South — open filings

Open to visit in Kentucky

43 dossiers in Kentucky carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

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Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Louisville, Kentucky

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

6 claims · 3 legends→

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Old Talbott Tavern

Bardstown, Kentucky

Tavern in Bardstown; research record.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Hunt-Morgan House

Lexington, Kentucky

The 1814 house of the hunts and the raiders—Morgan’s family home.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Wickland

Bardstown, Kentucky

Historic house in Bardstown; research record.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Seelbach Hotel

Louisville, Kentucky

1905 Beaux-Arts hotel haunted by the "Lady in Blue"—Patricia Wilson’s legend.

2 claims · 2 legends→

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Liberty Hall Historic Site

Frankfort, Kentucky

Historic house in Frankfort; research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Portal 31 Coal Mine

Lynch, Kentucky

Mine in Kentucky; research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Nada Tunnel

Slade, Kentucky

Tunnel in Kentucky; research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Sleepy Hollow Road

Prospect, Kentucky

Road in Kentucky; research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Mammoth Cave

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

The world’s longest known cave—420+ mapped miles and Floyd Collins’s tomb.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Harrodsburg, Kentucky

The 1805 Shaker utopia—the village that outlived its makers.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Locust Grove

Louisville, Kentucky

The 1790 farm where Clark and Lewis and Clark came.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Lost River Cave

Bowling Green, Kentucky

The river that vanishes under Bowling Green—and the boat ride into the dark.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Bobby Mackey’s Music World

Wilder, Kentucky

Honky-tonk billed as "the most haunted nightclub in America"—built on a former slaughterhouse legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Brown Hotel

Louisville, Kentucky

Home of the Hot Brown—and a founder who reportedly stayed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Boone Tavern

Berea, Kentucky

Berea College’s 1909 inn—the student-built hotel with a gentle ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Perryville Battlefield

Perryville, Kentucky

October 8, 1862—Kentucky’s largest battle, in the drought.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Blue Licks Battlefield

Carlisle, Kentucky

August 19, 1782—the Revolution’s last battle, and a massacre.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Cumberland Falls

Corbin, Kentucky

The moonbow falls—the only one in the Western Hemisphere.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Ashland

Lexington, Kentucky

Henry Clay’s Lexington estate—the Great Compromiser’s home.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Mary Todd Lincoln House

Lexington, Kentucky

The First Lady’s childhood home—where she lived before the White House.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Old Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

The largest Victorian district in America—and its ghost tours.

2 claims · 1 legend→

White Hall

Richmond, Kentucky

Cassius Clay’s Italianate castle—the Lion of White Hall.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Conrad-Caldwell House

Louisville, Kentucky

The "Castle" of Old Louisville—Richardsonian Romanesque stone.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Old Washington

Maysville, Kentucky

The 1786 frontier town that time forgot—Harriet Beecher Stowe’s visit.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Pikeville

Pikeville, Kentucky

The Hatfield-McCoy town—the feud’s Kentucky ground.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Jenny Wiley grave

Prestonsburg, Kentucky

The captive who saw her children killed—1790, and the escape.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Bloody Harlan

Harlan, Kentucky

The county where the coal wars killed for decades.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Mill Springs Battlefield

Nancy, Kentucky

January 19, 1862—the Union’s first big win, in the rain.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Camp Wildcat

London, Kentucky

October 1861—Kentucky’s first battle, on the Wilderness Road.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Boonesborough

Richmond, Kentucky

Boone’s 1775 fort—rebuilt where the frontier began.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Camp Nelson

Nicholasville, Kentucky

The USCT recruiting depot—where freedom was enlisted.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mantell incident site

Franklin, Kentucky

The 1948 pursuit that killed Captain Thomas Mantell.

Natural Bridge

Slade, Kentucky

The 65-foot sandstone arch in the Red River Gorge.

Red River Gorge

Slade, Kentucky

The gorge of a hundred arches—climbing’s sacred ground.

Heaven Hill

Bardstown, Kentucky

The 1996 fire that burned a bourbon empire—"the distillery fire."

Maker’s Mark

Loretto, Kentucky

The 1805 distillery where the red wax seals the bourbon.

Camp Nelson National Monument

Nicholasville, Kentucky

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Thornton and Lucie Blackburn Marker

Louisville, Kentucky

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Dinsmore Homestead

Burlington, Kentucky

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Burial Site of Madison and Kitty Smith at the St. Louis Cemetery

Louisville, Kentucky

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Isaac Downey's Escape from Globe Furnace

Greenup, Kentucky

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Blue Heron Mining Community

Whitley City, Kentucky

Ghost town in Kentucky; research record.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026