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The Terrifying Haunting Of Bobby Mackeys Music World - Kentucky - Case Revisited + Updates and NEW Information! · Mystery Archives Episodes

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The case that we'll be covering today is one that is not only
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perplexing, but utterly terrifying.
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It is also one that peaked my interest pretty early on in my
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research of the paranormal and as I've started to do, this is a
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revisited story, which means that I'm correcting any previous
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false information from my original research throughout the
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video, adding new information to the case and I've remastered the
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video and audio for a better watching experience.
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I'm also coming on camera a little more often to prove to
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YouTube and hopefully the the wider audience or perhaps those
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that aren't familiar with my work that happened to stumble
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upon it, that I am certainly not AI.
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So I just wanted to get that out there.
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I did also want to give a quick shout out to Isabel, who's done
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some editing work for me in the past and she made me this
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really, really cool protection pendant and I believe it's
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Amethyst if I'm not mistaken. There's also a blessed medallion
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and a picture of Saint Michael the Archangel.
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So thank you very much, Isabel. Fun fact, my middle name's
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actually Michael, and it was named after Saint Michael the
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Archangel. So thanks Mom and Dad, but
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without further ado. Let's re.
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Explore the chilling story of the haunting of Bobby Mackey's
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music world and the possession of Carl Lawson here on Mystery
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Archives. When a man goes to fulfill his
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dream, what price is he willing to pay?
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Is it worth losing everything he loves?
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Is it worth awakening an old evil, a force that seems
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determined to attack the living and overtake the weak?
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This story is a strange and unique tale of a place where a
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portal to hell is said to exist. This is the untold story of the
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demonic Bobby Mackey's music world located in Wilder, KY, and
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this is not a story you want to experience with the lights off.
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Our story begins in Wilder, KY, where an abandoned Music Hall
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now sits off the banks of the Licking River.
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Country singer Bobby Mackey visits the property with a real
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estate agent in search of fulfilling A lifelong dream.
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After hitting success in the music scene, allowing him to
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leave his job at the railroad and pursue music full time, He's
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been on the road touring for nearly 12 years.
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He loves what he does, but he loves someone more, his wife
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Janet, who's pregnant with their first child.
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Wanting to settle down and plant some roots, start a family, he
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thinks this could be the perfect opportunity.
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Bobby has always wanted to open a Music Hall, a nightclub suited
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for his particular style of country, and wandering the
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ballroom and gazing at the now empty bar of this former
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rock'n'roll venue, he can visualize exactly what he's been
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dreaming about for all these years.
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So after the tour, with a few moments of thought, he decides
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to purchase it. But little did he know, he was
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purchasing so much more than he had bargained for.
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Later that day, Bobby would return with Janet to show her
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the place that they were now in the process of purchasing.
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From the moment she laid eyes on the property, Janet felt that
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there was something ominous about it and energy about the
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place just felt off. After unlocking the front door
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and stepping inside for the first time, and upon surveying
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the inside with Bobby, at her husband's recommendation, she
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went into the kitchen alone while he grabbed some items from
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their truck. As she walked around looking at
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the various equipment, she began to hear a muffled voice calling
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out from the sink. A gargled female voice.
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But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make out
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what it was trying to say. As she experienced this, it
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deeply disturbed her. Calling out for Bobby, she heard
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nothing in response. She then ran out the kitchen
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doors and into the ballroom where she could see Bobby
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starting to walk back in through the main doors.
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She asked who he was talking to and he said no one, that it was
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just him and her and the entire building, saying that she heard
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voices. Bobby dismissed her, thinking
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that perhaps hormones were affecting her on account of the
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pregnancy. She again would let him know
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that she didn't have a good feeling about the building and
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time would tell that she would be right.
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Although his wife disapproved and wanted the two of them to
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sleep on the idea some more. Bobby transfixed by the vision
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he had for a literal dream come true scenario in his own words.
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I couldn't be stopped. I had to have the place.
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Shortly after this conversation would take place, he would sign
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the paperwork, attain the banknote, and officially own the
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property. Upon signing his name on the
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dotted line, Bobby never looks back.
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Although Janice didn't want him to, she still tries to be a
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supportive wife. Although something frightens her
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about the place, she still assists Bobby with mild
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renovations as she can. One day, as Bobby paints some
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walls and Janice sweeps around the bar, a stranger walks
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through the front doors of the Music Hall, introducing himself
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as Carl Lawson. He tells Bobby that he noticed
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that he was the new owner and that he had worked for the
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previous owners as a handyman, but had unfortunately been out
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of the job ever since the club had closed due to several
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particularly brutal murders taking place upon its grounds.
