The Pope Lick Monster is a legendary part-man, part-goat and part-sheep creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Numerous urban legends exist about the creature's origins and the methods it employs to claim its victims. According to some accounts, the creature uses either hypnosis or voice mimicry to lure trespassers onto the trestle to meet their death before an oncoming train. Other stories claim the monster jumps down from the trestle onto the roofs of cars passing beneath it. Yet other legends tell that it attacks its victims with a blood-stained axe and that the very sight of the creature is so unsettling that those who see it while walking across the high trestle are driven to leap off. Other legends hold that the monster is a human-goat hybrid, and that it was a circus freak who vowed revenge after being mistreated. In one version, it is said the monster escaped after a train derailed on the trestle. Another version commonly told by locals of the area claims that the monster is really the twisted reincarnated form of a farmer who sacrificed goats in exchange for Satanic powers. The legends have turned the area into a site for legend tripping. There have been a number of deaths and accidents at the trestle since its construction, despite the presence of an 8-foot (2.4 m) fence to keep thrill-seekers out. There is a common misconception that the trestle is abandoned and no longer used; in reality, the bridge carries a major rail artery into Louisville. Heavy freight trains cross the bridge several times daily, so it is easy for someone to get caught atop it while an oncoming train barrels down on them. Norfolk Southern Railway urged citizens not to climb the trestle, saying if caught they would be arrested. Have you ever heard of this legend?

The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter (also known as the Hopkinsville Goblins Case or Kelly Green Men Case) is a claimed close encounter with extraterrestrial beings that occurred near the communities of Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky, United States during the night and early morning of August 21–22, 1955. UFOlogists regard it as one of the most significant and well-documented cases in the history of UFO incidents, while skeptics maintain there was no actual physical evidence that the encounter ever took place and the reports were due to "the effects of excitement" and misidentification of natural phenomena such as meteors and owls. The alleged encounter was officially classified as a hoax in the Project Blue Book files by the United States Air Force. On the evening of August 21, 1955, five adults and seven children arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small alien creatures from a spaceship had been attacking their farmhouse and that they had been holding them off with gunfire "for nearly four hours". Two of the adults, Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray Taylor, claimed they had been shooting at a few short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into windows. The Kentucky New Era, the first paper to report the incident, increased the number of creatures to "12 to 15," and continues to be the number most often reported. Concerned about a possible gun battle between local citizens, four city police officers, five state troopers, three deputy sheriffs, and four military police officers from the nearby United States Army Fort Campbell drove to the Sutton farmhouse located near the town of Kelly in Christian County. Their search yielded no evidence apart from broken windows and holes in screens, possibly the result of gunfire. Residents of the farmhouse included Glennie Lankford, her children, Lonnie, Charlton, and Mary, two grown sons from a previous marriage, Elmer "Lucky" Sutton, John Charley "J.C." Sutton, their respective wives Vera and Alene, Alene's brother O.P. Baker, and Billy Ray Taylor and his wife June. Both the Taylors, "Lucky", and Vera Sutton were reportedly itinerant carnival workers who were visiting the farmhouse. When officers returned the next day, they found the house empty. Neighbors informed them that the families had "packed up and left" after claiming "the creatures had returned about 3:30 in the morning". Have you've heard about this encounter?

Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Probably if not the most haunted place in the US is a former sanatorium located in the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis – known as the "White Plague" – which prompted the construction of a new hospital. The Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a two-story facility able to accommodate between 40 and 50 tuberculosis patients. The hospital closed in 1961, due to the success of antibiotic drug streptomycin in lowering the needs for such a facility. At some point, plans were made to turn the abandoned hospital into a hotel, but this is no longer the case. This place is known to have many ghosts haunting it as it was a huge place for dying patients. The show Ghost Hunters made this place quite popular among paranormal lovers and has been frequented by such people. Its currently open to tours to see. Here is a very interesting tidbit of history of the paranormal here. But have you ever visited this place before? https://thewaverlyhillssanatorium.com/paranormal/

Sleepy Hollow road in Oldham County, Kentucky is a 2 mile stretch of curvy road with deep lore. The road itself is full of sharp twists and turns where each curve is a completely blind turn. One curve is the site of a 30 foot drop off into the hollow below. There is said to be a hearse that barrels down the roads and forces cars off the road and into the hollow. There is a bridge near the hollow known as cry baby bridge which now stands as a solid concrete bridge but was at one time an old covered bridge. According to legend, mothers would throw unwanted children into the water below to be washed out to the Ohio. It is also said that you can hear children crying and the sound of the hearse while driving down this road. In other words, this road is completely messed up! Have you ever been down this stretch of road?

The Witches Tree. The knotty, gnarled tree that you'll find today in Old Louisville is not actually the original tree, with the story of how this replacement came to be playing heavily into the site's folklore. The original tree that stood on this spot was rumored to be the local meeting place for a coven of Louisville witches in the 19th century, where they'd routinely execute their rituals and ceremonies. But in 1889, and perhaps with some ulterior motives, planners for the city's annual May Day festival eyed the site and the tree for development, much to the protest of the coven and other magical practitioners. The city eventually chopped down the tree that year ahead of May Day celebrations and used the wood for a maypole, to add insult to injury. The witches are said to have cursed the city in retribution for destroying their sacred space. Lo and behold, 11 months later, a tornado tore through Louisville, leveling it. Reportedly, a bolt of lightening struck the stump of the Witches' Tree, indicating that forces of nature were at the witches' beckoning. Believed to be a storm demon summoned by the coven, over 100 people lost their lives, including the planning committee members responsible for taking away their meeting place. Magically, a gnarled and strange looking new tree began growing in the old maple's place. Since the storm, that tree has become a beloved gathering site for locals. Have you ever seen this tree?