Historic haunted places in Louisville, 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.
Crew lore aboard the 1914 sternwheeler, the oldest operating river steamboat, centers on Captain Ben Winters, longtime master of the boat when it was named the Avalon. The pilothou…
Open to the public (ticketed concerts and events).
Chief engineer Fred Frisch died in 1965, and restoration workers in 1994 described an older man in a plaid shirt and black-rimmed glasses appearing when equipment acted up. One pai…
Founder J. Graham Brown lived in his 1923 hotel until his death in 1969, and guests and staff describe a man in an old-fashioned tuxedo who fades away in the lobby or mezzanine, le…
Open (operating hotel; lobby and bars open to patrons).
In 1987 a cook preparing breakfast said he saw a woman in a long blue dress pass through the closed service elevator doors. The Lady in Blue has been linked to Patricia Wilson, fou…
Open to the public (historical and paranormal tours; overnight investigations).
This Gothic former tuberculosis hospital is among the most investigated buildings in America. Its legends include Room 502, tied to nurse deaths that no record confirms, and a boy …