Haunted Trails -Violet City Lantern Tour and Heritage Walk, Kentucky

The Travel Channel covered haunted trails in the U.S. and here is one of them.

Violet City Lantern Tour and Heritage Walk, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave National Park offers numerous tours that touch upon its haunted past, including the three-mile Violet City Lantern hike through some of the oldest parts of the cave. Be warned the tour is a challenging one. Those up for it will discover a part of the cave once used as a hospital for tuberculosis patients in the 1800s. Then owner Dr. John Croghan believed in the cave’s healing powers, and built 11 huts for patients. Unfortunately, several patients died in the cave, forcing Dr. Croghan to abandon the experiment. A few huts remain, along with the Corpse Rock, a stone slab where bodies were temporarily placed before being carried out of the caves. Guides and visitors have claimed to hear ghostly coughing in that section.

SECOND HAUNTED SPOT ON THE TRAIL -  

The Heritage Walk treks to Old Guide Cemetery, now home to the patients who died in the cave, as well as former slaves who served as cave guides in the 1800s, most notably Stephen Bishop. Bishop is considered the best known guide due to his extensive cavern knowledge and for discovering new sections. His ghost is among the ones that are believed to haunt the underground world, and stories of being grabbed or pushed are manifold, as are plentiful accounts of spotting slave guide apparitions.