Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Higgins House, Murray, Ky.


The Higgins House is a beautiful little jewel of a Victorian house located next to the Murray Calloway County Library.  This historic home has been a private residence, an appartment building, and a public meeting room.  I have held several meetings and training meetings for my paranormal investigation team in the house, which boasts a basement, main floor, and an upper floor with a small turret room.

A magazine did a photo shoot and interview there with my team.  The writer asked about any experiences we had there, and one of our members told how he heard a voice in that room say "Get out... get out NOW!".  While I was telling relatives about our photo shoot, one girl said, "Oh yeah... I'll never go there, it's haunted.  My mother and I were there when I was younger.  I was in the little round room upstairs, when something grabbed me!  I ran downstairs, and told my mother, 'We have to leave... NOW.'  I'll never go back."

The Ghost At C.C. Cohen



This well known Paducah restaurant is at the Cohen Building.  It was built around 1865, and in it's many incarnations has been a clothing store, a dry goods store, and, in 1914,  the R.L Peacher Liquor Dealers and the Rehkopf Distilling Company.

The Cohen Family owned the corner from around 1921 until 1980, when the last member of the Cohen family, Stella Cohen Peine, died upstairs in her apartment.

For years it was open as a beautiful restaurant known as C.C. Cohen's.  It is currently under new ownership, and called Shandies.

Workers, as well as guests report odd occurances that they attribute to Stella.  People report chairs mysteriously moving  themselves, salt and pepper shakers being tipped over, lights flickering, cold spots, strange movements in mirrors and brass, and also glasses falling from parts of the bar.  Many people claim to have photos of the building showing a lady peering out an upstairs window in an area that is used for storage, and not open to the public.  Real?  Or imagination.  You decide!