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In later interviews he would say this.
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Any bar or nightclub is going to have its fair share of fights,
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but the amount of violence that seemed to take place here, the
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type of crowd it attracted seemed abnormal to me.
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The last year the club was previously open was the most
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brutal was six homicides taking place.
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Upon hearing Carl's story, Bobby quickly dismissed the idea of
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the nightclub becoming a hotspot for violence.
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He believed that the type of music was what could have caused
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people to be more violent, and since the club was going to play
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traditional country music and not anything rock related, he
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believed it would attract a very different crowd.
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After a brief inquiry about his skill set, Bobby decides to hire
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Carl as a full time caretaker and handyman for the nightclub
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in due time time. As per their arrangement, he
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would live in the attic of the property.
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As the renovations ramped up to get the club ready for opening,
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Carl and Janice found themselves working on projects together
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throughout the building. They began to get along and
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their friendship was like a big sister and a little brother.
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One afternoon, Janice asked Carl if he had ever experienced
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anything strange inside the club, and to her surprise, he
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told her that he believed that there was so much more than met
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the eye about this place, that there was some kind of force
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that made people violent here, and that the two of them should
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keep a lookout for one another. Following this brief
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conversation, Carl will go back to painting walls near the stage
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and Janice would resume washing dishes in the kitchen.
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As she toiled away, she began to hear an all too familiar sound.
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A muffled gurgling kind of sound similar to what she had heard
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the very first time that she had visited the property.
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To her absolute horror, she glanced down into the sink that
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the sound was emanating from and saw a thick blood like liquid
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guzzling up from the drain. It then began to fill up the
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sink. As she stepped backwards,
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preparing to call for Carl's help, she felt someone or
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something grabbed the back of her head and physically pushed
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her towards the sink. For what seemed like an
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eternity, she braced herself with her hands against the sink
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as she screamed for help, only to feel the pressure released as
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soon as Carl ran into the kitchen.
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As she fell backwards, she began to hysterically tell Carl about
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what had just happened, that something had tried to hurt her
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and that the sink was full of blood.
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However, upon examining the sink, Carl didn't see anything,
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and neither did Janet. Now it was completely clean.
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The two would continue to talk until Janet calmed down.
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They would also come to the conclusion that whatever
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presence that dwelled within the walls of this club was not
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friendly and it was not playing games.
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It had become violent. Once she had collected herself,
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Janet tracked Bobby down and confronted him about what had
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just happened to her, but he didn't believe her, thinking his
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wife had gone crazy. He also called Carl over and
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told him that he didn't want her filling her head with any more
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ideas about ghosts. Janet would retort that she in
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fact asked Carl if he had experienced anything and not the
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other way around, but nonetheless, Bobby refused to
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believe either of them. He didn't believe in ghosts or
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the paranormal, and his only concern was getting this bar up
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and running so that he could make his money back.
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But in due time, he would see that perhaps they were right.
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Within a week of these conversations taking place,
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another event would happen. A police officer by the name of
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Larry Hornsby was making his usual patrol rounds, which
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happened to go by the club. As he drove through the parking
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lot, he spotted a figure behind the window and the door of the
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club open. Thinking that someone had broke
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in, he quickly calls it in and asks for backup to investigate.
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Once another officer arrives, the pair cautiously make their
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way inside with guns drawn and flashlights out.
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As they scan the bar for the potential burglar, they spot
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nothing and they don't hear anything either.
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If anything, it's eerily quiet. However, that was until music
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began blasting from behind the stage.
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What sounded like jazz was being played, and the sounds of people
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laughing and talking could be heard as they announced their
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presence. The officers made their way to
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where the music was coming from, but as soon as Officer Hornsby
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threw back the curtain, the music stopped.
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Unsure of what to make of the situation, the two officers
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looked at each other and became even more unnerved when the
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front door slammed shut. They raced through the club and
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out the front door, ready to pursue whoever they believed to
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be there, but upon a thorough search, they again would find no
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one. It's also important to know that
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there was little to no wind this very night.
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Hornsby would later say that the two of us were stunned, but I
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couldn't put it in a report that we had encountered some kind of
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ghost. I would be the laughingstock, or
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they'd send me to a psychiatrist.
