Kentucky Hauntings: Homespun Ghost Stories and Unexplained History

Places to Visit

167 Places to Visit Ashland Paramount Art Center is located at 1300 Winchester Avenue, Ashland, Kentucky, 41101. You might meet up with the permanent friendly ghost, a former worker named Joe. Call 606-324-3175. The Brown Hotel (335 West Broadway, 40202—toll free 888-387-0498) and The Seelbach Hotel (500 Fourth Street, 40202—call 502-585-3200) are two of Louisville’s finest—and most haunted—hotels. The best way to access these for spooky experiences is to contact Mr. Ghost Walker (Robert Parker) and take his original Louisville ghost walks. In our opinion, these are the best-researched and best-presented tours of downtown Louisville, and they include several other haunted sites besides the hotels. Call 502-689-5117 or check Mr. Parker’s Web site, www.LouisvilleGhostWalks .com. For tours of Victorian homes in Old Louisville (America’s largest Victorian neighborhood), contact David Domine at ghostsofoldLouisville.com. You will enjoy this tour immensely and are likely to encounter a ghost! The tour is well Places to Visit 168 researched and well presented, and it covers a part of Louisville that is not visited in other tours. Bardstown, Kentucky, has many haunted sites, but two of the best known are Jailer’s Inn (111 West Stephen Foster Avenue, 40004; on the Web at jailersinn.com, or call 502348 -5551) and Old Talbot Inn (107 West Stephen Foster, 40002—call 502-348-3494.) We recommend that you take the Patti Starr tour of downtown Bardstown. We found it very informative and entertaining. Contact Patti at 859-576-5517 for tour information. LaGrange, Kentucky, is a unique place where a real train comes right through the middle of town and where ghosts come out to be sighted. The Spirits of LaGrange Tour is conducted by talented tour guides, such as Barbara Edds, in costume and carrying lanterns. You will hear spellbinding accounts of all the ghostly happenings in LaGrange, one of the most haunted places in Kentucky. This tour is very popular, so call for reservations at 502-291-1766. For spirits you imbibe and for spirits you may encounter from beyond, try Louisville’s Phoenix Hill Tavern. Drop in at 644 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky, 40204. The phone number is 502-589-4957. Places to Visit 169 Mammoth Cave (near Park City in south central Kentucky) was described by an early guide as a “grand, gloomy, and peculiar place.” He could add now that it is also haunted. To book a tour, call 270-758-2181. ...