The History and Hauntings of The Knight House (audio from LIVE stream 7/21/24)

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Join us as we dive into the history, hauntings, and
high strangers of the world to try to better understand
the paranormal. I will be your guide. I am paranormal
researcher and investigator Eric Freeman Simms. Welcome to the Unseen
Paranormal podcast. Hey everybody, Eric here, Welcome to the Unseen Paranormal.

(00:30):
Thank you for joining us, Thanks for tuning in. Doing
some a little different this week. I did a live
stream with my good friend Sin Trader Hill a little
bit ago, but talking about that history and the hauntings
of the Nighthouse, the house that me and my husband
bought not so long ago and have fixed up, and
we're opening up for historic tours and for paranormal investigations.

(00:51):
So you can go to the the Nighthouse kyd dot
com and night to spell k and ighd and you
can book your right investigation or your half night investigation,
or book a historic tour with myself turn around the
house and telling you about all the history and stuff.
But I wanted to put this live stream audio out

(01:12):
for all of y'all that didn't get to watch the
live stream out as an episode this week, So this
will be this week's episode. Back next week with more guests,
of course next Wednesday. So I had a good conversation
with Sin, and me and her a good friends, and
I had a good time. So this is kind of
the definitive video and audio on the Night House so
far as the history as we know it. Now we're

(01:34):
uncovering more and more every day. If you're listening to
this and would like to actually watch the video, you
can have her to the YouTube channel where we actually
have video of me and Sin of the live stream,
so you can go check that out as well. So
sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. What's up everybody,
how's it going? How are you doing? Sin?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I am good? How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm good? Thank you for joining me tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Thank you for having me on. It's gonna be fun.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, I sure we jumped on here, I haven't. I've
talked on some other shows, a couple of them recorded
that will be coming out. And then I did a
live stream the other night with Miranda, who I absolutely love,
especial biker and guests biker expirations, and we had a
great conversation for about aaron half and about the Nighthouse
and all that stuff. But I want to get on
here and do live stream myself on the Nighthouse page

(02:22):
on my own pages and kind of talk about the house,
what our intentions are with the house, what we've been doing,
you know, with the house. I know people see pictures,
but it's hard to put up everything that we're doing,
everything that's going on behind the scenes. You know, we've
been working seven days a week for three months now.
And I've got a few announcements about the Nighthouse as

(02:43):
well of what what we got coming up here soon.
So I'm excited and I want to talk about I
want to talk about what you have going on coming
up the rest of the year as well, what you
have planned so far, and where people can come and
see you.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I've got it listed. I've got it listed ready to
talk about.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
So not just not just about me, I want to
hear so.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I am sporting my nighthouse awesome. Let me just tell you,
I got two for me, you know, I got and
I got one for grade. But I love these freaking things.
They're so soft, they're so solid.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Mine are black. I hadn't seen the heather on anybody,
but I love That's why I love the heather look,
and so that's why I put those up, But anybody
who wants to buy any swag, there's plenty of it
on the Nighthouse website that I got on the bottle
screen there, the Nighthouse ky dot com and ky is
on there. I've been asked about this. Ky is on
there because there's a couple of other historical houses that
are the Nighthouse as well around the country, so just

(03:51):
to differentiate us between them. But we're not making a
ton of money off merchandise, nothing like that. I made
the prices as low as I possibly can to where
we still make it a little money, but everything that
we make off the merge I promise you was going
back into the house and to be completely transparent. We
are for profit business, but with the intention of saving
the history of the house and bringing the history to

(04:12):
the forefront. We're gonna do some paranormal stuff as well,
but that helps pay the bills and also people. The
first thing I've been asked, especially the community I'm in
within your in you know, with the peral stuff we do,
was are we gonna allow paranor investigations? And yeah, we've
had experiences already. Almost every day that we're there, we

(04:33):
have some sort of experiences I've got some video I'm
going to show for anybody that hasn't seen a couple
of videos that I've put up that the cameras have
caught when we're not there. But yeah, it's it's such
a I don't know, it's kind of blowing my mind,
like it's really It took it about two months to
sink in that we actually owned the house. That we
were just working on somebody else's house because we tend

(04:54):
to do that, and we also have renovated our own
house here, but it took it about two months to
sink it. Now sinking in that, oh, this is happening.
The parental investigation is going to start soon, and I'm
going to get to do other events there and things
like that. So so it's gonna be a lot of
fun and I'm looking forward to it. It's going to
take up a huge chunk of my life, but it's
an adventure. It has, but it's adventure that I'm looking

(05:20):
forward to. It's already been an adventure. I keep telling Roger,
my husband, that it's our own Oak Island. You know
that TV show Curser of Oak Island with all the
mysteries and the it's like a big giant puzzle, a
million of a million pieces that we may not find
a one hundred thousand of them, you know, but we're
going to dig and dig and dig to try to
find all of them.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
And you're still finding out things, yeah, and finding really
cool artifacts. And you didn't mention that we did the
inaugural ghost investigation.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Did that was fun? That was that was It was
a little mini investigation, but it was fun. And it
was also the first night that I stayed in the
house and you and Greg sp the night and then
Cassie from PPF Investigations for the night those two. So yeah,
it was a lot of fun. The puzzles are fun, though. Yeah.
I actually I have to get the graphic right, but

(06:10):
I'm going to actually have a puzzle of the nighthouse
that you can buy, like a five hundred piece puzzle
that'll be a picture of the house. Yeah, So I'm
waiting until we get the columns and stuff repainted. What's up, Richard?
Thanks for joining us. Buddy. Richard does all the wonderful
events out here in Fairview, and he plans he plans

(06:31):
the huge for the July third celebration that we have
out here that is amazing, awesome guy. But hey, Damian.
Damien and his crew are coming September twenty eighth to
the house.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yes there.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
The first one is I let book a night at
the house for Investigation, So they're gonna do a bunch
of really cool stuff. They're gonna do their podcast live
from there, and then they're going to Investigation live all
night where people can interact and tell them where they
see things in the house on cameras and things like that.
So they got some really cool stuff. Hopefully I'm not
giving anything away, Damien. But they have their co hosts

(07:07):
for their podcast. Are actually one of them, I think
coming in from Washington State.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Ye girl, I love Kristin Amanda.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'm gonna be on her show, I think the week
before her show, the week before they come to talk
about everything. But uh yeah, it's he said, no, I'm good, Okay,
all right, I'm not trying to give away your secrets.
But but yeah. Also they have a they have a
gofund me going because of the cost and curd and now,

(07:38):
to be completely transparent, I discounted the price of the
house for them because they do have people that are
spending money to fly in and all that stuff, and
and they got a big production they're gonna they want
to do so. And also I want to make this
completely clear as well, is that we do not charge
extra for people doing live streams of filming. I think
that's ridiculous. We will never charge the extra at the

(07:58):
Nighthouse if anybody wants to do a life streamer film.
I think that's stupid because it is advertisement, so why
would you charge.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Plus, you've got actual places for people to sit. You
have furnished this house.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
It's not a museum style of the error and everything
is gorgeous, gorgeous, And I know you've done more since
I've been there, because that was a month ago. Yeah,
it's amazing what you guys have done.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Honestly in three months, it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's been a whirlwind. That's been crazy. But the thing
is I look at it like a lot of the
things that we have done because me and Roger been
together almost twenty years and his dad is a master carpenter,
so his parents have been amazing at helping us with
the I can't think them enough. I don't know how
to think them enough. Giving up every Saturday and Sunday
as well, not just me and Roger, but they've been

(08:57):
there every Saturday and Sunday with us as well working
on the house, and we wouldn't have got half done
if it wasn't for them. They've just been phenomenal and
I just I love my in laws. They're just amazing people.
But it's just we've learned from doing our own house.
But also Roger grew up with a no how because
his dad's a master carpenter, so he grew up doing

(09:18):
this stuff, so most of the stuff we know how
to do. Also, we're not having to do anything major,
so we're not doing any structural anything structural, we're not building.
It's mainly just all the finished work. So what we've
been working on for everybody is the office area, which
was the summer kitchen, and the previous owners had built
a wing onto the house to connect the summer kitchen.
So if you don't know summer kitchen is a lot

(09:39):
of older houses pre eighteen eighties eighteen nineties had separate kitchens.
That was a separate building that they cooked in in
the summer, so if it caught on fire, because in
the summer you have more dry weather and you have
more fires, if it caught on fire, won't burn the
house down, but also it didn't heat the house up,
so they tended to have small are fireplaces in them

(10:01):
and things like that. But that's where the food was
prepared and that was brought into the house. And then
in the wintertime, there's a we have a giant hearth
in the basement where you have the cliche movie big cauldron.
Pots would be swung in and out of the fire
and it's huge. That would build a huge fire because
it helps heat the house as well. And that's not
in the basement, but so the previous owners have built
a wing that connects the summer kitchen building to the house.

(10:25):
So the summer kitchen area will be my office where
I'll hang out when people are in the house and
events are going on, and that I'm not directly a
part of, so I'm on property anytime anything's going on,
so if anything happens, if anybody needs anything, I'm there.
And then that'll be kind of our little suite as well.
We'll have a bed in there and I'll sleep there
and have a TV and my I'll have a computer

(10:46):
and stuff in there. And then when you come out
of the office, there's a laundry room, mudroom with the
door that goes out to the side of the side
of the house, and then you come into the modern kitchen.
So we've been working on doing. We've had to finished
the floor in the summer kitchen because that's where we
got a bunch of the china was in the dirt
underneath there. We had to put down plywood basically on

(11:10):
the floor, and then we had to put insulation in
all the walls and all of those all three of
those rooms, the whole area. And then and then we
had to stop and fix some of the plumbing because
the plumb would stop up. So some of the plumbing
had to be fixed, had to trade out some faucets
and things where it had been setting so so like
sediment got in the lines and all that stuff, and

(11:32):
so we had a we had to clear some of
those lines out. So that took a weekend just for
them to get the drains working right and some of
the plumbing that we actually have a functional bathroom. We
changed out some toilets, things like that functional shower all that,
and then so now this weekend is we've gotten to
the drowwall. I'm sorry, I was reading Damian's best as

(11:58):
they've they've had a time. I'm with this ship for
some reason. But so now we've got draw all up
and I put pictures that up. I have been I
don't do drawAll and things like that. That's not my forte.
I'm the landscaper, even though Roger works landscaping. I've been outside.
I've been the one planning most of the plants. The
thing is, I'm never in any of the pictures because

(12:19):
I'm the one taking the pictures in the videos. I
don't do anything to walk around and take pictures because
I'm not a selfie person. So I'm not gonna be
like selfie with a shovel, you know. No. Yeah, And
I'm also the one that's out there mowing and weed
eating on a weekly basis, and you know all that
stuff with some help from my own dad, own real

(12:39):
dad and can help us. Yeah, we've had yeah, yeah,
so yeah, so I've been clearing off land and things
like that as well. And so is Roger when his
parents when he didn't need to work inside. But but yeah,
so put in this this house isn't having landscaping around.

(13:01):
It was all torn out by the previous und people.
We bought it from a lot of it because they
had to dig. They dug a trench around the house,
put a French train in to stop water from coming
to the basement, and put a membrane up and all
that stuff. So but I don't think there's a I mean,
other than like some irises down the driveway. There's not
been a whole lot of landscape in the house in
a long time. We're finding we're finding that we're always

(13:22):
finding shit, so I'll probably say that a lot of tonight,
but we're finding around as we're clearing things out. There's
a lot of ivy growing. There's a lot of what's
called winter creeper, and people actually mistake winter creeper for
poison apra poison ivy. Winter creeper has five leaves on it,
and but it'll grow the big old fat uh stalks
that go of the tree right, and we're fighting that back.

