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Several malevolent violent ghosts are said to roam
Bobby Mackey's Music World at 44 Licking Pike in
Wilder, Kentucky. It is a nightclub that some have
called "Kentucky's Most Haunted Hot Spot! From
its tome spent as a slaughterhouse in the 1800s,
then a casino in the '30s, 40's and '50s, Bobby
Mackey's Music World, has evolved into a lively
country-western bar. OFFICIAL WEB SITE bobbymackey.com
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Bobby Mackey's Music World is a nightclub located in Wilder, Kentucky that is self-proclaimed as "the most haunted nightclub in the USA".
For many years, it has been subject to visits from curiosity-seekers, tourists, paranormal investigators and media reporters. It stands on the site of an old slaughterhouse that was closed in the early 1890’s. Only a well in the basement remains from the original building, and was believed by police to be the resting place of the decapitated head of Pearl Bryan, murdered by her boyfriend Scott Jackson and his friend Alonzo Walling. Pearl’s head was found in the well (originally used to drain the blood of slaughtered animals), commonly called Hell's Gate; legend claims it was used in satanic rituals at the slaughterhouse. The ghosts of the victim and the murderers are believed to haunt the building to this day.
The nightclub is owned by Bobby Mackey and his wife Janet (March 17, 1948 - February 15, 2009). They purchased the building in 1978 with the intention of turning it into a country bar. Mackey was a well-known singer in northern Kentucky and had recorded several albums. He actually scrapped his plans to record in Nashville in order to renovate the old tavern. Once the bar was opened, it immediately began to attract a crowd.
Mackey's first employee, Carl Lawson, was also one of the first to witness the hauntings; he lived alone in an upstairs apartment in the building. "I’d double-check at the end of the night and make sure that everything was turned off. Then I’d come back down hours later and the bar lights would be on. The front doors would be unlocked, when I knew that I’d locked them. The jukebox would be playing the 'Anniversary Waltz,' even though I’d unplugged it and the power was turned off. Not to mention that the 'Anniversary Waltz' isn't even on the jukebox," he reported.
One night while cleaning up in the basement, he discovered a diary purportedly belonging to a woman named Johanna, who supposedly committed suicide in the building during the 1930s, after the death of her lover. Rumors had it that she also haunted the building. The paranormal activity seemed to be the most prominent in the basement, around the sealed-up well. Lawson decided to sprinkle some holy water into the well, but the supernatural activity in the club escalated. Mackey didn't believe Lawson's claims until his wife admitted that she'd once been violently pushed down a flight of stairs by what she believed was a ghost (she reported that she looked up the stairs, saw a shadowy image, and heard a voice scream "Get out!"). At the time of this encounter, Janet was, like Johanna and Pearl Bryan before her, five months' pregnant.
Lawson was reportedly possessed by a ghost after a psychic inspected the building; the entity claimed to be Alonzo, one of Pearl Bryan's murderers. A local priest performed an exorcism on Lawson and expelled the spirit. Shortly afterwards, a wall in the bar caught on fire; firefighters couldn't figure out how the fire started.
Author Douglas Hensley wrote a book entitled Hell's Gate about the hauntings at the nightclub and has been involved with many of the investigations. Strange activities continue at the nightclub and several individuals have reportedly been physically assaulted by spirits. One customer even tried to sue Bobby Mackey in 1994, claiming he was attacked in the restroom by a ghost; the case was later dismissed.
Notable paranormal investigation
In 2008, Livescifi led a three day two night investigation of the country music club while filming for the Hell's Gate Movie. They were joined with paranormal researchers Tim Wood(livescifi.TV), Jeff and Shannon Sylvia, Michael McDonald (KMPS), Eric Singleton of the North American Paranormal Society (N.A.P.S.), and Demonologist/Exorcist Pastor Greg P. (G.P.) Haggart. During the final night of the investigations an ovilus session was performed and witnesses watched as Pastor Haggart was attacked by a demonic entity reportedly while leaving the dance floor area. As the investigations came to a close on the final night, Pastor Greg P. Haggart prayed the investigators out. While he prayed witnesses watched as tables and chairs moved.
