WE'LL REVEAL THE GRAND MANSIONS AND GHOSTLY TALES OF OLD LOUISVILLE WHEN "KENTUCKY LIFE" BEGINS RIGHT NOW.

HELLO, I'M DOUG FLYNN, AND WELCOME TO "KENTUCKY LIFE."

OR FOR TONIGHT'S SHOW, WE'RE CALLING KENTUCKY AFTER LIFE.

THE CAMERA CREW AND I SEEM TO HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL PRACTICE PARLOR TO OURSELVES.

BUT DO WE REALLY?

OR HAVE WE BEEN JOINED BY SOME LINGERING SPIRITS FROM THE HOUSE'S EARLIER YEARS?

MAYBE SOME OF THE VERY SAME SPIRITS RESPONSIBLE FOR OLD LOUISVILLE'S WORLDWIDE REPUTATION FOR THE PARANORMAL.

>> OLD LOUISVILLE HAS ABOUT 45 SQUARE BLOCKS IN ITS HISTORIC PRESERVATION DISTRICT.

ROUGHLY 1400 STRUCTURES.

THAT MAKES THEM VICTORIAN IN STYLE.

WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE, THEY THINK OF BEGINNINGER BREAD HOUSES.

SORT OF WOOD AND SHINGLE HOUSES.

AND HERE MOST HOUSES ARE BUILT OF STONE AND BRICK AND THIS WAS A VERY AFFLUENT NEIGHBORHOOD SO THEY COULD AFFORD THE MOST EXPENSIVE BUILDING MATERIALS.

THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION PUT LOUISVILLE AND THE STATE ON THE MAP.

>> THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION WAS A WORLD'S FAIR.

IT WAS FORMED IN THE EARLY 1880s BECAUSE OF THE LOUISVILLE BOARD OF TRADE WANTED TO SHOWCASE LOUISVILLE AS A WORLD PORT SO THEY DESIGNED THESE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION WHICH WAS AND STILL IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST WOODEN STRUCTURE.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR CONDUCTED THE OPENING CEREMONIES.

AND THAT IS WHEN 4800 LIGHT BULBS THAT THOMAS EDISON'S MEN STRUNG CAME ON AND THE LIGHT BULB WAS SHOWCASED TO THE WORLD.

>> IT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST FOR 100 DAYS.

PEOPLE AROUND HERE WERE SITTING ON PINS AND NEEDLES HOPING TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THEIR COSTS AND AS IT TURNS OUT IN THAT FIRST 88 DAYS, THEY SOLD MORE THAN THREE QUARTERS A MILLION TICKETS AND SO, IT PUT LOUISVILLE ON THE MAP AND IT WAS SUCH A HUGE HIT THEY OPEN THEY OPENED IT UP THE NEXT YEAR.

AND AFTER THEY TORE DOWN THE EXHIBIT HALL AND WE HAD THE BIG.COMITY SPACE, THEY PUT IN St.

JAMES'S COURT.

>> FOR A GOOD 20 YEARS THAT WAS THE MOST DESIRABLE PLACE TO LIVE IN THE CITY.

>> THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE FEEL THE SPIRITS.

THEY ARE ALWAYS WITH US.

SOME ARE NOT SO FRIENDLY, MOST ARE.

THE SPIRITS JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE.

THEY WERE NOT HARMFUL.

THEY HAVE A LONG HISTORY HERE.

>> DAVID DOMINE MOVED HERE AND HE FELL IN LOVE WITH VICTORIAN-OWNED LOUISVILLE.

EVERYWHERE HE WENT, PEOPLE HAD GHOST STORIES.

THEY HAD STORIES ABOUT THE HOUSE AND ODD THINGS THAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THEIR HOMES.

AND SO HE BEGAN COMPILING THIS INFORMATION AND STARTED WRITING BOOKS ABOUT IT.

