User:Bedford/Ghost legends of Kentucky



Kentucky, in the upper Southern United States, is the location of numerous ghost sightings, and there are many locations that are considered to be haunted by locals.

Bobby Mackey's Music World, a bar/nightclub that caters to country-western music, is said by some to be the most haunted place within the Bluegrass State. It was originally built in the 1850s as a slaughterhouse, only to because a place for Satanists to sacrifice animals, becoming a major news story in 1896 when two of the cult's members botched an abortion, killing the woman seeking the abortion horribly. They were found guilty and executed, despite being given an option to tell where they had hidden the woman's head. For the 1920s to 1970s it served as a series of nightclubs that included other deaths. During its time as Bobby Mackey's, several ghosts sightings have occurred, as well as purported ghostly possession.

Many of the ghosts said to haunt various locales originated from the War of Northern Aggression, during which Kentucky saw much bloodshed. One example was the youngest of a group of brothers, the only one to fight for the confederacy instead of the Union, who was killed by Union bushwhackers despite his mother trying to protect him by throwing herself on top of him. Similarly, the ghosts of the women of a family whose menfolk were gone from their [{Columbia, Kentucky]], and were raped and killed by Union soldiers in an old mill; a mill that the modern landowner doesn't want destroy for fear the ladies' ghosts will come to haunt his house instead. Near Somerset, Kentucky, Bishop's Hill, Kentucky, and Mount Washington, Kentucky the ghosts of soldiers who met their fate outside of battle still haunt where they died and closely buried.