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I can attest to the Pearl Buchanan Theater being haunted. I was in a production there, I stayed later than everyone else which meant I had to go turn off the lights in the upstairs part Keene is haunted by a student that committed suicide not too long ago. I stayed in room across from the elevators in and got a picture of his ghost one night when he passed in front of our window then shot up to the room above us and made a sandal stand on end.

As a resident assistant in i stayed in a room in case with an older man ghost that sat on my bed one night and definitely didnt like me. Clay had entire floors that were haunted. Every single door on a hall would fly open all at once. Very active building during the summer break. Guess they get bored when students are gone. Sullivan was a hospital during the civil war. Evidence of the morgue is still in the basement.

Billy Ray personally autographed large color posters to each of the female employees working here at the time - and one with a personal inscription to Paramount Joe, whom he now had a fondness for. Each lady put her poster near her desk and Joe's was hung in the box office, near all the other performers. Since there were so many of Billy Ray, she asked the women to remove their posters since they were all so similar.

Nobody wanted to take their personally autographed picture of Billy Ray down, so they took down the one he had signed to Paramount Joe. The next day, when the ladies came to work, every single 8x10 and poster that had been hanging neatly on the walls the night before were now lined strewn on the floor, many of their glass frames shattered! It was as if someone had wiped each one off the wall.

There is a picture of a young Irish woman that hangs in the 5th house on the left. If you look at the picture the eyes will glow non-stop! If you look at the picture at night and walk across the room at the same time you will see the eyes follow you across the room. This lady had 5 kids, the picture has been passed down through the generations. Financial Aid office - Many people in the Financial Aid office have witnessed doors opening, closing, locking, and unlocking.

Some have said that they have seen a woman. The office was once a house. The woman died in that house of mysterious causes. Pfeiffer Hall room - there is said to be a ghost of a student that attended Union College in the s.

His name was James Garner and he was a football and basketball player at Union. James was about 6'4 or so and weighed about Records say that he fell from his 2nd-floor window while trying to close it on a cool night.

The date of his death was have said to be on October 30, Sources say that if you go to the room around midnight and open the window, James ghost will shut it.

Many sightings have been reported. Something follows you. Its footsteps move as you do, and stop when you do, yet this unseen thing moves very fast. You can feel its sense of urgency, and the steps crunch over the ground, as if it's agitated.

When it starts this, you are standing there cringing, just certain something is going to knock you down from behind, but the steps just stop abruptly and don't start back up until you begin walking again. When you step outside of the gate, the sounds of the footsteps stop. During the Civil War the school was used as a hospital. The Morgue was in the basement. The floors and the ceilings have been said to bleed. It has been said that this room was used for holding of decomposing bodies.

They painted the basement walls white and blood-red spots bled back through. It was formerly the jail and now is a bed and breakfast. Former employees reported hearing footsteps and people crying. On clear nights during the summer, a German shepherd can be seen stomping the yard around the old house. In this small community, there is a local swimming hole called "Devil's Garden". Before it earned this name, a small group of partying teenagers was swimming one summer night.

After partying too much, one of the kids slipped and hit his head on a rock in the shallows. Not thinking straight, the other kids decided to hide the body under water, tied to a rock. The next day, the kids went to see if the night before had really happened. They arrived to find that the local authorities had already arrived and discovered the body. To their surprise, their friend had drowned and not died of the fall. They lived with their secret for over 15 years until they each started disappearing mysteriously, and the remaining two confessed and were sentenced to ten years in prison.

Now every full moon, the moon's reflection casts a skull-like image on the water's surface. Bellefonte is an Old Catholic hospital and it is said that the ghost of an old nun named Fannie haunts the hospital. There have been reports of things mysteriously falling off shelves and things making loud crashing noises, but when you go to look, nothing is there. Fannie is said to be seen most often in and around the emergency room.

Boone Tavern Hotel - Once a part of the underground rail road. The basement had several rooms that were used to hide runaway slaves and for other purposes. Voices can sometimes be heard, and on more than one occasion a photograph of a young African American boy was taken. He appeared to be frightened and about 12 years of age. Berea, Ky. Also, Boone Tavern has no basement, only a sub-basement that houses an office and laundry. The sub-basement was dug out under the building in the s.

Anna Beauchamp, of the famous Romantic Tragedy can be seen walking along the road and throughout the cemetery at times. In the gymnasium boy's sower room two students were punched so hard they were sent flying back and hitting the wall.

Pairs of glowing red eyes were seen along with someone's finger poking through the door. Cold drafts have been felt and voices were heard. Back in '96, a man was found dead in his pickup truck in the rear parking lot.

The cause of death was never determined, and the vehicle was stolen. No one ever figured out who he was, or what he died of. These days when people park in the spot where his truck was and leave their vehicle overnight, you can walk up to it and see a man in the passenger seat who looks to be dead or sleeping. When any of the guards on duty call a police officer over to remove the guy, they find the car empty.

Every single time. The parking spot has an oil stain that looks like a face and has never washed off or changed over the years. The police have nicknamed him "the sleeper". There is an old metal bridge with a wooden road The theory is if you go to the end of the bridge and turn your car off and put it in neutral the ghost of the girl will pull you across the bridge.