(13:45):
And a bunch of English ivy that was planted a
long time ago. But it looks like the Rogers family
had a bunch of probably at one time well kept
flower beds around a lot of the trees. Well, it's
been so long that the the landscape stones have sunk
in the ground, and so we're kind of finding where

(14:06):
the fire beds used to be. Also, we found out
that the nights, So when the Rogers moved in on
the one side of the house, that's the flat side
that I hardly take pictures of. But the other side
from where the columns are, when the Rogers family moved in,
there were six foot tall hedgerows that made a formal

(14:28):
garden with pea gravel pathways and rose bushes and things
on that whole side of the house. So our intention
is to recreate that at some point in time because
there's really nothing else to do with that side of
the yard.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, yeah, So we were talking about that tonight. We're gonna
do it kind of phases. The first phase will be
getting all the shrubs to do the outline like a
fence and putting in gates you know where you break
in the in the hedgerow, and so where the where
the kitchen windows are. There's three kitchen windows that we're

(15:04):
gonna put like a little breakfast note right there with
the table and stuff. That's kind of the inlet of
the house. I call it the courtyard, even though it's
not surrounded on four sides. It's round on three sides.
By the house. We're gonna have the garden come all
way up into there, so when you look out those
windows you see into the garden.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
That amazing. That'll be really pretty.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
And in the very middle, I want to do something
like the Thomas House has. And if anybody's ever seen
any pictures I put up of the Thomas House, thank
you Richard. That's awesome. If anybody's ever seen pictures of
the Thomas House, when you come up to it, they
have this big fountain with three tiers on it, and

(15:44):
that's kind of what I want to do in the middle.
And if it's not a fountain, I want to find
like a statue, you know that's like like Greek esque
with like a picture or something. But I want it
to be a water feature in the very middle.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
O that be so nice and relaxed.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, that's going to be a few years down the line,
but that's one of the things that we want to
do that we're in talks to do. And then I'm
trying to get the city let me open it to
the public. I'm getting some pushback about that because they
want to know how many people are going to have
it one time, this and that and make sure the

(16:20):
parking is there, and I'm like, I don't if it's
an open house, I don't know how many people's going
to show up. It's free, I'm not charging people. So
but one of the announcements I was gonna make tonight
is we finally got to go ahead from the city
to do parano investigations. So I've been waiting on that,
but also been waiting on us to get the house
so far along. So next Friday it will go live
on the website for people to book their paranorm investigations,

(16:44):
and the first night open will be Friday, August sixteenth,
and they will run every other weekend on Fridays and Saturdays.
Just for some fact that I don't want to live
at the Nighthouse every weekend. I have a life as well,
But every other Friday and Saturday we'll have it to
rent out for people to rent the house South of
Criminal Investigations. There are two price points if anybody hasn't

(17:07):
seen it yet. The first one is five hundred dollars
for half a night from seven pm till three am,
and the other one is for a full night from
seven pm till nine am the next morning for seven to.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Fifty and that's up to eight people, right, Both.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Of those are up to eight people. The house is
five thousand square feet. It's pretty massive, I mean, since
it's been in it six levels kind of amaze amazing. Yeah,
and we're on three acres. And I have seen things
out on the grounds too, and we actually, I actually
have a good idea where like the original carriage out

(17:43):
some of the outbuildings were, we still have a lot
of property clear off, of course, and that'll happen over time,
but you can get people are gonna be able to
go it on the grounds of what we have clear
off now and investigate. I've seen some weird stuff out there.
You were there the night that I saw the weirders
thing out there when I sit on the porch about
three in the morning. It looked like a it's about
this tall, and it looked like a flame from a

(18:06):
like an oil lantern, and it was orange orange yellow,
and I watched it go from behind the tree and
float across about twenty feet and disappeared. And I hollered
at you to come out there to watch because I'd
seen stuff moving. What was looked like shadows moving out
there too, And so I think there's some stuff out
on the grounds as well. Whether it's residualle or not,

(18:27):
I don't know because I haven't We haven't investigator out there,
but I haven't had anything other than that, and I
really haven't paid attention out there, and I've only been
up there a handful of nights to spend the night.
So our focus normally when we're up there is working
on the house, but definitely had a lot of stuff
happened in the house as well. Already, I've got a
couple of videos that will show real quick, and then
we'll get onto talking about more about the history and

(18:50):
that type stuff. But we'll get the paranormal over with here.
But I'm gonna put announcement tomorrow on Facebook. Y'are the
first to hear about the US opening up for the
investigations of Onlybody We're going to y'all are the first
ones to night to hear about the actual date. So Sin,
you're kind of kind of glitchy. I think we may
have lost Sin.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Okay, let me let me answer Jenny real quick before
you do. Okay, Jenny, I was on the inaugural investigation
we did that was on the was it the eighth
and ninth? Yes you so, yes, I've already been up
there and having fun investigating. It was great. But will

(19:33):
I go back, of course, whenever he lets me.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
We'll definitely will definitely be investigating more. I want to.
Also one of the things that I'm I'm working with
the city on too, is to do public goost signs
where you know, we sell tickets for cheap. I'm not
going to gouge anybody, but to come up and and
people like sim will come be a guest investigators she
would like to, and we'll break into a couple of
groups and go around the property and around the house

(20:01):
and investigate, you know, from like you know, seven till
midnight or something like that, and and see what we
can catch and and show people how show people how
investigators don't if you've never been on investigation, and just
have a good time so and enjoy the house. And also,
like send alluded to earlier, the house is not a museum.

(20:22):
That's one of the things I didn't want to do.
I want people to be able to set on the
furniture and things like that. So if you come in
as an investigator. I know a lot of investigators are
used to going to places where they're like, you can't
sit on that, you can't do this, don't touch that.
You know, We're not like that. I didn't want to
buy eight hundred dollar couch that's you know, from the
eighteen sixties that somebody's going to sit on and break,
you know. I bought a forty dollars couch from one

(20:44):
of the couches of forty dollar couch from Goodwill that
looks the part, but it didn't cost an arm and leg,
you know. So, and I don't know what years from.
It's probably recreation from like the probably fifties or sixties,
but it.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Looks like that. Error. Yeah, that's what's so great about
everything you found. It just works.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
So I got two videos here that with up and
then we'll get on and I'll explain the rest of
the Paranelem investigation stuff and all the stuff that comes
along with it. The verse video is the very first
thing we caught on camera. And I have cameras throughout
the house and outside the house that are set up
for emotion or sound detection, and this one was the
very first one, and it's kind of self explanatory. I
do have it where it replays a couple of times

(21:25):
so people can kind of study it. But this has
like two thousand views online or something just on Facebook,
and then there's another I don't know how many thousand
views on TikTok and YouTube. But it's pretty crazy. I've
never seen anything. I can't explain it. There's nothing up
there in the upstairs in the guest suite to make
this happen. So here we go. There's no sound on

(21:50):
this either, so let's you'll know. So that's going to
replay here and then one more time. So I don't
know what the white mist is, don't know where it
came from. As you can see by the timestamp, this

(22:13):
was at five point thirty in the evening and the
sun was still shining through the house. Because this was
just in I think in May. I'm trying to remember.
I didn't. I forget the date. Anyway, it's summertime. It
wasn't dark yet, it wasn't getting a doublerk. And the
weird thing is these cameras automatically switched to night vision,
to the black and white night vision with the hour,

(22:35):
and they're really good at night vision. And normally their
color during the day color, it's just complete color video.
It's their high depth. And the camera about a minute
before the mist happens, switched itself with the sun still shining,
from color to night vision. And then after the mist happens,
a couple of minutes later, it switches back to color vision.

(22:57):
And then when I went and actually looked at the
camera because it alert to me of this and I
saw it, it's still in color vision because the sun
is still out. So I don't know what to make
of that either. I'm not going to say it's a
ghost spirit because I don't know, but it's something out
of the norm that I can't explain. The house is
not that dusty. There's no craft that fast in there.
The house is really clean, and actually me and my
aunt did a really deep clean of it with the

(23:20):
floors and everything. And that's sitting on a dresser that
definitely doesn't have any dust on it.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, so people know. So that couch was left there, right, yeah,
and that couch is an antique, yeah, and it's really
it's really gritty. But the stairs to the right that
you look at goes up to the attic and you
can see the stairs to the left. Those are the.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Weird twisty funhouse stairs, unbelievable spiral kind of stairs that
just fan out and you kind of have to turn
your feet sideways to walk up.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
But it's a place.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, So that was the first thing that we caught.
And then not too long ago, I uh, because I
have the sound on too, So for one, if anybody
breaks in the house, I'm gonna hear them breaking, you
know what I'm saying, breaking the house before I see
them on video. But this is at twelve thirty at night.
This just happened at the first of July. Here and

(24:23):
this is I don't know what this is. This is
in the master bedroom where we have this huge canopy
bed that was left by the Rogers family. It dates
back probably to the early nineteen hundred, late eighteen, the
early nineteen hundreds, and I don't know if it had
been in their family for a long time. This thing
is beefy. Yeah, it's a gorgeous bed and we have

(24:43):
to put a canopy on it. But it was the
Rogers family, so it's at least been in the house
since the nineteen forties. And we put it back up
in the master bedroom where the camera is sitting on
the mantel for the fireplace, the fire and it's on
the edge. So the wall is to the right the camera,
that's the mantle in the fireplace. To the left there
is a doorway that goes into a walk in closet.

(25:06):
But the walking closet's empty. There's nothing in it. There's
no critters in there, nothing, no signs of critters, not
even mice. Yep. So I don't know what to make
of this. So and I don't think you need to
turn up your sound for this unless you got your
sound streamly low. But this is all sound. You won't see.
I haven't seen anything in the video anomalous, but you have.

(25:27):
So there's a door on the left of the bed.
That door is a hallway that goes to the dining room,
and then the door on the right on the wall
goes to the bathroom. And then the door to the
further right is the double doors that go into another bedroom.
Just to explain kind of layout, see anybody, So if y'all,

(26:13):
if y'all get hear that, that's I don't know what
that is. Something moving to furnishment, walking away. I have
an idea I'll play it one more time people can
listen to again. I thought I uploaded the one that
it replays that I had play, but I didn't. Anyway,
here it is warmer time, and it's just there's nothing
moved in the room. We went up there the next day.

(26:34):
Nobody was in the house at the time. We went
there the next day. This was on July first. On
April thirtieth, we bought the house. I got keys in
him on April twenty fourth, and I need to put
this video up as well. I don't know why I haven't,
just haven't there. On April thirtieth, I caught another video
that it sounds like somebody fell down the damn stairs.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I mean, have I heard that one?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I don't know, but seriously, that's what it sounds like
to me, like somebody falling down the stairs. And it
was caught on he was caught on this camera, but
also the camera in the parlor caught the same noise,
and so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Was it Regina, right, don't take on Regina. I love her.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Regina fell down the good stairs, not the weird ones.
But here we go. I'm gonna I'm gonna play it
one more time so I can hear it again. She
was she was fine, She was fine. We love Regina.
Regina's awesome prepf ffiscations. Go follow them if you if
you don't know Virgina, They're they're great. Yeah, hey, mister

(28:03):
pat Pat So, I don't know that. I can't explain
that at all, had any clue where the noises came from.
It sounds like they're in the room to me, not
like something outside. And also where that room is at
the back of the house, away from anywhere that would
have anybody making noise. I mean, the house sits on

(28:24):
the main where the house sits, that main area, the
front yard and stuff is probably eightre and a half
of the property, and so there's a good buffer on
both sides from the neighbors. So there's no way that
the neighbors were making, especially twelve thirty at night, making
that much noise to be heard in the house. The
house is pretty quiet too. It doesn't do a whole

(28:47):
lot of settling. I mean, it's two hundred years old
and it built in between eighteen fifteen eighteen twenty, so
it doesn't do a whole lot of settling. And the
walls are three foot thick brick, So you don't even
I've sitting there by myself, eating lunch and things, and
you don't really even hear the house selling or popping
and creaking or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
I don't hearing any of it.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
The floors do a little bit when you walk through
the house, but uh, hey, Amanda, thanks for joining us,
Thanks for joining us. Pat you'll hear the floors creak
a little bit as you walk across them, but they don't.
I don't. I've never heard them creek on their own.
I mean, you said quietly for a while in the
dining room by yourself that night, and I was outside.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
And I went all over the house by myself taking
pictures while you guys were all outside. Yeah and whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, nothing, I'm getting back. I'm getting back to the history, Richard.
Don't let me lose you with the paranormal stuff so quickly.
Some of those the paranormal stuff for teams that come in.
I've tried to give all the amenities I can. So
we're gonna have soft drinks, bottle of water available. We're
gonna have snacks like popcorn. We'll have a microwave, we'll

(29:59):
have a coffee maker, I'm gonna have other snacks that
people can bring. We'll have a refrigerator you can use.
I'm gonna have a charging station where you can charge
all your equipment with USB ports and regular plugs. I
tried to think and not even did. I did a
poll online asking fell investigators from teams what would you
want to see in the house. You have an option
to spend the night in the house, and I think
seven point fifty is reasonable for eight people because it

(30:23):
makes it right out of maybe a hundred bucks, and
then you don't have to have a hotel room. Also,
we provide all the sheets and linens and pillows and
all that stuff. I promise they'll be clean. We have
a laundry room that washing and dry where they get cleaned. Also,
we will have towels and wash rags and soaps and
shampoos and stuff. If you want to take a shower,
will we have two functioning bathrooms which with full showers
and bathtubs in them, and so just the whole nine yards.