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So I Simply put that we had gone through the building but didn't
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find any burglars. But I know what I heard, and I
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know what I saw, and I wasn't the only one there.
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Two nights following this happening, Officer Hornsby would
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find himself again outside of the nightclub, but this time for
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a very different reason. A woman had lost control of her
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vehicle and hit the light pole in the nightclub's parking lot,
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a crash that was fatal. Not having anything to cover the
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body once it was removed from the vehicle, as the officer
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called it in, a woman tapped him on the shoulder and handed him a
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tablecloth. She then walked back into the
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nightclub once the scene was clear.
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Accompanied with several officers, Hornsby knocked on the
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door in hopes of thanking the woman for her assistance.
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However, the doors were locked and there were no signs of life
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within the club. The following morning, the
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officer and his partner would make contact with Bobby Mackey
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to inform him of what had taken place.
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Upon telling him of the woman who came out of the club,
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brought them the tablecloth and then went back inside thinking
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that she was a waitress, Bobby shocked them by telling them
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that he hadn't hired any staff yet besides Carl Lawson, and
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that the club would have been completely locked up and that he
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and his wife were sound asleep when this event would have
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occurred. Not sure of what to make of
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this, the officers simply thanked him and left.
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Bobby, despite the credibility of the officers, still didn't
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believe that there was anything supernatural about the
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nightclub. Later that afternoon, as Carl
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was changing light bulbs upstairs, he accidentally drops
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and breaks the last good one that he had.
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As he walks down the stairs to grab several more, he encounters
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Janet, who asked what that sound was.
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Upon telling her, she sends him off while she decides to sweep
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up the glass at the top of the stairs.
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As she finishes sweeping the glass into a pile.
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As she turns to grab the dustpan, she's shoved from
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behind. Panicked, she begins to
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hyperventilate because that was close to the edge of the stairs,
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and suddenly again, she's pushed, causing her to fall down
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the stairs. She's found by Carl, who then
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screams for Bobby, but before he gets to them, Janice tells Carl
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that something pushed her down those stairs.
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The three then load up as quickly as they can and rush to
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the hospital. The fall causes Janet to go into
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premature labor and give birth to a baby girl weighing only 1
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LB and 15 oz. The next several weeks are tense
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as the new parents monitor their baby, unsure if she's going to
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make it, but thankfully, against the odds, she does.
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Approximately 3 weeks later, as his newly born daughter and wife
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are released from the hospital, Bobby prepares for the grand
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opening of what he's amply named Bobby Mackey's Music World.
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Although he is present physically, he is numb
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emotionally. He feels as if the world is on
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his shoulders because this night could make or break the club's
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reputation and coming off the heels of what had just taken
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place within his family, he was raw to say the least.
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He overhears a customer talking about ghosts and that almost
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sends him over the edge. He quickly finds Carl behind the
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bar and confronts him. He tells him that he will no
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longer have a job if he continues to tell customers
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about ghosts, and that he didn't want to hear any more about it
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because he has to focus on this business for his family.
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That he didn't want to hear any more nonsense.
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That this hall was to be known for great country music and not
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for the ghosts that didn't exist.
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Although he feels a presence, and although he and Janet have
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spoken several times about their experiences between a rock and a
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hard place, Carl decides to hold his tongue and agree with the
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man who's paying his salary. Several weeks after the grand
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opening, Carl would move into the attic above the club, which
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had since been converted into an apartment of sorts, another perk
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of being the handyman at Bobby Mackey's music world.
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But as a result of this moving forward, he spends every night
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there alone. He felt as if he wasn't just a
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handyman, but a caretaker of sorts.
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As if something kept drawing him back to the property and unless
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he had a pressing matter to leave, he wouldn't.
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He would just stay there, protecting the club, watching
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over it. One night as he finished
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stacking chairs on tables around the bar, as he steps towards the
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light switch to turn them off and head to his loft, he hears a
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strange noise behind him. Turning to observe where the
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source could be coming from, he sees the chairs begin to rattle
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and shake as he stares in disbelief.
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The chairs then are flung in all different directions.
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This terrifies Carl and he rushes up to his apartment where
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he barricades himself in for the night.
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Over the next several weeks, he's in a state of denial about
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what he had seen. Trying to come to terms with his
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trauma, Carl takes to cleaning. One night he finds himself down
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in the storage room of the club where he finds a loose board on
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the floor. Upon prying it out to then
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replace it, he finds a bundle of old looking cloth.