IN 1999, I BOWL MINION HOUSE ON THIRD STREET AND I MOVED IN, THE PREVIOUS OTHER THAN TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS A GHOST THAT WITH THE HOUSE AND I DIDN'T BELIEVE HER.

I BOUGHT THE HOUSE AND A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER, A COUPLE OF STRANGE THINGS STARTED HAPPENING.

I HAVE HEARD UNEXPLAINED FOOT STEPS.

AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT CREEPS AND GROANS BUT I COULD HEAR HARD SOLED SHOES WALKING AROUND USUALLY ABOUT 3, 3:30 IN THE MORNING.

I HAD PETS THAT ACT LIKE THEY COULD SEE THINGS THAT I COULDN'T SEE.

I WOULD WAKE UP IN THE MORNING TO THE INEXPLAINED SMELL OF COFFEE IN THE KITCHEN AND SMELLED LIKE SOMEONE HAD JUST BREWED IT.

NICE STRONG BLACK COFFEE I COULD STAND AT THE STOVE AND SMELL IT LIKE IT WAS RIGHT THERE.

ON AN OCCASION OR TWO, I SAW THINGS MOVE.

I SAW A VASE SLIDE ACROSS A MANTLE SHELF.

IF YOU ASKED ME TO GIVE AN ANSWER, I WOULD SAY I DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS BUT DO I BELIEVE IN THE PARANORMAL?

I BELIEVE IN THE PARANORMAL.

THERE ARE THINGS OUT THERE WE JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.

THESE WOULD BE PARANORMAL OCCURRENCES.

IT ALERTED ME TO THE POTENTIAL THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAD AND SO I STARTED WRITING BOOKS ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THAT LED TO ME GIVING TOURS.

BASED ON THE BOOKS, HE CAME UP WITH THE FIRST GHOST TOO TOUR.

THE HE WORKED HARD TO MAKE SURE THERE IS ENOUGH INFORMATION PACKED AS POSSIBLE INTO EACH STORY.

>> OUR GHOST TOUR IS CALLED THE AMERICA'S MOST HAUNT NEIGHBORHOOD TOUR.

>> THE TOURS STARTED WITH JUST GUIDING PEOPLE AROUND IN GROUPS WITH LANTERNS AND STOPPING IN FRONT OF THE HAUNTED HOUSES.

WE HAVE MANY IN OLD LOUISVILLE.

AND THEN HE WOULD TELL THE STORY OF THE SPIRITS THAT LIVED IN THAT PARTICULAR HOUSE.

HOW THEY DIED AND WHY THEY COME BACK TO HAUNT.

HE WOULD TAKE THE STORIES IN EACH BOOK AND FOR THE NEXT YEAR'S TOUR, FEATURE THOSE HOUSES.

>> ONE OF THE PLACES IS THE PINK PALACE.

ONE OF THE LOCAL LANDMARKS.

YOU CAN'T MISS IT BECAUSE IT IS PINK.

BUILT IN 1890 AND ORIGINALLY THE SAINT JAMES GENTLEMEN'S OUT AND CASINO.

IT WAS A PRIVATE CLUBHOUSE.

THEY WOULD GATHER AND HAVE BOURBON AND SMOKE A LOCALLY-ROLLED CIGAR, AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND EVENTUALLY IT WAS TURNED INTO A RESIDENCE LIKE IT IS TODAY.

AND IN THE 1960 IT IS WHEN IT ACQUIRED A REPUTATION AS BEING A HAUNTED HOUSE.

>> SUPPOSEDLY THERE IS A GHOST BY THE NAME OF AVERY HERE A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN WHO MAKES APPEARANCES AT TIME WHENCE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE ARE IN DANGER SO HE IS WHAT THEY CALL A CRISIS APPARITION.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A GHOST IN YOUR HOUSE, HE'S THE KIND THAT YOU WANT.

HE SHOWED UP TO WARN YOU THAT YOU'RE IN DANGER AND SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.

AND HE WAS FIRST DISCOVERED BY A WOMAN LIVING THERE IN THE 1960 OZ.

