Hi, I'm Holly. And I'm Hailey. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries Tales from Appalachia. Welcome back.
Hi. Hello. I came back just for you this week. Just for me.
Yeah. Okay. You know, I have heard from you more in the last like two weeks than I think I've heard from you in three months. I know.
Well, it used to, I would call you on my way home from work because I had like a 40 minute drive and I would fall asleep driving. Not talking to me. I'm brilliant. Yeah, save.
So I'm like, I have to talk to somebody. So I would call again with chat and then my commute got really short. Like I worked from home. So I had no commute and then my commute to where I work now is like, you know, 15 minutes and I go through a dead spot about halfway through.
Yep. So but I was like, I need to, we just, there's so many things happening. There's a lot of things around. So I was like, I just need to talk to Halle again outside of murder and mayhem.
Um, so yeah, yes, it's been delightful. It's so funny because, you know, I was like, Hey, he's calling. So either this is really cool. I'd like to turn into a fan of the podcast or this is really bad.
Yeah. So yeah. So now it's just like, I just check it in. So now it's like, oh, okay, she's just checking.
Yeah. We changed my, yeah. It's changed my, my thought process. Yeah.
Yeah. Um, okay. So we've been chatting today. We are going to talk about a haunted road in Kentucky.
Now you're going to fake me out again. Like you did with that one story where it was like, Oh, it's haunted. And then, Oh, guess what? JK.
No, this one's like actually, okay. Cool. Yeah. This is haunted road.
Okay. So, and it has a very thing name is called sleepy hollow road. Okay. So in your teenage years, was there ever like a road or a place you were dared to drive down or let go to as a team?
Um, there was a bridge that was apparently if you went under it and you called out this name three times, the car would stop. Yeah. Like it wouldn't work. Helen's Bridge.
Helen's Bridge. Yeah. That was mine too. Like where we were dared to go.
I was trying to remember if there was anywhere like in my like hometown that was like that. And I can't really think of anything that was super spooky. I didn't either. Like we didn't have like a haunted park or a drive away.
Yeah, sketchy road. We had well, the house that was beside my elementary school was super spooky. It was back in the day before like the new people that moved in had like bought it and they had really pretty and everything. But that was always like kids would say is a no, I lie.
We did have but I too of them and I broke it and entered into both of them. I did not break. I entered. It was already broken and I entered.
There was an old elementary school building that I had like one class in at one point. But it was very like dilapidated. It's a big rock building structure. And there was this like literally wooden door at the bottom that was look up.
He's a plywood attached to it that you could get into. So it wasn't really breaking. We just entered into like a basement level of it. And there was all kinds of like just old school stuff.
So we would run through there. They made it a haunted house one year. That's really cool. Yeah, my brother worked as a like a scare actor in it for you know the week.
And there was also an old house on the road. So I live in like there's like a loop kind of situation. And then so the backside that loop there was an old old house and it's still sitting vacant and it's beautiful. But it was always like the haunted house in the neighborhood.
So I remember my friends and I riding our bikes down there in middle school. And there was a back window like all of course it's all unlocked at that time. There's an old building. An old house unlocked.
So we would push it up and pop the screen out. And you could get into the like lower level of the house. I'm shocked it wasn't invested with homeless people. Not in this area as much.
I'm like a link tag. Like where I grew up. But no it just sat vacant. So I'm hoping that somebody will buy it and they'll buy it and they'll pay like a million five for it.
Oh yeah, it's a huge like almost colonial looking house. Like two-story wrap around porch. Well it sounds like gorgeous gorgeous house. But anyway those are ours and we would dare each other to go into them.
No I mean I can't think of that. I do know in college the dorm I lived in definitely was haunted. We mentioned that in previous episodes. But one of the things was going to the attic area.
And so we went in and one day in one of the other dormitories I lived in it had an elevator and the floor floor was always the attic. And you can never get up there. But one day the blue we were in the elevator and I'm waiting for it to open to my floor and it opens to pitch black. And it was terrifying because I was like where am I?
