Louisville, KY-- As the leaves turn from green to the red, gold and orange shades of autumn and the evenings get a bit crisper, everyone starts thinking about hayrides, caramel apples and pumpkin carving. There is also a renewed interest in stories of haunted houses and ghostly encounters. These stories are shared in a variety of ways; around campfires, at sleepovers, and through family tradition. Others desire more than the story, they want to see for themselves. Seeing is believing.
And according to reports from Louisville Ghost Tours, there lots of believers now. Over the last few months patrons of the downtown ghost tour have been having a variety of strange and unexplained phenomena. These witnesses have come away with the belief that there is more to these local ghost stories than superstition.
One lady shared her experience on the ghost tour. According to the witness, the tour had concluded on 4th Street in front of the Palace Theater. The ghost story about the building involves a specter named Ferdinand who during the Theater’s renovation in the early nineties would write his name in the sawdust on the floor. After the guide finished telling the ghost stories of the Palace Theater, the witness had her husband take her picture in front of the building. She placed herself against the front door of the building and with her hands behind her back to pose for the picture. She realized that something was in the palms of her hands and shrieked. Everyone in the tour group spun around to see what was wrong. Her hands were covered with small specks of dust. More specifically it was sawdust. Everyone was amazed by what they saw in her hands, and could not find any evidence of sawdust anywhere else around the front of the Palace.
Louisville Ghost Tours tour operator, Frank Harris, was contacted about this and other strange reports, and he has confirmed the stories. “It is not unusual for customers to have seemingly supernatural experiences on the tour. For example, the Seelbach Hotel has been haunted by a lady in a blue dress for decades that died in an apparent suicide in the hotel elevator shaft. Dozens of people this year on the tour have caught the scent of a woman’s perfume and others have felt cold spots on the mezzanine level near the elevators.”
“We always recommend people bring their cameras on the tour,” Harris suggests, “We’ve assembled an impressive collection of paranormal photographs from generous ghost hunters on the tour.”
Are these hauntings due to overly active imaginations or is there something more mysterious at the core of these experiences?
For information on how to book a night out with Louisville Ghosts Tours visit www.louisvilleghosttours.com or call (502) 339-5445. Tours depart nightly March – November at 8:00 PM. To schedule an interview or obtain tour pictures, contact Kim Harris at lgtours@bellsouth.net or call (502) 339-5445.
