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Explore 50 haunted places in Kentucky. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Lexington, Kentucky · Historic house
The estate’s central ghost story identifies an older, white-haired man as Henry Clay. HauntedPlaces.org describes the apparition in a dark coat, standing against the fireplace mantel in the room remembered as the red parlor. Identity is an interpretation of reported sightings.
Benham, Kentucky · Hotel
The old school’s corridors are said to echo with running, laughter and the slam of doors. HauntedPlaces.org describes the supposed return of former pupils and lights switching without anyone apparently touching them.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky · Other
Figures understood as nuns are part of the former academy’s ghost tradition. HauntedPlaces.org recounts lights changing on their own and chairs or other furnishings moving after the building has emptied for the night.
Union, Kentucky · Natural landmark
Visitors describe whispering without a visible speaker and unfamiliar figures among the park’s surroundings. HauntedPlaces.org also records stories of a threatening presence in the nearby woods.
Wilder, Kentucky · Other
The former Wilder nightclub became famous for stories about a sinister well room and the ghost of a dancer called Johanna or Joanna. Paranormal television and local legend connect the property with possession claims and a supposed supernatural gateway.
Frankfort, Kentucky · Other
An older man resembling Albert Blanton is said to appear around the warehouses, bottling hall and his former home, Stony Point. Wine Enthusiast records these guest accounts as part of the distillery’s ghost lore. The operator also publicly presents its own historical ghost stories through special events.
Paducah, Kentucky · Other
The apparition associated with this Paducah building is Stella Cohen Peine, said to have lived upstairs. HauntedPlaces.org describes a woman appearing at an upper window, movements reflected in glass, disturbed chairs and table items, and flickering lights.
Busy, Kentucky · Cemetery
Coffin Rock is said to run red in rainy weather, a detail locals connect with a long-ago shooting. HauntedPlaces.org also describes roadside apparitions near this cemetery: an older man signaling motorists, a girl in the roadway and an elderly woman who seems disoriented.
Campbellsville, Kentucky · Other
The former hospital building has a campus reputation for infant cries heard at night. HauntedPlaces.org also records footsteps, patches of cold air and pottery wheels reportedly turning with nobody at the controls. Story is specifically attributed to the Fine Arts Building in the folklore source. Present-day Art Building versus Gosser Fine Arts Center identity is unresolved; do not map to a guessed campus building.
Bellevue, Kentucky · Hotel
Accounts collected by HauntedPlaces.org describe figures on the stairs, unseen footsteps and voices in this church-converted inn. Another recurring story has the piano sounding during the night without a visible player.
Williamsburg, Kentucky · Natural landmark
A bride in her wedding dress is said to wander the area after a fatal honeymoon accident. In the tale recorded by HauntedPlaces.org, drivers believe they have struck her, only to find no one when they stop to look. Vanishing-bride legend; accident date and circumstances not verified.
West Point, Kentucky · Historic house
Guests of the former Ditto House Inn have reportedly felt a touch or heard someone address them when no person was apparent. HauntedPlaces.org records these experiences as part of the property’s ghost reputation. Directory identifies 204 Elm Street but appears to borrow military-hospital history from nearby Ditto-Prewitt House. Historic identity mapping requires reconciliation. Address withheld; do not merge two Ditto houses. Community comments from 2016–2020 report inn closure and private residence.
Brandenburg, Kentucky · Hotel
The inn’s resident ghost has an unusually mischievous signature: loosening guests’ shoelaces. HauntedPlaces.org places sightings of the figure on the stairs and in the dining room.
Custer, Kentucky · Cemetery
Visitors describe shadows and screams among the old graves and ruined gates. One story collected by HauntedPlaces.org tells of a large green light hovering before suddenly shooting upward. Mechanical trouble experienced on the grounds is also folded into the cemetery’s Gates of Hell legend.
Lexington, Kentucky · Hotel
Stories from the former Gratz Park Inn include a child running in the halls and playing jacks. HauntedPlaces.org also describes a woman in white, spectral revelers, a sorrowful man on a lower level and an older male presence blamed for televisions switching on and off.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky · Other
A solitary man wearing brown is said to wander the museum after closing. The account appears in a HauntedPlaces.org submission credited to Callum Swift, linking a recognizable figure with the rooms holding local historical collections. A specific attributed community report; no stronger corroboration claimed.
Campbellsville, Kentucky · Historic house
A family is said to have left this stone house after encountering figures, unaccountable footsteps and strange fires. Callum Swift’s account on HauntedPlaces.org connects the haunting with a period when the house was occupied again after having stood empty. Reported family departure is folklore, not independently verified property history.
Columbia, Kentucky · Other
Campus stories focus on dark shapes around second-floor dormitories. HauntedPlaces.org describes figures appearing near ceiling panels or slipping into rooms, with a piercing cry forming part of the student legend.
Lexington, Kentucky · Historic house
HauntedPlaces.org associates the house with appearances by John Wesley Hunt and Bouviette James, who cared for the Hunt children. The story places James in the upper nursery and hallways, while Hunt is said to walk the house’s corridors. Source title reverses family names as John Morgan Hunt House; use recognized Hunt-Morgan House identity.
Bardstown, Kentucky · Hotel
The building’s former prisoners are said to linger after its conversion into an inn. HauntedPlaces.org records staff and visitor reports of someone walking through the jail and crying voices with no visible source.
Clermont, Kentucky · Other
Full-moon nights figure in this distillery story: a former guard supposedly shouted at the moon during his shifts. HauntedPlaces.org records later guards’ claims that his cries can still be heard when the moon is full.
Frankfort, Kentucky · Historic house
Liberty Hall’s best-known apparition is the Gray Lady, identified in local tradition as Margaret Varick. HauntedPlaces.org describes her as a kindly presence in the house. Other tales place a distressed dark-haired woman in the garden and a uniformed soldier peering through the windows. Identities and disappearance story are folklore, not verified historical conclusions.
Dawson Springs, Kentucky · Cemetery
Glowing eyes and humanlike figures are reported at this small burial ground near Dawson Springs. HauntedPlaces.org describes things appearing and then fading from view, giving the cemetery its local ghost reputation.
Lexington, Kentucky · Historic house
Two women in Victorian clothing are said to occupy separate parts of the house, one toward the west and another in the dining room. HauntedPlaces.org also records a black cat appearing throughout the building, floral scents upstairs and old-fashioned music or voices. Do not infer the cat is historically documented or every appearance paranormal.