Kentucky author Mari Adkins will be signing copies of her anthology Harlan County Horrors. Learn more about Octavia Sexton by visiting her website.Īlso on the third floor, there will be representatives from the Fayette County Cemetery Trust with information about their programs. Many of her stories are passed down from generation and are derived from European, African and Native American stories, though some are from her own creation.

Mwahahahahahaha.īack for 2010 is Appalachian storyteller Octavia Sexton who will tell her “haint” tales to those brave enough to listen. The sentence for the woman on trial? She will burn at the stake. Visitors to the museum will be able to hear the defense and prosecution present the case and it will be their job to reach a verdict. It is a fictional account based on oral history of witch burnings in Kentucky and the grand jury trial of a woman in Owen County for witchcraft.

This year, there is a new addition to Scary Night in the form of a mock trial of women tried for witchcraft in 1800s rural Kentucky. Some apparitions are rumored to be Bonnie and Clyde, who committed a robbery in Western KY, Native American, and zombies from the Lexington Cemetery. Students from Henry Clay High School, SCAPA, Transylvania University, and the University of Kentucky will be doing the scaring. The ghosts in the Haunted Museum are based on real people and the volunteers portraying them reveal Lexington and Kentucky’s haunted past. For those who do not like to be scared, a free community fall festival on the museum’s third floor will provide thrills without the chills. On October 23 from 6 – 9 pm, visitors to the Lexington History Museum’s Scary Night at the Museum will be chilled to the bone and will witness terrors beyond their imagination. Only one night of the year do the spirits of dearly (and not so dearly) departed Lexingtonians and historic figures come back to walk its hallowed halls. Something goes bump in the night in the Old Fayette County Courthouse, home of the Lexington History Museum.

Harlan County Horrors by Mari Adkins