HER NAME WAS JENNIE AND HE SHOWED UP AND MADE SEVERAL APPEARANCES AND STARTED WONDERING WHAT WAS GOING ON.

AND TURNS OUT THERE WERE TWO BUGLARIES OUTSIDE TRYING TO BREAK IN AND HE ALERT HER TO THIS AND SAVED HER.

AND THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, THINGS LIKE THIS HAVE HAPPENED.

THE CURRENT OWNERS KNOW THAT IF THEY SAY AVERY, THEY BETTER WATCH OUT, SOMETHING IS AFOOT AT THE PINK PALACE.

>> I HAVE HAD MANY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE SPIRITS THAT LIVE IN THIS HOUSE.

THE MAIN FOCUS OF MY HOUSE HAS BEEN THE LITTLE GIRL IN THE WHITE DRESS WHO STANDS ON THE STAIRS.

SHE'S BEEN SEEN BY FOUR PEOPLE IN THE LAST 100 YEARS.

MY SON SAW THE LITTLE GIRL AND HE WAS LAST PERSON TO SEE HER AND HE TOLD ME ABOUT HER AND I JUST BLEW IT OFF.

AND IT WASN'T LATER UNTIL I MET DAVID AND I WAS TELLING HIM ABOUT THE HAPPENINGS IN THE HOUSE.

HE DID THE RESEARCH ON MY HOUSE TO FIND OUT THE FORMER OWNERS AND INHABITANTS WERE.

AT ONE POINT, AROUND 1915, 1920, A WOMAN LIVED HERE IN THE FRONT BEDROOM UPSTAIRS.

THEY WERE BORDERS AND THE LITTLE GIRL RAN DOWN THE STAIRS IS AND OUT INTO THE STREET AND SHE WAS RUN OVER BY A CAR AND KILLED.

THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL GENERATION OF FAMILY THAT GREW UP IN THE HOUSE.

WE HAVE DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE THEY HAVE SEEN THE SAME LITTLE GIRL ON THE SAME STAIR.

>> IN THE CENTER OF OLD LOUISVILLE WE HAVE THE FAMOUS CENTRAL PARK.

CENTRAL PARK WAS REDESIGNED IN 1905 BY FREDERICK OLMSTEAD, AND AT ONE TIME THIS IS WHERE THE DUPONT BROTHERS ANTOIN BEADERMAN AND ALFRED VICTOR HAD A RESIDENCE.

AND SUPPOSEDLY ONE OF THE BROTHER BROTHERS THAT HAUNTS THE PARK.

PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED HIM IN THEIR HOUSES AS WELL BUT IT IS A TALL MAN IN A BLACK TUXEDO WITH A GRAY SILK TOP HAT ON.

VERY OFTEN A GOLD CONTINUE WALKING CONTINUE AT HIS SIDE.

SUPPOSEDLY IT IS THE GHOST OF ALFRED VICTOR WHOM EVERYONE CALLED UNCLE FRED AND SUPPOSEDLY THE EVENING OF MAY 16, 1893, A MISTRESS OF HIS SHOWED UP AT THE GALT HOUSE AND SHE ANNOUNCED SHE WAS PREGNANT BY HIM.

HER NAME WAS MAGGIE PAYNE AND SHE DEMANDED THAT HE ACKNOWLEDGE THE CHILD AND BRING IT UP AS HIS OWN.

HE REFUSED AND MAGGIE PAYNE PULLED OUT A PISTOL AND SHOT HIM STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEART.

TODAY IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE SCANDAL.

YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN VICTORIAN KENTUCKY.

A LOT OF THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS WERE INDENTED TO THE DUPONTS AND THEY PRINTED THE STORY THAT HE DECIDE OF THE HEART ATTACK.

THE THEY IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS SCANDALOUS TRAGEDY THAT UNCLE FRED AS HE'S KNOWN STILL HAUNTS THE NEIGHBORHOOD TODAY.