And I was up in the attic which was hell creepy and dark and it was where they kept all like old yearbooks and old furniture and it was just their storage. But it was very very creepy. So I went yeah. So let's get creeped out.
So this is kind of the same idea of it's a this creepy road and it's all kinds of legends and stuff like that. Okay that are involved with it. So sleepy holler road in Kentucky. It's a winding two-lane road near the town of Prospect in Jefferson County.
Both sides of this road are lined with trees and create pretty much near blackout conditions at night because there's no streetlights. So it's just like canopy of trees. There's no room and light coming through no stars. Like you can't see anything.
So the only source of light on this road is from the headlights of vehicles. Or god. Or god. The state did put in some rails on the side like guard rails.
Guard rails but they came put in lights. Right they put in lights. They put in rails. Doesn't make sense.
So the cars would not drop off the nearly 30-foot drop in some places. Like when you go around a corner like if you miss the curve. And just straight down. Just straight down.
I'm like I wonder how many times I had to happen before they put in rails. Sorry a lot. Yeah. During the day the road is actually really really pretty.
Just very picturesque. And I would imagine it would be very pretty in the fall. I don't think there's a lot of like they don't have as much leaf changing colors as we do in western North Carolina. We've changed changing color situation.
Fall foliage. They don't have as much of that in Kentucky as we do in this part of the south. But we still have some. That's really pretty.
So there is several legends and haunted stories that go along with this road. But unfortunately none of them are about the headless horsemen. I was going to say is anybody headless? No nobody's headless.
Yeah. So there is a legend and it's either a black herse or a black like carriage situation. So like you're driving on the road. This vehicle comes up really really fast and really really close to you.
It's like right behind you trying to get get around. So it comes really close. So it forces the car in front of it to kind of speed up. So avoid getting hit.
It then pulls up beside the car and kind of stops. So you can see like what it is like it's a herse or the spooky carriage situation. It then forces the car off the road and down the embank. Is the legend.
Oh my gosh. It kind of kicks you into your own bed. Yeah. Yeah.
Welcome to the after the road takes you. The road takes you home to Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
Jesus. I'm not ready. So that's apparently one thing that can happen. There are also legends of some satanic rituals of course.
So there are apparently three like major stories of sleepy hollow and one of them is Devil's Point. Okay. Which is apparently in the 70s and early 80s was rumored to be the area where satanic rituals were held. So it's kind of like an area at the end of this road called Devil's Point.
Many residents that live in the area have claimed to have heard chanting and screaming coming from here by. The area is also rumored to have been populated by bonfires and figures and dark robes. But I'm sorry in the south we have bonfires at the time. Yeah.
Like we just like to burn shit. And listen, dark robes. It could just be like my meme all came out and she's like, I don't get dressed when I'm at home all day and she's just in her robes and spent like middle-aged women or something, you know. Chanting around the bonfire.
Yeah. Like, all right. Everybody get to get to go and try this again. All right.
Franny. Hey. Hey. Hey, stay in pictures, Tom.
All right. Let's get everybody. Oh, yeah. Franny, what's wrong?
Ah, snake. You know, it could be something. No, it could be something. There could be an explanation.
There could be. I mean, bonfires tend to attract all kinds of creed of curlies. Yes. And youth.
And youth. Yes. Yes. I attended a bonfire at a youth camp one time.
Woke up the next morning. My ankle was the size of a softball because I had been bitten by a spider. Yep. Oh, I'll do it.
That'll do it. That'll do it. Um, were there houses on this road? So there were people seen and here.
Yeah. I think they're kind of set back. Okay. Off.
Like I don't know how many pull offs there are on this road. Gotcha. But yeah, there are people around space and, you know, for some debauchery. For some debauchery.
Yeah. Good. Good. So one of the local residents told this local radio station, WBKR radio station.
And Kentucky. Her name was Peggy. Peggy Carter. She said I grew up on a large farm at the top of the hill on 1694 Sleepy Hollow.
