I have been hearing about this place for a long time and have seen just about every video and read a lot of articles and books. But strangely enough I have never been there. I don't know if it's the accounts of evil spirits or maybe having something follow me home, but it's a location I wouldn't take lightly. Here is a YouTube video below I found to be very informative and pretty much sums up the craziness going on at Bobby Mackey's music world. UPDATE: On Sept. 14th at 6pm I arrived at Bobby Mackey's Music World. I didn't know what to expect once I got there, I had so much time to think about all the horror stories I've heard. Once there we parked in a gravel road, at once I noticed the train tracks right behind the building and wondered if anyone had lost there lives there. The place looked old and a bit run down but Bobby wanted to keep as much of the property from when it was the Latin Quarter, a nightclub with illegal gambling and showgirls. Something about the building itself gave me chills, not the ghosts or the stories but the actual structure had a dark presence. Once we were let in by Gatekeeper Paranormal who does the tours now, I couldn't believe I was really here and I wasn't disappointed. The first place we went was the gift shop where you can buy a shot glass that reads "Most haunted nightclub in America" or a shirt with the same tittle. Some may think Bobby's milking this ghost thing for all it's worth and they might be right, But I wasn't upset about it and it didn't change how I felt about the place. He is a business man after all. The air inside was really heavy like someone pushing down on my shoulders but only upstairs, oddly enough the basement didn't feel this way to me. Our tour guide explained the history of the place and we all listened to the stories almost eager for them all to be true. One that was disturbing to me was the account of Bobby's first wife who claims to have been pushed up the stairs leading to Carl's (The maintenance guy at the time) bedroom. She was about 7 months pregnant and had to be rushed to the hospital. She had the baby prematurely, but she survived this horrible encounter. The maintenance guy I mentioned was Carl Lawson who lived in the building for a time and is the one who in my opinion was the most targeted by whatever resides there. He claimed to be possessed and had a exorcism in the basement of the nightclub. Carl was a good guy from what I've heard, but he did have a drinking problem which led to his death on January 26th 2012. From the days when the place was owned by the mob there no doubt were murders on the property no one knows about. There's even a cell room in the basement where the captured, who maybe owed a debt where tortured. The cell door missing but hinges still there to prove it was real. It was in this cell that I captured an EVP of a moaning voice, a whistle and a member of Spooks&Stuff being touched on the neck. This all happened one after the other and in paranormal circles it's said to be proof that something supernatural was there and caught on tape. I didn't hear anything until I played back my audio and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Next was the infamous well or Hell's Gate as some like to call it. When I looked down it was just a hole in the ground, the well had long since been filled in and only the very top of it showed. This is the well where some believe Pearl Bryan's head was decapitated and thrown into it. Is there any evidence of this? No, but the murder was very real and two men where hanged in Newport KY. for the crime. Another attempted murder and a suicide are also part of the history, it's said that a women named Johanna was madly in love with a man named Robert Randall but her mobster father didn't approve and had him killed. Johanna not about to live without her love and filled with hatred for her father, poisoned him with arsenic and then herself. Her father did not die but Johanna took a lethal dose and passed away in the room upstairs from the main stage. While she was dying she wrote a poem professing her love for Robert and swearing it would never die. This poem written on the wall and a diary would later be found by Carl Lawson. Next room was the wall of faces believed to have the tortured faces of those who lost there lives there. One part of the wall did look a bit like a face but this can't be proven one way or the other. Most likely created by water damage to the wall but still the room was eerie and it didn't help that there were children's toys all over the place. People say that a ghost child still haunts this room and that a more sinister shadow person is also here. But it wasn't ghosts that scared the living daylights out of all of us, but a air compressor that suddenly turned on with a loud bang! Yes, I screamed a bit like a girl just then, it was scary but resulted in a lot of laughs afterwards. All in all the place was full of history and a lot of good ghost stories. I was able to capture some evidence there and the others who went with me did feel at times the presence of something that could not be seen. Not bad for 25.00 bucks and a night I won't soon forget. |
Also check out this book: Hell's Gate: Terror at Bobby Mackey's Music World. At 44 Licking Pike in Wilder, Kentucky, just across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio...lies, what has been called "the most haunted place in America." Bobby Mackey's Music World, a country/western bar and nightclub, is well known for its mechanical bull. It is better known for more violent encounters with spirits than anywhere else in the US. Visitors and staff members report everything from poltergeist-like phenomena, to disembodied voices and laughter, to actual physical attacks by unseen forces. There are, on record, 29 sworn affidavits of sightings, several from police and clergy. Paranormal Investigator Doug Hensley was called in to determine the causes for the strange occurrences. Mr. Hensley made some startling discoveries. This book has been the subject of National TV Shows such as Geraldo, Sightings, Encounters, Sally Jessee Rapheal, A Current Affair, Real Ghosts, The Other Side and many more. Read America's Most Documented Haunting, Hell's Gate.
If your in the area and would like to learn more about this location visit the Bobby Mackey's website at http://www.bobbymackey.com/index.html