>> INCREASE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO TAKE THE TOURS FOR THE HISTORY, AND DAVID HAS DONE THE KIND OF RESEARCH THAT HE HAS DONE.

IT IS VERY, VERY INTERESTING.

A GHOST STORY THOUGH, SEASONS IT UP AND MAKES THE HISTORY LESS DRY.

IT IS A REAL GOOD FEELING TO THIS HOME AND A LOT OF TIMES-OVER TIME WHEN SOMEONE COMES IN, PEOPLE COME IN ON THE TOUR, PEOPLE ASK US, YOU LIVE HERE?

AND WE SAY, YEAH, YEAH, WE LIVE HERE.

IT IS OUR HOME.

>> EACH HOUSE HAS A HISTORY AND IT IS WONDERFUL TO LEARN ABOUT NOT ONLY THE ARCHITECTURE BUT WHO BUILT THE HOUSE.

HOW MUCH THEY COST.

WHO LIVED THERE AND WHO DIED THERE AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE HOUSE AFTER THE ORIGINAL OWNERS MOVED OUT.

WE DON'T REALLY OWN THESE HOUSES.

WE ARE CARETAKERS.

STRUCTURES HAVE A LIFE OF THEIR OWN.

THEY COME TO LIFE.

AND IT IS A PRIVILEGE AND AN HONOR TO LIVE IN ONE OF THESE HOMES SO FULL OF HISTORY.

>> NO ONE RIVALS OLD LOUISVILLE FOR BEING THE MOST HAUNTED NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE COUNTRY AND IT IS NOT SURPRISING BECAUSE I MYSELF HAVE INVESTIGATE OR RESEARCHED OVER 100 PROFESSED CASE OF HAUNTING DOWN HERE.

ONE OF THE PLACES IS THE COLD WELL HOUSE WHICH IS SET TO BE ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S MOST HAUNTED MANSIONS.

THE MANSION WAS BUILT BY CONRAD.

>> THE CONRAD HOUSE SITS ON THE ORIGINAL SITE OF THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION SAINT JAMES COURT WHICH IS ONE OF THE FIRST NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE COUNTRY.

THE CONRAD FAMILY LIVED HERE FIRST FROM ABOUT 1895 UNTIL ABOUT 1905.

ACTUALLY EMIGRATED TO LOUISVILLE, WHERE SOME OF HIS FAMILY WAS.

HE STARTED OFF WITH A SMALL TANNERY AND HE KEPT BUYING MORE BUSINESSES.

>> HE ARRIVED IN LOUISVILLE AS A YOUNG MAN IN THE MID-1800S.

TWO DOLLARS IN HIS POCKET AND JUST FINISHED HIS APPRENTICESHIP AND MADE THE WAY TO LOUISVILLE AND TOOK THE $2 AND TURNED IT INTO AN EMPIRE.

BY THE END OF THE CENTURY, HE WAS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST MEN IN THE CITY AND THIS WAS BUILT AS HIS RETIREMENT HOME.

>> IT COST ABOUT $75,000 WHICH WITH CONVERSION WOULD HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS.

SO THIS WAS AN ADVANCED BEAUTIFULLY CONSTRUCTED HOME IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY.

WE HAVE AT LEAST 120FLEURIS DE .

LIS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO COUNT.

THE THROW BACK TO THE TIME THAT'S LIVED IN FRANCE.

WE WE HAVE A LOT OF UNIQUE FEATURES ABOUT THE HOUSE.

A NUMBER OF THINGS WE HAVE A CHANDELIER IN THE LIBRARY THAT MRS.

CALDWELL HAD CREATED AFTER CHANDELIER IN A HOME IN EUROPE SHE SAW THAT SHE REALLY LIKED AND WE HAVE A FIREPLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HOUSE WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD QUESTION.

THE FLU ACTUALLY DESIGNED SO THAT IT KIND OF LEAVES SIDEWAYS AND GOES UP.

