Historic haunted places in Bardstown, 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.
Open to the public (bed and breakfast; jail tour for overnight guests).
This B&B was once Kentucky's oldest operating jail. Its most-reported spirit is Mrs. McKay, a jailer's wife who later became the jailer herself, and guests describe waking to see a…
Open to the public (mansion tours; seasonal evening ghost tours).
In 1833 a cholera outbreak killed eight members of the Rowan family and eight enslaved people at Federal Hill within a day. Local ghost tours describe a grieving mother wandering t…
The oldest ghost story here involves Jesse James, said to have woken in an upstairs room to a glowing figure by his bed and fired at it. Bullet holes still in the room are part of …
Instead of a famous resident, Wickland's ghosts are said to be three unnamed workers: a cook, a groundskeeper and a carpenter. Staff, guests and investigators describe each in thei…