Sanatorium Hill

From 1910-1972, Arkansas State law mandated that all victims of Tuberculosis (TB) be isolated in the State Sanatorium in Booneville, Arkansas. Some of them returned home free of their symptoms from Sanatorium Hill. Others died there, either of the disease or of the gruesome operations prescribed by the doctors. This documentary tells the story of patients who survived these morbid treatments, recovered from the disease of TB but unable to forget the pain, suffering and despair.

[@WengChanPowerBookx]

Great documentation! I had TB in 2017, a long 6months of medication is painful. Thanks God that I'm recover!

[@kellinmoore2146]

Did you have the active form

[@WengChanPowerBookx]

@@kellinmoore2146 Yes

[@idkkk1825]

Glad you got over it!

[@edwardlouisbernays2469]

My Grandmother worked at Booneville and at Benton State Hospital 1962-1974 and These Places were LIFE SAVERS. Nedra Bernay was my Grandmother a Recreational Therapist since WW2. I was 14 Years Old living in Benton Ar. and Knew Many School Friends who had to go to Boonvelle Asylem. Benton State Hospital was The Best Psychiatrist Hospital it Never used Straight Jackets or Any Restraints. The Wards were Open and Patients had Grounds to spend Outdoors except the Violent Insane. I was a Guitarist and My Band played every week for Patients Dances. From 1910-1972, Arkansas State law mandated that all victims of Tuberculosis (TB) be isolated in the State Sanatorium in Booneville, Arkansas.

[@zachfryar1820]

Incredible story!

[@eilyjones6359]

Looking at the faces of the doctors to see if I see my Dad. He worked there around 1960-61 or 62. My sister was born in Booneville. We lived in a small house that they provided. My Mom would take long walks around the sanitarium grounds with my sister and I in a stroller. My Dad had been in a sanitarium with TB for a year in the 50s in Ireland where he was from

[@PersonalGrowthUniversity]

God is so good! The fact that there is people who not only lived through this but are able to comprehensively talk about it and even have a laugh about it is so telling about how God can heal you no matter what you’ve lived through. Physically mentally emotionally- they explained they still experience trauma because of the events. Ignorance is bliss. 🙏💙

[@emmaviner6976]

With the COVID-19 pandemic I have a feeling these places to open up again

[@edirwin8784]

H1N1-09 4 all!!

[@drjim813]

I grew up there.... my grandmother was a patient there; my parents met there, my family worked there....It shaped my life......

[@vanpreston4364]

I have almost an identical story :)

[@lynngraham2934]

Jim Yates...I bet your Dad was Kenneth Yates, I knew him. We fished together a few times.

[@lynngraham2934]

@William Tecumseh Sherman Thanks my guess is that Jim no longer lives near there. People that used to live there were scattered all over Arkansas. To me living there almost 10 years and coming from N E Arkansas it was great, as western AR had better fishing, as the lakes and rivers were mostly gravel or sand bottomed they just tasted better. Of course that's just my opinion. I really loved that place as it was my first experience with a full time job. The Ouachita mountains, the lakes and rivers, the people too, were somehow different.

[@kellinmoore2146]

I wonder how they treated patients like how did they eventually recover was it with medication?

[@UseByDate-Expired]

I was left there to die when I was 8 months old... the screams and blood were nightmares until I was ten and realized they were memories, then they slowly went away

[@nickyflores-ninmermojavehs747]

My mom (10) and my aunt (8) were patient there from 49 to 51. She really never talked about being there. Only thing she really talk about was the "real" baby doll she got for Christmas.

[@armpit9327]

MY GRANDMA USED TO WORK THERE OMG I NEVER THOUGHT THERE WAS ANYTHING ABOUT IT

[@norafidahlahimin]

Are u sure you grandma is work in there but in game is not good and u grandma is Dead

[@mogusmonroe9431]

​@Norafidah Lahimin great comment. You get the reward for the dumbest comment on KZbin

[@mogusmonroe9431]

​@Norafidah Lahimin great comment. You get the reward for the dumbest comment on KZbin

[@Ksinthehouse]

​@@norafidahlahiminI'm not sure if you proofread your comment but it sounds incredibly insensitive and in very poor taste.

