{"id":1235,"slug":"dead-mans-hollow-georgetown-kentucky","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Off US 25 on Scott County's outskirts stand the ruins of Fisher's Travel Camp, a roadside motor court opened in 1928 — thirteen cabins numbered 1 through 12.5, the half-number included for luck, beside a full-service gas station. When I-75 pulled the traffic, the camp slowly emptied and collapsed. But locals knew the ground long before the cabins went up: the hollow had carried its name for generations."]},{"heading":"How the hollow earned it","paragraphs":["Georgetown's tourism office files the telling: a nineteenth-century reputation for murder, banditry, and dumped bodies — several reportedly lowered into a nearby cave whose conditions were said to preserve them for years. The standout tale names John 'Jack' Beard, a Confederate sympathizer dragged from his farm in front of his wife by Union soldiers camped in the hollow and executed among the trees.","The file's research note stands in place of a coroner's record: the violence narratives are recorded tradition, not verified events. What is documented is the name itself and its afterlife — Dead Man's Hollow is now a stop on Kentucky After Dark, the state's own paranormal trail, which gives an old warning a second career as an attraction."]}],"name":"Dead Man’s Hollow","aliases":[],"type":"ROAD","type_label":"Road","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","roads"],"desc":"Road in Georgetown; research record.","full_desc":"A road in Georgetown, Kentucky, Dead Man’s Hollow is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Road in Georgetown; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.","address":null,"city":"Georgetown","county":"Scott County","state":"Kentucky","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":38.260181,"lon":-84.534921,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":516,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Kentucky After Dark records roadside ghost and goblin traditions; specific violence narratives remain unverified. The crossing keeps its reports the way roads keep their warnings — repeated, local, and hard to fully dismiss. 'Dead Man’s Hollow' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Dead Man’s Hollow","url":"https://www.kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/georgetown-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Kentucky After Dark records roadside ghost and goblin traditions; specific violence narratives remain unverified. Every road has its ghost story; Dead Man’s Hollow in Georgetown, Kentucky is the one the file actually recorded. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Dead Man’s Hollow","url":"https://www.kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/georgetown-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Dead Man’s Hollow","url":"https://www.kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/georgetown-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}