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He picks it up and unravels it in his hands.
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Inside the cloth is an old journal.
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As he reads it, he discovers that it belonged to a woman
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named Johanna, who had been a dancer at the club during the
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1930s. Over the next several days, he
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reads to the entire journal and learns her story.
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She had fallen in love with a musician who her father
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despised, and her father had told her that he would kill this
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man before he'd let him marry her.
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One day, the man in which she loved suddenly wasn't around the
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club. He had gone missing and she had
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just found out that she was pregnant.
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Thinking her father had something to do with this, she
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calculated, planned and then poisoned her father and then
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herself. The final entry in the diary
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proclaimed that she would roam the halls of the club for all
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eternity, waiting for her lover to return to her.
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After finishing her journal while laying in his bed, Carl
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decided to finally get some sleep, but a storm was brewing
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outside but also inside of the club.
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He wakes up choking and coughing, unable to catch his
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breath as lightning illuminates the room and Thunder rocks the
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club with rain smacking the windows behind his head.
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Carl finally manages to catch his breath, but he's unable to
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go back to sleep, and several minutes later the power goes
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out. Being the handyman that he is,
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he grabs a flashlight and makes his way towards the basement
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where the breaker box is located.
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As he tries to flip the breaker back, he's unsuccessful and
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drops his flashlight, which then rolls towards the center of the
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basement room, not ever having spent much time down there.
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Upon grabbing his flashlight, Carl stumbles upon a latch that
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he's never seen before. So, as any curious mind would,
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he decides to open it up. With only the lightning lighting
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up the room on occasion. Along with his flashlight, he
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discovers what appears to be a well in the basement of Bobby
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Mackey's. Not sure of what to make of
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this, he closes the latch back up and begins to make his way
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towards the breaker box once again.
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But several feet into making his way back, he's frozen in his
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tracks. Standing before him are the
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apparitions of two men, and although he can barely make out
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their faces, what he can see when the lightning strikes looks
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menacing. He steps back into the basement
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room. As he begins to hyperventilate
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with fear. He hears footsteps coming
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towards him and then the sound of a woman screaming coming from
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underneath his feet. He is standing directly over the
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well. He then feels a presence
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overtake him and he loses consciousness.
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He would open his eyes upon Daybreak and would rush back
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upstairs, returning several minutes later with a blessed
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vial of holy water that he had in his possession.
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He believed that if he poured the holy water down the well
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that it would help keep whatever evil that was down there from
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coming back up there. So he does just that and then
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returns back upstairs to a way to begin the work day with
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Bobby. However, his actions don't seem
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to work. Over the course of the next
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three weeks, Carl seems to undergo a radical change in
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personality. He began to seem darker, more
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angry and aggressive, which was a far cry from the timid and
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easygoing guy that Bobby and Janet had come to know.
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His moods were becoming unpredictable.
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Bobby would later say that it got to the point that I wasn't
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sure which Carl I was talking to on a daily basis.
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Carl also began to carry a crucifix with him in hopes of
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warding off evil that he now believed was coming from the
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well in the basement and attempting to take over his
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body. These strange interactions
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between Bobby, Carl and Janet prompted multiple arguments
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between Bobby and Janet, with Janet believing that something
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spiritual was affecting Carl and Bobby believing that the two of
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them were nuts and that he had more important things like the
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business to worry about. Several weeks later, in an
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attempt to further expand his business's reach, Bobby would
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film a commercial for his establishment and would have his
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friend, who was a journalist, be present, hopefully to get a good
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article circulating before too long.
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Upon speaking with his friend Doug Hensley about how things
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were going after the commercial shoot had finished, Bobby would
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confined in him that business wise things were going pretty
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good, but that his wife and Carl Lawson couldn't stop talking
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about ghosts. Although he didn't believe in
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it, his friend was intrigued. Being a writer.
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He asked why Bobby had kept this a secret and his response was
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that he didn't want the reputation of the Music Hall
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being tainted by rumors of ghosts because a lot of people
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were scared of ghosts and it could also affect the type of
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people who would come. Asking if he could speak with
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Carl and Janet, Bobby agreed. The following afternoon, Doug
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would interview Carl and Janet without Bobby being present to
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try and understand what they thought they were experiencing.
