Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky
William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Pages: 312
ISBN: 0813122279
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Kentucky has a rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Lynwood Montell has harvested dozens of tales of haunted houses and family ghosts from all over the Bluegrass state. Many of the stories were collected from elders by young people and are recounted exactly as they were gathered. Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky includes chilling tales such as that of the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges invisibly through a house accompanied by the smell of roses, and the famed Gray Lady of Liberty Hall in Frankfort, a houseguest who never left. Montell tells the story of a stormy night, shortly before Henry Clay's death, when the ghost of the statesman's old friend Daniel Boone calls upon him, and then recounts the more modern story of the ghouls that haunt the rehearsal house of the band The Kentucky Headhunters.
Included are accounts of haunted libraries, mansions, bedrooms, log cabins, bathrooms, college campuses, apartments, furniture, hotels, and distilleries, as well as reports of eerie visitations from ghostly grandmothers, husbands, daughters, uncles, cousins, babies, slaves, Civil War soldiers, dogs, sheep, and even wildcats. Almost all of Kentucky's 120 counties are represented. Though the book emphasizes the stories themselves, Montell offers an introduction discussing how local history, local character, and local flavor are communicated across the generations in these colorful stories.
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not be at the office that day, and before night he had secured another house, into which he moved his family the next day. This story was told to the Commercial Gazette correspondent by a neighbor and a friend to the family, who is a thoroughly reliable man, and says that every word of the above story is true. 192. “Spirit Land” Fayette County … Certain old houses in Lexington in which murders have been committed are known to have been re-visited by the spirits of the murdered men, and during
him, “Dad, what is it that you want to tell me? Whatever it is, tell me. For god’s sake, here I am.” I couldn’t see him, but I could hear him and feel him immediately beside me. He said, “Let’s go to the old house.” I said, “Come on.” I turn around and get in my van, and he crawled in the seat beside me. I couldn’t see him, but could feel his presence there. And me and him talked on the way to the old house. I drove up to the old house, and it was as dark as a black cat. Nobody lived there and
outside the house, but never clearly enough to understand anything that was being said. Each night, after we were tucked in bed, and the lights turned out, the distinct sound of footsteps could be heard coming down the hall between my son’s bedroom and mine, and then sound as if they went straight down the hallway and into my closet. Once there, the sounds of someone walking overhead were clearly heard. Quite often, there would also be the sound of someone rummaging through the kitchen drawers,
Rockcastle County My great-uncle Fred heard many stories from other people saying that at night strange sounds could be heard in the old Johnny Graves house on Long Branch in Rockcastle County. The sounds of chains could be heard being drug down the steps and around the house. Others claimed to have heard the sound of a jar of money being busted open and coins rolling around on the floor. Uncle Fred never heard anything like this, but he and some friends stayed there one night on their way to
told them that somebody was shot and killed in that old house, that the place was haunted. 133. “A Ghostly Fiddler” Nelson County The tale of a ghostly fiddler has been passed down for generations in Bardstown. The story claims a man with a fiddle came to Bardstown in the early 1780s. He had no money and played his fiddle for food and shelter. The fiddler became well known throughout the community and provided entertainment for local gatherings and dances. When he was not able to rest at
