Historic haunted places in Paducah, KY. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Active parish cemetery (free); visit respectfully.
A regional guidebook says this churchyard 'has it all': visitors describe a werewolf-like beast charging up the hill after dark and a female spirit hostile to men. A strange light …
Municipal cemetery (free); seasonal lantern tours may charge.
Della Barnes died of accidental morphine poisoning in 1897 at age 22, though local legend reworks her death into a murder by a jealous lover. Her life-size memorial statue is rumor…
Staff and diners report chairs shifting, salt shakers tipping, flickering lights, and cold spots, mostly in the dining room and the upper floor where Stella Cohen Peine spent her l…
Open to the public as a highway welcome center (free).
Visitors to this restored mansion, abandoned from 1968 until 1982, report figures linked to former residents. More unusual is the smell of food cooking around the old kitchen, arri…