(30:46):
So also I will have two camping cots really comfortable
and is actually I'm fixing the order on Amazon. They
have really nice big fat mattress pads that you can
sleep in the attic or in the cellar or in
the parlor, wherever you want to take it. In the house,
there's not a bed you can if you want to
be brave and sleep by yourself. I think so, yeah, yeah,

(31:08):
so trying to get you know, everything that I also
meet over the years, over twenty years of investigating locations,
there's a lot of locations don't offer anything. You don't
get anything extra other than investigating. They don't even give
you free drinks.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
So plus Wi Fi you didn't know, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Wi Fi all over the house, high speed Wi Fi
from Spectrum which there it's awesome. And I have these
little pucks in the walls that are that plug in
the wall all over the house. I could order two
more of them. But it'll make sure that you have
great WiFi and right where you go in the house,
so when you're live streaming, you don't have to worry
about lag or anything like that. Also, we don't have
I only have one TV in the house and it

(31:44):
won't be used. I'll have my TV that'll be used
on the Wi Fi, but there will be no other
devices like sucking up the Wi Fi while people are
in the house. Investcating, so they should be good if
not worry about lag and you know things like that
when they're streaming. So trying to pull out all the
bells and whistles and and give everybody a good experience
for their money. And like I said, I'll reader it again,

(32:06):
we went ever charge for people with live streaming or filming.
That's ridiculous. Would we do not have a video policy.
I will never have a video policy where you have
to let me see your film before it goes on YouTube.
That's stupid too. I understand for some locations that's important
and they have their own reasons and I understand those,
but for us, I just don't think it matters. So

(32:27):
none of that stuff. We do have a waiver that
you got a sign of course, like every place, we
have a rules that you have abide.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
We expect you to be an adult and so you
know all that good stuff. No alcohol, no firearms, none
of that stuff, just kind of the general stuff. I
think those stairs are gonna be the pain in my existence.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yep, stairs, the.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Stairs, the weird stairs of getting people not to fall
down them in the dark. Especially. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna
we're fixing to put up a chandelier in that up
and up there where the and I think that maybe
we may put it on a dimmer switch, yeah, dim
light on to see going on the stairs. Also, we

(33:08):
put up a big, a big like metal handle on
one side and we're gonna put one on the other side.
There is a handrail, but it will help you go
up those stairs. And you'll just have to come see
the stairs. It is crazy too.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
If anybody wants to see more photographs of the entire place,
I took a bunch of them inside outside the whole thing.
You can see all the rooms. And this was taken
on June eighth and ninth, so he has done so
much more since then. But you can go look on

(33:44):
the Elk Valley Paranormal and look at the nighthouse pictures
that I have in the album. Yeah, please do, please do.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
And also, of course, another important thing in locations that
I think is important because I've been to so many
that don't have it heating and air. So we have
good air conditioning, We have a we have a gas
furnace for heat. So yeah, well we'll be good for
that no matter what time of year you come. Also,
it's very private the way the house sits back from

(34:14):
the road and from the neighbors, and we have tree
lines and things, so we're also going to do some
privacy fences in the near future, the next couple of months.
But also when you're in the back of the property,
it's the tree line and stuff, so I have to
worry about bothering anybody, you know, Just no crazy yilling
anything with that. So anyway, let's get to the history portion,
so that that will all be a next Friday, I

(34:35):
will have I will go live on the website where
you can book. The calendar will be up there with
all the dates you can book the stuff. Also, I
am planning on some exciting things for October for spooky season,
so trying to do some special things at the city.
Just let me eat. But yeah, so on the history.

(34:56):
For anybody doesn't know, the house is built between eighteen
fifteen eighteen, and we do not know who was built by.
It went through several owners, nobody none of the owners
from what the deeds say, stayed in the house more
than like ten years until the Night family bought it
and we finally found the deed. So this is the

(35:17):
new development. Finally found the deed of the Knight family
buying the house in eighteen sixty. So I actually have
a copy of it right here. This is the copy,
the real version of the actual papersion original version is
at the courthouse in Hopkinsill, So I have a copy
of it. But it was the Waddell family and they

(35:37):
only owned it. They didn't own it very long, only
a few years, and then they sold it to JB.
Knight in eighteen sixty. I am going to do a
deep dive into the families that owned it before and
see when I can find out about them and their history,
because they did live there. Some of them may have
died there. I don't know so far, because the Knights
were there for the majority of the house's history for

(35:58):
eighty something years. Because the Knights he bought it in
eighteen sixty and they lived there until the last asidate
died in nineteen forty one. So then the Major family
bought it and they did a bunch of remodeling on
it to update a lot of things, bathrooms and things

(36:19):
like that, and they only owned it for five or
six years and then they saw it to the Rogers
family and the Rogers family lived there. I think it
was nineteen forty eight or forty nine when they bought it,
and they lived there until Terry Rodgers, the youngest son,
lived there and he passed away in twenty fourteen, and
then the his children's put everything up for auction that

(36:41):
was in the house and they sold the house to
the people that we bought it from, the Rassets, and
the Rasets owned it from twenty fourteen until, like I said,
we bought it, but they did not live. They lived
in it until twenty twenty two. In the he took
his dream job at Disney out in California, so they

(37:03):
moved it out out to California. But he told me
that in twenty fourteen, whenever he bought the house, it
hadn't been taken care of in a long time. And
that's why I put up the picture from twenty fourteen
on the Facebook page if you go look, and then
the picture from today from the other day that I
took of how much it was overgrown when they bought it.
In the property, you couldn't even see the house. If

(37:24):
you go look on like Google street View, you still
couldn't see the house. Wow, a tornado came through and
I think twenty twenty one and blew down a bunch
of trees and a lot of stuff, and they had
to clean the property up. And now we've gotten all
the limbs and stuff cut up to where you can
actu see it from the road, and the road is elevated.
So when I take the pictures from that far away
from the house, the road is about I don't know what,

(37:45):
twenty feet up from the yards and and so. But
that's not how it always was. Originally the road was.
That road has been there since the early eighteen hundreds,
and it was known as the Elkton Turnpike because Elton
is not very far from Hopkinsville, about twenty minutes from Hopkinsville,

(38:06):
right outside of Russellville, Kentucky, kind of going from from
Hopkinsville toward Bowling Green towards the center of from Western Kentucky,
central Kentucky. But it was called the Elkton Turnpike. Well,
that road was flat and you could go all the
way into downtown. Well, when they put Penn Roll Parkway in,
they had to build a bridge over Peter Roll Parkway,

(38:27):
and so they had to raise the road up to
meet the bridge basically, and so so that's when the
road was raised up Originally the property went straight down
to the road. And from what I understand JB. Knight,
he was a lawyer and but he mostly real estate mogul.
He originally had a separate building office in the front

(38:48):
of the property down by the road. Really because there
he was so close to town. They were like just
a half a mile from town, downtown or whatever at
the half three quarter mile from downtown. That he and yeah,
just put his business out there instead of I have
them won in downtown. He didn't have travel anywhere. He
just went out. But that road was one of the
main roads and still is. There's so much traffic on

(39:09):
the road, even the homage people. That's how they come
in and out of town. So we see buggies and
horses all the time, especially on the weekends when they're
coming into town to grocery shop, have fun, whatever they're doing.
Today we saw a bunch of them going to church.
They're all dressed black and white. I've never seen them
dressed like that. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Either maybe it was something special, maybe funeral or something.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I don't I know, today's National ice Cream Day. I
don't know anything about the homage people. Well, there's a
mix in Hopkinsville. There's a mix between homage people and
men and nights, And if anybody doesn't know the difference
men and nights. A lot of them will drive vehicles
and use modern machinery and have electricity and things. They

(39:53):
just don't believe in TV and radio and things like that.
AMI's a very staunched. They don't do electricity for the
most part. They don't drive. They will ride in a
vehicle with somebody, like if they're working for somebody, they'll
ride with you in your vehicle to Los to get
supplies or whatever. But they will they don't own vehicles,
they'll drive them. And so there, but there's a mix.
And if you go to if you go to Low's,
We've been to Lowest so much in the past three

(40:14):
months is ridiculous. They're in there all the time buying
materials to build because they build things for other people.
They're amazing builders and artisans and like finished carpenters and things. Yeah,
and they're really nice people. They're great people. But anyway,
so so that's a very busy road through there, and
now it's East Seventh Street in uh in Hopkinsville, but

(40:39):
very busy road. So one of the original truckers was
down by the road when the road was flat. JB.
Knight his office, and then there were of course were
was a carriage building right behind the house where they
have the horses and the carriages. The Knight family, they
had so much land around the United States that I

(41:00):
just talked to another historian. I met with him last Wednesday,
me and Roger did excuse me up at the nighthouse.
His name is Wyn Radford, very nice guy. He is
a historian and his focus is heavily on the underground railroad.
So we were very curious because he has found out
another house in Hopkins, little downtown Hopin that's part of
the underground railroad, and so he found pretty good evidence

(41:26):
of that. So our question was could the nighthouse possibly
have been because we keep hearing about tunnels and things
and from the neighbors and from the whole community. So
we had him out and talked to him, and he
figured up that the Nights were probably worth about ten
million dollars. Wow. So the way they got their wealth

(41:51):
was through property. And R. B. Knight, who was JB.
Knight's dad, excuse me, sinus drainings. He died in eighteen
forty three, and I have for anybody who doesn't know,
I have two books of letters that are this stick
that are original letters on the original paper, handwritten by
the original people with like a quill, pen and ink.

(42:12):
Takes a lot there that was just left of the house.
I don't know who preserved these or what, but there's
two albums this stick, and I've been working on getting
them scanned in the computer. And hold on. I actually
got a couple of copies here that I printed off
that I've scanned in, but I actually have the original
to like this right here, I have the original that

(42:33):
you can pick up and handle and they're an amazing shape.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
You've even got his business card.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
I have an original JB. Night business card. So here's
another letter I've got printed out and I've made them
available to the town historian, to the county historian, which
was pretty cool. This letter is the earliest one I found,
the reason I have a printed out. It is from
June twenty sixth to eighteen thirty three and JB. Knight.
This is from Elton, Elton, Canucky. He sold a house

(43:03):
to a gentleman last name was hadden't for two hundred
and thirty eight dollars. So let me let me calculate
that real quick, because my brain's not working because I'm tired.
So in today's money, that's equivalent about forty dollars for
every dollar there spending on the market on the day.

(43:24):
So turn at thirty eight dollars times forty and twenty dollars.
That's a lot for a house. Back then, this was
a two sturry brick house in Elton that JB lived
in at one time. And I found a newspaper article
where the house burnt down and he rebuilt it. And
it wasn't just his house that burnt down, because this

(43:45):
this house, I don't know if it's still standing. I
want to go to Elton and see if the house
is still standing. But he rebuilt it because it burnt
his house and a bunch of other houses and even
burnt half the fire department down. So you know, back
then they were doing the bucking brigade to put up fires.
And luckily for him it was brick, so uh and

(44:07):
you're talking about three foot thick brick walls, so it
didn't you know, as far as the structure goes. There's
were placing the timbers on the inside for the floors
and things. You know, the outside shell is good on
the fire all that, so he apparently he rebuilt it
and then sold it. This guy, because I think the
fire if I remember from the newspaper article from the
fire having eighteen thirty one, eighteen thirty two. But his
name is one of the homeowners, J M. Knights, of

(44:28):
the homeowners the houses burned. But it would have been
a fairly new house too, because JB was born in
the early eighteen hundreds, so he would have been that
old in eighteen thirties, so he was born in eighteen
teen's actually like eighteen twelve, I think something like that.
Trying to remember, I got some many dates in my
head from a little bit because the Knights had seven

(44:50):
kids and also jb father he was one of fourteen kids.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, finding things about all of them really.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, because they all had to do with this wealth.
You know that was just Jab's wealth was ten million dollars.
That's not count his siblings and the wealth of his
father left them. You know, he got the bulk of
his father's wealth. Because I have his father's will, handwritten
will three pages long from RB. Knight from the he
wrote it. In the eighteenth eighteen forty. I think is
the day done it that he wrote it and it

(45:23):
was notarized. And but JB was the man executor and
was the got the bulk of his wealth. Uh, there
are a few other He had two brothers that were
also executors that come out pretty wealthy as well, Alicia
and Eliza, not Eliza Alicia and Elijah. Alicia is a

(45:49):
weird name for a guy. But and I had to
look to make sure that it was wasn't a sister,
But no, that was actually his brother's name. So anyway,
they also all most of them were lord and so
JB became a lawyer, but they mostly did real estate. Now,
he did some court cases, and I have some of
the documents that are from some of the court cases
that he did. And also if I was told by

(46:10):
Win Radford, the historian, when he went to the courthouse
to find the deed, he said, it's just real estate deeds. JB.
Knight's name on them, thousands of them.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
And the historian, Woman Turner, the historian for Christian County, Kentucky,
told me the same thing. He was buried in deeds
that JB buying and selling property and.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Houses when he first got it, didn't he have three
hundred acres?

