![]() ![]() View Gallery: Louisville's Eastern Cemetery endures years of neglect and vandalism Mitchell Hill Road's tragic prom coupleĪt the top of Mitchell Hill Road is a cemetery, and legend says buried there is a girl who died at the bottom of the hill in a car crash in the 1940s when she and her boyfriend were on their way to prom.Īpparently, some people have reported seeing the girl on top of the hill wearing her prom dress, wandering through the cemetery or walking along the road. You may like: This Louisville store has serving up Halloween scares for 99 years opened the first crematorium in Louisville in the early 1930s in what is now an apartment building. There is supposedly a ghost of a woman that takes care of the graveyard's babies, who have a special section in the back. Gravestones date back to the 1700s, and there could be any number of people buried at Eastern Cemetery with reason for vengeance, including whoever is under one crumbling gravestone covered in dead grass and leaves, or the people near a rotting pumpkin strewn across the sidewalk.Īccording to Louisville Ghost Hunters Society, Eastern Cemetery Corp. It has endured severe overcrowding - cemetery ownership even began to reuse graves at one point - and general neglect over the years. Eastern Cemetery's angry spiritsĮastern Cemetery on Baxter Avenue is said to be haunted by some of its dead who are angry the cemetery is in such bad shape. So, if you want to find out if these ghost stories are real, check them out for yourself. ![]() We also gathered up some history and a few legends surrounding some of Louisville's eeriest locations, you know, just in case. The Courier Journal assembled a map of hundreds of places in Kentucky and Southern Indiana with reports of paranormal activity, as collected by the Shadowlands Haunted Places Index. Sure, a trip to the Baxter Avenue Morgue or The Haunted Hotel can be scary fun, but what about those really haunted places - cemeteries with legends of ghost visits, abandoned hospitals with stories of tragic deaths. Halloween is the perfect time to visit haunted houses, spooky theme parks and ghostly attractions. ![]()
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