Tales of Kentucky Ghosts

1: CEMETERY GHOSTS

 1 CEMETERY GHOSTS Dark Figure in a Cemetery Hardin County This is a true story that happened to me back in 2006. It’s about the time some friends and I decided to go ghost hunting. We had heard of a place in Elizabethtown called Casey Cemetery, located on St. John Road. It was a cool night when we got there. It’s a creepy place at night, and it’s old. No one has been buried there for years. We had some flashlights, a digital camera, and other things that might help us catch a ghost. Well, we had been there for about an hour when I and one of the others decided to go to the back of the cemetery. One of the stories told about this place is that this spook will chase you if you go to the back end of the graveyard. So, we went and we sat around trying to hear or see anything unusual. Well, after awhile, we began to get bored, so we started back. The wind had gotten up, and I was trying to light my pipe, which kept getting blown out. So I turned back toward the back of the graveyard. As I was lighting my pipe, I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye, then said to my friend next to me, “I think I just saw a movement back there, so on the count of three let’s put our flashlights on it.” So I counted to three, and we turned on our flashlights, and in the glow of the light we both saw what appeared to be a human figure with head, shoulders, part of a waist, but no legs. Yet it stood there for a moment, then began to move around a little. It moved only for the briefest of moments, then just disappeared. We both saw that, and all we could do was stand there with our mouths open. Our other friends there saw nothing, but I would swear to God this truly happened to me and my friend. David Allen Thomas, Glasgow, September 29, 2007 6 Tales of Kentucky Ghosts The Glowing Tombstone Cumberland County A long time ago, Lesley Phelps’s Grandma Turner was walking down the road toward the bridge when she looked up and saw a tombstone glowing. She was so scared that she took off running. She was fine, but she saw that same tombstone glowing like that several times again. After hearing the story one night, Lesley went to a slumber party and all of the girls there were walking down the same road in the dark. Lesley looked up and saw a tombstone that was glowing. It scared her so much the others were scared for the rest of the night. Lesley thought about her grandma’s story and it scared her even more. That tombstone is still there, and if you go out walking down that road in the dark and look at that cemetery on the hill, you will probably see that tombstone glowing in the moonlight. Kailey Phelps, Burkesville, November 1, 2007 Cemetery Ghost along Roadside Cumberland County One night these two men had been sitting up with a sick man in the community. After they decided to go home, one of the men had to walk home alone, and that was quite a distance. In the deep of the night something on the other side of the fence was walking right along beside him. He decided to run, but it ran along there beside him. When he stopped running, it also stopped running. In trying to figure out who it was along there beside him, he assumed it was a dead man whose body was buried in a nearby cemetery. Teresa Kirk, as told to Laura Kirk, Burkesville, September 22, 2007 CEMETERY GHOSTS 7 The Beheaded Ghost Ballard County My two brothers and I used to spend nights sitting around the lamplight and listening to our father tell ghost stories. We lived about a half mile from our family burial ground named Bald Knob. There was no road to the cemetery, only a path made by dogs, rabbits, and perhaps a beheaded ghost. Some nights the dead people came out of their graves to have parties. One dark and dreary night, not a star in the sky, the dead rose from their cold, soggy graves. It was not a...