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, the house was on three hundred acres. From what
I understand, the deed is very interesting. Let me read
you from this deed and I'll explain a little bit
to what I learned and diving into this. But it says,
so this is how they measured the property. And I
don't know how anybody knew where anything was or how

(47:02):
this property is measured. But one of the one of them.
So they did landmarks a lot of times. So in here,
one of them is like a red oak tree. Yeah,
go to the red oak tree. The other one, the
one landmark that I know was there that I know
where it's at is the cliff that they talk about
that it backs up to the cliff. Well, the cliff

(47:23):
now is Pennuroal Diving. So if you get a if
you if you want to get your scuba diving certification,
you have to go there for the final certification. If
you're in militancy, you're anywhere closer there. Yeah. And it's
an old rock quarry and so they have buses and
all kind of stuff down in there. I have actually
my best friend Tea and her husband went and got
their final certification before they went to Jamaica. And but

(47:47):
like this weekend, man, they were packed, their parking lot
was packed. But but that still was a cliff there
and they ended up you know, mining it for for
a rock, you know, for like your driveway gravel on
things with that for many years. And so when it closed,
of course it fills in with water like most quarries,
and it's crystal clear. So that's where people go to
anywhere else scuba diving to get their final certifications to

(48:08):
scuba dive by themselves. So because it's also like one
hundred feet deep, so they learned how to come up
from the depths, you know, slowly and things like that.
So I know that cliff was there because it's still there.
So that's what it property backed up to, which is
probably about a mile behind the house. And so that's
the only landmarking here that I know. Definitely, Wow, because

(48:30):
there's another landmarking here that says something about another tree
and I'm trying to find it. One hundred and ten
poles to a small red oak on the northwest side
of the turnpike. So if you went to the northwest side,
the turnpike you're talking about is Elkton, which is the
red that runs from the house now seventh Avenue seventh

(48:53):
Street East. So there was a small red oak and
one hundred and ten poles. I had to look this
up back then was sixteen and a half feet. Oh
wow on a surveytors on a serveators train and their
chains were one hundred feet long and sixteen and a
half feet. I believe they are hundred feet long, maybe

(49:13):
a little more, but it was sixteen and a half
feet was a pole. So sixteen and a half feet
times one hundred and ten will give wow how far
that was? And I think it's like one point eight
miles or something like that when I looked it up.
But the small red oak and then it's no, it's maybe.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
May not even be there now it Why not when
they put.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Penny Rock Parkway through and stuff and you know, build
other houses. But it talks a lot about the turnpike
being kind of the dividing line there. Oh, here's another
one division line south twenty degrees east through a sinkhole
with a sassafras standing in it until it intersects the

(49:58):
old line. The aforesaid tract. Wow, deciphering greekers on them.
The crazy thing is our modernded modern I say, reads
about the same way.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Does it? Really?

Speaker 1 (50:15):
It does, because that deed was created when the Rogers
bought the house from the Knights. So it says go
this many paces to the corner of this person's property
and that type of Yeah. So yeah, it's just crazy,
but it's originally three hundred acres. And but that's fine.

(50:37):
I find all these documents interesting. I'm a history nerd.
I guess we lost three people because of my history
in nerdiness.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
But whatever, it's interesting. It's interesting stuff.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
So they had seven kids. They all lived to adulthood.
They did not have any children die that I know.
Of their youngest daughter, she did die at seventeen or
eighteen tuberculosis, and a year later their other daughter, Carrie,
died at twenty five of tuberculosis. On their death stift,

(51:07):
it says consumption which is tuberculosis. And this is before
you had Waverley Hills and all these big sanatoriums for
that long before that, but TV was still going around.
Look at like Whyader, Doc Holliday. You know that was
like with the eighteen sixties you know, so that it

(51:27):
was it was going around there and that's when she died.
Was was around eighteen sixty something, I believe. But anyway,
their first two sons, I don't know how a lot
about Robert, he was the very first son. But John B.
Knight their son. He's not a junior, but they caught
him John Junior just to differentate him and his dad

(51:48):
had different middle names. So JB. Knight's name was John
Bailey Knight, but his son was John something Night. And
I don't I don't write off Ham rememberhere his middle
name was. Anyway, he's an interesting character, and he's the
only member of the family have a picture of I've
not found portraits or anything in the intergrestment, but I
actually have three pictures of him. I have won when
he attended college to become a lawyer, and I have

(52:09):
one more that would probably been his photo that hung
in his law office because he's looking very stalelys in
a suit. And the other one is more of a
candid photo of him setting on his balcony and he's
in a suit and stuff. And in one of the
pictures he's sitting there kind of smiling, laughing like he's candid.
Another one he's actually holding a baby I guess is

(52:31):
his grandchild or from them. And so the story with
him is when he was twenty five, he had only
been practicing law for a couple of years. When he
is twenty five, his dad JB. Sent him to Chicago,
and this is eighteen seventy one. Well, anybody know what
eighteen seventy one was in Chicago. The cow kicked up
to the liner and the burned half the town down,

(52:51):
which that's the myth whatever, But anyway, the great fire
in Chicago was at eighteen seventy one. Well. JB. Knight
owned a three story tenant building, Rick Tennant building in
Chicago that burned during that fire. So he sent his
son up there to live with his cousins, the Marshals,
and he ends up going into business with his cousin

(53:13):
John Marshall, who was also attorney, so they became Marshall
a Knight Attorney office, and he ends up staying there
the rest of his life. In Chicago. He only comes
back to the Hopkinsville visit a few times that I
found in the history. But he only came back here
like two or three times to Hopkinsville. He stayed in Chicago.
He becomes a huge real estate magnet himself and a

(53:33):
very popular socialite. And he stays a bachelor until he's
forty three or forty four, and he marries a lady.
She dies ten years later, and he raises her son,
his stepson, and they had two daughters together. And I
had the newspaper article that he was such a prominent member.
They put a picture of him and a whole article

(53:54):
about him in the newspaper. When he died, it wasn't
just an habituary. It was like the loss of this
prominent Chicago's systems. So some of the Knights live in
Chicago that are kin to JB. Knight family. Two of
the other kids, Charlie and Ida, both never married, never

(54:15):
had kids. They lived in the house until they died.
Charlie died in nineteen twenties. Ida died in nineteen thirty eight.
Thomas Sharp Knight, who was the youngest kid and youngest son,
he moved back in there when his wife died, and
he died in nineteen forty one.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
You're keeping all these dates.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Yeah, I don't know either. This is a good memory.
So Thomas Sharp Knight, the youngest son. He was named
after his uncle, his mom's brother, who was Thomas Brian Well.
His uncle built a house in Hopkinsville in eighteen thirty
eight on Seventeenth Street in Maine, a really nice big house.
Well he passed away, well he left it to his name, nephew,

(55:01):
Thomas Sharp Knight. So Thomas moved into that house. He
got married to a lady from North Carolina, to a
girl from North Carolina when they were pretty young, and
they had so much money. This family, this is this
just tells you how much money to have. And and
I think this is true. Having found I think I
found a I'm trying to remember. I think I found
a newspaper arcle that actually says this. He did not

(55:24):
like that the house was facing Main Street, so he
paid to have the house picked up and turned to
face seventeenth Street. Really yeah, yeah, that's how this family was.
So there's all kinds of like crazy stories with them.
And the more that I uncover, the more characters that
kind of are so Charlie Knight. He went to Bethel

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College in West Virginia, and he became best friends with
a man named John Harding and John Harding would ultimately
go on to marry his sister Carrie, and they had
three kids before she died at twenty five of tuberculosis.
John Harding is the reason in Nashville we have Harding
Pike and all that. He helped found Lipscomb College. He

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also was a very prominent member of what is the
modern day Church of Christ. He was an evangelist preacher.
And when Charlie came back from college, John came with
him and lived in the Nighthouse for quite a time,
and I guess that's when he fell in love with
Carry and was courting her, and they got married and
they moved out on their own. Unfortunately, they had three

(56:31):
kids and she died at twenty five. Well, then that's
when he moved to Nashville and helped found Lipscomb College
with a friend of his and stayed in Nashville the
rest of his life and had got remarried and had
I think four more kids, and his son Benjamin Benjamin
Harding founded the orphanage in Columbia, which is one of

(56:54):
the biggest, one of the first big professional orphanages in
Middle Tenancy in Colombia, and he ran it for thirty
years until he died.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
So they're a very prominent family around Nashville. But that's
why you have Harding Pike because of that family, and
so the other kids did other things as well. Did
he live in Beilby Mansion? I didn't know that, Pat,
That's cool. Yeah, I know that. I know Adalicia what
was her last name? She was part of Belmont and

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Bill Belmont stuff. But yeah, like the Carton that, like
the mcgavick's were all intertwined with with Belle Mead Mansion
and with the Belmont Mansion and all these major families.
You hear about the magavick's own Carton Plantation. They built
Carton Plantation of Franklin. Now that's cool. I need to
I haven't dove into his history a whole lot other

(57:47):
than what I just told you, But that's cool. Yeah,
that he lives at belm Mentioned. But yeah, a major,
major family in Nashville, one of the family families in
Nashville with all that stuff. So Charlie when he gets
older in eighteen eighty three, so two about a mile
and a half from the nighthouse in Hawkinsville, there is

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the Western State. It used to be called Western State,
Lunatic Asylum, and it was built in the eighteen forties
and then it burnt. The original structure burned down. They
rebuilt this massive Greek Revival brick structure that still stands
today and it is still in use as a mental
hospital now. It's called Western State Hospital. Kentucky only has
two state mental hospitals. This is one of them. It

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is massive. In its heyday, it was on about six
hundred acres and it had eighty something buildings, and they
had a poor farm and everything. From what I understand now,
a big chunk of the property right before you get
to it actually at the end of our street, at
the end of seventh where it runs into what is
now the highway that goes out to Russellville and Elton.

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They have a huge golf course, this Western Hills Golf Course.
But Charlie Knight in eighteen eighty three, he was an attorney,
but he did never really practice. He becomes the president
of the board for Western State Lunatic Asylum and he
serves as their president until nineteen oh six, when nineteen
oh six there was this big speak scandal in the

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newspapers that I found that goes over the course of
a year. There's multiple articles him and three of the
commissioners that were on the board, the other commissioners trying
to push them out. I don't know how many commissioners
were on this board, but they were trying to push
them out, basically saying Charlie Knight was corrupt and some
of these other commissioners, and that he had served long

(59:37):
enough from eighteen eighty three to nineteen to six as
the president, he was running the hospital on the ground
there all of this rhetoric. Well, what ends up happening
is the three commissioners double crossed him that were on
the chopping block with him, went behind his back and
made a deal, and he was the only one that
was kicked off of the board.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Yeah, So he ends up just basically becoming a hermit
farmer from what the rest of the stories are about him.
Along with his sister Ida, I believe that she had
some some some kind of physical deformity. I think that's
why she never married. She always looked at home. Not

(01:00:18):
I've never heard anything about her face or anything like that,
but but I think she had some problems with her
legs or something. But the stories about her is that
she was definitely a hermit, and in the twenties and
thirties she would ride. Even earlier in the early nineteen hundreds,
when just her and Charlie and Thomas lived at the Nighthouse,
she would ride around with dress on, all formal dress,

(01:00:40):
you know, with a shotgun side, sat on a horse
and run around and patrol the fence line of their
property keep people off their property. Really yeah, and I
don't I haven't found how much acres they owned after
their mom died, if their dad died. So JB. Knight
died in eighteen eighty. His wife outlived him another nine years.