The nightclub remains one of the strangest haunted sites in the Midwest and has proven to be a major attraction for ghost hunters and enthusiasts alike.
By Bobby Zoeller
I'm often accused of not
believing in ghosts and paranormal activity.
Such is not the case. It's not that I do not
believe, it's that I want it proven to me.
I discovered a long time ago not to take anything
sight unseen and with no questions asked.
I want to see it with my own two eyes or experience
the event in a way that I can judge for myself
whether or not it's really happening. I got
what I was looking for back in July of 2003
at Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder, Kentucky.
Just outside of Covington, Kentucky across
the Ohio River from Cincinnati sits the easily
overlooked town of Wilder, Kentucky. Situated
along the Licking River, the nightclub known
as Bobby Mackey's Music World is part country
western honkey-tonk, part tourist attraction,
and part ghost story. In an industrial area
kind of out of the way and fairly hard to
find unless you're really looking for it,
the nightclub caters to a fairly well liquored
up crowd most of the Friday and Saturday nights
it's in operation. A friendly enough bunch,
but not the type of place you would probably
be looking for if you had grade schooler's
out for a field trip. But, we didn't come
here to drink and dance in the darkened interiors.
We came in search of the ghosts.
On the July 4th weekend back in 2003 my future
wife and I along with two others made the
hundred mile road trip up from Louisville
in search of the elusive entities said to
haunt the 150-year-old slaughter house turned
speakeasy, turned modern day nightclub circa
around 1975. Bobby Mackey's has an interesting
history it seems. Starting out originally
as a slaughter house in the 1850's, it later
became an underground speakeasy during the
prohibition days of the 1920's and later was
turned into a nightclub with a country western
theme ala the club's current owner, one Bobby
Mackey. The story goes that several people
have died in the building, the last being
a deputy sheriff inside near the entrance
sometime back in the 1970's according to the
legends.
At 44 Licking Pike in Wilder, Kentucky,
just across the river from Cincinnati,
Ohio...lies, what has been called
"the most haunted place in America."
Bobby Mackey's Music World, a country/western
bar and nightclub, is well known for
its mechanical bull. It is better
known for more violent encounters
with spirits than anywhere else in
the US. Visitors and staff members
report everything from poltergeist-like
phenomena, to disembodied voices and
laughter, to actual physical attacks
by unseen forces. There are, on record,
29 sworn affidavits of sightings,
several from police and clergy. Paranormal
Investigator Doug Hensley was called
in to determine the causes for the
strange occurrences. Mr. Hensley made
some startling discoveries. This book
has been the subject of National TV
Shows such as Geraldo, Sightings,
Encounters, Sally Jesse Rapheal, A
Current Affair, Real Ghosts, The Other
Side and many more. Read America’s
Most Documented Haunting, Hell’s
Gate. Buy it here now!
Arriving in the mid-afternoon one Saturday,
we soon discovered the nightclub was far from
a 24-hour destination and upon arriving at
the door noticed the signs that stated it
opened at 7 P.M. So much for getting there
early. We spent part of the day taking in
the local attractions in Covington until the
magical hour was near. Returning around 7
P.M. we were then greeted with the news that
the tours of the lower level, where some of
the paranormal activity supposedly took place,
did not start until 10 P.M. So, the four of
us spent the next three hours playing pool
at the well worn tables and drinking Coca-Cola
and dining on the extremely limited snack
bar that consisted mostly of potato chip and
pretzels. The band came to life close to the
10 o'clock hour and by then we were more than
ready to take the much anticipated tour of
the lower region.
