moved slightly, then took a third picture. The mist didn't appear in the third picture. All three pictures were taken within a 30 second time frame. (My photos are on krzy's computer and the disc I thought we'd burned them onto is blank, so I'm waiting to get the photos from her. I'll post all three pics as soon as I have them).

8. When the team was chasing the shadow people on 3 toward the end of the investigation, chastam was farther ahead of the rest of the team. We were all "lights out" at that time because of needing our eyes to be tuned to the dark. Nightowl and I both saw a true orb...not a dust orb or a flashlight beam....but an orb go from the left side of the hallway just to the right of chastam (she was peeking in a room to her left) and disappear off to the right around the corner. I don't know if it went down the hallway farther or if it went into a room, as we couldn't see past the corner of the hallway.

wow! thanks for sharing your experiences, I wanted to be there so bad, but duty calls back home and I wasnt able to make it. but being able to watch the stream, and you sharing your experiences is almost as good as being there thanks 🙂 oh and Mel you owe me a snickers just cuz hehe

i've not had time to post recently..coming home, i had to catch up on some sleep, and have been busy with work and family functions since. today i have some time.

i spent most of the investigation with MelanieS.. so alot of her points are my points as well. i really enjoyed our walk arounds, contacting spirits with the rods and so on. here are a few of the outstanding moments i remember:

* Shadow People: although i didn't see many at all, i did see one on the 3rd floor earlier on as it was just getting dark. distinct shadow of a tall man at a doorway. i saw one later on, i believe as well on that floor. but it was out of the corner of my eye, as we were walking through. i'm checking my videos to see if i captured anything out of the ordinary.

* Room #502: MelanieS and i had contacted a spirit called Anna, who is an elderly woman who lived in Waverly Hills in the '80s when it was a geriatric hospital. she left in 1981. we received quite a bit of information from her about the nurse who supposidly passed away through hanging.. so we thought we'd ask others to try finding out what happened in that room, before we went back a 2nd time. we now knew where the nurse was hung.

* 3rd Floor: MelanieS and i had the fortune to connect with 3 children on that floor. after we left, MacKenzie and William sat and did some EVP. here is his link: http://www.supload.com/music/Waverly-Hills-Top-Room-download-5SW3ZEV66QX3.html quite amazing! i know DL & Jessie also had a wild evp from that floor. i heard sounds on that floor, shuffling and such. although we have to keep in mind, we kept stepping on broken beer bottle glass everywhere. i did feel a presence on that floor.

* Choking/Room #502: MelanieS and i went back into Room #502 later on in the evening, after DL came and told us information she received while in that room. it certainly matched up to info we had received, so we wanted more answers to all our questions. a troop of people ended up standing outside the room, when we were contacting a doctor and asking for the nurse's name. now MelanieS came up with a name, and as she said it, i felt a choking sensation on my throat. i kept coughing and coughing and had to bend over to clear my throat and to get him off me. then a name of the nurse popped into my head. i asked out about the name, and again i was choked. i could not clear my throat well enough, and after asking him to back off, he did. MelanieS took my temperature: body 86F, head 86F, neck 97F. i shall never forget that. i had to walk away, and go outside for a break. it wasn't that i felt he'd hurt me badly, but i could not stop coughing and i felt pressure and heat. it was rather strange and frightening in the moment. there was shuffling heard in that area, but otherwise i felt fine and didn't get much.

* Death Tunnel: i went into that tunnel several times. a few times with others, and twice with only one other person. i took photos galore, but nothing turned up. i felt nothing, heard only crickets and bugs, saw only bugs and bats flying around. to me, that tunnel was empty of anything paranormal. it opens up, after a long walk down, into an area that has trees, bushes and garbage laying around. perhaps some of the tunnel was torn away? not sure.

* Main Floor: the main floor was most interesting. i remember bumping into MacKenzie & William, while i was with MelanieS.. and Mac told us how something pushed or touched him from behind, yet there was nothing or no one behind him. he'll have to take the time to tell you the story. it was dark and bats were flying around there. i'd hear sounds throughtout. found out some of the noise was water dripping into puddles on the floor. i would feel a presence with us at times, but nothing threatening.

* Waverly Home Base/Gift Shop: when MelanieS and i were talking to those running the place, getting some water etc.. we heard a woman's voice, and it sounded like she was on a walkie talkie. it bounced around the big hall area. i found out this area was the Laundry Room back when it was in operation. i spoke with Tim and he said he was getting outside interference on his walkie talkie. now those running the place also had radio and walkies in that base area.. so i was thinking this woman could have been interference from outside via their walkies/radio. i sure wish it wasn't, but now i can't be sure it was paranormal. when MelanieS and i walked back into Waverly, via a doorway and passage, the woman's voice came as if it was right next to us. mmm.. interesting. not sure what that was.

* Comfort'n'Fear?: although plenty of people saw and heard things, i felt mostly quite comfortable in Waverly. i had no problem walking ahead into the dark. it wasn't as scary as i had first thought. so anticipation, expectations may have been part of what i was feeling when i first walked in with my heart thumping somewhat. at times i found myself alone, even though not for long, and i felt comfortable..not scared at all. there were bats on every floor, bugs galore, water dripping in places, broken beer bottles, paint pealing, doors kicked in, garbage, and so much more.. so we have to factor it all in.

is Waverly haunted? it is for you to decide. i certainly think something is there.. what? i do not know..but i know at times i felt a presence, nothing threatening.

There is something I am mystified by, and that is when Spook, Mackenzie, William and I were in the Death Tunnel, sound did not carry very well. We were at the bottom of the tunnel when Brooke and Diana entered at the top. They were calling out to us, but, we could barely hear them, and they couldn't hear us yelling back. The sound we could hear was muffled, almost distorted. Usually in a tunnel sound carries very well, and echoes, at least as far as I remember. The tunnel was a straight shot to the bottom. Does anyone have an explaination for this?

Yeah, that was really odd, when you go in the initial entrance to the death tunnel, the sounds from below echo very loudly, then when you turn the corner facing the tunnel going straight down, you can't hear anyone who is below you.....really really odd.

Thank you so much for this post. You have all done such a wonderful job that I can almost feel as though I were there. One of my favorite documentary's to watch is "Spooked"! Some day I would love to go there.
Again, Thank you and look forward to reading more posts from the folks who went!

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Does Tina and Charlie Mattingly come and meet up with visitors? If so, did they tell you any of their experiences in Waverly?

Tina & Charlie met up with us when we first got there and they were present through most of the evening. I can't speak for everyone else, but whenever I took a break, I'd go and chat with Tina about things she's experienced. Very interesting stories!! They're very sweet, Southern people.

They came across on tv as being really nice people. That's awesome they come and meet up with the visitors.

It was funny, actually...I had a couple of bags and my tripod and Charlie came whipping up on his golf cart and said "hop on, girl..I'll give you a ride up!" I didn't see much more of him, but Tina and I talked quite a bit throughout the night.

Thanks friends for sharing all of this.. interesting reading each persons experience.. excellent thread.. I want more!