(01:01:02):
Eliza did and she lived until eighteen. He died in
eighteen eighty. She died in eighteen eighty nine, and then
it was just Charlie and Ida in the house. And
then when Thomas Sharp Knight, the youngest son, when his
wife died. They never had any kids. His wife died
and I haven't found out how she died. He moved

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back into the Nighthouse and sold the house that he
had turned on seventeen to main and that house burnt
down in twenty fourteen, unfortunately, so it's not there anymore.
The Knights and the Brians were the Brian so Jbi Knight.
He married a prominent family into a prominent family too.
The Brian's were rich and very well off. They built

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a house that is still standing called Lon Oak. It's
actually for so right now. And we've met mister Corsey.
Mister Corsey is a he's a historian as well, and
he's eighty years old. Great guy. You would think that
he was. Could run circles around me, has so much energy.
The man is amazing at his aide but in Sharper's attack.

(01:02:06):
But we met him and he owns Lonoak and he's
completely redone Lon Oak. Lonak was built in eighteen thirty
five by Eliza Knight's sister and her husband. They were
the Crocketts. And then her brother Excuse built the house
on seventeenth the main and then there's a building downtown
that they had their hands in building as well. And

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so that is one reason why the Knights kind of
settled in in Hopkinsville. So, so the front porch, the
story's going on on and I can talk for hours,
all right, Patsy later thanks tune in body the front porridge.
So the front Porridge for many years did not have

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a staircase, and there's there's a couple of focal ares
around again. One of the Knight families suposedly fell down
the staircase and it almost killed them, and they apparently
had a problems with their legs the rest of their lives.
That's why I think maybe Ida may have done this. Well.

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It pissed off the brothers who went out and tore
the staircase off the front porch and they never built
one back. The Knights didn't. This is the story because
the well when the Rogers family moved in, there was
no staircase on the front. It was just the porch,
the porch that you see it now. The other story

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is that the mom and one of the daughters came
in from riding horses and as they were going up
the front steps, the daughter fell down the steps and
almost killed her. And I think that story may be true,
and that may be why Ida. She was a teenager
at the time when it happened, and that may be
why she never married, because it messed up her back
or something and she had to walk with it, you

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know what I'm saying. She had some kind of something
wrong with her, and it was weird back then. Because
they wouldn't have got married. Nobody would have married her,
you know what I'm saying. That would have been hard
for her husband, even even as rich and prominent thatware. Yeah.
So anyway, whatever the story is, the staircase was, there
was no stairs there. I do know that the front

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porch was built by JB. Knight before he owned the house,
because you get built in the federal style, very boxy.
All that would have had coming out of the front
front door was basically steps going down to the ground.
There would have been no big porch like there is
now on the front. Actually in the documents I have,
I have a little contract from a contractor that he

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paid one hundred and ten dollars including materials to build
that front porch. Wow, with the columns and things. How
it is nowadays. The stairs as you see them now,
they're they're concrete on the side with reebarningmen. Those were
put in by Missus Rogers in the seventies. She was

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driving down to Hopkinsville and saw these old steps that
were granite blocks sitting on a vacant lot which used
to be the hotel Latham that burned down. Put it
sitting on this vacant lot. They were doing something to
that lot. She stopped and to ask and she buy them.
They sold them to her. This was a church that
was an old, old church that had burnt or something

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that say, they tore it down. So these are the
original steps, and so she had the concrete pourd and
stuff and put these granite steps in what is the
front porch. Now, we had to build the handrail that
you see now, and then we found two extra ones
in the woods behind the house that we actually put
on the side portico where the big giant two story
columns are so you can step down off of it

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out into the yard instead of having to go down
the walkway or to step off like a big step.
There's another interesting feature of the house that there are
stories about, and that is the death door.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
I was wondering when you're going to bring this up. Yeah,
I was waiting for it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Because of the way the house is built. The parlor,
the fancy parlor where they would have had all the wakes,
it's on the second level. It's on the second story
of the house because the house is built so they
wouldn't have had wakes in the parlor like normal rich
people like normal houses because they couldn't get the caskets
up and down and whatever, so they did them in

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the formal dining room. Well, they put in a death
door that we don't use. It's actually blocked by a
butler's pantry, which is a little cabinet that hold stuff.
But anyway, old term for an old piece fronture. It
has a transom above it, so it has the windows
above the door, and it's a fully functional door and
it comes out right beside the two the double set

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of doors that you go into the house on the
ground floor from the side portico of the big columns.
So surrounding the death door. There's two different beliefs. The
first one is that the death door was there. No
living person could enter or exit the death door with
they had awake, but the door stayed open in twenty
four to seven until the wake was over, and it

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was only for the dead to leave the house.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
The second belief was that the living could not enter
through that door, but they could exit through the door,
and when they exit through the door, it would make
sure that the spirit of the deceased did not follow them.
So depending on what I don't know whether the Knight
family believes. And I don't know when that door was

(01:07:29):
put in, because that dining room was an addition onto
the house, and I don't know when.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
In addition to that, I think too talking about death
doors and all that kind of stuff, when they actually
removed a body from the home, they took them out
feet first so they could not look, yeah, and come

(01:07:57):
back into the property.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
A lot of those beliefs were Victorian. So you're looking
at eighteen eighties up until the early nineteen hundreds of
nineteen tens, until with the whole spiritualist movement with the Victorians. Yeah,
a lot of that stuff come about. Then another thing
with the Victorians that came about was covering mirrors up, Yeah,
because they believed that it could trap the soul or
whatever trap the spirit in the house. So they would
cover all the mirrors in the house or turning them backwards.

(01:08:23):
And so there's a lot of peraent. Investigators described to
some of those things, even though they came from the
Spiritualist movement, which was a big crock, a lot of
fakery and you know that type of stuff. But so
onto the tunnels I mentioned them. Yeah, so we have
at the end of the driveway. There's two there's two sheds.

(01:08:43):
One is a little red shed and the other one
was this white monstrosity that we're gonna we gotta fix
both of them. But anyway, the floor in the in
the red shed has fallen through, and there's another cellar.
Even though in the house there's a cellar, you go
down from the basement, there's a cellar that's underground and
you have a full baseman as well. This is the
outside cellar that I've been down into. That is stack

(01:09:06):
stone by hand. That is I was told by by
PD Rogers, who was the oldest Rogers son that grew
up there, that before the floor caved in and it
filled at the bottom foot of a mud that they
actually kept horses down there and used as a horse tall.
And he said a grown man six foot talker walk

(01:09:27):
in there without hitting his head on the floor. So
now there's probably there's got to be at least two
foot of mud that's just run off the driveway and
stuff into there over the years. But there's one stone
that sticks out, and I put pictures up and all
the rest of them are stacked, and they're all they're
huge stones. They wage a one hundred punds of feet
some of them, but they're all very rectangle and long, right,

(01:09:50):
they're longer than they are tall, and that's how they're stacked.
This one stone is completely square, hube looking, and it's
like a face stone. And from where we have been
told one of the tunnels runs, that stone is exactly
where it would because it supposedly ran from the summer

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kitchen or the basement for both out to that cellar
and then the other tunnel. I was actually talking to
the Yeah, Richard, Yeah, that's awesome. The other tunnel. I

(01:10:32):
was talking to the next door neighbor on the other side,
and I asked him what the sinkhole was and he's like,
that was a slave hole. I said, what do you mean.
He's like, oh, there's a tunnel that went from the
house all the way across and come out in the
woods on the other side of the road. Well, we
got to looking and there's two giant sinkholes down there

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that are at least ten feet across both of them,
and they're in line with each other and the house,
and then there's other smaller sinkholes that are in line
with them. That would make sense that it's a tunnel
caving in slowly. The other thing is Kentucky is full
of caves. Yep, Western Kentucky not as much. We're hopkins

(01:11:17):
will kind of sits on bedrock. Everywhere that we dig
we hit sandstone. And Peter Rogers told me that when
they dug the pool. I'm not gonna tell that story
on here. It's a long story. But anyway, whenever they
dug the end ground pool that is now filled in
with dirt by the previous owner we bought it from,
they actually three foot down hit sandstone bedrock, and so
they had to come in and mound dirt up and

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compact it so they could dig the pool six foot deep.
And so now the pool area sits on a mound,
when when that area of the yard used to be
flat like the rest of it, kind of slightly downhill
but flat. So so I don't know if this would
be caves, you know what I'm saying, And it could
be a sandstone or running away with water and things

(01:12:01):
because the water cars outsandstone. Anyway, my good buddy Billy
Werkson from the Old Sun Jail in frank Kentucky and
the Simscuting Stork Society, he is the director of their
museum that is cross street from the jail, been there
many times, investigated, they have done lots of events, goes
under events there. But for the Storre Society he does

(01:12:22):
ground penetrating radar and he's been educated in it and
for a donation to the Storicaciety of Simskinning of Stork Society.
He will come out with a GPR and see if
there's any tunnels because the GPR sends sound ways down
on the ground and he can tell if it's been disturbed.
But he goes out and finds missing graves things like that,

(01:12:44):
also the Knight's graves. There is not a family cemetery
on that property because JB. Knight bought and sold property
too much and also with them being a prominent family
just living right inside of town inside the city limits.
When he died in eighteen eighty, they're buried in the
Riverside Cemetery with all the other prominent families, including Eggar

(01:13:04):
Casey if you know hegar Casey is but he is
from Hawkinsville and his family is still a prominent family
in Hopbinsville. Casey's but the Knight family, there are six
of them at least buried there that are in the
cemetery book, so they know exactly where their graves are.
They have no headstones, but because the graves are so old,

(01:13:25):
if they had like a flat headstone, it could have
sank into that. So I'm gonna have Billy go out
there whenever we have them out to see if he
can find the headstones, because that's another thing he does
with the GPR. If they're there, we'll dig the original
ones up, you know, and fill the holes in and
put them back up. If not. One of the things
when I ask the community to help with is us

(01:13:45):
to get one big headstone with all their names on
it to commemorate them because they were a huge family
with buying and selling property and things like that in
Hopbinsville and owning so much stuff in Hopkinsville.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
I can't I can't eight until you have the guy
out to do the ground penetrating radar. I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to that too. It's just right now,
it's just having an extra money to grow towards that.
So that'll that'll come. Hopefully, it'll it'll be in the
next couple of months. Because we're both me and Roger
both are excited about it. Also, we're still exploring the property.
We got another probably eightcre and a half that's not
even cleared. It's so much over burdening brush and things

(01:14:29):
cleared up, and we're not going to clear out all
the trees. We don't want that. We just want to
clear the underbrush where we get back there and see
where the outbuildings were. I know the neighbor on the
one side has harvested stones that were definitely part of
Stackstone foundations really from some of the outbuildings. Yeah, I'm
going to ask for those back.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
Yeah, so I know there's plenty of them back there,
and I've seen evidence of where somewhere, and when you
walk back through there you sell kinds of stones just
sticking out the around. So but yeah, we still have
a lot more to discover and to investigate. One of
the coolest things that we're we're fixed to put back
in the house very soon is the doorknobs that you found.
Anybody that saw the pictures of those, that's an interesting history.

(01:15:15):
Those are probably putting the house in eighteen sixties, I
would say, just from my research on the plate to
the brass plates and the doorknobs themselves. A gentleman in Bennington,
Vermont invented those and they're actually made out of clay.
They actually made our clay. They looked like wood, and
he invented the process to make them, and that's why
they're called Bennington clay doorknobs. And that was eighteen forty nine.

