Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 5 min readFor nearly half a century, Bobby Mackey’s Music World offered country music upstairs and ghost stories downstairs — a basement well, a murdered woman, and a sign at the door warning that the place was haunted. In December 2024, the building was demolished.
About 4 min readBeneath a 90-foot railroad trestle over Pope Lick Creek in Louisville, Kentucky, legend puts a half-man, half-goat creature that lures trespassers onto the tracks. No one has ever seen it — but several people have died on the trestle trying.
About 4 min readFor three or four hours on a summer night in 1955, a Kentucky farm family fired shotguns at small glowing figures with pointed ears that kept coming back to their windows. Police found shell casings — and nothing else.
About 3 min readOn 7 January 1948, Captain Thomas Mantell climbed after a huge object over Kentucky — and never came down. It was the first UFO case in which someone died.
About 4 min readBuilt to fight tuberculosis, Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, treated thousands of patients between 1910 and 1961 — and an estimated 6,000 of them died there. Today it is one of America’s most famous haunted places, and its real history is grim enough without the ghosts.