Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Weird Travel Guides

by Jeffrey Scott Holland, Mark Moran (Foreword), Mark Sceurman (Foreword)

"Best Travel Series of the Year 2006!"— Booklist What’s weird around here? That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout key locales in the U.S. Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture—it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shockingly odd that every previously published Weird book has become a bestseller in its region.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, History, Paranormal

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 6, 2008

Reviews

[Josh Liller · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another typical offering in the "Weird..." series in terms of presentation and content. In contrast to "Weird New England" which I read just before this one, I felt it the author provided a bit more level-headed approach to the stories rather than hurrying to dismiss anything but a supernatural explanation. There also seemed to be few ghost stories and more odd but tangible places one can visit, and included stories of unusual individuals connected with Kentucky.

[Ron Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. Mostly filler. Roadside America travel kitsch. I liked the truly weird stuff. Especially the monsters (Bigfoot, goat men, lizard people, werewolves).

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting places to visit in Kentucky. A lot of haunted places, so, if you are faint of heart, maybe not go to those. Especially on a dark and stormy night. Other places, though, may be interesting to visit. Like the Louisville Slugger museum in Louisville or Lost River Cave in Bowling Green.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned a few things I didn’t know about my home state, including the story of a haunted bridge near my home. I had never heard anything about it, so I’ll have to ask around, but now I know to avoid that bridge when it’s raining at night. Ha.

[Linda Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delightful reading adventure!

[Vicki Marmillot · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not great but not bad. Entertaining.

[Gabby · Rating 3 out of 5]

Haven't even finished the book yet and I can't stop laughing over the Lynch Mountain story. I'm from that area and have never heard of that ridiculous story.
And p.s. it's called Black Mnt. AKA the highest peak in KY I have never heard anyone call it Lynch Mnt.
I enjoyed some of the stories and have some new locations to go hunt down.

[Adam Watson · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you love urban legends, folklore, and the unusual -- plus love Kentucky -- then this book is a must. Well-written, great photographs. As a fan of the Pope Lick Monster (yes, in high school, I went to the trestles with friends, too), I was thrilled to see it, and some other favorites, make the cut. But I was pleasantly surprised with Kentucky places, people and legends I knew nothing about. Making my road trip list now...

The only thing to make this book perfect would have been a bibliography or sources listed that documented the actual articles, books, etc. mentioned in the text.

[Tyler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not really a 4 star but kind of impressed how much it had in it. All the urban legends old heard of and curiosities that I knew about but thought they were too obscure to get in. The author is too gung ho wanting to believe the ghost and ufo aspects where I prefer more tongue in cheek approach. There were some really good odd stories. I had not heard about Ali throwing in Olympic medal probably in the Ohio river. The only thing I recently learned that was not in here was weddings that took place in Mammoth cave, those looked cool.

[Katy · Rating 3 out of 5]

About odd,interesting, and/or haunted places to visit in this state. Not gender bias, but has a reading and comprehension level of atleast 4th or 5th grade.
-geography
-history
-fact or fiction/legend?

[Jenn Doyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was fun! I don't know how "factual" some of the stuff is, but alot of it is based on urban legends. I didn't get to finish all of it as we're leaving for home today & the book is my father's but it's definitely worth checking out :)

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty interesting. Lots of weird mistakes, though, like saying that the Kentucky State Fair is in Lexington. And a lot of the stories were pretty much the same story in different locations. Lots of ghostly hitchhikers and haunted bridges.

[Jo Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Started April 6th...
Finished April 11th..

[Mary Quire · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very interesting, just about anything you ever wondered about Kentucky can be found in its pages (as long as it's weird of course). I highly recommend it.