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The plates were designed by one person and his last
name was Foster, and he was a famous architect and
writer back in the eighteen sixties, eighteen seventies, eighteen eighties.
He died in the eighteen nineties, and he designed those.
That's how kind of dated them. They were probably putting
the house when the Knights bought it. I would imagine

(01:16:00):
as they kind of up the house's opulence. I would say.
We also found some of what they call mortise locks.
And ifybody knows what a mortise tendon joint is. You
have the square, you have the rectangle peg that goes
into the hole. Well, that's how this lock works, is
that has a rectangle lock that comes out and you

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would have a separate plate on the trim itself, so
it'ld have been an external lock. Is not buried in
the door because they didn't have they weren't gonna hand
carve out to put the lock in there. So those
are very old tube we're gonna put them even for looks.
We're gonna put the locks back on the doors. The
door handles still function, so because there's still a lot
of the there's still a lot of the old mechanisms
in the doors in the house anyway, and so we

(01:16:43):
can just trade out those door handles. So that's part
of the history that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
And you just found those found.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
They were hidden in the basement in a box, like
behind some other junk that I would have just thrown away.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
There's no telling what else you're gonna find.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Yeah. Yeah, And out in the outbuilding that has the uh,
the other cellar just laying on top of the mud. Yeah.
I found some cool things. I found two pieces of wood.
One is a it's probably about a foot long. Oh yeah,
but it's a bobbin from a spinning wheel and it

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has a bunch of grooves in it. And when I
researched it, it probably was used to make lace because
they would have had so many, so many threads on
there to wave the lace into the flowers and things
like that. For doileys and things and curtains, and so
it would have had different that many grooves. Hey, Wendy,

(01:17:40):
how's it going. Yeah, I can't wait for you to
come see the house either. I want everybody to see
the house. And then I found what I think is
a fennial off a spinning wheel. So this would have
just been a decorative piece kind of like the top
of a bedpost. This decorative, but it's not big enough
to be a bedpost, and it looks like some of
the spinning wheels oft looked up that it would have

(01:18:00):
been the end piece for like the support stanchions. So
that was just laying on top of the mud. So
whenever we dig that out, yeah, I mean I'll get
there in a second. That was not on the wall
on the Yeah, So whenever we dig the mud out
of that cellar, we're going to screen all of it
like our gallagists do and see what we can find.

(01:18:23):
That's the same thing that we did and found all
that china and pottery stuff in the summer kitchen, derrek
in the floor. So we have a also found a
two foot long spike that is square. It's hand wrought iron,
So that means somebody took a hammer and a piece
of iron and hammered this thing out. It was actually

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in the wall of the summer kitchen, and it would
have been used where two big giant timbers come in
the corner of the structure. It would it was two
foot long because it would have gone through both of
those and their timbers would have been Like the size
of the timbers are the size of like railroad ties almost.
I mean they're huge, They're massive, like six by six
is something like that. So spike is cool. Also, I

(01:19:07):
pulled a board out of that cellar that has hand
rod square nails in it. Yeah, so that building has
been there for a long time, least the flour has so.
But yeah, we just keep finding stuff and like I
keep telling Rogers, it's our own Oak Island. It's a
big mystery trying to find out and the fact that,

(01:19:30):
like so there's not any furniture in the house that's
original to the Knight family unfortunately, or any family older
than that. There's a lot of stuff left over from
the Rogers, which is cool. We have a piano from them,
a bolving acrosonic piano from the forties fifties that still works.
It just needs tuned and it's a beautiful piano. And
we have the candypy bed. We have a couple of
other beds that are their kids' beds, a couple of

(01:19:51):
other twin duds, We have a some other dressers and
things that were theirs. And but yeah, the Knight family,
whenever Thomas Knight died the youngest son in eighteen forty one,
the house went to their oldest grandchild, which was Carrie's

(01:20:14):
son Leon Knight Harding. Well, he died in nineteen forty
two at a young age. So when he died, I
don't know if none of the rest of the family
wanted the house because it should have diverted to another grandchild,
but most of their kids didn't have kids, so there
wasn't a lot of grandchildren to choose from anyway. So anyway,

(01:20:38):
everything in the house went up for auction, every piece
of furniture. The Knights owned everything, and mister Turner said
newspaper articles which hadn't found yet. I don't know if
he gave me copy anyway, news there's a newspaper article
from then that people came from hundreds of miles around
because they knew the Nights and their reputation they had,
they had really nice stuff, and so all of it

(01:21:00):
was piecemealed and sold off piecemeal, and the house was
sold in the auction too, like I said, to the
Major's family, who then sold it to the Rogers a
few years later. There's one piece of known furniture from
the Knight family, and it is a wash table that
has a marble top. I have seen it. It's at
the Christian County Story Society in Hopkinsville. A few years ago.

(01:21:23):
A lady from Vermont who traced her lineage to this
Knight family called them out of the blue and said,
I have an original piece of furniture. I can show
you the provenance if you want to see where this
was did come from my family and told them that
she would donate it if they would just pay for
the shipping cost.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
I think that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
And so she shipped it to them and they saw
the provenance and they saw her ancestry that she had
traced back to. So that's the only known piece of
Knight family furniture that we know of so far. But
also at the same time, you got to understand the
assets who we bought the house from. They didn't put
the history and stuff out there like we are. They
weren't going on podcasts like I am going to have

(01:22:06):
them own, you know, live streams talking about the history
and about the house. And the reason that I'm doing
it is because I'm not from Hopkinsville. Neither's Roger. We
buy this old house in Hopkinsville. That's the oldest house
in Hopkinsville and Christian County, Kentucky. It is the fifteenth
I think it's the fifteenth oldest house in Kentucky. But

(01:22:31):
the history belongs to the people of Hopkinsville. It's their history,
the families that have been there for years, and the
people that are born there and raised there. And so
that's why I want to share it with the public
as well and have the open house days where the
public can come in and take a free tour. I
don't want to charge anything. This is your history, not mine. Yeah,
I own the house, but also I think these people
deserve their history be told, not just the Knights, but

(01:22:51):
also the Rogers. Rogers were a prominent family as well.
They The crazy thing is they were a family of
attorneys as well. So, oh, Austin, thanks for two to anybody,
have a good night, love you too, man. The Rogers
were attorneys as well, and P. D. Rogers, the oldest son,

(01:23:12):
ended up becoming an attorney, and he ended up becoming
the Commonwealth Attorney, which in Kentucky is the equivalent to
of Attorney General of the state. His grandfather kind of
started that all out. He when he was young, he
opened a huge it would have been the super walmart
of their day, basically Guthrie, Kentucky, because it was a
hardware store in general store all in one where you

(01:23:34):
could buy groceries and you could buy vegetables and all
that stuff all together in this huge store. And they
had a bunch of staff too, And so him and
his brother opened the store. Was a huge success. And
he went to medical school at Vanderbilt in Nashville and
to Louisville University of there and then he went to
another for his studies. But he became an MD, became

(01:23:55):
a doctor. Well, he only practiced medicine for two years.
Decided that's not what he wanted to do. Kennick Ketsey
patients seemed like people that much not to take care
of him like that. So he became a politician and
he worked his way all the way up to the
speaker of the House of Kentucky's House. Yeah, House representatives,
and he was a career politician. And W Rogers, Yeah,

(01:24:18):
he was a big, big figure in Kentucky history. And
I want to say that he died in the nineteen forties,
nineteen forties or fifties. But yeah, So they're a prominent
family too. Of the Rodgers, and PD, I think is
the only one that's still living. His younger brother, Like
I said, Terry, who last lived in the house. Terry

(01:24:39):
moved in the house when their mom passed away, because
their dad passed away before her. When she passed away
in the nineties. I believe it was the nineties, Terry,
the younger son, moved in because PD already had kind
of a career in a big house. The house next
door to us was actually Terry Rogers house, and it
was built for him by his parents at some point
in time. I guess when he got married and had
kids or he I don't know if his parents built

(01:25:02):
a form. He built it right next to his parents house,
right next to the nighthouse, and so that property was
his and then they sold that off whenever he moved
into the Nighthouse. And then he died in twenty fourteen.
He pass away in twenty fourteen, and then his kids,
like I said, sold the house and sold everything in it,
everything they could sell. We still have an addict full
of things that belonged to the Rogers family. Then we

(01:25:25):
just haven't but then we get to yet next weekend.
This is another thing with the Nighthouse. I need about
eight to ten people two and if you're interested, just
message me on Facebook or if you have a phone number,
all at me. I need eight to ten volunteers, a
lot of people wanting to come help with the house,

(01:25:46):
asking them how they can help. We're getting dumpster. The
previous owners left a bunch of junk around and we
have a bunch of stuff from remodeling the house to
all the stuff we've done, and it all needs going
to dumpster. So we're gonna have a dumpstion next weekend.
So next Saturday, if you're not doing anything, you want
to come up to the Nighthouse, holler at me because
I only need eight to ten people. I don't want

(01:26:06):
just everybody showing up, but if I give you the
go ahead to come up and help out, then please do.
We would love to have it. And it's only gonna
be a couple hours of work, and I can't promise
you anything. You can't feed you or anything. But I'll
give you a free tour of the house and you
get to see the house for anybody else and give
you a history lesson. But you can actually see all
the stuff I talked about tonight, and there's a whole

(01:26:27):
lot more too, and you can actually see the letters
in person and all that stuff. So, yeah, the house.
We want to do a lot of stuff at the house.
I want to do lots of different events, not just
the paranormal overnight stuff. I wanted to be for everybody.
I'd like to do some murder mystery and that would
be one in there. Set it up in the parlor,
and let the house be one of the characters. You know.

(01:26:49):
I like to do some of that stuff. Pat Fits,
you actually brought this idea to me, and I thought
it was a great idea. But you have some authors
in there, paranormal authors come and give you know, presentations
and have book signings and things like that, and I'd
love to have you as well.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Twist my arm right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Eventually, we want it to be a wedding and event venue.
So we're going to put a parking lot in. We
already know where it's going. It's gonna be a gravel
parking lot. And in the next few years we will
put in an event barn, event building, two story building
type thing to have events and weddings and things like
that in. But I want to do but I want

(01:27:32):
to do car shows and stuff. I want the car
I want all the old cars to park out on
the front lawn because it's big enough, you know, and
do stuff like that. Also, there's there they do a
thing every year for the Hopkinsville Goblin. If y'all have
never heard of the hopkins Will Goblin, go check it out.
Kelly hopkins Will Goblin. It's where these little green men

(01:27:52):
back in the forties visited this Kelly family on the
outskirtch of Hopkinsville, and they held them at bay by
shooting the The family was shooting at these little green things.
The kids spotted them first, and earlier in the day
they actually saw a flying saucers. The whole family saw it.
And it wasn't just the mom, dad and the kids.

(01:28:12):
They had like the aunts and uncles that lived in
the same area. They all hunger down in one house
they have the kids like hid under the bed. But
they were fighting off these little green beings for like
five hours before one of them snuck away and went
to the sheriff's office and the sheriff said that he
couldn't say that they're lying, and they also had no
reason alive. So what they were shooting at. Nobody knows

(01:28:33):
what they do, but they do Little Green Men Days
in Hopkinsville, so I think it'd be cool to get
in on that. And then also for Halloween, I want
to dress the house up in the older decorations like
Victorian style and that's like stuff, and do some trigger
treating stuff and maybe maybe a trunk or treat, you

(01:28:55):
know what I'm say where we're gonna have two different
people set up and just all the kids can just
come and get a lot of candy and whatever. And
then also for Christmas, the Stork Society they do a
parade of homes of all the old homes in Hopkinsville
and they all decorate really nicely for Christmas with the
old wreaths and bows and things like that, and they

(01:29:16):
start in the afternoon going to each house and they
have like refreshments, like you know, appetizers, type stuff, and
then they end the night at one particular house, a
different one every year, where they actually have a catered
dinner at this.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
Yeah, and it's people like the mayor and some of
the city council members and people like that. And I
think the general public they have tickets for as well.
Some of the tickets you don't have so many people,
you know, And so they have already asked if we'd
be part of that, so and I said, I would
love to. If the house is ready to go, we'll
do it for sure. That's amazing because I love I
love Christmas, and that's actually Christmas is my birthday too.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
So yeah, you're a little la.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
So lots of ideas the house, like I said, not
just the paranormal stuff, honoring the history in any way
that we can, and just using the house to have
fun and people to enjoy the house for what it is.
And and I think it would be awesome as well
for even like the schools to come out on field
trip or something, you know, once we have the property

(01:30:16):
to that level of a parking lot and picnic areas
and things like that, I think it would be cool
to come out and learn the history and once I
definitely have all the history down and talk to the
kids about that stuff. So that's that's kind of the
main plan. That's that's kind of the five year plan
is within the next five years to get it to
that level of all of those different things. A lot

(01:30:37):
of the stuff I want to I want to have
happened soon, like public ghost hunts where we'll sell taking
a twenty dollars piece for twenty people to come in,
you know. And and I'm not trying to make I'm
not getting rich off of this house or anything of that.
I'm not trying to. We just wanted to the house
to pay for itself, like you know, bills and upkeep,

(01:30:58):
but also for us to make enough money to continue
to add to the house and the grounds. Like I said,
with the wedding venue or an event, then you but
today I want to do the wedding venue and event
ven you. It's completely different. It's not gonna be five
to ten grand to have a wedding there. It's gonna
be based on how many people you invite. So if
you're only gonna have ten people there, hey, I may
just charge you five hundred bucks. You know what I'm saying.

