Reportedly haunted locations in Kentucky

The following are reportedly haunted locations in the U.S. state of Kentucky, categorized by county.

Adair County

• Free Union Separate Baptist Church located in Adair County, Kentucky. The cemetery of this church is said to be haunted of a father and his child. A young couple that attended this church claim to have seen a ghostly man holding a baby in a pink blanket in 1972. Later, they went to the location where they saw the man and found the grave of a stillborn child and a 54 year old man. It is thought that the man haunts the graveyard with his baby girl awaiting the death of his wife so they can all be together once again.

Campbell County

• Bobby Mackey's Music World in the small town of Wilder is often called "the most haunted night club in America". The site of a former slaughterhouse, the headless corpse of Pearl Bryan was found near the nightclub in 1897. Her alleged killers, Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, avid Satan worshipers, both claimed that they would haunt the area when they were executed by hanging. Today, Walling and Jackson are said to haunt the well room, and an urban legend holds that the well is a portal to Hell, allowing demons to enter the nightclub. An urban legend also claims the site is haunted by the spirit of a dance hall girl named Johanna, who committed suicide after avenging her murdered lover after he was killed by her disapproving father. This claim was investigated on the first episode of the TV series Ghost Adventures. They also have done several other "returns" and in one of them the main guy, Zak Bagans gets possessed. They also show a video of the caretaker, Carl, being possessed.

Carter County

• X Cave at Carter Caves State Resort Park located in Carter County, Kentucky. According to the book, More Kentucky Ghost Stories, by Michael Paul Henson, published by The Overmountain Press, is haunted by two Cherokee Indian lovers. Huraken, a warrior in the tribe, found a rich vein of silver. Huraken kept the secret to himself because he wanted to use the silver to make gifts for Manuita, daughter of the Chief. Huraken, one day, with a group of Indians left the tribe for war. After the group of Indian warriors didn't return, the Tribe believed them to be dead and prepared to move. Manuita didn't want to leave the only home she had ever known, or the memory of Huraken, so she threw herself off a cliff to end her life. Huraken did not get killed, rather he returned to the vein of silver to make gifts for his love Manuita. The night he planned to return and present the gifts as a way of asking for her hand in marriage, was the night Manuita threw herself from the cliff. On his way back to the tribe, he found the body of the princess and carried her into a cave and concealed her body where he could watch over it. The cave is now known as X Cave because of the four entrances that meet in the middle. The chief accused Huraken of being responsible for the death of his daughter. Huraken was captured and sentenced to death. As a last request he asked to go to the site of her body one last time. He entered the cave alone and never came out. When the cave was reopened the bones of two Indian bodies, and silver artifacts were found and later lost.

Hopkins County

• Raven Hill Cemetery located between Madisonville, Kentucky and Earlington, Kentucky is said to be haunted. The grave yard is located on an old gravel road that rarely sees much traffic. It is said that there is an empty grave that is haunted by a blue light. This light follows people in dark that are unfortunate enough to cross its path. The story goes on to say that the person buried in this grave escaped and is looking for another person to take his place in the grave. There have been a few sightings of the blue light, but no recordings of a ghost attempting to push or pull anyone into an empty grave.

Jefferson County

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville

• Old Louisville, reputed to be "America's Most Haunted Neighborhood," is one of the largest historic preservation districts in the country - and supposedly the largest Victorian neighborhood in the nation. It is also said to be home to dozens of haunted mansions and local ghost stories.

• The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville is a former tuberculosis hospital that has been of strong interest with paranormal investigators, some calling it "the most haunted place on Earth". There are unconfirmed reports of more than 60,000 deaths at the site (though the real number is estimated to be about 8,000), and the property owners, workers, and investigators have claimed that at almost any time you can see strange lights, phantasms and shadows moving around the corridors and rooms of the building.

Knox County

• The House on Coon Branch in Knox County, Kentucky, is a reportedly haunted house in a book by Montell Lynwood Williams of the University Press of Kentucky. Residents of this house reported that they "could hear things all through the night if you were awake." These noises were things in front of the fireplace, noises the resemble work in the kitchen, stove doors opening and closing, dishes moving, and pots and pans clanging. Ghostly presences were felt or seen on occasion. The sounds of items falling and hitting the floor were heard but when the sound was investigate, everything was in place. Once someone left a room, those noises would occur then stop when the room was enter but continue again once vacant.
• The Owens House in Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, is a Queen Anne house which was built by John Allen Owens in 1894. The house deteriorated to the point of disrepair and was torn down in 1977. The house has been reported to have many supernatural occurrences as detailed by the owners of the house and those who stayed in the house. The book has Ruth Sanders, who live in the house, describing various events that took place in the house. Different noises were reported such as dining room sounds or utensils on plates. Plates and knives were said to move around of their own accord. Animals avoided certain areas of the house. Animals would not stay in certain rooms for too long and even growl at nothing. The ghostly figure of a woman is reported to haunt the house. This woman is referred to as the Gray Lady. She is seen wearing a white dress and had a red aura surrounding her. The Gray Lady is speculated to by a sister of John Allen Owens who died young in 1901.

Madison County

• The Ghosts of White Hall in Madison County, owned by a man named Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810 -1903). The infamous White Hall is 11 miles north of Richmond, the original house was built in 1798 by Clay's father. Some of the paranormal activities seen in this house are things like candle lights moving around the perimeter of the house or through the house, strange sounds and smells throughout the house, foot steps in rooms that proved to be empty, on occasion people have heard violin and piano music echoing in the empty ballroom, along with some actual sightings of apparitions at the house with three ghosts, Clay himself, his former wife, and his son. "Very, very odd and more than a little scary"-- perfect words to describe White Hall State Historic Site.

See also

List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States
List of reportedly haunted locations in the world