One of Kentucky’s Most Haunted Neighborhoods Has a Ghost With a Broken Heart

According to my calendar app, we are exactly three weeks away from the scariest (and best) day of the year. That means time is running short to pack in as many ghoulish getaways as possible.

Camp Taylor - One of Kentucky's Most Haunted Locations

So let's head to Louisville and the Camp Taylor neighborhood and see what's been going on. Apparently, quite a bit from the other-worldly realm, according to multiple sources. KY For KY lists it among the most haunted places in the Commonwealth, while the Bed & Breakfast Association of Kentucky labels it as one of the entire country's spookiest spots. Here's a little background from WAVE-Louisville:

Factor in nearby Waverly Sanitorium--an iconic Kentucky "haunt spot"--and you suddenly see tuberculosis as a common thread; that's what Waverly treated when it was an active hospital.

Camp Taylor History

But the soldiers whose spirits reportedly haunt Camp Taylor--named after President Zachary Taylor--first became afflicted with the flu during an outbreak that lasted from 1917 into 1918. Interestingly, however, one of Camp Taylor's most well-known haunts is by a woman known only as Miss G, a young woman staying with relatives nearby who fell in love with one of the soldiers. They were seeing one another regularly, but one night the soldier failed to show up. On several subsequent nights, she'd wait for him to arrive, but to no avail. All the while, she'd been asking around to see if anyone knew anything about him. But apparently, she had already passed away and under mysterious circumstances, since the story shared on the Kentucky Folklore & More Facebook page makes no mention of her death.

Perhaps if you visit one night, you'll spot the "woman in blue," the Lady on the Stairs.

And perhaps she'll ask you the same questions she posed a century ago.