(01:31:19):
Whatever the price here is. Now, if you want to
have a hundred people there, it's probably gonna cost five
six grand just set up and all that stuff. But
I want it to be an affordable place where anybody
can get married and take pictures in a nice big house,
old house like that, you know, with the big columns
out front and other things like that. The grounds are
beautiful once we get them all cleaned up. Also looking

(01:31:41):
at having photographers use the house as a backdrop for models,
so we're gonna have I'm actually teaming up with my
friend Tilla, who's been a photographer thirty years one Wing Photography.
She's taking some beautiful pictures of the house that I
put up a team that with her and probably some
models to take some pictures and get some other photographers
to come in. But yeah, I do all ever kind
of stuff in and get the house out there. And

(01:32:04):
like I said, I don't I don't even necessarily want
it to be known as a paranormal house. I want
the history to be known as well as the paranormal.
Eighty percent of what we do, if not more, is
the history. It's not even the parent. We use the
paranormal as a way to connect to talk to those
people that we've studied, that we've heard about, that we've researched.
That's what I'm excited about. I want to talk to

(01:32:24):
the Knights. I want to talk to the rogers like
I want to hear from them when I ask a question.
I want their answer exactly what we believe is their
answer on EVP or whatever. You know. So anyway, I've
been talking for an hour and a half, I'm starting
to go horse, you haven't got much merchant ed edgewise.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
It's okay, this has been fascinating, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
I don't want to share the house with everybody. I
want everybody to enjoy it. So and do like I said,
do public days and even do some maybe some cookouts
and things for friends and family. And since we have
such a big place to share, yeah, any pupils we want,
you know. And so so that's what's going on with
the Nighthouse and kind of the rundown. I'm going to

(01:33:08):
post this on the website, so if people want the
deep down history as far as I know it now,
then they can have it. There's a lot more stories
than I could talk for the next two hours about
every house and the people in it, you know, and
things like that. So that's the biggest part about I've
given several tours already, and I've given some private tours.
I've had people message me and I'm like, come on out,

(01:33:29):
I'll give you private tooris find and some kind of
I've done that to kind of hone my tour guide skills.
So it's kind of picking the interesting things that are
entertaining but also informative and teaching people but not giving
too much information. So there's a fine line there of

(01:33:49):
keeping audiens captive and then also known enough of the
history be able to answer any questions they have, you know,
and tell them if not they I've had people bring
up questions of things I haven't thought about. I'm like, oh,
I need to get research that, like you know, like
what just different questions that people have asked that I've
just not known the answer to, and like, oh, other
people ask the same question, so I need to go

(01:34:09):
find the answer. Yeah yeah, so but yeah, so uh,
of course we have spooky season coming up not too
much longer. You got about a month and everybody out
there we consider spooky season September first through the second
week of November at least so because we have so

(01:34:30):
many conventions and stuff at this time, you know, starting
in September and stuff. So I know that we have
for me October twelfth will be the Fairbue. I'm on
the board of the fav Y Arts Council that no
little town that I live in, and they do a
comic cont every year. Last year was it was huge
mean that we had it had it on the hottest

(01:34:51):
day of the year. It was one hundred and eight
degrees that is not that's not that feels like to
which it was actually one hundred eight degrees.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
Oh wow.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
We actually had a lot of people come out and costing.
We have it at do we Pature Park out here.
This would have been in October twelfth, so hopefully it's
cooler and we'll have a bunch of speakers and things
talking about paranormal I've got some exciting guests I'm trying
to get to come out to be speakers that the
town will probably flip over, but we have a good
turnout inside the Booming Nature Park, which is a very

(01:35:19):
cool park. We're very fortunate to have that park. So
I have that coming up October twelfth. I'm not really
doing the convention circuit this year like I did years.
What do you have going once? I've talked for so long.

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
I have you're going to be Let me just give
you my rundown from now until October. So I've got Sunday.
I'm going to be on two different podcasts coming out
on the twenty eighth. The first one is Beyond six
Feet with Damien. The next one is the Pure Normal

(01:35:54):
Newfoundland Labrador with Jin.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
Yeah, she's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
I love her. So it'll be my second time on hers.
And then on August first Southern Fried podcast with Lynn.
So that's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
I just booked with Southern Fried as well.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
Dig Digit Yeah, he was looking for some guests. So
and then on the seventeenth, you didn't well you did
mention this, but oh, I'm going to get to go
on the public Hunt. Greg's going with me, and I'm
trying to get my co founder Sean to go up there.
Hopefully he will too.

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
I can from that, and also blinked on Thomas House.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
I know I don't mention that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
Yeah, let me mention those two things and then we'll
get back to you because I know you're ready to come.
So August seventeenth, I will be a guest investigator at
the bell Witch Cave for panorm Investigation thanks to Black
Wolf Paranormal, Lee, Liam and Todd ask you they're awesome.
They're black Wolf Paranormal. They did run the investigations at
the bell Witch Cave and Adams, Tennessee. I know most

(01:36:58):
of y'all. Pat Fitzi, who was in here earlier, is
one of the experts on the bell which legend. He's
written I think four books. He's researched for forty years.
That's how I'm met Pat. That's a great guy. Very
fascinating speaker too when he talks on the subject. And
so anyway, be a guest investigator. You can go buy
tickets now. I have the link up. I've shared it

(01:37:20):
on my pages. I'll be guess inveiscator along with Lee
and Regina Lee from X four Parndem want my buddy
Love Lena Dunst he's like my brother, and then me
and him have known each other from ambulance days. And
then Regina from PBF Investigations who love her to death too.
We're the three of us are the ones that put
on the expo. Tency Awnestin legend expert last year. And
then on August thirtieth, No, it is the last August

(01:37:43):
have thirty one days thirty yes, thirty one, So August thirtieth,
in the September first, which is a Friday and Saturday,
we are doing a public ghost at Thomas House and
Rebel in Springs, Tennessee. And tickets there are a hundred bucks.
But you get a room for the night with your
own back room. They all have their own bathrooms. It's
a bed and breakfast. It's huge. They have forty something rooms.

(01:38:06):
You get a buffet style dinner before we investigate. Then
we get up and give you our spiel and answer questions,
and then you get breakfast the next morning, buffet style
the next morning for a hundred bucks person so, and
then you can investigate all night, and you can go
to bed whenever you want. Don't. We don't tell you
when you can. You can't go to bed. You can
investigate in your pajamas if you want. We don't care.
Just be comfortable. I walk around barefoot so because I'm

(01:38:26):
one of those people that loves to be barefoot anyway
all the time, but I can't. I hate shoes, hate
them especially shoes with laces. I don't know. It's a
it's an ad D thing. It drives me up older,
I get less. I want shoes with laces. I love
that hay dudes come along anyway, ad D brain that's
going on with what elseen has?

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
I love it so yes. So the public bell Witch
Cave and farm that's going to be from seven pm
until one am. And I'm so excited because I have
even though I'm from Tennessee, I've never been up there.
So so excited.

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
And there's three locations that we investigate there. You have
the recreation of the cabin, the Bells Cabin. Yeah, the
cave itself you actually get to go into investigate and
in the dark in the cave, you know how dark
it is, darker than dark. And then also the Indian
mountains that are up on the on the top of
the cave.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
But even though the cabin is a recreation, they've actually
seen some anomalies.

Speaker 1 (01:39:24):
Yeah, they've caught a few full by the of apparitions. They're
one picture that's a full beat of apperson a man.
There's no mistake in that is not a lens flair.
It ain't nothing that is a man that is a
ghost in that damn doorway. Nice and I rarely, you know,
how I am I really say anything like definitive like that,
But that's define an apparition they caught. Whether it's intelligent
or not, I don't know, but that's definitely not a person,
a real person.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
I can't wait. I can't wait. I'm so excited about that.
Then on let's see, in September, on the twenty sixth,
I'm going to be speaking in Athens, Alabama at the library.
There's going to be I'm going to be on their
podcast at five or five thirty and then from six
until eight I along with a couple other people or

(01:40:06):
ever how many they have, are going to be doing
storytelling and so the book. So I'm so excited about
that to be asked to come down Mere And then
October fifth, Greeneyes Festival, Chickamauga, Georgia, I'm super excited about that,
and I'll have my books there and then on the twelfth,

(01:40:28):
and I hate that it's the same weekend as you're
having because I wanted to go to that. So I'm
gonna have a year. Yeah, next year I'm in Fairview.
But on the twelfth, I'll be this year in Haunted
Graves PEIRCN in Mayfield, Kentucky. Trying to get Mark's book done,

(01:40:49):
and as soon as I can get this book done,
I was going to bring out my signs book next,
but I've decided to a quicker one is going to
be Death Store, Near Death Experiences, angel views and spirit Warnings,
So I'm going to bring that out and then the

(01:41:09):
science book right after that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
So for you all, though I don't know Sin, I
should introduce you at the beginning because all these people
know me, most of them. Sin is an amazing investigator.
She is the founder of Elk Valley Paranormal in Fayetteville, Tennessee,
and an amazing author. And I was fortunate enough that
her last book, she allowed me to write the forward,
which was awesome and an honor. And she has some

(01:41:34):
amazing books that you need to go check her out
on Amazon. There on Amazon and yeah, anywhere you have
anywhere else you have. I know you do book signings
all the time, book I do.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
I do. The only other store that carries my books
is the little bookstore here in town. So I've got
to figure out other bookstores, you know, Mom and Pops
that I can put them in.

Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
So I like to do that too the Nighthouse because
I'm gonna have just a little area, yeah, like gift shop.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Oh there's my sister.

Speaker 1 (01:42:10):
She is amazing and I'm so glad that I met her.

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
And I'm glad I met you in the podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
Yeah, it's awesome. We've become really good friends. And her
husband is amazing as well. But but yeah, I want
to do a little gift shop to have like shears
and stuff on hand. So I'd love to do one
of those spinning racks you might have, like your books
and like Pats and like Alan and then people from
Kentucky as well some of their books. Yeah, and just
have a couple of copies on hand, and maybe all

(01:42:36):
of them have the author sign them, you know, so
it's something special that you get at the Nighthouse.

Speaker 2 (01:42:40):
I'd be on.

Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
Yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah, so I have to do that.
But yeah, y'all go check out cent Trader hill On
and follow her author page on Facebook please, and you
can get her books on Amazon and there if you
have Kendall.

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
If you have Kendall and subscribe to Kindle and bid,
they are free, yes I say free.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
And also in one of her books have a story
too that she printed whatever books.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
So and you've got one coming up for the science
book as well.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
Yeah, I need to write that I didn't send you
one yet, have a no, Yeah I didn't. I need
to write an.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Old or ready to put it in. I just don't
have it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
Yeah yeah, so yeah, So please go follow the Nighthouse
on Facebook. The website's been up the whole time. We
have any anybody tuning in late. We have a bunch
of merchandise and swag over there. All that money, I
promise you will go towards the house itself and us
fixing it up and keeping it up. All the money
from the paranormal investigations, that's where it's going, just to
pay bills and things like that. She's two hundred years old,

(01:43:47):
little two hudred years old, so it's it's a lot
of upkeep on on something like that. So but thank
you all off for tune in. And I also go
follow my podcast if you don't don't see paranormal podcasts
you like paranormal stuff to any of that. And also
the Nighthouse page is not about the paranormal on Facebook,
neither is the website. There is a paranormal section on
the website. But the Nighthouse page on Facebook is just

(01:44:08):
me putting in pictures of all the things that we're
doing at the house remodeling. And we've on the house.
What's up, Paul. We've on the house for three months
now and we already have almost twelve hundred followers on
that page, and so the community is being awesomely supportive.
The crazy thing is there's a lady on Facebook has

(01:44:31):
over a million followers and she's a big like I
don't know if she has been on like HGTV or what,
but she's a big renovation guru. She has over a
million followers. She shared our house wow on her website
about what we're doing and that well she had featured
the house before when it was for sale, okay, and

(01:44:52):
so when we bought it, she featured that we that
we had bought it and that somebody was actually saving
the house. I'm going to renovate it because someone could
easily bought it and tore it down. I mean, it's
on the National restI Historic Places. But unless unless you
take government grants and money, and nobody ever has for
the house, you're not beholden to that. So it's just
kind of a badge of honor. It really means nothing.

