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Bob Mackey's
Bob Mackey's Music World

Bobby Mackey’s.. A Hauntingly good time? 
By Donna Adams

On February 7th, 2010 CTPRT attended an event at the famous Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder, Kentucky. We braved a blizzard that hit the Pittsburg area and finally made it! We commuted with David Conklin Jr., Eric Conklin, and Kristin Galary from the Pennsylvania Valley Paranormal Alliance. They are great friends we have made while collaborating at investigations. 

Upon arriving, Mackey’s looks like any neighborhood watering hole with promises of fantastic country music and even bull riding! They have a mechanical bull inside. Unfortunately, we did not get the opportunity to go for a spin as we were snowed in and arrived on investigation day instead of the day before. Since it was a Sunday, Mackey’s was closed and prime for us to go in and check it out. The event was hosted by Shannon Sylvia of Season One of Ghost Hunters International and also had members of ParaX Radio & ParaX Vision there. Keith Age, ghost hunter, behind such documentary films as "Children of the Grave", "Possessed", "Spooky Cananda" and "Spooked" was also on hand. It was being broadcast live on ParaXVision.com that night. I thought that I would be intimidated by the cameras but actually didn’t even know they were there!

There were about 22 investigators there and we were split into groups with team leaders. I was with Christine (CTPRT Co-leader), Kristin from PVPA, “Smilin Mike” an independent investigator, and our team leader was Keith Age! What an honor! He was fantastic and showed us the ropes. We were able to use the very first Ovulus that was specially made for Keith. It was great. The investigation areas or “hot spots” consisted of the large basement, the well down there also called Hell’s Gate, the Men’s bathroom, most of the main floor of the club, Carl’s apartment upstairs, and also the lighting walk above the sound stage. 

We investigated various spots and the energy in that place is crazy. The basement, in my opinion, was the hot spot that night. About 5 investigators witnessed at the same time a dark shadow walking across the floor going into the dressing rooms down there. We followed but it disappeared. Our team was also in the “room of faces” (in the basement) and I physically was poked in the side. No one was close enough to do that and it had some force behind it. It was very unnerving to say the least! We also have unexplained scratching noises while we were in there. 

The night was pretty quiet actually. We also participated in a hypnosis experiment which was interesting. And Keith brought his “Puck” which is an ovulus connected to a laptop computer. The results are still out on that one as we did not get much of a response. 
Again, it was pretty quiet that night. Unfortunately we cannot make ghosts come out on cue! Maybe they didn’t like all the people, or the cameras. One can never know! So can I say definitively that Bobby Mackey’s is haunted? Well no, the verdict is still out. But if you talk to locals and other investigators who have been there, they will say most definitely yes. Myself? Well, I don’t know. I do know there is some crazy energy there. And I would love the opportunity to go again. We are still doing some audio evidence review and if we get any EVPs we will post to the site. 

I suggest you go and check the place out! Maybe you will run into some ghosts! If not, you can enjoy fantastic country music and a “spirit” or two.
Click on this link to learn more about "Bob Mackey's Music World" in Wilder, KY.

The entry sign when you walk into the night club.

 

 

Christine and Keith Ages.  Syfy producer of "Children of the Grave", "Spooked", "Possessed".Chris and Keith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keith and DonnaDonna and Keith Ages.

basement area
This is the basement area in front of the dressing rooms where four of us saw an black mass of a man move behind the freezer into one of the dressing rooms.  Could this mass be the same one that Zak from Ghost Adventurer's caught when they were here?  We may never know.  You had to see it to believe it.

well
Here you see the infamous well that was hidden beneath a floor and claims to be "Hell's Gate".

 famous poem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a photograph of the famous poem the is written on a wall in the light room at the end of the catwalk over the stage.  Locals believe this poem was written by "Johanna" before committing suicide after she killed her father for killing her lover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had some amazing personal experiences, although without having the scientific evidence to back up what we saw and felt we as a team could not claim this location to be haunted.   We do not nigate the fact that others may say differently.  Like Donna mentioned in her write up, there may have been too many people and hi-tech equipment on our visit.  Some day we will make it back to Kentucky and hopefully gather the evidence that we seen and felt.

Please visit Bob Mackey's website and listen to the beautiful song he wrote that tells the story of what has happened in this historical building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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