Dead Man’s Hollow
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.
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Is Dead Man’s Hollow haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
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.
How the hollow earned it
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.
The record of claims
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.
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.
Sources on file
- 01Dead Man’s HollowKentucky After Dark tourism campaign · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.