SO THAT'S VERY UNIQUE.

>> ONE DAY IN 1905, HE WAS GOING UP THE BACKSTAIRS AND COLLAPSED AND DIED.

>> AND WE BELIEVED HE LAID IN STATE IN THE ROOM THAT HE WAS SITTING IN WHICH IS THE PARLOR.

AND THERE IS A HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE HOME IS TAKEN CARP OF AND WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO KEEP THE DOORS OPEN AND KEEP INTERESTED IN HIM.

>> AFTER HE DIED, SHE DID NOT WANT TO STAY ON IN THE HOUSE SO SHE SOLD IT TO FRIEND, THE CALDWELL FAMILY.

>> AND THEN WILLIAM CALDWELL PURCHASED IT IN 1905.

LE THE OTHER THAN OF THE CALDWELL COMPANY WHICH IS NOW KNOWN AS THE CALDWELL TANK COMPANY WERE THERE WERE VERY WEALTHY, VERY EVIDENT BY JUST THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN THIS HOME.

HE AND HIS WIFE SPENT ABOUT TWO YEARS REHABBING THE HOUSE OR MODERNIZING THE HOME.

MRS.

CALDWELL SPENT SOME TIME IN EUROPE AND WANTED EVERYTHING TO BE AT THE TOP OF THE LINE.

>> SO THEY LIVED IN THE HOUSE FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS.

AND THEN, IT BECAME THE ROSANNA HUGHES HOME FOR PRESBYTERIAN WIDOWS AND SO THEY MAINTAINED THE HOME FROM SOME TIME IN THE 40s UNTIL 1987 WHEN ST.

JAMES COURT HISTORIC FOUNDATION PURCHASED THE HOME TO TURN IT INTO A MUSEUM.

>> >> THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THE HOUSE.

NOT SURPRISING BUT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF GHOSTS SAID TO HAUNT THIS PLACE TODAY.

ONE SEEMS TO BE Mr.

CONRAD HIMSELF.

WHEN PEOPLE GO IN FOR THE REGULAR TOUR AS THE ARE OFFERED, PEOPLE WHO SNEAK OFF AND WANT TO OPEN DOORS AND DRAWERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND SEE WHAT THEY CAN FIND.

THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE THE ENCOUNTERS WITH Mr.

CONRAD.

THEY SAY HE'S A VERY SHORT MAN.

HE SORT OF APPEARS AS A MISTY APPARITION AND IT TAKES THE SHAPE OF A MAN WITH A GOATEE AND A HAT.

AND HE NEVER SAYS ANYTHING TO ANYONE.

HE JUST SHOWED UP AND STIRP STERNLY LOOKS AT THEM AND DOES THIS AS FAST TO SAY, YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS AND THEN HE DISAPPEARED.

AND THROUGHOUT THE LAST YEARS, LOTS OF PEOPLE REPORTED THIS APPARITION.

JUST ONE OF MANY APPARITIONS THAT ARE SUPPOSEDLY AFOOT.

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>> SO THEY BELIEVE THEY STILL INHABIT THE OLD ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR WHICH IS THE SITTING ROOM.

IF WE MOVE THINGS, THEY TEND TO GET A LITTLE UPSET AND SO THEY'LL OPEN DOORS, OR MOVE THINGS SO WE'VE HAD THAT IN STINTS AND ONE OF OUR -- WILL SAY HELLO TO THEM IN THE MORNING, TO MAKE SURE THAT SHE HAS TALKED TO THEM.

SOMETIMES I THINK THAT THERE IS A GHOST IN THE ELEVATOR WHEN IT GOES UP BECAUSE IT IS A HUGE NOISE RIGHT IN MY OFFICE AND IT STARTLES ME.

>> MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH GHOSTS HERE, WAS I WAS GIVING A TOUR ON THE THIRD FLOOR, AND OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE, I SAW A BALL OF LIGHT.