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Upon asking Carl his thoughts, Doug would be met with a
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straightforward answer. Carl would tell him that this
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place is evil. Over the course of the
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interview, the two would tell him their experiences, including
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Carl discovering Johanna's diary, the well in the basement,
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and the two men he saw that stormy night.
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And that he only continued to stay at the property as its
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caretaker to protect Janet and Bobby from whatever malevolent
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force that infested its walls. And that this force, despite his
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best efforts to leave, always seemed to draw him back.
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Being a skeptic, but accepting the stories at face value, Doug
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concluded the interview by thanking them.
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The following day, he compiled his notes and went to the local
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library to research the history of the property.
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Believing that Carl Lawson was schizophrenic, he didn't think
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any of the information would check out, but as he began to
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dig, his mind would begin to change.
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Upon laying eyes on a 19th century article from the
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Kentucky Post, he was strangely intrigued.
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In 1897, two men, one by the name of Alonzo Walling and the
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other by the name of Scott Jackson, were hung for the
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murder of a woman named Pearl. Bryan Ryan's headless corpse was
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found near the site of an old slaughterhouse in Wilder.
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She had been a Sunday school teacher and was 5 1/2 months
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pregnant at the time of her demise.
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Scott Jackson had been a former boyfriend of Pearls and Alonzo
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Walling had been his roommate at dental school.
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It's alleged that the two attempted to remove the child
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but failed and removed Pearls head instead in an attempt to
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keep her from being identified. Rumors quickly circulated that
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the two were practicing Satanists and in a ritual
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sacrifice to Satan himself, killed Pearl and her unborn
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child. Despite several searches around
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Kentucky and in the Ohio River, her head was never found.
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The only things that the killers would tell authorities was that
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it was in a deep, dark place and would never be seen again.
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As the two men were asked to give their final words before
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meeting their own fates at the gallows, Alonzo Walling gave an
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eerie last couple of sentences. He said that he would come back
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from hell and haunt everyone involved in his trial and the
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location where Pearl Bryan's head was.
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When searching for Pearl's head. Bloodhounds LED investigators to
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the old slaughterhouse, and although it was never proven, it
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was speculated that the two men had disposed of it by dropping
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it in the old well located in the basement as part of their
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ritual. The club now known as Bobby
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Mackey's Music World now rests on top of the foundation of that
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very same slaughterhouse. Between the time it was a
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slaughterhouse and into the 20th century before it was a
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nightclub, there were documented incidents involving law
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enforcement at the time catching various groups performing
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rituals in the basement around that well.
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They would typically perform blood sacrifices of small
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animals as offerings, believing it to be a portal of sorts due
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to how much blood had been spilt and soaked into the land when
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the property had been a slaughterhouse.
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A main drain pipe would guide the blood from the floor where
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it would then drain off into the Licking River.
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Doug began to speculate that the two men Carl had seen that night
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when he discovered the well could have very well have been
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the spirits of Alonzo Walling and Scott Jackson.
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Because he believed the two, for whatever reason, Satanic or not,
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had disposed of her head in that well.
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And now they haunted the grounds of the club.
26:06
The mystery also deepens. Through his research, Doug
26:11
Hensley had gone from a hard skeptic to a convinced believer.
26:15
He now thought that angry spirits inhabited the grounds of
26:19
Bobby Mackey's music world, and through his research, he also
26:23
noticed a disturbing pattern. Pearl Bryan had been 5 1/2
26:27
months pregnant at the time of her demise.
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According to her diary entries, Johanna, right before her demise
26:35
was 5 1/2 months pregnant and Janet had also been 5 1/2 months
26:40
pregnant when she was pushed down the stairs.
26:43
Once he had finished researching and putting the story together
26:46
with that research, he asked to meet with Bobby, Janet, and Carl
26:51
several weeks later. He would tell them about his
26:53
convictions as well as this pattern.
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The pattern in particular, given what Janet had experienced,
27:00
concerned him the most, which prompted him to ask Bobby to
27:04
allow them to do something about it.
27:06
And although he doesn't personally believe in spirits,
27:09
he's known Doug a long time and knows that he's a sensible
27:12
person with a good head on his shoulders.
27:15
So going against his wishes, Bobby gives him the go ahead to
27:19
do what he thinks needs to be done.
27:21
It takes several more weeks, but arrangements are made.
27:24
And in an effort to bring peace to whatever spirits that seem to
27:28
be lurking within the nightclub, A psychic by the name of
27:31
Patricia Michelle was brought in.
