I’m the type of person to choose a night at home with a book rather than go out to a club. After hearing about this location, I’m grateful for that.
Perhaps you’ve heard of Bobby Mackey’s Music World. The nightclub, located in Wilder, Kentucky, looks pretty innocent, unless you are aware of the claims and stories told by Bobby Mackey, himself. It is promoted and betrayed to be ‘the most haunted nightclub in America’ as it honestly doesn’t surprise me if the following stories are based on truth.
The site homed a slaughterhouse back in the early 1800s and was later torn down to be replaced by a roadhouse that assumed many names, such as the Brisbane, until Bobby purchased it in 1978. Since the transition, many go as far as to say the building is a ‘portal to hell’ and is haunted by quite a few different entities. And its past continues to get more tragic and horrifying..
One of the spritis is suspected to be Pearl Bryan. Her body was found in a field 2.5 miles away from the location in Fort Thomas. A common theory behind her death were Satanists (using here at a sacrifice). They then placed a curse on the location, promising to haunt anyone and everyone involved in prosecuting the case of her death.
Another story tells of a pregnant dancer by the name of Johanna who took her own life by poisoning herself. She found out that her own father murdered her lover Robert Randall by hanging him in the dressing room.
While according to many witness and visitors, the place is truly terrifying and haunted, there are others, like reporters and science writers, who believe these claims of hauntings and murders and the club having a ‘portal to hell’ is not backed up by anything substantial.
But my own prior research helped me realized that it’s quite common for events to be purposely hidden from public records or records of any kind. Of course a portal to hell is very unlikely be backed up by anything scientific, it’s not something a lot of us can wrap our heads around, let alone find physical evidence of. There is a reason why uncommon and unbelievable events are pinned as paranormal…meaning we can’t explain it just yet.
While I haven’t been to the location…and as of December 2024, Bobby’s Mackey’s is not a place you can visit…for now. While, it was demolished (find images of this HERE.), it relocated to Florence, Kentucky, and is temporarily using the closed down Mugbees bar. Plans to open up Bobby Mackey’s back at its original location are anticipated in 2026.
If you’d like to see more about Bobby Mackey’s Music World, below are a list of ways!
~ BuzzFeed Unsolved titled “The Ghosts and Demons of Bobby Mackey’s”
~ TV show, Paranormal Lockdown on Dec 11, 2018, season 3, episode 4, on the Destination America channel
~ Travel Channel’s Most Terrifying Places in America
~ Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures, Season 1, Episode 1
~ National Geographic Channel’s documentary series Is It Real? featured the nightclub in 2006
~ The nightclub was featured on the SyFy program Ghost Hunters in 2011
~ TV show Portals to Hell on May 10, 2019, season 1, episode 3, on the Travel Channel
~ Discovery Channel’s docudrama series A Haunting in 2006
Now, Bobby Mackey’s is thriving as a night club with country music, line dancing, with regular ghost tours! Visit and support their site at https://www.bobbymackeys.com/ and let me know if you’d had any experiences here!
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