A Wild Time With the Ghosts of Bobby Mackey’s

Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise. I'm Edwin, I'm Michelle, and we go over scary stuff and surprise each other with him. All right, So today we have a very interesting story, Michelle. I think you've heard about it. It's called Well, it's about Bobby Mackie's music World. I have heard of it. It plays almost every time I have my Discovery Plus thing. Michelle is a huge fan of Ghost Adventures. I wouldn't okay, okay, Zach, no, no, I would say I find Zach's voice very soothing. I don't ever want to meet him. That's don't meet your heroes or whatever. But if I just need to be relaxed, I'll put on an episode of Ghost Adventures. Okay, So this story we actually covered it another show called A Dark Memory. So just heads up, Michelle. So this is you already know, right, So this is this haunted right now? I think it's a bar and it's still like operational, isn't it right? Yeah? I think it is. Imagine this country vibe this. I don't know. I always think like creepy saloons. Wilder, Kentucky is home to many things. One of them is Bobby Mackie's Music World, a bar and nightclub that features a mechanical bull. When country singer Robert what else is it home to? What else could be there? Yeah? Sorry, I know everybody always says that about that wilder Kentucky. But what else is there? There's a mechanical bull. Okay, that's fair, that's fair. A destination point for sure, for sure. When country singer Robert Randall Mackie, or Bobby for short, bought this large building to fulfill an old dream of his to play live at his own place, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. Deep below the building lurked a dark basement with the well that many call the gateway to Hell. With all of the dark history that this building contains, it's no surprise that Bobby Mackie's is now one of the most haunted places in America. Located next to you a railroad track, the outside of the building looks like every other bar or restaurant you may visit in a small town, with white pain on one side and bricks on the other. I love the architecture detail. I was imagining more of wooden panels and rusted stuff, But again, guy, I just imagine them when they're already old. This won't be shown, but it's basically it's like a railroad track with just literally the most boring building next to it. I don't know what else could scream haunted. Once you enter, your senses are overtaken by the dimly lit red lights that run over the bar red lights on the walls, and a red Bobby Mackie sign. After walking around a bit, any chance you had it having a normal night goes out the window when you read the sign that the staff put up that says warning to our patrons. This establishment is purpoted, reported purpoted, not reported purpoted. I don't know that word. Okay, purported, I don't know. To be haunted? Yeah, reported, Yes, was reported to be haunted. Management is not responsible and cannot be held liable for any actions of any ghost spirits in these premises. In eighteen fifty a slaughterhouse and a meat packaging plant was constructed on that land. It was very large in the basement of the building set at the time, this well was used to dispose of the slaughtered animal's blood, guts, and waste ew. Yeah, this sounds like a so it's eighteen fifty. I didn't know it was that old. Actually, I didn't know that either. It's like the land being cursed. That's not that building. That's not the brick and stucco building that's cursed. It's the land. Wow, the bovine ghosts are there take revenge later in the night. In the eighteen nineties, for reasons unknown, the slaughter house was shut down and the well was just left to sit there. They they made unknown They were throwing well with pieces of cow down. What do you mean it was unknown? That's like pretty clear what happens to those wells, by the way, Michelle, like you just fill them up and that's it. Or I mean, I imagine it's like going into the groundwater. That's why everybody would get cholera. So in for reasons unknown, the Slaller house was shut down right in the eighteen nineties. We know the reasons, but I continue, okay, just left to sit there day after day, year after year. And so it was made a key part in ritualistic sacrifices by many different Satanic cults. Ooh, when was that, I don't know. The eighties when everybody said there were Satanic cults and there wasn't any I don't know if, like the Satanic cults started in the eighties, Michelle, we have we can check that. I'm pretty sure they started. Sure they started in the eighties. No, I would have started with Alistair before Alistair Crawley, but it would have been around that, and I guess it would have been though. Well, we know that this took places in the eighteen nineties, like when it was closed, so they definitely existed by then. In Kentucky. Many of these rituals evolved what researchers say to be both