27:34
She was given no prior knowledge of the history or story behind
27:39
it. Upon her arrival, she met Carl
27:41
Lawson and he quickly began to say what he thought was
27:44
happening within the club. She would ask him to please keep
27:47
any information to himself so she wouldn't be influenced as
27:51
she did her walkthrough. During her time roaming Bobby
27:55
Mackey's, Patricia would sense and speak with a spirit.
27:59
Upon asking her name, she was told that it was Johanna.
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When asking Johanna why she remained here, she was told that
28:07
she knew that she was dead, but that she had chosen to stay in
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regards to what she believed to be taking place there.
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Patricia Michelle would later say this.
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I believe that there are spirits inhabiting Bobby Mackey's
28:20
establishment and I believe that they have chosen to stay here
28:24
rather than move on and face what they believe will be a
28:27
place where they will burn for all eternity.
28:30
Upon surveying the basement, she asked to open up the latched
28:34
board on the floor to reveal the well below.
28:37
As she stared down into the well, she gasped and told
28:42
everyone present that there was the head of a woman there.
28:46
She then fell back and was overcome with a horrible bout of
28:49
nausea. It was then coupled by cold
28:52
sweats and the spins until she left the club several hours
28:57
later. She would return once she was
28:59
feeling able bodied again to meet with everyone and discuss
29:03
how she felt about what she had uncovered.
29:06
As she sat down at the table with Janet, Doug and Carl and
29:09
several of her own people, she noticed that Carl was trembling.
29:13
She then saw two men standing behind him and the feeling she
29:18
got when she saw them was one of overwhelming dread and malice.
29:23
She believed that these spirits have been oppressing Carl and
29:27
were trying to wear him down to the point to where they could
29:30
use his body. Fearing that Carl would soon
29:33
become possessed, Patricia would recommend that he seek help from
29:36
a minister to help break this attachment.
29:40
After divulging the rest of her feelings to everyone, Patricia
29:43
would then leave. Several days later, Doug would
29:47
contact and bring in a Pentecostal minister to meet
29:50
with Carl. Upon stepping foot in the club,
29:54
the minister told Doug before meeting Carl that this was the
29:57
most evil place he had ever stepped foot in.
30:01
That he had been doing this for years and had never seen or felt
30:04
anything like it. And if Carl was experiencing
30:07
what he was experiencing, let alone living in a place like
30:11
this, that he certainly was, or was on the cusp of being
30:15
demonically possessed and needed help.
30:17
Immediately upon meeting Carl for the first time, he knew what
30:22
he had said to be true. He then followed Carl into the
30:25
kitchen where the two sat at a table together for his own
30:29
documentation. He placed a video camera to
30:31
record their interaction and then the minister began to pray
30:35
over him. As he prayed aloud, Carl began
30:38
to contort and grimace. Then when asked his name, he
30:43
spoke back to the preacher in a voice that was not his own.
30:47
He responded with My name is Alonzo and I pray to know God.
30:52
The minister then commanded Alonzo to leave Carl's body.
30:56
Carl then fell back off his chair and onto the floor and
30:59
began to twist and scream. The minister then called for the
31:03
other men to come and surround Carl.
31:05
Due to his violent outbursts, he didn't want to be injured, nor
31:08
did he want Carl to injure himself.
31:11
As the men restrained Carl, he began to scream at them in
31:14
Latin, which the minister spoke. However, he then went from
31:18
speaking Latin to speaking English backwards, saying Natas
31:23
ma I, natas ma I or forwards I am Satan, which they wouldn't
31:30
know until they watch the tape back later.
31:33
After an hour of praying and demanding that the spirit leave
31:36
Carl's body, Carl would scream in what sounded like two men
31:40
screaming in unison for several seconds, and everyone present
31:45
felt a cold rush of wind blow past them as Carl now lay
31:49
silent, breathing heavily. He would finally come to several
31:53
minutes later, and he didn't recall what had happened.
31:57
He would later say that when I woke up, everyone was looking at
32:00
me and I was on the floor. I didn't know what happened.
32:04
Several days following the exorcism, Carl would decide that
32:08
it was time for him to move on. He no longer felt tethered to
32:11
the property and said that he began to feel like himself
32:14
again. He thanked the Mackeys for
32:17
employing and befriending him and then left in search of a new
32:20
opportunity. Following Carl's departure.
32:23
Janet Mackie did not want to be at the club, given everything
32:26
that she had experienced, and so she wouldn't be.