AND THEN I THOUGHT MAYBE THE PEOPLE IN MY GROUP WERE SWINGING PURSES OR UMBRELLAS AND I TURNED AROUND AND THEY WERE ALL STANDING THERE.

AND MANY PEOPLE HAVE HAD OTHER EXPERIENCES HERE, I ONCE HAD A LADY WHO CAME THROUGH FOR A TOUR AND SHE ASKED TO SEE THE PIANO IN ONE OF THE ROOMS.

AND WE WERE WALKING THROUGH, SHE SAID DO YOU HAVE -- AND I SAID YES, THINK WE PROBABLY DO SHE SAID THERE IS A LADY STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU WEARING AN IVORY DRESS AND HER ARMS OUT LIKE SHE'S ENCOMPASSING THE WHOLE HOUSE.

ONE TIME I WAS ON THE SECOND FLOOR, AND I SAW A GREAT SHADOW FIGURE DARTING ACROSS.

I THOUGHT IT WAS OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.

AND I CAME DOWN AND ASKED HER WHY HE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF MY TOUR.

AND SHE SAID, I WASN'T THERE.

WE HAD A HOUSEKEEPER HERE IN THE HOUSE AND APPARENTLY, IT WAS RAINING OUTSIDE.

SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE HERE.

SHE HEARD A VOICE START SAYING HURRY, HURRY, CLOSE THE WINDOW, IT IS RAINING OUTSIDE.

SHE WENT UPSTAIRS AND THE WINDOW WAS OPEN, IT WAS RAINING.

>> I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE WALK IN AND JUST EXPLAIN, WOW, THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.

JUST GETTING TO WORK WITH THE VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE EXCITED TO BE HERE EVERY DAY AND TO TELL THE STORIES THAT WE DO.

YOU KNOW, JUST MAKING AN IMPACT AND TRYING TO KEEP HISTORY ALIVE.

>> THE DUPONT MANSION WAS BUILT AROUND 1882 BY THE DELAWARE DUPONTS.

IT IS ONE OF LOUISVILLE'S GRAND MANSIONS.

WE HAVE HAD GUESTS WHO HAVE FELT THE PRESENCE, AND THEY HAVE SMELLED CIGAR SMOKE THAT WILL COME LATE AT NIGHT IN THE ROOM.

AND WE'RE A NON-SMOKING FACILITY.

THE STORY GOES THAT, IT IS INDEED Mr.

DUPONT.

>> ON THE THIRD FLOOR, OF THE DUPONT MANSION, THERE WAS A BALL ROOM.

THREE GUEST ROOMS ON THE THIRD FLOOR NOW AND FROM TIME TO TIME, THEY HEAR BALL ROOM MUSIC AND I THINK THAT IT IS JUST ANOTHER DIMENSION.

THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED TO BEING IN THESE PLACES, IT WAS THEIR HOME AND YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.

>> FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST A BEAUTIFUL NEOCLASSICAL SCIENTIST SO WE HAVE THE LADY OF STAIRS, ALWAYS A FLOWING WHITE GOWN AND DOWN IN A GIBSON GIRL HAIRDOO AND THEY USED TO SEE HER PACE BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE HUGE SET OF STEPS IN THE FRONT OF THE STRUCTURE.

THEY SAY YOU CAN HEAR HER SOBS IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT.

IT WAS A YOUNG WOMAN SHE CALLED Ms.

GEE.

PROMINENT LOCAL FAMILY FROM BARDSTOWN.

THE STORY IS HER FAMILY ARRANGED A LUCRATIVE MARRIAGE.

THEY PRESENTED THE MAN AND SHE SAID NO THANK YOU BECAUSE SHE HAD MET SOMEONE.

FELL IN LOVE WITH MISS G AND PROMISED THAT HE WOULD RETURN AND THEY WOULD BE MARRIED.

WHEN THE PARENTS FOUND OUT THEY SENT HER TO LOUISVILLE, TO LIVE WITH AN AUNT AND UNCLE ON THIRD STREET.