animal and human sacrifices, possibly even disabled children. O. Michell, we talked about this, and then here's a story, and we're going into some Satanist stories. This is more of ghosts. Yeah, this goes into more ghost stories. This one is about headless Pearl Brian. I love Headless Pearl Bryan. Oh look, there's a picture of her into pages. Oh yeah, it's nice to see her head because she doesn't have one anymore. Pearl Brian was a young woman who was living in Greencastle, Indiana in eighteen ninety six, growing up in both a religious family and community. You can imagine how scared she was when she became pregnant by her boyfriend William Wood. There we go, that's the name, the son of the local Methodist minister. What did that convinced her to get an abortion? He contacted his friend Scott Jackson, who was a dental surgery student in Ohio, and hopes that he would be able to help with the procedure. Unknown to him, though, Jackson was rumored to have ties to a Satanic cult that practiced in the torn down slaughterhouse in Wilder. So many Satanists in Wilder, Yeah, it's wild. The first thing he and Alonzo had tried was to induce an abortion using cocaine, and it didn't work. I love doctors of that time. Just give him cocaine, like just laudanum heroin all of it. It's bound to work. Why not? Yeah, And it didn't work for that surprise surprise. Then they try to use dental tools and ended up batching that as well. Oh god. Nearly an hour later they had a crying, frightened and bleeding young woman on their hands and no idea what to do. This girl's dying or I don't know if they think she's dying. Maybe she's just Unclecaine. So she's talking really fast about wanting to start a restaurant. That's what she's actually doing. And they're like, oh my god, oh my god, what do we do? He says. With little to no options left, they decided to take her across the Ohio River to Kentucky and snuck away to a secluded area near Fort Thomas. It was here that they killed Pearl by severing her head from her body with dental tools. Dental tools. When I imagine dental tools, I imagine like tiny Yeah me too. But maybe that's different. Maybe that's in that time period. Maybe it was like like a giant saw or something. I don't know what. Okay, I don't know what that is. Yeah, because I was thinking more like a scalpol. They're trying to sever her head, like, yeah, I'm imagining little things. A dentist could have been the doctor too, so maybe he had a saw awful ah Okay. Afterward, they dumped her body about two miles from the abandoned slaughterhouse, but kept her head. In fact, they were only able to identify her body by her shoes. Oh that's sad. Yeah, Okay, so this just turns sad. Yeah, but why would they keep her head? I don't know, because they were Satanists or something. I don't know. That's what never made sense about that story in real life either. It's like they never They probably didn't keep it. They probably just put it somewhere and no one ever found it, unless it was for like, to hide her identity. Maybe that's the only way they could, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. JUSTI thought this is because the company's imprint was on the shoes that she had been wearing at the time, and they were able to confirm with the authorities that she had that they had sold them to her. Some of her blonde hair her blonde hair, She had blonde hair. I don't know she did. She did? You can tell from that photo? Yeah, oh, you can tell. Wow. Some of her blonde hair was later found inside a valice. Oh it's a small traveling bag or a suitcase. Luckily, this story at least ended with some sort of justice. In eighteen ninety seven, both Jackson and Walling were put on trial and sentenced to death by public hanging. Her boyfriend would made a deal with authorities to save himself, but he had to testify against the two of them. The two of them were also offered a deal life sentences for the location of Pearl's head, but they refused. Perhaps they were afraid of sat wrath if they revealed the location because of the cult was involved. It is said that as the news was being slipped around Walney's neck, he said he would come back and haunt the area for all eternity. It seems like he has followed through with promise. Okay, Oh, so he's the one that's haunting Bobby Mackie's. There's a lot of stories that go like that, though, Michelle. There's a lot of oh, I'm gonna come back and haunt you. Oh yeah. People loved It's like one of those common last words. I've bet it be common. I mean, I feel like it's pretty common in ghost stories. After standing for almost half a century, the old slaughter House is finally torn down. In its place stood a brand new casino in nightclub only. This wasn't just any ordinary nightclub. It was also a speakeasy, or in simpler terms, an illegal bar. Because it was in the nineteen twenties. Oh, I was like, so we're in the twenties now. Now it's the