Popular Sites Along Kentucky's Dark Tourism Trail

Pike County Library

If you've ever visited a site where hauntings, alien encounters, bigfoot sightings or horrific crimes have taken place, consider yourself a dark tourist.

This is a new breed of traveler that many communities are targeting since these tourists often visit other attractions, stay overnight, and buy gas and food. For their book, Paranormal Kentucky: An Uncommon Wealth of Close Encounters with Aliens, Ghosts, and Cryptids, Marie Mitchell and Mason Smith have researched this marketing trend and will share details of their findings along with some of the dark sights they've visited including the haunted Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, a spaceship in Kelly and the active Louisville train trestle that the notorious Goatman lures people onto.

This program has been postponed to July 28th at 5:30 at the Pike County Public Library. No registration required.

This program was funded in part by Kentucky Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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