32:30
She would instead opt to stay at home with her now healthy baby
32:33
girl. And before we get to the end of
32:35
this perplexing paranormal story, I do have some additional
32:39
history I'd like to share with you about Bobby Mackie's.
32:43
So far we're familiar with Pearl Bryan and the fact that the
32:46
property was built on the foundation of an old
32:49
slaughterhouse, and that in between the time of its
32:52
demolishing and rebuilding as a club, it was a supposed hotbed
32:56
for satanic cult activity. But upon further investigation,
33:01
we would also prove Johanna's existence as well.
33:04
Once it was rebuilt and resold. The club has an interesting
33:07
story. It would reopen as a Roadhouse,
33:10
and the Roadhouse would become an illicit bar and gambling den
33:14
known better by the name of Primrose.
33:17
The Primrose was a Speakeasy ran by the mob, and as a result of
33:21
its owners, it became a hotbed for violence.
33:24
It would change ownership in the 1950s.
33:27
It would also change its name to the Latin Quarter.
33:30
Johanna was a dancer there, and she was also the daughter of the
33:34
club's owner. She had fallen in love with a
33:36
singer named Robert Randall and ended up pregnant with his
33:40
child. Having a strong dislike for
33:43
Robert, her father found this out and was enraged.
33:46
He would have Robert killed as a result.
33:49
Depressed by the death of Robert, Johanna then poisoned
33:52
herself in the basement right above where the well was.
33:56
But despite this research, her diary and her poisoning her
34:00
father could not be confirmed. The Latin Quarter would remain
34:04
open until 1978, until a series of shootings and subsequential
34:08
law enforcement pressure forced it to close its doors.
34:12
It would then be purchased by Bobby Mackey several months
34:15
later. To this day, Bobby Mackey still
34:18
says that he himself has never experienced any supernatural
34:21
occurrences, but many people who have visited, however, have.
34:25
A sign now hangs within Bobby Mackey's walls that serves as a
34:29
warning to all patrons that the club cannot be held liable for
34:33
anything that happens to them as a result of the ghosts.
34:37
And despite still not being a believer, given everything that
34:40
he has seen, his mantra has long since been come for the ghosts
34:46
and stay for the music. But if Bobby Mackey's was
34:49
haunted, could there have been a force, perhaps keeping him blind
34:53
to it all, driving and keeping his hunger alive?
34:57
And if Bobby Mackey's music world is indeed haunted, perhaps
35:00
underneath its floorboards, deep in the bowels of the basement,
35:05
inside of the old well, a portal to hell still exists.
35:09
Whatever evil that lingers there perhaps slithers out of it
35:14
whenever it feels the proper opportunity to exploit the weak.
35:19
Don't let it be you. So I'd mentioned I'm correcting
35:24
information that I may have gotten incorrect, as well as
35:27
adding new information to this case as a whole.
35:31
And with that being said, I'm going to start the process here
35:34
in no particular order. So Janet Mackie, Bobby's wife
35:38
during the events portrayed, was one of the first individuals to
35:42
experience spiritual attack within Bobby Mackie's music
35:45
world. She was pushed down the stairs,
35:47
as mentioned. But what I don't think I
35:49
mentioned is that she believed that the spirit who actually
35:53
attacked her was Alonzo Walling, one of the individuals who was
35:58
responsible for the death of Pearl Bryant.
36:01
Janet unfortunately passed away in 2009 and may she rest in
36:07
peace. Carl Lawson became an integral.
36:10
Part of this story as a whole. And was allegedly possessed.
36:14
And now I have to be entirely honest, having watched all
36:18
available footage, I don't doubt that he could have perhaps been
36:22
oppressed by something dark that maybe was stalking him whilst he
36:26
was working and living out of Bobby Mackey's.
36:29
However, a lot of what has become a legendary event is
36:34
speculative at best. And what I mean by that is,
36:38
frankly, there's some pretty funny parts of the video I'm
36:42
going to show you if you have a dark sense of humor like I do of
36:45
Carl's Exorcism. And it's really not all that
36:48
convincing. I'm going to play some clips
36:51
here just now and you can judge things for yourself.
36:55
Because he knows that I've got something in me that's greater
36:59
than him. And I've got something in me
37:02
that's greater than you, Charlie.
37:04
You understand that? You understand that, huh?
37:16
Oh, no. No.
37:17
Girls fighting. No.