nineteen twenties. Yeah, okay, in the nineteen twenties. By the way, people, some people might not know that alcohol was not allowed, that's true. It was more glamorous than how people sell drugs now dates. Oh, nineteen twenty to nineteen thirty three. I thought they repealed it right away because it was I don't know, I probably losing money or something made organized crime like totally rampant. Yeah, it was nineteen twenty to nineteen thirty three. Crazy. I didn't know it lasted that long. Okay, now we've learned. And then also people started to build those crawl spaces, like yeah, in their houses. That's pretty cool to me because it's like there's a lot of stories about that. I don't know if like they built the houses with them or like they just built another wall area. Yeah, and they could just store stuff and hang out or whatever. Pretty cool. I don't know. Yeah, anyway, Buck Brady purchased the place in nineteen thirty three and renamed it the Primrose. Things went smoothly for about a decade, and then one of the frequent patrons, a shady mobster named Red Masterson, decided that he too wanted a piece of the prophets, so he did with most what mobsters did best. He tried to muscle his way into the business, but Buck wasn't having it. He refused to sell anything to Red or his men, and soon things escalated. The mobsters began to threaten and harass the bar's customers, to the point where he decided to take matters into his own hands, and he drew a gun on Red. With his bad luck, the mobster, of course, ended up surviving, and poor Buck was charged with attempted murder and was forced to sell his bar in nineteen forty six. Most people assumed he left town on his own, a shamed to ever come back, but it wasn't until authorities found his body in the building's basement, right next to the well, that they knew they were wrong. So he tried to kill the mobster right but didn't, didn't and then died and then was killed. MYSTERI mystery by the I'm assuming the Satanist did it? Not impossible at this point in this town. We don't know, we don't know what's going on there. Goodness it as Corners ruled it death by suicide. Another body to add to the lands casualties. And this is from actually Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures, as in, like it's listed in the source here, So Bobby Mackie. So actually that's all for that part for Buck and Ren. So it's just another body there. So Buck is a ghost at Bobby Mackie's. And then this other part. And I think this one, Michel, I'm gonna have to let me look for the link and I'm gonna send it to you this chat because it has a song. This is a song written for them. Song. There's nothing more haunted than country music. So so that song, it tells a story basically of what I want to tell you right now. Hannah, how it's pronounced Johanna Joanna or Joan Johanna and her lover like how John has an ancient it. I think it could be Joanna Johanna. I pronounced it Joanna, but then I heard the song and I'm like, oh, Johannah, Johannah, Johana, Johana Brana, blah blah blah. All right, I'll go with you on this. Well, fast forward to the nineteen fifties. The bar was bought by a new man and renamed the Latin Quarter. M Okay, I'm sure there's a lot of Latin people in Wilder Kentucky. Much is known about who the man was himself, but his daughter is a whole different story. Johanna was her name, a beautiful name for a beautiful girl. Her father was very protective of her, so she was never allowed to go near them, near men near them. But Johanna soon caught the eye of a performer at the bar that worked for her father. Her long, soft locks and the sweet smell of roses she left behind was enough to tempt any man. With Johanna returning his affections, they began their forbidden love affair soon after she became pregnant with his child. Both terrified of what would happen if her father found out, they quickly made plans to run away and begin their new life together. But someone else had found out, and the first thing they did was tell the father. God dang it, snitchugh. So she felt typical story, right, I mean, it's almost just like Pearl Bryant, only they didn't call a dentist this time. Yeah, man, all these are like love stories sound technically yeah, guy, but yeah they are. But they're all that tragic thing where it's oh no, the girl got pregnant out of wedlock. I guess she's doomed to die. I guess she's doomed to die. Now cautionary tale forbidden love, which I guess intensified everything. But the guy was a performer. I want to know if he was like a dancer or like singer. I thought he was a piano player, but I don't know if that's I don't know if I made that up, because there's so many stories about the daughter of the club owner falling in love with a piano player, So I don't know if that's this one or if that's eight hundred others. That says that they told the father, So of course he disapproved of us, of the