Halloween Lookback: 10 years of thrills, chills and Throwback Thursdays

🎃👻 10 YEARS OF THRILLS, CHILLS, & THROWBACK THURSDAYS! 🕸️

For a decade, News 40’s Telia Butler’s Throwback Thursday has uncovered the strange, spooky, mysterious, and downright unbelievable stories hiding in Southern Kentucky’s history! From haunted hospitals and ghostly bridges to unexplained encounters in familiar Downtown buildings, we’re celebrating Halloween with 5 of our favorite spine-tingling stories from the past 10 years!

🕯️ 1. THE GHOSTS OF MIDDLE BRIDGE (2020)
An abandoned bridge over Drakes Creek has inspired generations of terrifying tales about mysterious lights, ghostly apparitions, and encounters that locals still can’t explain!

🔪 2. HENRY DENHARDT & AN 80-YEAR-OLD UNSOLVED MURDER (2019)
A former Kentucky Lieutenant Governor, a mysterious murder, and a scandal that ended in another shocking death! Discover the chilling true-crime story of Henry Denhardt and the unsolved killing that captivated Kentucky. Was he a serial killer?

🚋 3. BOWLING GREEN’S HALLOWEEN STREETCAR TRAGEDY (2025)
A Halloween prank in 1910 turned deadly for a 13-year-old boy, setting off a chain of events that brought Bowling Green’s streetcar era to a tragic end.

🔮 4. EDGAR CAYCE: THE SLEEPING PROPHET (2021)
Did you know the world’s most famous psychic once called Downtown BGKY home? From mysterious trances and medical readings to eerie predictions of the future, Edgar Cayce’s extraordinary abilities even caught the attention of local doctors and international critics who were determined to uncover his secrets!

🏚️ 5. THE HAUNTS OF OCTAGON HALL
From Civil War secrets and mysterious underground passages to ghostly footsteps, unexplained voices, and spirits said to roam its eight-sided walls, Franklin’s historic Octagon Hall has earned a reputation as one of Kentucky’s most haunted places! They even supplied us with ghostly whispers caught on audio.

🎃 A DECADE OF HISTORY. HUNDREDS OF STORIES. AND PLENTY OF GHOSTS!

Which Southern Kentucky ghost story gives YOU the chills? Have a spooky local legend we haven’t uncovered? Tell us in the comments! 👇

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