Academic Complex - The Academic Complex used to be an old hospital and now houses several classrooms, medical facilities, and the campuses TV and Radio stations. There have been DJs working for the Radio station that have heard things in the night, seen people out of the corner of their eyes. One night two DJs were talking about haunted places in the area and their CD player started to move about, opening and closing and rattling.

It has been rumored that in the old hospital days, people had died in some of the classrooms and in a radio station studio. Barnes-Campbell Hall - showers have been reported turning on and off by themselves, and chairs crashing against walls.

Helm Library - is known to be haunted by a student who fell to his death from the ninth floor when trying to open a window. Supposedly if you stare at a picture of her long enough in the lobby she will smile back at you. Pearce Ford Tower Dorm Hall is supposed to be haunted by a construction worker crushed by an elevator.

Potter Hall - In a girl hung herself in the basement. Change has been heard dropped in soda machines, but no one is there, scratching sounds of the basement floor. Which did once have a creepy incident involving an Ouija board where a wall began to crack open. Also, for Potter, it was in room 8 on the bottom floor that the girl hung herself -- though that is debated some believe she was murdered. She was a very quiet but very nice girl.

They report her name was Teresa nicknamed Tye-Dye. Many on campus believe it to be Penny because of several of the office workers in that area of the building said they often find pennies rolling down the hall and find them on the floor. So, if anyone happens to notice pennies rolling down the hall or hears change clanging in the vending machines, don't be afraid. Potter Hall is Tye-Dye's old stomping ground where one day back in , she made the decision to exert the only control she had over her own life.

Schneider Hall - Objects disappear and then reappear. Knocks and strange noises during the day and night.

Sudden temperature changes in certain rooms. Feelings of being watched. Rhodes Harlin Hall - is haunted by a girl who jumped to her death.

People hear scratching on their windows and doors. Van Meter - Auditorium - The auditorium is reportedly haunted by a man that fell to his death there while working on one of the catwalks. Students, workers and performers have seen him. Also rumored, he fell onto the stage and his blood, of course, soaked into the wood. In the s and again in this stage was re-floored, and the stain again returned.

Perryville Battlefield - Sightings of a soldier walking the battlefield at night. Reported to be seen by local police. During the summer of , several of the children of Bradfordsville heard a mysterious sound coming from the North Rolling Fork River which flows parallel to the streets of the town. The sound was very similar to a whip being cast. If you got close to the river looking for the source of the sound--the sound got quieter.

If you got farther away from the river the sound became louder. It went on and on. Many adults were called out by the children to find out what was causing the strange "whip" like cracking sound. No one ever was able to explain what caused the strange sounds. After those horrible tornadoes on May 4 used the old high school gym as a morgue for all those who passed on.

Sometimes you can hear voices in the hallways. Band room - There are cold spots in the room, voices can be heard, there have been sightings of a boy with a tuba standing in the window when the school is empty.

Also, there were rumors that our vice principal had photos of a concrete worker bent over inspecting something on the floor. The story goes that this person died when he fell while the school was being built.

Also, on April 7, , the gym was used for a funeral. Frozen - Old Vancleave Bible Institute - Located near Frozen Creek, this was once a bible school which housed both male and female students.

Due to the difficult terrain, students lived on campus. In the flood of , many students and staff perished while holing up in the boiler room. They were warned of a tornado, not flood. Little remains of the school after the flood.

Buildings include a dorm, a gym and a stone chapel. It has been reported that sounds of children laughing and crying can be heard. It is also reported that heat can be felt coming from the "punishment rooms".

You can go there and feel like you are being watched, the laughter of little kids and in the third building you can feel heat as you go up the stairs to the punishment rooms. Some have even seen red glowing eyes in the upstairs. There is also what seems to be a small chapel that has an aboveground basement that sits out in a field.

The basement is filled with black mud like substance. If viewed from above it has a whirlpool design to it. Several people say that they have heard cries of young children and have even seen them.

It has been said that you will see and hear terrifying things. Hill - There is a hill that is almost perfectly dome-shaped, like someone took a bowl of dirt and turned it over. Witnesses report they had seen it light up at night, heard strange sounds, and that it was haunted. Some say they have heard babies crying where the nursery was, footsteps heard in the hall when no one was there, and art students have witnessed pottery wheels beginning to spin by independently.

There are also numerous cold spots throughout the building. They were murdered and hung in the barn behind the house. As the legend goes there are extreme temperature changes in the house, also the screams can be heard at night by people that walk down the road. On some occasions, people have been known to see blood dripping from the rafters of the old barn. The entire property is haunted and not many people dare to cross its boundaries if you do there is no telling what could happen.

It appears people that go across its lines have been tortured in the future as in their dreams and everyday life. Several years ago, there was an old man worked as a guard at the whiskey distillery in Clermont, KY.

The guard was old and possibly out of his mind. One of his favorite things to do was to holler at the moon when it was full on his work shift. Some of the guards say that on a night with full moon, they can sometimes hear him screaming when they are on their patrol rounds. Before the old elementary school had burned down in it was believed to be haunted by the people who were once buried there. The tombstones were said to be removed but the bodies remained under the school.