singer, so he had her lover murdered. Oh rough reaction to that, that's yeah, that's a little overboard. Grief stricken, she did the only logical thing she could think of at the time. Did I spoiler it? She poisoned her father. Oh, I thought she was gonna do herself. Now, Left with no one in her life, she decided that life was no longer worth living. There we go, there, we go, there it is there it is. So she killed her father and then she's like, oh, maybe I needed him. Yeah, but also to me, that seems like that would make life worth living, you know what i mean, Like he killed her bod friend. I'm just saying. I'm just saying that, like now she's free to do whatever she wants, like without her father. Without her father in theory, maybe she would have inherited. We don't know, we don't know what was going on, but maybe nothing because she had to offer herself to dang it. Ah, this is his tragedy, all mean, there wasn't gonna be Like now she's her own woman and she's a single mother making it happen. She started her own business, runs the club, and she's really successful, like it was going to be that her enterprises joined, does the International Stock Exchange. Yeah, blah blah blah. Yeah she made if she's a woman on her own right, Like she is a self made success, Like her name was Mary Kay. Yeah, business genius. Just once. I'd like one of these stories to end like that. Yeah, and then she was a really successful ghost and she comes back and helps people with business plans. She just really liked that place and so she just comes back and make sure the business is running. Smoothly and everything's good and everyone's happy. But no, that's never how this goes, No, not at all. But yeah, she did kill herself, so the same night, says So, the same night that she killed her father, Johanna ended her own life in the basement right next to the well, always leaving nothing behind but the smell of her rose perfume. One sweet but was now bitter with death. So it's also from a source from travel channel Ghost Adventures, gotcha. Yeah, they do a lot of that. Bobby mackew was like there, They're all like their intro episode. I'm not surprised that Johanna finds it difficult to leave the bar even decades after her death. In fact, there are a number of people who claim to see her, to have seen her, or felt her presence. One employee who worked there said that they have been they have seen a woman who calls herself Johanna behind the bar, and when she disappears, apparently the sweet smell of roses lingers. Yeah, so I heard of that, the perfume that smells like roses. So that's real, And I've also heard a bunch of scary stories about sense and smells, says but she wasn't the only one who has had an experience with this with her spirits, because Bobby's wife, who would help her run the bar, claims that she would often be overcome with the sense of roses whenever she was in the basement. Well, it's better than the stink of like Yeah, this actually sounds like a pleasant ghost to have like around you. She doesn't seem that bad. Yeah, you save a lot on air air freshener fresheners. Oh okay, so that's it. That's where the does Johanna's story. Then there's like recent experiences that are happening. Now, Oh good, this is what I wanted. I wanted to hear this what's going on? So it says according to the Bobby's wife, when she was pregnant, she would still stay at the bar and help her husband manage the place. Then, one day, while she was vacuuming the stairs of the building, she felt the arms of a man wrap around her waist. Her first thought was, oh, it's probably Bobby, but when she turned around, there was no one there. It's never Bobby. God, it's never your actual spouse. Hello, who does that? People do that? Just wrap around you're sweety though she's pregnant. You're sweeping and pregnant on the stairs. Why are you doing that? Why are you vacuuming the stairs while you're pregnant? Isn't that dangerous? I don't know. I mean, look, all the power to her for doing what she wanted to do. Clean those stairs, girl, clean up. Panic set in when she felt the arms pick her up. Oh, and the next thing she knew she had been thrown down the stee Oh that took a turn. They are dangerous. Oh that really took a turn, you like buried the lead on that. Like I thought it was just a gentle hug. Well, this was reading long time, so I don't really remember. But yeah, but like a gentle hug to be picked up and down the stairs. Still might have been Bobby. We don't know. I don't like Bobby picked up his wife, threw her down the stairs, went threw down the stairs. God, JK, just kidding, don't sue us, Bobby Mackie. Yeah, so pretty sure. That's when she realized, I guess that can't be Bobby. When asked what happened, she described the spirit as a man who fits a description of Alonzo walling one of the students that killed Pearl. Oh, she said her. He screamed at her. Get out. She now refuses to