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The monster was the subject of a 1988 film by Louisville filmmaker Ron Schildknecht called The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster. [6] The 16-minute, $6,000 film premiered on December 29, 1988, at the Uptown Theater.
The adventure of Charlie and his wheat-straw hat : a memorat. Mary Szilagyi. New York. ISBN 0-396-08772-8. OCLC 12908970. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Hiser, Berniece T. (1978). Quare Do's in Appalachia: East Kentucky Legends and Memorats. Children's literature portal
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The grave of Mary Evelyn Ford. The Witch Child of Pilot's Knob is a Kentucky urban legend that tells of a five-year-old girl named Mary Evelyn Ford and her mother, Mary Louise Ford, being burned at the stake in the 1900s for practicing witchcraft in the town of Marion, Kentucky.
A video on "History and Mystery: The Folklore and Legends of the Bristol Hills" debuts Nov. 9 at Cumming Nature Center.
The Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky is supposedly 8–10 ft (2.4–3.0 m) tall and weighs over 800 Ib (362.8 kg), the Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky also reportedly has black eyes that glow orange during the night and vocalizes using shouts and banging on trees, it shares the rest of its features with the aforementioned Bigfoot.
Wilgus also served as vice-president of the AFS, secretary-treasurer of the Kentucky Folklore Society and president of the California Folklore Society. He also edited the journal of the California Folklore Society, Western Folklore, from 1970 to 1975. [4] In 1955 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Folklore and popular ...
The legend of Swift's silver mine is based on accounts given in the journal of an Englishman named Jonathan Swift. Swift claimed to have preceded Daniel Boone into Kentucky, coming to the region in 1760 on a series of mining expeditions. [2]