LOUISVILLE, KY: Halloween is the ideal time of year to visit eerie theme parks, haunted houses, and other supernatural attractions.Haunted Hotel
Yes, a visit to The or the Baxter Avenue Morgue can be frightful, but what about the truly haunted locations, such as cemeteries with ghost visits lore and abandoned hospitals with tragic death stories?
The Shadowlands Haunted Places Index compiled information on hundreds of locations in Kentucky and Southern Indiana where paranormal activity has been reported; the Courier Journal created a map of these locations.
Just in case, we also dug up some legends and history about some of Louisville’s most haunted places.
Thus, investigate these ghost stories for yourself to see if they are true.
You are challenged by us.
There are rumors that some of the deceased at Eastern Cemetery on Baxter Avenue are haunted and are upset about the cemetery’s state of disrepair. It has suffered from extreme overcrowding over the years—the cemetery’s ownership even started reusing graves at one point—and general neglect.
The gravestones at Eastern Cemetery date back to the 1700s, so there could be a multitude of people interred there who have cause for revenge. Some examples of these people could be the people who are next to a rotting pumpkin scattered across the sidewalk or the person buried beneath a crumbling gravestone covered in leaves and dead grass.
The first crematorium in Louisville was established by Eastern Cemetery Corp. in what is now an apartment building in the early 1930s, according to the Louisville Ghost Hunters Society. The babies in the graveyard are looked after by a supposedly haunted ghost of a woman who lives in a separate area in the back.
