Kentucky Deceased: Hauntings of Frankfort

The Era of Manifestations

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The Shakers at Pleasant Hill are most often remembered for their material practicality, spiritual asceticism, and unique song tradition; however, firsthand accounts of the Shakers reveal an apocalyptic religion which often veered into the esoteric and occult. Join your host Dr. Eleanor Hasken-Wagner as she welcomes Derby City Midnight's Zack Poehlein who guides listeners through tales of heavenly visions, ghostly apparitions, and channeled hymns.

Lights over Lawrenceburg

A decade ago, a carful of people saw something strange in the skies over Anderson county. Join your host Dr. Eleanor Hasken-Wagner as she welcomes, Jennifer, who tells a story of lost time, recovered memories, and otherworldly strangers.
Episode notes: This episode contains references to forced abductions, missing time, religious trauma associated with spontaneous healing, cancer, chemotherapy, and recreational drug use.

Beasts of the Bluegrass

Join special guest host Hannah Hutcherson on a monstrous tour of Fort Hill. From the eponymous Mangler to the Rougarou, learn which creatures you may want to keep an eye out for in our neck of the woods.
The Beasts of the Bluegrass tour is a night walking tour offered every Wednesday night in October. Tours start at the Sullivan House Visitor's Center at 7 PM. Get your tickets at https://capitalcitymuseum.com/booking.html
CONTENT WARNING: Some of the material on this tour may be disturbing for young guests. Mentions of death, dismemberment, cannibalism, and other gruesome details are all part of these real accounts with the unknown.

The Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy

In November of 1825, a Kentucky legislator is murdered in his home - but it's far from a standard political assassination; rather, the killing of Solomon Sharp by Jereboam Beauchamp was motivated by a wicked and tragic love story which inspired works by Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren.
Episode notes: This episode contains the description of a murder, suicide and self harm, and the references to anti-Black racism.