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Bowling Green’s Murder Mansion
“The house earned its name without a single ghost.” Along Fairview Avenue in Bowling Green sits a stately brick home with tall white columns and nearly two acres of property. Built in the nineteenth century, it is the sort of house that draws attention even if you know nothing about its past. But around Bowling…
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Joppa Missionary Baptist Church
“Stories suggest that some of its congregation may have stayed behind.” Inside Mammoth Cave National Park stands a small white church surrounded by woods and an old cemetery. Joppa Missionary Baptist Church doesn’t look particularly frightening in daylight. It looks like what it is, an old country church that once served families who lived throughout…
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The Witches’ Tree of Louisville: Curses, Tornadoes, and Ghosts
“Maybe the witches are still watching…” On the corner of Sixth Street and Park Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, stands a tree that looks like it crawled straight out of a Gothic fairy tale. Its trunk twists with unnatural bulges, its branches sprawl like crooked fingers, and its bark bears the weight of countless charms, beads,…
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Ghosts of Perryville Battlefield
“More than 7,600 men were killed, wounded, captured, or missing” On October 8, 1862, thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers met in the fields outside the small town of Perryville, Kentucky. By the time the sun went down, the largest Civil War battle ever fought in Kentucky had taken place across these hills. More than…
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Waverly Hills Sanatorium
“The “body chute” is another hotspot for paranormal activity.” High on a hill overlooking Louisville stands a massive five-story building that has become one of Kentucky’s most recognizable haunted locations. Long before people came to Waverly Hills carrying cameras, flashlights, and ghost-hunting equipment, they came here for an entirely different reason. For thousands of people…
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The Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter: The Night the Goblins Came to Kentucky
“It reminded her of, “a five-gallon gasoline can with a head on top and small legs,” its body shining like the metal surface of a refrigerator.” On the night of August 21, 1955, an extended farm family arrived breathlessly at the police station in Hopkinsville, terrified and desperate for help. Their story would soon become…
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Kentucky’s Gates to Hell
“Visitors have reported hearing bloodcurdling screams” Along Old Hardinsburg Road in Kentucky sits an old cemetery known by several names. Grandview Cemetery and Kasey Cemetery are the two most commonly used, but neither is the name that has made this place part of Kentucky folklore. For years, people have been coming here because of another…
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The Witch Grave Of Pilot Knob
“She may even peek at you through the bars.” In a small cemetery in Marion, Kentucky, there is a child’s grave surrounded by a metal fence. Her name was Mary Evelyn Ford. She was only five years old when she died in 1916, but the story told about what happened to her is much darker…
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Witch’s Castle of Indiana
“The three women cursed Wood and the people who had driven them from their home.” The Witch’s Castle was a stone house that once sat on a hill overlooking the Ohio River in Utica, Indiana. The property was also known as Mistletoe Falls, and over the years it picked up some pretty disturbing stories. One…
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Greenville 9/11 Memorial
“Is a 17-foot beam from one of the North Tower that fell during the 9/11 attacks” Out in the a remote town of Greenville in Kentucky is a 17-foot beam from one of the North Tower that fell during the 9/11 attacks. On top is an American eagle clutching a draping American flag. “Two granite…
