The experiments were very painful, that in most cases is how most people had died in this very building. Even though some of these may not seem that bad they still had to live in isolation and all they had were four walls and a bed which already is just as bad. The most common experiment was where there was a window or room on the balcony they would place them there in the heat or they would be placed under ultra violet light, However during the winter time they would grab snow and place it in a bag to put on top of the patients. The more sick the patient was the worse the experiment got, for starters they would do an experiment called pneumothorax which was where they would put air into the chest cavity to collapse a lung which could lead to life threatening distress to the other lung.Another experiment that. Would be performed where they would take the patient to surgery and take out body parts that seemed to be dying. However if none of these had worked then this would lead to you getting blood taken from your body, this means that they would take you on the table and soak blood out of your body which sometimes could also mean that people could have died from blood loss.

Since this was a very traumatic hospital and multiple people died here they didn’t want the other patients to see them carry the dead bodies out of the building so what they had created was a tunnel called the body chute. The body chute was an enclosed tunnel that was from the building down to the railroad tracks that were down the hill. They wanted to do this so that the patients that were in the building didn’t see the ones who had passed and how many deaths were truly happening in the building, due to this they were able to do this in secret so that way nobody questioned all the deaths that had been happening. Already by 1930 TB wasn’t very common however was still happening and by 1943 there as a cure for TB, however still Saddley from 1910 to 1961 little over 8,000 peoples lives were taken from this sickness and possible also part of it being from the excruciating experiments that were taken place from these very walls.

In 1961 the hospital finally closed and reopened a year later in 1962 named the Woodhaven geriatrics sanitarium which was a place of healthcare for older people that would need special care like dementia, mobility disorders, and chronic illnesses. Of course most people thought nothing of it at the time however there are rumors stating of the patients there being mistreated and more bad experiments were happening behind these walls one of them being electroshock therapy.

the next two decades after the building was auctioned off to multiple other people however was finally bought by a man named Robert Alberhasky, he had a big plan to create a chapel, theatre, and gift shop inside the building with also creating his home on the roof to only then have the entire plan get cancelled in December of 1997 to then leave him to abandon the building shortly after. The building was then abandoned for four years then in 2001 to only get bought by a married couple named Charlie and Tina Mattingly that are still the current owners now in 2025.

Now the building is presumed a paranormal hot spot, meaning multiple investigators have been here trying to find out what more history people could be missing and to be said that you may even find some kids spirits roaming hallways or them running around to play with the toys that have been left in the building from the owners. Also if you visit the kitchen you might see a man in a white coat that is to be said to be a chef that worked in the sanitarium. Something people guarantee you is the amount of grief you can feel in the building because apparently there were people who had taken their own lives due to the isolation they had felt while living in the building.Charlie and Tina also say that room 502 is the most active due to the fact that it was the experiment room,had lots of grief, and is where someone had taken there own life, due to that they feel that with all the trauma that was left in that room multiple people weren’t able to move on and to only remember the saddest and worst memories of their life’s .