“After the storm, something strange was discovered: a silhouette of the girl’s face appeared, etched into the glass of the window near where she died” Beside Maple Grove Cemetery in Russellville, Kentucky, stands a little white house built around 1870. It was originally the home of the cemetery sexton, the person responsible for caring for…

“Maybe thirteen was never unlucky for Federal Hill. The house had enough trouble without it.“ Federal Hill is one of the most recognizable historic homes in Kentucky. The large brick mansion in Bardstown is better known today as My Old Kentucky Home, a place associated with Stephen Foster, Kentucky history, and the song that became…

“Illiterate Man Becomes a Doctor When Hypnotized.” Edgar Cayce was born near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on March 18, 1877, and long before people began traveling to him for answers about illnesses, dreams, past lives, and the lost civilization of Atlantis, he was a Kentucky farm boy who claimed he could see people no one else could…

“Maybe the car moves because of gravity. Maybe someone gives the vehicle a little push.“ Built in 1889 by the King Iron Company of Cleveland, Ohio, the Old Richardsville Road Bridge stretches 138.1 feet across the Barren River in Warren County. Its bowstring arch-truss design was popular during the nineteenth century but is rarely seen…

“Some of the locals tasted it.” On March 3, 1876, Rebecca Crouch was outside her home near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, making soap when pieces of meat began falling from the sky. There had been no explosion. There was no storm overhead, and the meat didn’t fall with rain or hail. The sky…

“Not everyone who came to Octagon Hall during the war left alive.” Octagon Hall stands just outside Franklin, Kentucky, along the old road between Bowling Green and Nashville. Construction began in 1847 when Andrew Jackson Caldwell decided that his family home wouldn’t have the usual four walls. He built eight instead. By the time the…

“But Dock Brown didn’t have forever to retrieve what he may have hidden.” Pine Knob, Kentucky, has another name: Hoodoo Holler. The nickname has been used by the community for decades and, according to local history, began after a Pine Knob resident was “hoodooed” out of his job. The name stuck, eventually becoming part of…

“Visitors have reported greenish lights or glowing orbs hovering near headstones and moving through sections of the cemetery” Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville doesn’t need much help looking like a place where a ghost story might begin. Nearly 300 acres of winding roads lead through hills, lakes, enormous old trees, mausoleums, statues, and graves dating…

“The ghostly woman walks to the side of the car and knocks on the window.” Haunted bridge stories seem to exist in every corner of the country, and Kentucky is no exception. In Warren County, one of the oldest and strangest surrounds Middle Bridge, an old crossing over Drakes Creek that has frightened generations of…