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Bowling
Green - Western Kentucky University - Van Meter - Auditorium - The
auditorium is reportedly haunted by a man that fell to his death there
while working on one of the catwalks. Students, workers and performers
have seen him. Also rumored, he fell onto the stage and his blood of
course soaked into the wood. In the 1950?s and again in 1968 this
stage was re-floored, and the stain again returned.
Boyle - Perryville - Perryville Battlefield - Sightings of soldier
walking the battlefield at night. Reported to be seen by local police.
Bradfordsville - the Bradford house - this house belonged to the towns
founder. The house has been deserted for at least a hundred years,
however at night a piano can be heard playing, and sometimes you can
hear a baby cry
Bradfordsville - George Edelen Home Place - The house was moved from
Old Lick Creek after a family died of cholera in the 1800’s. The house
had figurines that swayed more than 45 degrees off their setting,
sounds of walking throughout the house, a three pound knocking was
heard every night for 30 minutes beginning at 7:30 p.m. Sounds of
clearing the throat from someone who was not there. Sounds of mirrors
falling and crashing and no evidence of such happenings.
Bradfordsville - Pendergraft Place - door to the room where Mr. Buss
Pendergraft died would not stay closed. Latches were opened during the
night.
Bradfordsville - Willard Rakes’s Home - The house has been known for
sounds heard when no one is there. Lucille Pendergraft told of a
washing pot left unattended would turn itself over and water would be
over the floor.
Breathitt County - Old Vancleave Bible Institute - Located near Frozen
Creek, this was once a bible school which housed both male and female
students. Due to the difficult terrain, students lived on campus. In
the flood of 1939, many students and staff perished while holing up in
the boiler room. (They were warned of a tornado, not flood). Little
remains of the school after the flood. Buildings include a dorm, a gym
and a stone chapel. It has been reported that sounds of children
laughing and crying can be heard. It is also reported that heat can be
felt coming from the “punishment rooms”.
Brethett - Frozen - used to be a school. You can go there and feel
like you are being watched, the laughter of little kids and in the
third building you can feel heat as you go up the stairs to the
punishment rooms. Some have even seen red glowing eyes in the
upstairs. There is also what seems to be a small chapel that has an
aboveground basement that sits out in a field. The basement is filled
with black mud like substance. If viewed from above it has a whirlpool
design to it.
Calloway - Dexter - Hill - There is a hill that is almost perfectly
dome-shaped, like someone took a bowl of dirt and turned it over.
Witnesses report they had seen it light up at night, heard strange
sounds, and that it was haunted.
Campbellsville - Campbellsville University - Fine Arts Building - The
Fine Arts building was originally a Catholic Hospital. Some say they
have heard babies crying where the nursery was, footsteps heard in the
hall when no one was there and art students have witnessed pottery
wheels beginning to spin by independently. There are also numerous
cold spots through out the building.
Combs - old combs school - the old combs school was used for many
years. Closed down in the early 1970s.for the new school that is still
used today. The old abandoned school is on a hill above the new
school. Its been told you can hear kids talking, teachers still give
kids the lessons. Walking can be heard in the old halls. lights seen,
and sights of someone in windows. The school was kindergarten to the
8th grade. it is thought principal Spicer, who died in the late 60s or
early 70s.still is on the job today. The building is in poor shape,
and not to safe any more. after all that's why it was abandoned that
long ago.
Coveting - Devo park- a team of football players were on there way to a
football game and the bus flipped over the cliff. And from what was
told if you turn your car off and put it in neutral and flash your
lights 3 times the team of football players will come put and push
your car up the hill about 10 inches. WARNING: don't try to put baby
powder on the back of the car and expect to see hand prints it WILL
NOT work.
Corbin - Bugger Mountain - On a Saturday night back in the 50’s a
truck driver was going down bugger mountain which is the old road from
Corbin to Barberville. He lost control of his rig and went over the
side of the mountain. On Saturday nights if you are traveling at high
speeds or drinking a set of headlights will come at you and then go
off the side of the mountain. When you get to the top of the mountain
there will be a light with a bodily figure inside and then disappear.
Baton Rouge - Old State Penitentiary - Now housing Louisiana State Police
Headquarters and Barracks this place is a veritable hotspot of ghostly
activity. The old execution chambers and morgue now house offices and
the main two story building is located over a basement of some sort
which is always dark and seeps with water due to the high water table
in Louisiana. Employees have experienced the sound of footsteps on
numerous occasions, which upon close examination could have no earthly
explanation. Other phenomenon includes radios turning themselves on
and off and dark spaces, which take on malignant life of their own.
Baton Rouge - Parlange Plantation - a girl in a wedding dress can be
scene running through the oak trees on the property.
Baton Rouge - Spanish Moon - This downtown area nightclub is inhabited
by at least one known ghost. During the 1880’s, the building served as
a firehouse. It has seen many occupants since then. It was even used
as a “wino flophouse” about thirty years ago. This era is where the
spirit is believed to have originated from. Manifestations include
apparitions of a young man; beer taps turning themselves on, strange
noises, and flying glassware.
Centerville - Susie Plantation - The Home was built in early 1800’s.
Ghost include an unknown black male who has appeared in photos and
Addie E. Harris, who’s parents owned the house. The Working Plantation
was given to her husband James Stirling Hereford two years prior to
her death as a Wedding Dowry. She died in childbirth in 1876 at the
age of 22 yrs old. Her Life ended at a young age and she was put to
rest on the grounds of the home she grew up in and loved dearly, It
seems she has chose to remained there. Her Tomb can be seeing today
standing stately beside the house with a marble slab adoring the tomb.
Upon there the slab is an eerie inscription, it reads “Weep Not For
me, I am not dead, I only sleep”. That is true, she has appeared there
at least once in full view and there are many other happenings at that
home.
Chalmette - Chalmette Battlefield - This is the battlefield where the
Battle of New Orleans took place. People have said to seen ghost of
the soldiers walking around as if they were at camp. There are also
accounts of a “head less” ghost that walks the levee at night. The
house on the premise “The Beaurgard House” served as an impromptu
hospital for the American soldiers. Sounds of guns and cannons have
also been heard.
Cheneyville - Loyd’s Hall - The ghost of a Confederate soldier has
reportedly been heard walking through the house and playing the
violin. The smells of food cooking or coffee brewing at impossibly
early hours of the morning, have also been reported.
DeRidder - Pleasant Hill Cemetery - A Little boy at the age of 3 and His
mother were killed in a house fire. They are buried at the Pleasant
Hill Cemetery. There names were Marie and Freddie Kruger. Sometimes if
you go out there at night and stand at the fence you can see an orange
flame above his grave.
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