What we found somewhat strange before even
taking the tour was the sparse number of party
goers that made up the small crowd in the
nightclub. Counting us four, there couldn't
have been much more that two dozen people
in the whole building, many of which made
up the work force and the band. We thought
since this was a holiday weekend the place
would be packed, but the small numbers did
not discourage us from what we had come to
see. So, as the 10 o'clock hour approached,
we lined up at the front desk near the door
with our $5 tickets in hand, (or should I
say we had our names on the list), and awaited
for our tour guide, complete with cowboy hat,
to take us on the adventure.
It turned out we were the complete tour that
night, at least at 10 P.M. It was the tour
guide and the four of us. Well, at least we
would have extra access when it came to asking
questions and getting the first rate treatment.
The guide assembled us in a group and we proceeded
out the front door, down the rear of the building,
to a large garage type door that opened onto
the lower level. (This way was changed later
on, and on future tours we were led to a small
door on the opposite site of the lower level
and entered there) Once inside, the guide
flicked on the light switch and fluorescent
lights illuminated what seemed like acres
of a dusty, dirty, era of a bye gone age that
made up the bottom part of Bobby Mackey's.
As we stepped inside the guide showed us the
1940's era dressing rooms supposedly used
by the showgirls, an old car that looked like
it had been parked in the same spot for the
last five decades or so, an assortment of
gambling devices and gaming tables, and an
ever larger and more diverse assortment of
useless crap and leftover junk that the previous
owners apparently didn't have the heart to
thrown away.
Now, here's where it gets interesting.
As we meander through what looks like a warehouse
full of meaningless crap, we stumble upon
a smell. A smell of wet hay or wet straw.
A barnyard type of odor. Now mind you, this
place hadn't been a slaughter house or housed
animals of any kind in probably a hundred
years or so. But, the smell was there. And,
it was distinct.
We then approached the area known as "the
well." The story goes back to 1896 when
two men supposedly sacrificed a woman to the
devil in this location following a botched
attempt at an abortion, cutting her head off
and throwing it down the well which leads
to the Licking River less than a hundred yards
away. The well is little more than a hole
in the now concrete floor, but the story apparently
has some documentation because the two killers
were later convicted and hanged in downtown
Covington. There are historical records of
the crime at the local library detailing the
trial. It is said the prosecutor offered the
convicted killers a chance to save themselves
from the gallows. You see, the victim's body
was later found in Ohio, but her head was
never found. The court offered the killers
the chance to spare their own lives if they
would tell the parents of the young girl where
her head was so they could reunite it with
the body. They refused. According to the story,
one of the killers stated, "The wrath
of the devil himself would come down upon
us if we told you what we did with her head."
So, they both suffered the ultimate penalty.
And, the woman's head remains missing to this
day.
So much for the story. Now back to the tour.
As the guide is relating the spooky story
from 1896, I'm standing about ten feet away
on a landing that makes up the bottom of a
staircase leading up to the ceiling. It's
a staircase that runs directly into the ceiling.
About this time, the guide starts telling
everyone about this "staircase to nowhere"
and how it once led up to the top floor but
was later sealed off after a fire. He also
starts to tell about the rumors of hearing
unseen footsteps on this "stairway to
nowhere." By this time I am poking my
head in the doorway of an adjacent room filed
with copper pipe and PVC tubing because I'm
curious as to what's in there. All the while,
you can hear footsteps overhead, but somewhat
muted, from the kitchen, bathrooms, and dance
floor of the nightclub. Then, out of nowhere,
a different sound is heard. At first, I'm
not sure what it is, so I kind of pull my
head back from the doorway of the adjacent
room and listen more closely. All of this
is taking place inside of a second or two.
Then I realize what it is I hear. I hear footsteps.
On the staircase. Only no one is there. I
look in amazement as the disembodied footsteps
seem to start at the top of the staircase
nearest the ceiling and proceed at a decent
pace down to where I am standing at the bottom.
