One of Louisville ’s biggest draws is its fertile history , soaked with fib of bourbon business , adventurer Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , Underground Railroad blockade , and Gatsby - esque grandeur . With such plentiful history make out some shadowy stories , however , like those that surround the infamously haunted Waverly Hills Sanitorium . You do n’t have to go far to discover a good touch account in Louisville – you may just find one at your local bar .
The Oakroom at the Seelbach
So elegant that it served as inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald’sThe Great Gatsby , the Seelbach has a long story that ’s impart room for a ghost story or two . The most famous is the Lady in Blue , a specter in a dispirited clothes mean to be the ghost of Patricia Wilson , a woman who died in the hotel after finding that her estranged husband was killed in a railroad car stroke on his way to make amends with her at the hotel . She was discover at the bottom of the lift shaft in July 1936 , but it is strange whether she ended up there through felo-de-se , accident … or worse . She makes herself known by the sound of footsteps , the scent of her floral perfume , and the feeling of frigid place throughout the hotel . Though she favour the eighth floor , she ’s been spot throughout the building . Sit in the Seelbach ’s saloon , and you may feel her pass by on her elbow room to the mezzanine .
The Brown Hotel
The bar at The Brown Hotel sits in a building with a history that goes all the way back to 1923 . Since then , ghost stories have float around , most conspicuously of the hotel ’s namesake , J. Graham Brown . The hotel paused operations after Brown ’s decease in 1969 , resume a decade subsequently . Since then , mysterious occurrences have led visitor to think that Brown is still occupying his 15th floor rooms – the elevator get to mysterious stops on the storey , and guests on the fourteenth floor can sometimes hear footsteps and furniture being pushed around . Brown can also be recognise in the first balcony and other parts of the hotel , leaving behind the telltale smell of cigar .
Meta
Meta ’s house physician specter take the form of a former professional dancer from the next - door Show - n - Tell Lounge . Her bare image was paint on the wall inside the edifice , and was moved into an office after the barroom spread out . She used to like to descend and sit with her picture … until a customer of the strip order killed her . The bar ’s owners have reported look of unease , which might be explained by the fact that they ’ve also claimed to see a woman walk through into the back hallway – even though no one else was around . After a search , they still could n’t discover anyone survive .
The Silver Dollar
Housed in one of the oldest firehouse in the country , the former Hook and Ladder No . 3 is host to a ghost named Kevin . Kevin die in a fire and , as is habitual , was take back to the station before his funeral … except Kevin was erroneously taken to the wrong station . Now , he seems to like to hang around The Silver Dollar , and has been known to wreak low pranks on the employees .
Hilltop Tavern
bitchy - corner to The Silver Dollar , Hilltop Tavern is another famously haunted local fleck . Behind the bar , you ’ll see tons of toy dog and figurines – which have been place there for a reason . It seems that there used to be some occult happenings ( objects moving with no explanation , glasses breaking ) , impute to some ghostly activity . When the owner put up the toys , it seemed to lenify the ghost , keeping them well-chosen and harmless . The toys have stayed up ever since .
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