
Paranormal Kentucky
An Uncommon Wealth of Close Encounters with Aliens, Ghosts, and Cryptids
The University Press of Kentucky
Published on 15. November 2025
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-9859-0313-5 (ISBN)
Description
Encounters with Wolfman and Goatman. An Air National Guard captain who tragically lost his life-in pursuit of a peculiar UFO. The Goblin Incident of 1955. Hauntings at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Spanning these and other out-of-this-world topics, Paranormal Kentucky is an investigation into more than twenty cases-some famous, some more obscure-of the supernatural across the commonwealth. Kentucky sightings and incidents featuring iconic cryptids like Bigfoot and Mothman, which are rumored to lurk elsewhere in Appalachia and the continental US, are also explored. Coauthors Marie Mitchell and Mason Smith approach each case with nuance and offer in-depth details from multiple perspectives, providing rational explanations alongside the "true believer" claims and mysteries that remain. In addition to field investigations and witness interviews, the duo shares stories of their own experiences with "high strangeness." Mitchell and Smith use wry humor to place Kentucky history and folklore at the forefront of their work. Paranormal Kentucky reminds us that perhaps not everything is as it seems-and that fact can often be found in fiction.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lexington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9859-0313-5 (9781985903135)
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Persons
Marie Mitchell is a former journalist, retired Eastern Kentucky University communication instructor, and coauthor of numerous plays, novels, and short stories alongside her husband, Mason Smith. She also writes a column for The Richmond Register. Mason Smith, semi-retired from Eastern Kentucky University's English department, has enjoyed a lifelong interest in the paranormal. In addition to writing novels, short stories, and plays with his wife, Marie Mitchell, he has lectured for the Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau on paranormal and historical topics. Smith is also an amateur watercolor artist.