step foot in the bar ever, again makes sense to me. I don't think i'd go back. Also, I just don't want to vacuum stairs. Alonzo is just doing her favor. Get out, go on maternity leave, go just get some time off. Yeah, takes off, vacuum, put your feet up, relax, just relax. So he tried to help her, Yeah, he definitely did. Not. Everything that happens at the bar is as sinister as what happened to Bobby's wife, with multiple patrons coming forward constantly describing the experiences they had in the bar. One patron claims to have experienced multiple things over a span of time, including feeling a suffocating heat, seeing a trash can fly across the room, and seeing a man with a handlebar mustache yell at him Die game, Die Game in the men's restroom, which is Latin for dying well. Dying well, perhaps slightly more scary, is acclaimed by the former caretaker of the building. According to the man, he was possessed by a demonic spirit when he was living there, and even According to Bobby, he witnesses exorcism on site by entertained minister. Other staff have also come forward and shared their experiences with Bobby as well, although he remains a skeptic himself. Bobby's and Bobby's a skeptic. That's weird. He owns a haunted building. He's getting so much money for that place. I'm pretty sure. Oh absolutely, Now they do ghost tours there, so like it's just a bar and a venue and a ghost tour thing. Like He's good. According to one of his managers, she too has experienced unusual things in the bar. She said that when she normally closes the place for the night, she goes around the property to lock all the doors and turn off all the lights and appliances, but sometimes when she would return to open again, she would find all of the lights turned on, the doors unlocked, jukebox on playing the song an Adversary Waltz Anniversary Walks May always does the anniversary. Oh that's a weird song. Yeah, a ghost would put this on one hundred percent. A skeptic could say that maybe someone else had just arrived before her to open the business, which could be true, but it still doesn't explain how the jukebox would be playing a song it doesn't have, oh playing at all when it isn't even plugged in. What twistl alert? Twistle alert? What? Yeah? That is the scariest song ever if that's the case. Some other ghosts that have been known to frequent the establishment are Buck Brady, the former owner of the nightclub before he killed himself, and the headless spirit of poor Pearl still wandering around looking over her head. Dang oh. There's also paranormal investigations that have happened. If you want to visit the place, try to see some of these lost souls for yourself. Then this place is open to everyone, just like a normal bar. One time, this place was featured on the episode of Ghost Adventures, and in the episode, they had the staff locked themselves inside overnight so they could make sure that they were getting the full experience. Once night fell, they started to taunt the spirits in order to get a reaction to capture on camera, and they were almost They were most certainly not disappointed of The member of the crew who was leading the investigation shall not be named, and then helped with three claw marks going down his back with no explanation as to how they got there, class exact animals and humans being sacrificed, a woman being decapitated when she was so conscious, and one too many suicides in the basement. Perhaps this place will never be able to outgrow the dark shadow cast upon it. So my conclusion here is I want to visit that place. I think it'd be really good. My conclusion is that I do not want to visit. I don't want to be in the vicinity of that. That's clearly a portal creepy stories, a headless ghost. It's like The Ring put together with the headless Horsemen put together with one of those Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet type of things. Bobby Mackie's dot com book A tour Most Tinted Nightclub in America five hour investigations, two hour for thirty five dollars. Michelle, Michelle, how cool with that? Look? I just I'm saying that one is not for me. That is too freaking scary for the content, for the content. We do everything for the content it does. So they have Careoki on Friday at eight thirty, they have karaoke on Friday, and live dancing starts from eight thirty to ten pm. Wait live dancing else not quite sure. But and then Bob McKie, I guess perform. Okay, Bob Mackie in the Best Damn Band is what it's called, and they perform every Saturday at ten pm. Huh. He's still kicking it, So that's good. Do you have a story that you think could surprise us? Good luck. If you have a scary mystery you want to share with us and he wantus to go over, just send us an email or go to scarymistery surprise dot com to let us know. Hopefully it surprises us well and we'll read it back to you. 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