BACK THEN, THE STEPS OF THE CHURCH WERE KIND OF RENDEZVOUS SPOT SO SHE WOULD SNEAK OUT AT NIGHT AND MEET HER BOYFRIEND AND AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS OF SNEAKING AROUND THEY DECIDE THEY'D WOULD RATHER RUN AWAY AND GET MARRIED.

IT CAME TIME TO MEET AND THE YOUNG MAN NEVER MADE IT.

HE WAS ONE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED SOLDIERS WHO WERE STRUCK WITH THE FLU AT CAMP ZACHARY TAYLOR.

THAT'S WHEN WE HAD THE SPANISH FLU OUTBREAK.

SHE WAITED TOP STAIRS AND FINALLY DID GIVE UP THINKING THAT SHE HAD BEEN GUILTED NOT KNOWING THAT HER BOYFRIEND WAS ON HIS DEATH BED.

SHE WENT HOME AND CONTRACTED THE FLU AS WELL AND THEY NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO EACH OTHER.

WITHIN TWO DAYS, THEY WERE BOTH DEAD AND BURIED.

THEY SAY MISS G'S GHOST HAUNTS THE STAIRS WAITING FOR THE YOUNG MAN.

>> THIS WAS BUILT ABOUT 1887 BY RUSSELL HOUSTON >> ALL THE WAY DOWN THE FIRST FLOOR THAT STAIRCASE SPATIALLY TAKES UP ESSENTIALLY A ROOM.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW THE ARCHITECTS AND THE OWNERS OFTEN SACRIFICED FUNCTIONALITY FOR FEATURES AND LOOKS.

IMPORTANT THING TO THEM IN BUILDING THAT STAIRCASE, WAS NOT EFFICIENCY TO GET UP AND DOWNSTAIRS, IT WAS TO CREATE A SPECTACLE.

THE WOODWORK IN THE VARIOUS ROOMS.

AND, EACH OF THOSE ROOMS ARE PANELED OR TRIMMED WITH A DIFFERENT LUXURIOUS WOOD.

SUPPOSEDLY BACK IN THE 1890s NOT TOO LONG AFTER THE PLACE WAS BUILT, HIRED AS A TUTOR FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY.

SUPPOSEDLY ONE OF THE CHILDREN WAS DEATHLY ILL.

SHE WAS TRYING TO CONTACT THE SPIRIT OF THE DOCTOR SHE WAS CONDUCTING A SEYENS.

THE DOCTOR WHO SHE THOUGHT WAS ABLE TO CURE THIS CHILD HAD JUST DIED THE DAY BEFORE SO SHE REACHED OUT AND TRIED TO CONTACT HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE.

>> SHE WENT OVER TO THE CORNER OF PARK AND SIXTH STRAIGHT OVER ONE BLOCK FROM WHERE SHE HAD BEEN LIVING.

SHE MET AN OLD WITCH AT THIS TREE KNOWN AS THE WITCH'S TREE.

>> THE ROGUE SPIRIT INTERCEPTED THE MESSAGES AND ENDED UP KILLING ANNIE WHIPPLE AS A WAY OF TEACHING HER A LESSON FOR DABBLING IN THE BLACK ARTS.

>> THE GUESTS THAT HAD STAYED HERE HAVE RECORDED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EVENTS AND ONE OF THE GUESTS THAT I HAD AMONGST BUSINESS GROUPS, BEGAN EXPLAINING A CERTAIN THING HE SAW ON THE SECOND FLOOR.

HE DESCRIBED IT AS A TRANSPARENT WOMAN.

THE OTHER GENTLEMAN AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE AND HIS EYES WIDENED LIKE SAUCERS, AND HE SAID, "THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT."

GUESTS HAVE HEARD NOISES, THE MOST OFTEN REPEATED NOISE IS, THE WHIRLPOOL TUB IN THE MASTER SUITE HAS BEEN TURNED ON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH NO WATER RUNNING, NO PEOPLE IN THERE.

