Kentucky has a rich legacy of ghostly visitations.
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About the Author: William Lynwood Montell, emeritus professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University, is the author of several books, including Ghosts across Kentucky, Killings, Kentucky Ghosts, Singing the Glory Down, Kentucky Folk Architecture, and Tales from Kentucky Lawyers.
Though the book emphasizes the stories themselves, Montell offers an introduction discussing how local history, local character, and local flavor are communicated across the generations in these colorful stories.
Almost all of Kentucky\'s 120 counties are represented.
Included are accounts of Haunted libraries, mansions, bedrooms, log cabins, bathrooms, college campuses, apartments, furniture, hotels, and distilleries, as well as reports of eerie visitations from ghostly grandmothers, husbands, daughters, uncles, cousins, babies, slaves, Civil War soldiers, dogs, sheep, and even wildcats.
Montell tells the story of a stormy night, shortly before Henry Clay\'s death, when the ghost of the statesman\'s old friend Daniel Boone calls upon him, and then recounts the more modern story of the ghouls that haunt the rehearsal house of the band The Kentucky Headhunters.
Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky includes chilling tales such as that of the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges invisibly through a house accompanied by the smell of roses, and the famed Gray Lady of Liberty Hall in Frankfort, a houseguest who never left.
Many of the stories were collected from elders by young people and are recounted exactly as they were gathered.
Lynwood Montell has harvested dozens of tales of Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts from all over the Bluegrass state.
Kentucky has a rich legacy of ghostly visitations
