Episodes

Monday Feb 24, 2025
Book Release! Russ Hatter's "Franklin County Reference"
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
The Capital City Museum is proud to announce its newest book will be available this week - Russ Hatter’s Franklin County Reference!
It's the product of years of work that former city historian Russ Hatter has completed at the Capitol City Museum for a grant funded by the Franklin County fiscal court.
Join us for the release party at the Capital City Museum (325 Ann Street in Frankfort, KY) from 5-7 on Wednesday, February 26th.
Book signing starts at 5, with a presentation at 6. See you there!

Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Into the Wallwood - Author Interview
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Dr. Eleanor Hasken-Wagner chats with Frankfort author Luke Hosley about his approach to crafting strange - yet familiar - worlds. Enjoy snippets of Hosley's sci-fi, small-town horror, and audio drama work in this season's finale episode of Kentucky Deceased.
LINKS
Time Before Crime
Into the Wallwood
The Lost Art Of Podcast
Author Facebook

Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Project Blue Book
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
From 1947 to 1969, the U.S. Air Force investigated unexplained aerial phenomena in a study known as Project Blue Book. Join Dr. Eleanor Hasken-Wagner as she explores a range of UFO sightings recorded in and around Frankfort - including during a national uptick in January, 1967.
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CONTENT WARNING
Medical abuse of disabled people, eugenics

Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Odds and Ends
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Dr. Eleanor Hasken-Wagner brings together a collection of stories gathered from around Frankfort. Encounter vanishing hitchhikers and ghostly cries, hear about end-times prophecies and legends of river monsters, and visit the city landmarks of Devil’s Umbrealla... and the Capital City Museum herself.
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STORIES
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Crybaby Lane
“Apocalypse Reviewed”
The Loch Four Monster
Odd Customs of Halloween
Devil’s Umbrella
Ghost Investigation at the Capital City Museum
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LINKS
Nickelodeon’s Cry Baby Lane (rated TV-Y7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0s_KZvsnDY
Devil’s Umbrella article and picture:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20637532.pdf
Devil’s Umbrella stereoscopic picture (reversed)
https://digital.library.louisville.edu/concern/images/ulpa_1999_036_097?locale=it
EKGS Capital City Museum: Pre-investigation tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDnbZcl2AbI
EKGS Capital City Museum Ghost Hunt PART 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx1Yspypmuw
EKGS Capital City Museum Ghost Hunt PART 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n45asR44eec
EKGS Capital City Museum Ghost Hunt PART 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdMzbRiuPI
EKGS Capital City Museum Ghost Hunt PART 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Jm-GDrSlQ
Ghost Hunting at Capital City Museum With POLTERGEIST ACTIVITY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKMr0h5QJIQ
Ghost Hunting at Capital City Museum FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZDAiKUnpOs
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CONTENT WARNING
Themes of infant death, modern Christian end-times prophecy including references to Christian Zionism, and the colonial genocide of indigenous peoples in Kentucky.