And yes, throughout the years, Satanic Chanting took place down the hill of our property. We could get here several in their chanting and it would go on for what seemed like ours. But I'm sure it wasn't. I hated having to ride the bus on that road every day.
People were always having accidents with the curves. We raised goats and would have goats come up missing from their pin. Something I'll never forget. Tell you what, when you have that goat and you're pretty much you need that goat to take care of all your cuts and all the other things.
And then it goes missing. That's a loss. And then you had a lot of screaming. Yeah.
I don't know what the change would be like. A lot of youth activity. A lot of youth youth. A lot of youth.
A lot of youth. A lot of bonfires. We don't know what happens to our goat. Actually, I think we do.
We sacrificed it. It had to go. But cuz I'm really stupid. They are stupid.
Like I someone who has owned goats are really stupid. Yeah, they're not smart. Kind of annoying. They are.
Yeah. Okay. There have also been reports of drivers going through the stretch of road and having experience what they described as time warps. I'm down for this.
Yes. For example, someone driving into the hollow at 11 p.m. might find themselves exiting the stretch of road several hours later. And it's not like a long road.
It's probably like a 10 minute drive. Like they just are on the road for certain amount of time. So then thanks the question. Within the time warp.
Where were they? And what happened? Yeah. I'm cool.
I want to do that. I want to be warped. Oh wait. I already.
I'm warped. Well Erica Don Puh. P-U-G-H. Puh.
You go be po. Po. I like po. Or pew or.
I go with po. Okay. Po. So she said I drove down sleepy hollow a couple of years ago with two friends of mine at night.
And it was spooky. Nothing happened. But a few weeks later, one of those friends went again with her boyfriend and she told me that she lost time and felt like they drove for hours. So she'll never drive it again.
And I don't live too far from that road. So there's been reports of people losing time for hours. Hours. Like it'll be ever going to get off this road.
I didn't know. No. See if I'm going to time warp, I want something better to happen to me. Yeah.
You know, like I come out and you know, I'm like 22. Oh my gosh. I'm so young and I get more time back in my life. Yeah.
That'd be nice. Okay. So let's go through some of these other legends real quick. Okay.
There are several kind of right here, back to back. Okay. On the road, there's also a bridge, of course, because what spooky road doesn't have a bridge. And it's called a crybaby bridge.
Why? So supposedly, women that had unwanted children or like malformed children with disabilities, they would take them down to the creek by this bridge and throw them into the water. Well awful. And this is in like 1800s, like 1700s, like way back in the day.
This is what they would do. And so somebody's quoted saying here, you can still on a full moon night hear the cries of the babies as they've been dropped into the water to drow. I don't like that. But it bothers me a lot.
So the old-fashioned bridge that was there when they say this howl happened has been torn down and replaced with a concrete and steel bridge. But people say that, you know, nothing will take away the spirits of these children. Yes, who were murdered by their own mothers. Yes.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So one of the other prevalent stories, obviously the color road, is that a school bus overturned on the road.
And there was a whole bunch of children who died. Oh my god. And I don't know if that's accurate. I think there was some type of like incident where a lot of kids died in the 30s, but there's been a lot of different, you know, tellings of how that happened.
So some say that the children come from a school that used to be located along the road in the 1930s, the teacher or camp counselor at the school killed the children. Still there. Yeah. There's others say the school had burnt down leading to death of the children, whose ghosts can apparently be seen walking alongside the road wearing their uniforms from the 1930s.
This is a ghost appear only momentarily before disappearing. So there was some type of tragic event, but they don't know what it is. Or this is just something that they'll make up about this road, which is like most stories. But a lot of these are rooted in like an actual event that happens.
I mean, it seems likely that there could be a bus accident based on what you're saying about the road. And I mean, it also seems likely that someone could go postal and, you know, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.
There's also the white witch, which apparently is makes frequent appearances on Sleepy Color Road, Terrifying Drivers. There are tons of different ideas on who the lady in white is and whether or not she was actually a witch. However, she's known to haunt the road where it meets Mount Misery Road. Oh, that's just asking for trouble.
