Mississippi Valley Paranormal

On August 2nd, team members and co-founders Rick and Becky took a weekend trip to Louisville, Kentucky. We went to Waverly Hills for a two hour tour and investigation. While there, neither of us had any personal experiences or captured anything on video or audio.  The tour was fascinating and the building is awesome. Rick decided to walk the entire length of the Death Tunnel and wished he had not done so.

We spent the next night at the Haunted Jailers Inn in Bardstown.  This was a functioning jail until 1987, with iron bars on windows, 30 inch thick stone walls, and a heavy steel door slamming behind. It may not sound like the typical tourist accommodation and Jailer’s Inn is anything but typical. The historic Jailer’s Inn offered a unique way to “do time.”

We were allowed to investigate anywhere we wanted to in the jail, unoccupied rooms, cells, and the grounds. We stayed in a upper room that at one time held several “cages” for prisoners in that part of the jail. The room is now called the Garden Room, and is supposed to be one of the most active rooms.

Notes left by other guests speak of the room being haunted by a young boy who may have been the son of one of the jailers. There was a nightgown hanging in the room that was supposed to provoke the spirits if tried on, and notes left under a loose stone on the fireplace.

While in that room, during an investigation, the EMF detector went off repeatedly by the beds and at several places where no electricity was present. We checked for electrical sources and there were none to be found.

At times, the beeps seemed to respond directly to questions. When we left the room to investigate the rest of the building we kept the EMF detector and DVR going. Upon review of the audio, we heard that the EMF detector had went off two different times, while the room was vacant.

We spent some time investigating the room next door which once had shackles in the floor and was used for the murderers and rapists. The room still retains the original rough hewn ceiling, and was a creepy place.

We also did an investigation of the original jail cells that are still in place.

Behind the jail house is the Pioneer Cemetery. Here stone slabs rise from the ground and several of Bardstown’s most prominent citizens lie in repose.

During the night in the Garden Room, both Rick and Becky were awakened by sounds and what seemed to be voices. Becky also felt pressure on the quilt covering her.

A place we investigated with spirits of a different type was the Maker’s Mark distillery. At the end of the tour, they let you sample the unfinished and finished product.

On the way home, we stopped at Patti Starr’s Ghost Shop in Lexington. Patti is a wonderful person, and her shop is stocked with anything you might need for paranormal investigations.

Case Status: Closed