Annie Whipple and a Message from the Dead
Show notes
In the heart of Old Louisville stands a grand Victorian mansion where guests have long reported seeing the apparition of a woman dressed in black descending its sweeping staircase. According to legend, her name was Annie Whipple, a widowed governess whose desperate attempt to save a dying child led her beyond the medicine of the nineteenth century—and into the growing world of Spiritualism.
When the one man Annie believed could save the girl died before she could reach him, she refused to give up. What happened next would become one of Old Louisville’s strangest legends, connecting Annie to a mysterious local woman, an unusual method of communicating with the dead, and a series of events that supposedly unfolded inside the mansion. But like so many old ghost stories, the deeper you dig into the tale of Annie Whipple, the harder it becomes to separate the woman at the center of the legend from the history and folklore that may have created her.
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