And that's where the white witch appears in front of drivers scaring them to death as their cars pass through her ghostly figure. A little bit like it. Some people say that this white lady or white witch, the ghost lady, that's what they call her. It'd be any of us.
It's the ghost of a woman named Mary who died on the road after being pushed out of the car by her boyfriend. And other versions of the story, it said that she jumped out of a moving car and died as a result of her injuries. And then there was others that say she was a teenager who was hit by a car. But I don't understand the witch.
I don't either. Maybe because she appears. Maybe because she's just a lady. She's just a lady.
Just because you're a lady doesn't mean you're a witch. Nope. It doesn't. Okay, sorry.
It doesn't. Well, tonight. So no one, of course, knows the enough for real who this the city is. Some say she was a patient at a local hospital that was located in like on the road back in the 1840s and 50s before it mysteriously burned down as people were trapped inside the buildings.
We got a lot of like burning buildings. A lot of deaths. Local people believe that the lady in white was either a nurse or a patient at the hospital who actually set fire to place herself. And people also claim to see burning specters as they passed by the place where the hospital used to be accompanied by screams and cries of those who lost their lives in the fire.
So actually this whole thing of like, oh, it's it's sacrifices and people chanting and screaming and actually just could be the ghost. Yeah, go to the ghost. And some people say that Mary is a ghost of a woman who was hung on the side of the road during the witch hunts of the 1617. Holy cow.
Wow. So nobody really knows. But there's a ghost lady. Maybe there's multiple ghost ladies.
Maybe. So we're, you know, I know we always talk about Salem, Massachusetts and the, you know, the witch hunt. But I mean, was that prevalent in? I think it occurred in other places.
Okay. But not like it did there. Okay. Interesting.
Yeah. So if you cross Sleepy Hollow Road where the northern state Parkway, there's an overpass where that Parkway passes over, you might come across the corpses of teens who killed themselves by hanging from the overpass. What the hell? So there's ghosts there too.
Drivers, hunk their horns or switched their lights on and off while going through the overpass can sometimes see the spectral images of people hanging from the. So I was like, if they'll, you know, say the name three times as you go into the bridge and you'll see this thing or whatever. There's another story that says to young boys who were killed by a car because they couldn't see it approaching them are what you're seeing. And drivers are supposed to hunk their horns before entering the overpassed.
So that one of the ghosts, boys doesn't shove in front of your car. Are there photos? Has anyone been able to like capture any photos? I don't know.
I didn't see any. As I was like, I saw lots of pictures of the road, but I haven't seen any like ghost pictures. I'm gonna go over there. Maybe.
Alright, look. Some people say that a woman who was killed in the road in the 70s sometimes helps to push cars through the road if they find themselves stuck on the road by the bridge. People report seeing a pair of ghostly hands who helped push their car when it stopped onto the bridge and put in neutral. So like, you can stop your car and you'll see like a ghost hands on your car.
Like your car ghost. There's also reports of a ghost child that appears to be sitting by the roadside alone. So you'll see like people drive by and see this kid on the side of the road. And that is apparently the child, the victim of a car crash.
Ghost children are kind of creepy. Maybe even more than many crashes. But yeah, ghost children are creepy. Probably more than even room up.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. So one of the most scary experiences people go through on the road is when they are stopped by a police officer. So they're speeding or somebody's wrong with the vehicle, they're pulled over upon checking their ID and documentation the officer turns around and people notice blood on his uniform and the back of his head seems to be missing. The officer is not a real officer, obviously.
And it doesn't seem to know that he is dead. So no one knows. Right. No one knows like when he died or what happened to him.
But it's a lot of a lot of people are like, he wears kind of an older looking uniform. So they're not sure like when that would have been from there's no obviously no record of anybody dying. Excuse me, sir. You're missing part of your head.
Actually dead. Oh, I don't want to be the one to tell him that. Yeah, right. And you there.
I'd be like, okay, great. So with all of the ghostly encounters people have on the road, there are also animal ghosts. Why the heck not? The road.