A WOMAN HAS BEEN SEEN COMING DOWN THAT SWEEPING STAIRWAY.

DRESSED IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE VICTORIAN GARB, OF 1880 TO 1890s ERA.

THE WOMAN DISAPPEARED AS SHE NEARED THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS.

>> >> THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE TRAGIC ONES IN OLD LOUISVILLE.

THE ICE BOY HAUNTS A BUILDING KNOWN AS THE St.

JAMES FLATS.

PEOPLE FEARED THAT AN APARTMENT BUILDINGWOULD BRING DOWN THE VALUE OF HOUSING IN THE AREA AND THE RESIDENTS OF STAY -- ST.

JAMES COURT TOOK THE OWNER TO COURT.

HE WON THE CASE ON THE ARGUMENT THAT THE HOUSING WAS NEEDED IN OLD LOUISVILLE, AND, SO HE PROCEEDED TO BUILD THE St.

JAMES COURT FLATS.

THEY EXISTED IN HARMONY WITH THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD UNTIL THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 6, 1912.

THAT NIGHT, THE BUILDING BURST INTO FLAMES AND THE TOP THREE STORIES WERE COMPLETELY CONSUMED.

BECAUSE IT WAS SO COLD WHERE THE FIREMEN TRIED TO PUT OUT THE FLAMES, THE WATER FROM THE HOSES HAD FROZEN ON THE HOUSE.

AND SO THEY WERE GREETED BY THIS RUIN OF ICE AND SOOT.

I WAS WRITHING UP LIKE A IS THAT LAG MIGHT.

THEY WERE GLAD THAT NOBODY HAD PERISHED IN THE FIRE.

BUT THAT'S WHEN THE STORIES STARTED TO SURFACE ABOUT THIS LITTLE BOY THAT COULD BE SEEN IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE OR IN THE FOUNTAIN AT THE ST.

JAMES COURT.

AND, IT TURNS OUT THAT THIS LITTLE BOY WAS THE RESIDENT OF THE CAB BANK PATCH NEIGHBORHOOD.

HE WAS A GROCERY DELIVERY BOY TRYING TO MAKE EXTRA MONEY FOR HIS FAMILY AND THAT NIGHT IT WAS SO COLD, BEFORE HE WENT OUT ON ANOTHER DELIVERY, HE WANTED TO WARM UP FOR ONE MINUTE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.

AND THAT IS WHEN THE FIRE BROKE OUT.

HE WAS TRAPPED UP THERE AND THEY FOUND HIS BODY HUDDLED IN A CORNER.

PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT BECAUSE HE WAS NOT FROM A WEALTHY FAMILY THEY COULD BURY THE STORY AND NOBODY WOULD KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

AND SO THAT IS WHEN THE RUMORS STARTED TO SURFACE ABOUT THIS LITTLE ICE BOY HAUNTING THE COURT.

THEY SAY THAT MAYBE HE DOES IT BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO KNOW THAT HE'S HERE.

HE TENDS TO APPEAR IN DECEMBER OR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, NIGHTSWHEN THERE IS ICE AND SNOW ON THE GROUND THAT'S HOW HE GOT HIS NAME.

>> EVEN THOUGH I CAN'T PHYSICALLY SEE ANOTHER DIMENSION OR A GHOST, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT HAPPENS.

IF THERE WERE GHOSTS, THEY WOULD CERTAINLY BE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S 130 YEARS OLD AND HAS A LOT OF STORIES TO BE TOLD.

>> DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE GHOSTS OF OLD LOUISVILLE?

CAN THE STORIES ALL BE EXPLAINED AWAY?

WHETHER YOU BELIEVE OR NOT, THOSE STORIES HAVE A WAY OF BRINGING THE PAST BACK TO LIFE SO I'M HAPPY TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND.

AND AN EYE OVER MY SHOULDER.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING TONIGHT.