Welcome to Hell's Gate

Welcome to Hell's Gate
Bobby Mackey's Music World
Wilder, Kentucky

If you want to hear some good ole country music if you're out west, then you can place your bets on Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder, Kentucky. Bobby Mackey may not be a name everyone's hear of, but he's got quite the following in the mid west and has had success on the national charts with songs such as "Johanna, Hero Daddy, and Pepsi Man." Growing up in the grocery store business and working on the railroad, Mackey was infatuated with such country star legends as Hank Williams and Merle Haggard. He's famous for something else too: In September 1978, Bobby fell in love this old, abandoned building. Little did he know, it would soon become one of America's most famous haunted houses. Where some know the location as Bobby Mackey's Music World, us, in the paranormal community, know it as another name: Hell's Gate.

The place used to be slaughterhouse, had connections to organized crime, and satanic worshipping. Sacrificial rituals took place inside this well, which is where they would drain the blood from the slaughtered animals. In ran down this channel of tubes and finally into the river. The old well is the last remaining remenants of the old slaughterhouse.

On top of the club having a bloody history, it is also known to be the pin point of where a bloody murder took place, when back in 1896, two men beheaded a girl, and the men fled. When the bloodhounds were trying to look for these suspects, it lead back to the future club. The head was never found, but some say it was given to the devil during a sacrifice ritual. Once the men were caught, they were convicted to hanging, and one of the suspects said that he would come back and haunt the place forever. His words were correct as numerous eyewitnesses have claimed they have seen the spirits and the descriptions match the murderers of the woman.

Experiences:

Bobby Mackey's wife, who doesn't believe in ghosts and rarely ever talks to interviewers, has had a few experiences herself. A story that Bobby Mackey recited was that one day, she was up in a room and she heard a "Get out!" The spirit then got aggressive and forced her down the stairs. Even though she remains a skeptic, she refuses to step foot back in the club her husband owns, and that was several years ago. The ghost is to believed to be one of the suspects who murdered the woman in the slaughterhouse.

A former caretaker says there's more than just one demonic spirit and maybe that's the reason why he slept in his upstairs apartment with a shotgun. At one point, he got possessed by a demonic spirit and it took a reverend six hours of a exorcism to get the demonic spirit out of him. After the exorcism was over, the whole wall in the kitchen caught fire and the fire department could not determine what caused this fire. To this day, he still feels the demonic souls are right there with him.

Other experiences include a trashcan being slammed to a wall, a man with a handlebar mustache making appearances, a jukebox plays by itself even when it's unplugged that plays a song that's not even in the jukebox itself! Investigators who have tried this place their equipment malfunctions.

If you want to read more about the world's most haunted nightclub, make sure to grab your copy of "The Most Haunted Night Club in America" by Wanda Kay, who's a tour guide there. She has well over 450 photos and tons of stories of her time there. You can get more details of her books by going to her website, www.wandakay.com

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