Are there goats? No goats. No, no. No.
Okay. The one that is most reported as being seen is the ghost of the Helldog from the thick woods that surround the road. The Helldog is apparently much larger than a normal looking dog. It's eyes glow bright red from the trees.
And some people say it is an omen of impending death for whoever. So if you see it. Oh my god. Yeah.
I want to see it. I don't want to see it. No, no, no. So people are also caution not to pick up like hitchhikers on the road or people walking along the road.
They're probably dead. Yeah, right. Especially those they see wandering on the road on their own at night because he's wanders me be ghosts walking along. And there's apparently one particular ghost that walks along at night carrying a basket in his hands.
And they say that this is no bread basket but rather a basket full of severed heads as people often discover to their horror upon stopping to help the man. So when they pull over, he's got this basket in his hands and they're like there are severed heads in the deck. Yeah. Which sounds more like teenage.
Mm hmm. Like make it up. So here's the thing. But for that all to be on one road though, like something weird is going on.
Yes. Like if it's there's that many spooky things and it can't all be BS. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to go on into the daytime first.
Okay. Just to you know get our bearings and kind of know the road a little bit in the daytime. And then we'll do it again at nighttime. You'll do it again at nighttime.
Are you going to run with me? I will. But I think we need more than just us. We need like and we need to come with like prepared.
Yeah, like cameras. Exactly. I mean, I'm not doing this to not take pictures of ghosts. Well, can you make a ghost?
I mean, you can't shoot a ghost. That's true. You can't really protect yourself now. I will bring holy water.
I will bring the crucifix. I will bring my Bible. We could bring holy water in a like a squirt gun. I kind of like that idea.
I wish the priest would have to bring that yet. And the name of the Holy Spirit. Get out of here. You know, that's right.
That'd be great. Yeah. Okay. I think we should do this.
And say we should just sage it. Just throw the window down. Hold our burning sage out of it and drive it through like cleansing and the name of God. Stay away.
Stay out of here. Stay out of here. Yeah. But yeah, that's my spooky road.
That's really creepy. Yeah. I want to kind of want to go. I do too.
I don't know how far away this from here, but like we could probably do it. And take a look. Like a few hours. You said prospect rate prospect.
Is it like I mean, give me like a range like two to three to five. I could do five hours. All right. Five hours and 13 minutes.
Hey, okay. So we could do that. We could do that 240 miles. Is there anything else around there that we could like we have a nice like B and B or somewhere we can go on like a weekend.
Oh, like for something and breakfast. So while we figure out our vacation plans, if you or someone you know has been near around this road and has experienced any spooky things, you should definitely let us know. And you can do that by emailing us at mountainistories.epilatchin.gmail.com or send us a message on our Facebook about mysteries, tales from Appalachia or Instagram about mysteries dot type of latia or check us out on Patreon about mysteries or patreon.com slash mountainistories and get some bonus content as well. You can also message us on there too.
Yes, if you are a member. So yes, we love messages. All of that. So I found a couple of places for us to stay before I get my send off.
So there's Chateau Bourbon, which which has some good ratings here. The Pepin Mansion, the Inn at Woodhaven and the Inn at Spring Run Farm, which has five stars. Oh, nice. Yeah, and I'm saying it offers free parking and I'm really I'm really that.
So I'm thinking that that would be in somebody said my husband and I stay here on our wedding night and through the weekend. It was great. So okay, well, you know, if you leave like it then listen, but I mean they don't get out much. That's true.
So that's a good, you know, that must be nice room. Yeah, yeah. So nice accommodations. I say we go places to stay.
Yeah, we'll pick one out and if you're you own any of these places and you'd like us to stay for free. Well, we record our podcast. We would be more than happy to oblige. Absolutely.
So today I'm going to be the person to give the shout out. Did you like that? Be the person. Yes.
Okay. No, I don't know who cares. All right. My shout out is to Hickory, North Carolina.
Thank you so much for listening. Hickory. All right, Haley. Until next week.
Bye. Bye.