Ghosts across Kentucky by William Lynwood Montell

Author:William Lynwood Montell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Trees such as this large oak are often described in ghost stories, especially if a gruesome lynching took place here and the spirit of the hanged person returns to commemorate the death process. (Photograph by the author)

Over here in the second field from right here is where John Neville was hung. I've always heard it said that when people would go down this road that went through the woods there, when they got close to where he was hung, a big ball of fire would rise up out of the ground. They'd just ride on by until they got past the dogwood tree where he was hung, then the ball of fire would disappear.

36. “Ghost of Small Baby”

There's a farm on Highway 90, that old crooked road that runs across northern McCreary County. On that farm is where a girl killed her little baby. It is said that she took the infant outside behind their house and throwed it over the cliff.

On stormy nights, these people who live there now can hear a baby crying out there behind their house.

37. “Ghostly Spot at Matthews Fork”

There's a "hainted" place out here on the ridge; its called Matthews Fork. There's a man got murdered there, and a long time after he got killed, there were things heard out there.

There's an old mill out there on the ridge. And when people went to this mill, they had to pass that place where he was killed. But, boy, when they passed by there, this man's "haint" with no head would get up on their horse behind them and ride a long ways with them down this ridge.

Once, there was this fellow who was excited so bad when this ghost got up behind him he lost his turn of corn meal. He had to go back by there the next morning to get his turn of meal.

One time later, me and this other woman was walking down this ridge, and we heard something following us, making lots of noise in them leaves on the ground alongside the road. We kept walking, but we thought we'd slip over to see what it was. We expected to see a dog, or a squirrel, or something like that. When we looked, we couldn't see nary a thing.

When we'd stop, it'd stop. Then, when we'd go on, it'd go on with us. Finally, it got just up real close to us. Well, we just stopped, and in a few minutes it just left all at once.

Ever since that man was killed there, there's been things like that that was felt or heard when the people passed by.

Now, that's the truth.

38. “Dying Shrick of a Woman Killed

by a Stage Coach Driver”

An old stage coach driver in the early forties was John E. Winters who drove the stage from Louisville to Nashville. Reaching Bardstown a change of horses was made and dinner partaken of. On one of his trips, while stopping at what is now the Bardstown Hotel, the passengers told

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