(01:45:14):
It's a badge of honor. It's cool to be on there,
and we're not changing the house the way it looks.
We would never do anything. The front porch is gonna
get redone exactly the way it is and the way
it's on the National Retro Historic Places because I find
that to be an honor. But in all actuality means nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
Yeah, but it's cool, it's really cool. Cool, you guys,
make sure to go look at all of the pictures
I have in the Night album, the Night House album
on Elk Valley Paranormal on Facebook. So just go to
my photos and look at that album. You can go
through and see all the all the furniture in there,
all the renovation that's going on everything. So take a

(01:45:54):
look at that.

Speaker 1 (01:45:55):
Yeah, and Paul, you tuned in a little bit late.
But next Friday, it will go live on on the website,
the Nighthouse website to book paranormal investigations. Next Friday, it'll
have about you'll have to call me to book, but
the calendar and stuff will be up there. You can
go look at all the rules and the price points
right now it's already live, I just haven't announced it yet.
I was gonna do that tomorrow because I'm still working

(01:46:16):
on it a little bit, the rules and all that stuff.
But I will have the calendar up there and I
actually be taking reservations starting next Friday. So I'll be
making that announcement tomorrow and start getting people in the
house and so and as soon as i can have public,
just general public come in, I'm gonna do that. As
soon as the city I gotta sit down with them
and see what they want from us and that type

(01:46:38):
of stuff. We may have to put the parking lot
in before that can happen, just so we're not I mean,
we have a huge driveway anyway, but it doesn't affect
traffic as things like that, which I understand. I mean,
I'm not saying they're they slow. They slow walked getting
the approval for luckily we had to do all the renovations.
They slow approving me for the paranormal stuff. But they've

(01:46:59):
been very nice and I'm thankful that they did approve
for us to do that without having to rezone the house. Yeah,
and they've been great. Just a little slow for my taste,
but whatever. I have ad so I don't have any
patience anyway. But but they have worked with me, and
I'm gonna go work with them more to see what
we need to do get the house rezone for weddings

(01:47:20):
and events and things and what all they're going to
expect from us and things. So and I've been watching
some of their zoning meetings and things like that to
educate myself on what they're looking for to rezone properties
and things. So that's in the in the pipework. So
the next few years is gonna be really exciting with
all the stuff that we're end up doing. Right now,
it's just putting in landscaping and making the property look
nice and keeping it mode and there's like things cutting

(01:47:41):
down old trees, cutting down branches, dead branches and things
like that, you know, and also cleaning the property off.
So yeah, I remember you saying Paul that you wanted
to wanted a book. So I think for September October,
with it being a new location, I think it's gonna
fill up quickly those weekends because I'm only doing four
nights a month right now, because like I said, I
don't want to live up there. So I thought about

(01:48:03):
adding some day investigations through the week, like if parents
wanted to bring their kids up there and be kind
of mini paranormal investigation something like that. I may add
some of that stuff for you know, cheap, just people
can come see the house and do a little paranorm
investigation and stuff. But and if you don't have any ideas,
I am open to ideas for events and things and

(01:48:24):
working with the city to see how we can make
those happen. So but hopefully also soon. Another thing I
want to do very soon is like I was talking
about with Sin is that it is to have people
like her come in and give a presentation and be
there to sign books for you to buy the hard
copies and sign them and talk to you about the books,
but also give presentation on the books and their topics

(01:48:45):
and the paranormal. But also have some history people come
into have like maybe the county historian and some other
people come in and talk about history of Hopkinsville or
of you know, Civil War, different different type of things.
So I want to use the house for lots of
different things, and that it definitely is open for possibilities,
which is awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
But two people need to understand that it is private property, yes, yes,
and you have certain hours and the calendar is going
up and you are staying there.

Speaker 1 (01:49:20):
I'll be on property when people are there. I will have.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
Some they can't go up to the house.

Speaker 1 (01:49:28):
So we're we're a private, private, lyoned. We're not a
non profit. We're not a museum. It is by appointment
only or imitation. I am not opposed that if you
message me and I have time to go up there
and give you a private tour of I would rather
it be more than just one or two people. I
mean maybe if your family, you know, through a weekday,

(01:49:49):
if your family like five or six, ten people to come,
it's free. If I had the time, I don't mind
doing that for people, because I want people to see
the house until we especially until we open it up
to the general public to just come in for free
whenever they want, well not whenever they want, but on
the days of the month that we have set aside. Right.
But I'm not opposed to anybody wanting to come into

(01:50:10):
a private tour at all. But like I said, I'd
rather do them for bigger groups since they's just one
or two people, just so it's not a I don't
know I don't want to say waste my time, because
I don't think even even individual towards is waste my time.
But I have to drive up there, especially which is
an hour and a half for me, and things like that.
You know so too.

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
I know when I came up, how many times had
you gone up and down the stairs?

Speaker 1 (01:50:34):
Oh? Yeah, yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
And then yeah? When Mark got on there for the remote,
you were like, I can't believe you just asked me
to go upstairs again.

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
There are five sets of stairs, and granted, the most
steps in any one of them is ten I think
ten or twelve. But still, I mean I wrote down
them every day that I'm up there, and because I'm
going up to the attic for something, I'm going upstairs
to the guests we or I'm going down in the
cellar and coming back up those stairs and then back

(01:51:03):
up the basement stairs. You know, my body is worn
out from when I tell people, from fifteen years on
the ambulance and twenty years of medicine, my body does
not work anymore. I feel like an eighty year old man,
and people are just like, well, you look young, and
what Yeah, I look young. I'm forty one. I look young.
I know I do, and I'm young, but my body's
warning to fuck out. My shoulders are worn out, my knees,

(01:51:25):
my back, and there's some days where I have to
lay horizontal the recliner all day because my back and
my knees don't want to work. Sometimes they want to
give out. So I'm not trying to make excuses. I'm
just telling you all this act of life. I don't
have any cartilage in my joints from lifting people for
twenty years for a living. Because on an ambulance you're
a professional people mover for the most part, and for

(01:51:45):
fifteen years of that you can't always lift properly. You
get put in positions that you can't lift properly, but
you still have to lift your patients and stuff, and
so it'll wear you out. But anyway, so yeah, hoofing
up down the stairs. My knees tend to like be
rice krispies the next day, and not not liking that,
but it is what it is. Sorry about that, and

(01:52:10):
I may I'm thinking about it. I may put certain
I may put some certain days up. Maybe one day
a week with a couple of hours blocked off.

Speaker 2 (01:52:20):
Can yeah, not more than yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:52:23):
Where people can say, hey, I want to book a
private tour history tour during the day, and because I'm
gonna be up there during the day anyway doing business
and stuff, so you know, nobody do but yeah, yeah,
just certain hours. But we've had a problem trespassers. I
had to call the police yesterday. I did. That's a
completely different story, but we've had a problem trespassers. I

(01:52:45):
had to print out a big giant sign and put
in a signholder that gets put in the middle of
the driveway because we've had people pull up. So the
driveway is really long and comes up and has a
has a a cold a stack at the end of
it the ground area where you can turn around. My
neighbors right next door have had to come out and
tell people, can I help you?

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
But you already had those signs put up that say
private property.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
I did not. Well, there's one the other day that
put up in the driveway and I didn't have to
sign out in the middle of the driveway, but I
did not have the signs up just yet. And apparently
these were paranlel investigators.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
The ones that you had when we came up.

Speaker 1 (01:53:18):
Though, yeah, I had bought those small ones, and then
I printed the big giant one to put in the
riveway because that stopped people from even pulling on our driveway.
They might pull in and turn around, but they can't
get past the sign without moving it. And if they do,
I have them on camera. So the property has cameras
all around it, all around the house. There's lighting, there's
landscape lighting at night, so it's all lit up. The
neighbor next door, both neighbors on both sides are not

(01:53:41):
going to put up with people coming online property, and yeah,
I'm not either, but please be respectful. It's not it's
not a it's not a public place. It's a private residence.
And you know, we're opening you up to people because
we want to share the house of people in the history.
And we don't have to do that any way, shape

(01:54:04):
or form. And it would never be it would never
be a nonprofit because as a nonprofit, the nonprofit ends
up owning the house for the most part, and you
have to have a board and all that stuff, and
so you can end up losing your own property to
a nonprofit. So Beverly Hills went through that and almost, Yeah,
not worth it. So to always be for profit business,
but the money goes to a good cause of keeping

(01:54:26):
up the history and things like that. I also hope
to have a museum in town, in the penny Roll
Area Museum which is I haven't been in yet, but
it looks nice from outside, and it looks like a
museum should with the big giant stone columns out front.
You know, that's how I think a museum should look.
But I want to do it, maybe do an exhibit
on the Night Family with them with the original letters
and things, because that's not something you normally get with

(01:54:47):
the old how most documentary just you know, they waste
away or they get thrown away or whatever. And to
have hundreds of them handwritten from eighteen thirties on amazing
eighteen eighties, eighteen nineties is crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:55:03):
Yeah, it's amazing and still in really good shape.

Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
Oh yeah, yeah. Whoever, there's a few that have burn
marks on them, and I don't know how that maybe,
and that may happen when the people were reading them
by candlelight, like the candle behind there, and they got
too close, and maybe that's what I'm thinking. I don't
think they're ever gonna fire or anything, because there's a
few of them that have burn holes like that. But
but yeah, I want to share those with people too.
I'm gonna have some printed out sitting around the house

(01:55:27):
that people can just actually pick up and read. I'm
gonna have some hang on the wall, and then I
will show everybody the original ones. You can't handle them
because then they're gonna fall apart, but you can actually
see flip through the booklets with the originals.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
I think, weren't you gonna also have like the doorknob
and something in a little case, so I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:55:48):
Gonna have it. I'm gonna have some cases around with
things that we found, like with the china and stuff
that we found. Yeah, some of the door knobs that
we don't use, things like that, Yeah, the spikes, then
the hand rotten nails and whatever else. I haven't I
have a metal detector, and I have not even had
time to go run the property with it to see
what I can find.

Speaker 2 (01:56:08):
We found time for anything.

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
That's been more work between the podcast and all the
other stuff. Strangely haunted from that and and all that stuff. Yeah,
so we're coming up into our Marcus. I'm gonna let
youall go. Thank y'all all so much for tuning in
and listen to me ramble on about this amazing house
that I bought but I wanted to not like I said, Yeah,
we owned the house, but I think it belongs to

(01:56:32):
people in general with the history and stuff, so I
can't wait for everybody to see it and come up
and visit. But uh yeah, So stay tuned to the website.
Also to the Night House's Facebook page, which is broadcasting
on right now as well. That's where the majority of
the updates. I do post some stuff on my own page,
but I use my own page for the paranormal stuff.

(01:56:54):
So the Nighthouse stuff, especially without the paranormal in the
historic stuff and the tours like that, that stuff we'll
we post up on there and on the Nighthouse website
because the paranormal was just one tab of that website.
I want that website to be more about the history,
you know, it's renovating and the restoration all that stuff.
So good night, sis, Since good night, everybody think you'll

(01:57:16):
for tuning in, we'll do I'll do another live stream here.
I liked at him about once a month and have
different guests on last the last two times I had
Austin on, I've had John Curly On. Now I like
to have sin on every once in a while as well,
so but yeah, I wanted just to talk about the
Nighthouse and give everybody a run down of the in
depth history. I've told people in small conversations like a rundown,

(01:57:39):
like a five or ten minute conversation, but most people
haven't had two hours for me a sentence, fiel. But
that's how I figured a Sunday night would be good.
But I didn't see. My face is a little burnt
from being out in the sun all day creating flower
beds and planting blends. So I'm gonna get some rest
and tomorrow restarts my schedule of editing. Pot Cast put

(01:58:00):
one out on Wednesday, and I've got to do all
kinds of other stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:58:03):
So and I'm thank you cookbook and.

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
My book that's gonna be fun too. Thank you so
much for coming on with menight.

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
Sin I've had the best time. Thank you for doing this.
This was good, This is really fun, and.

Speaker 1 (01:58:19):
Thank you everybody everybody for tune in. Please go follow
the Nighthouse page, and if you're into the paranormal, follow
my podcast one Paranormal podcast. Go check out since facebook page.
It's under sins writer. He'll author and check her out
on on the Kindles and read her books. Her books
are great, some awesome stories in there. And even if
you're not into the paranormal, she has signs from beyond

(01:58:41):
which is loved ones just coming back to say hi,
things like that. It's not just ghost stories and things
like that. So all right, everybody, have a good night,
stay safe out there. We'll see you next time. Thank
you for listening to the Unseen Paranormal. Join me next
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(01:59:02):
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Until next time, remember some of the scariest things for un.

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