37:19
No, that's so little son of bitch.
37:22
You listen to me. That's so little son of bitchy
37:25
Carl. No, it's fighting Carl.
37:27
Is not that Carl's a good person that you?
37:29
It's time for you to leave. I try to keep him away.
37:33
I try to keep him away from church.
37:36
Ever since he was a little kid, all he wanted to do was go to
37:39
school and pray. That's all he ever wanted to do.
37:41
But I got him right around here on his bicycle one day, and he
37:46
didn't know what happened to him when he found these $5 in the
37:49
back. I know he didn't know what
37:51
happened to him. But you did.
37:54
And he entertained you. And now then you're trying to
37:58
take him over and you're trying to rule his life.
38:00
And I'm here to put a stop to it.
38:02
You understand that? You understand that, Charlie?
38:07
Carl's so fucking stupid. You understand that, Charlie.
38:11
And I, you quit telling Carl he's stupid.
38:14
You hear me? You understand me?
38:23
Now I'm telling you it's time for you to leave.
38:28
Because you know what I have right here.
38:32
Right here. And you know what?
38:35
It is Stupid Fucking fuck. Yeah.
38:39
Yeah, that's what you think. This right here is inside of me,
38:44
though, and you know it because you recognize it.
38:50
Is it time for Charlie to leave? Huh.
38:58
It's time for Charlie to leave, Charlie.
39:08
In the name of Jesus, Charlie, I command you to leave.
39:17
You understand? You understand?
39:20
Charlie, talk to me. Come on, Carl.
39:35
Stop. Carl.
39:38
Come on now. Leave him alone.
39:41
Leave him. Leaving.
39:45
Leaving. Leaving.
39:48
Leaving. Yeah, yeah.
39:55
Fuck you. Leaving.
39:59
Leaving, Charlie. Fuck everybody.
40:03
Leave him, Charlie. Fuck everybody.
40:05
Leave him, Charlie. He's fine.
40:09
Leave him, Charlie. He's fine, man of God.
40:13
Leave him back. We've been here for 1000 fucking
40:16
years. Leave him.
40:17
We're going to stay here. He fed.
40:20
Carl's worth this whole fucking town.
40:22
Leave him. Do you fed?
40:25
Now I will say take it with a grain of salt here and I am in
40:29
no way shape or form to clarify trying to throw dirt on Carl's
40:33
name or his narrative or anything like that.
40:36
But if my research is correct, he did struggle with alcoholism
40:41
and I'm not entirely sure if that didn't play a role in these
40:45
events and really this event in particular due to his behavior
40:51
being strange and erratic. Regardless however, though, it
40:54
is indicative of his mental state and I will also say that
40:59
although I do very much believe in demonic entities.
41:02
I do believe. That religious delusion is very
41:05
real as well, and there is almost a form of theater at play
41:09
in a sense between Carl and the preacher.
41:12
Carl as well unfortunately passed away in 2012 and may he
41:17
also rest in peace now. The original location of Bobby
41:21
Mackey's where all of the events of the original video took place
41:25
was deemed structurally unsound and unfortunately has been torn
41:29
down as of December 2024. Which sucks because I really oh
41:34
man, I found myself in the area several times.
41:37
Like pretty close to Wilder Kentucky.
41:40
This was, let's see, I believe this was literally right before
41:45
they toured that old building down.
41:47
But I always wanted to investigate there, you know,
41:50
having been very intrigued by this case.
41:52
But unfortunately, we'll never get the opportunity along with
41:55
many others to investigate it. However, there are plans for a
42:00
new building to be built in its place, and this building is
42:04
supposed to reopen for business in 2026.
42:08
As of now, Bobby Mackeys is operating out of a temporary
42:12
location in Florence, KY. One of the most pressing
42:15
questions I think we are left with after reexamining this
42:18
entire case is will the new Bobby Mackeys also be haunted?
42:23
I mean, it'll be built on the same spot.
42:25
It'll contain artifacts from the original location, so only time
42:30
will tell. Now, other artifacts, including
42:33
the well itself, the dance floor, stage, and parts of
42:37
Carl's apartment are now on display at Zac Bagan's Haunted
42:41
Museum. It's possible that I might miss
42:43
a thing or two as I re examine these stories, but I'm also
42:47
human, so I apologize ahead of time.
42:50
Now, having gone through the case again and been given new
42:53
information, what are your thoughts as a whole?
42:56
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