[@douglasanddalenamattson928]

my mother Mrs Lila Mattson worked there from 1978 to 1985 this was a adult home for the people with mental problems and i can remember my mother bringing the more sane people home for thanksgiving and christmas dinner they were wonderfuf people and i remember they were having the time of their lives to be with us and having a moment of normalcy and a family life with being in a normal home (i say normal as I hope we were as normal as the time we lived in) and being able to enjoy family time this is a great system and it should continue this is a fantistic facility it has it's own fire department and water station it would be sad to see this go at ant cost

[@vanpreston4364]

My father Bud Judy (Jesse Lonnie Judy) worked there for over 37 years in the Maintenance Department, from the early 60's through the 90's, when he was forced to retire. Even after retiring, he would go up to 'The Hill' every day and enjoy coffee with his former co-workers. We lived about a mile down the hill (my family still owns the house I grew up in there) right along the highway. My mother (Audie Talitha Davis) and father met at the Center in the early 60's, my mother would come every summer to work there as a teenager and my father set his sights on her when they first met. They married in the late 60's, and my mom stopped working there to focus on raising their family. My mother's father, Royal Davis, died of lung cancer at the TB Sanatorium when my mom was only twelve, in 1959.By the time I came along (born in 71) the Sanatorium was transitioning from being a place to treat TB (which was pretty much then eradicated), to being the State's Human Development Centre. I grew up visiting the Center and I even went to Head Start for a couple years there in the early to mid 70's! It was such a beautiful place, and such an integral part of my childhood and my families' history.

[@lynngraham2934]

I worked there from 1963 to 1972 or 1973? I knew your Dad well.

[@lynngraham2934]

@silverbird58 Thank you.

[@ericpigg2689]

Very cool! So much history there!

[@breaks_n_stuff4049]

The description of the gurney wheels was creepy

[@brooklynpaige1081]

my aunt and uncle still work there.

[@mrjolieguy8673]

It’s so amazing how theses structures were made in time to house so many civilians in the peek of the outbreak Just makes me suspicious of how big these buildings could’ve been completed so quickly and to be able to house so many 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔fascinating video thanks for sharing this definitely left a Like 👍😉✌🏼

[@lynngraham2934]

Mrjolie 666.....The largest building, Nyberg was built by the WPA if I understand correctly. It was an amazing building.

[@johnbaker3772]

2007

[@armpit9327]

This was the work of amazing builders simply, I have been there before with my grandma

[@UseByDate-Expired]

I was left there to die at 8 months old in 1956..

[@Yocole5]

Wow seriously?! That was over half a century ago. I’m very sorry would love to hear more! Glad you were here to leave a comment. You’ve come a long way my friend

[@elpotrodesinaloa68]

Who came here from the game sanatorium divine sisters

[@elliefavors]

Me 😂

[@elliotp5596]

I didn’t

[@elpotrodesinaloa68]

Sleepy Yuno lol

[@paraggandhi7094]

I- soy amazing

[@tonysmith1532]

My grandfather passed away there

[@rosyjillian3474]

Is there anything about ‘Cannibal’ there?

[@bemabob2774]

Jillian Wy ?? No there is nothing called that and its not real

[@kevinc865]

The body consuming it's self, is your best bet

[@Choices2aa]

Its sad that people were put in a Sanatorium and they were insane and it was people who were sick and they died. Sad and people died all the time every day. Arkansas and Kentucky had a hospital and its called Waverly Hills. Its haunted.

[@danielwagoner8945]

My grandma works there years ago to try to raise money for my aunt to go to college

[@NTuneLabs]

My Uncle Otis Pollard worked there from what I understand.

[@idkkk1825]

What year was this documentary made?

[@Barrcoke]

2015.

[@zachfryar1820]

@@Barrcokenah it was 2001. At the end it says

[@zachfryar1820]

2001

[@PopCultureFan_]

This is what i was searching for... just want a good docu style video ( in other words i guess a documentary🤔 , not some dumb paranormal / ghost crap thing with amateurs. Also was looking for something long, i guess this is decent..

[@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26]

My real name is John l ived on River Street when the Junior High School burned down, was a Ham Radio Operator, Still am. I was also a Patient on Ward 2 1969-1977 when my Grandmother died I was moved to Norman OK State Hospital. I got SSI in 1977 and lived ever sense on SSI. I was a Benton High Grad. 1966 My Grandmother Worked at Benton State Hospital 1962-1977.

[@Barrcoke]

The junior high burned down?! Since when

[@nancyangel450]

This sounds like Carolyn Long!

[@lyssiescavo1768]

Is it the same thing like COVID-19

[@Jeromeromesheltonrecordspolice]

Yes only there’s no cure yet

[@AKei1412]

it's much worse

[@j.ballantine7995]

I disagree. I didn't cough up blood when I had the Covid virus at the end of 2020.