The sound is clear and unmistakable. It's
so clear and distinct, I shout out "Goddamn,"
and step out of the way fearing I am going
to be run over by whatever it is that is coming
towards me. I drop the 9-volt EMF meter I
am holding and jump back several feet with
what I am sure is a pretty weird look on my
face. The three others and the guide all look
over my way. Two of the three, and the guide,
all hear the footsteps. The forth person is
a little bit further away and said he didn't
hear anything. Whatever it was is gone in
seconds. We spend the next 15 minutes trying
to replicate the sound. We can't. The sound
upstairs in the nightclub is still there,
but the sounds on the staircase are gone.
BOBBY MACKEY'S GHOST PHOTO,
sent to Haunted America Tours by Tyler Pratt.
Could this be the real ghost of Johanna?
What was it? I don't know. Looking back on
things now can I say with 100% certainty it
happened exactly as I remembered it? I don't
know. All I can say for sure is that it sure
seemed real while I was standing there on
that landing at the bottom of that staircase.
We went back at least three other times after
that. We took the same tour. It never happened
again. The barnyard smell was gone, the footsteps
never returned. During a tour just a few weeks
later with the nightclub filled with many
more people than that first night, we never
heard those footsteps.
Was it real or just my imagination? Who knows?
But if it was my imagination, three other
people shared it with me that night.
Born in 1959 in Louisville,
Kentucky Bobby Zoeller has been interested
in the paranormal his entire life. Never having
experienced what he would term a "supernatural
event" with one minor exception, that
nonetheless hasn't stopped him from seeking
out and trying to answer questions that have
always fascinated him. Raised as a Roman Catholic,
his interest in demonic possession has always
been foremost in this field of study, but
unfortunately reliable documentation regarding
those events are few and far between. Researching
prior cases that have come to light in recent
years has not convinced him to date that the
phenomena actually exists to any great degree,
and looking over some of the more well publicized
cases he tends to doubt most of what he has
read and seen from the so-called experts that
comment on the events.
He joined a local paranormal group based
in Louisville back in January of 2003 known
as the Louisville Ghost Hunters Society headed
by Founder and President Keith Age. He later
met his future wife there and they married
in May of 2004. While a member of the organization,
he became a lead investigator with the group
and was appointed the group's Case Manager
in the fall of 2004. Both he and his wife
participated in close to two dozen on-site
investigations during their time there, and
the high profile 2004 investigation of the
Willard Library in Evansville, Indiana was
his opportunity to showcase the LGHS.
Following several questionable accounts involving
the group's president, he resigned as Case
Manager on February 28, 2006 and within a
week quit the group altogether. His wife was
removed from the group by the actions of the
president. Upon leaving LGHS and discovering
much of what he had been told in the past
and been led to believe to be facts turned
out to be mostly misinformation or outright
lies on the behalf of the group's leader,
both he and his wife undertook a campaign
to expose what they considered fraud and the
scamming of the general public all in the
name of making the group's leader famous.
Documented evidence was gathered from sources
around the country to prove their case and
the information was first displayed publicly
on an independent web site and later on two
Yahoo message groups. The web site was taken
down by the actions of the former group's
leader and the first Yahoo group disappeared
after complaints were lodged against it by
the very people it was designed to expose.
He has been fighting what he see's as corruption
and fraud within the paranormal field now
for the past two-and-a-half years, and has
had a very difficult time when it comes to
the "experts" in the field as it
seems no one wishes to speak ill of the others.
In short, he has discovered more deception
and more media manipulation over the past
two years than most people will witness in
an entire lifetime. The "experts"
refuse to answer direct questions put forth
to them, they in many cases continue to con
the public out of both their money and their
common sense, and the only reason he continues
on at this point is because he does not want
the uninformed or the more gullible members
of the public and the media conned like he
was for three years.
He currently work as the shipping and receiving
manager for a large sheet metal fabrication
plant in Louisville, Kentucky and spends his
spare time researching and exposing what he
considers fraud and deception within the paranormal
field.
If you have any questions you would like
answered or have information regarding any
high profile "paranormal experts"
that you find troubling, you can contact him
at r_zoeller@bellsouth.net.
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