Numerous of students were said to be locked in the bathroom, heard and seen doors shut by themselves, and could also hear noises. Horton Hall - Horton Hall is one of the many old buildings on the college campus. It is located between the Soccer Field and the Gym. Most of the horrific sightings have been spotted in the dorm rooms on the 2nd Floor. There have been many encounters late at night and mostly on the weekends of Dark Figures pulling up and shaking the ceiling tiles.

Others have reported that if you lay really still without any movement at all that the Dark figures will slowly Creep down into your room. If you do let things get this far do not startle the shadow looking spirits. Once reported that loud screams would come from the spirits if they see any type of human life in the room. These spirits have no history to the area but just seem to appear random time during the course of the year.

Closed in the early s. The old abandoned school is on a hill above the new school. It has been told you can hear kids talking, teachers still give kids the lessons.

Walking can be heard in the old halls. The school was kindergarten to the 8th grade. The building is in poor shape, and not too safe anymore.

Even though the old hospital has been closed for many years and has no electric. Strange noises and lights were always seen. The couple decided to take in some of sites at the falls area before going back to their room at the lodge. Before leaving the falls, they wanted to have their photos the with the falls in the background. The couple found an overlook just a few hundred feet from the falls that would work great for the photo.

As the Bride stood on the Pillars at the edge of the 75 to foot cliff, the Bride lost her balance and fell to her death.

This place is now called "Lovers Leap". There have been reports of people driving around the last curve and hitting a woman that seems to be wearing a wedding dress and when they go to look for her, she is nowhere to be found. Located near Early Addition St. There is a certain place in the road where people passing by will experience a strong sense of fear and the feeling that they are being watched. These feelings disappear quickly after they leave this one certain spot in the road.

There have been no known reports of anything terrible having happened in the past to account for this haunting. It is a road with a lot of hills and curves and while the speed limit is posted as 15 mph, many people drive as fast as they can through this area just for fun. The submitter believes there have been a few accidents in the area, but they don't have the facts with them.

Could be more of an urban myth than anything else. The old theatre and church on Maine Strasse in Covington is frequented with glimpses of spectral figures in the corner of the eyes or in reflections, footsteps, light switches turn themselves on, and occasionally a loud noise as of something heavy being dropped to the ground and dragged across the floor on the ground level.

There have been numerous occurrences there: hearing voices in the hallway, feeling something touching or grabbing your arm, seeing lights, a young woman twice and she almost instantly disappears. Sounds of children running in the hallways, and the sounds of a child's laughter in the distance, slamming doors and lights turning off and on by themselves.

Reports of an apparition of "Headless Annie" laying on the hood of a car when it stalls out, when she is gone, it starts back up. It is believed that a little girl haunts this neighborhood. The people that live there tell at night they hear noises like someone trying to get into doors and windows.

If you look out they say you can see where her mother hit her in the head with an ax. It is believed she is hunting the people who did not come to her rescue when her mother was doing this to her. It is the oldest building in Cynthiana. It used to be a house. The old occupants still haunt the building because they don't like that their house has been turned into a business and abused.

There are voices, sightings, and objects mysteriously moving. Numerous incidents have been reported over the years at this small cemetery just outside Dawson Springs. Glowing eyes, ghosts of the dead, things appearing and disappearing. McNeeley graveyard - about 3 miles down Olney Road. A road to the right Walter Calvert road.

Up the road about 1 mile a graveyard on right named McNeeley. You will hear a baby crying at night. There are rumors that the school is haunted. Rumors are there are 2 bodies of people who were believed to witches, buried in this cemetery. They both have an above-ground body coffin they were thrown in the ground and cement was poured over them.

The cemetery also used to have 3 trees on which the witches were hanged. Every anniversary of the night they were killed you will hear and see things. There is also a change in the climate in which after you walk into the gates that surround the cemetery.

A 9-year-old girl named Lisa is said to haunt this bathroom. Now a restaurant, this old house used to be a convent later a hotel. It is said that several nuns were murdered here along with others. Cold spots are present and during restaurant hours chairs are moved and things are misplaced.

Drive by at any hour after midnight and you will see windows open and close along with lights being turned on and off. If you're brave enough walk up on the porch and feel the bad feelings that seem to radiate from the building. The "Gates of Hell" is the nickname of a cemetery at the end of St. John Road. In Elizabethtown, the cemetery at the end of Saint Johns road, known as Gates of Hell, is said to be haunted. No more than a couple of miles to the end of the road where surrounded by trees and overgrowth the cemetery contains the graves of unknown people from the s and s.

The place right outside the remains of the iron and stone gate is where people go to party away from town. Many years ago, while parked there at night witnesses report they watched an enormous green orb suddenly suspended right above them. After a couple of long minutes, the orb shot straight up so fast that it was out of sight in a second. Others have claimed other phenomena while hanging out at the cemetery such as hearing screams, seeing shadow people, having electrical problems with their cars, and becoming so scared that many of them never returned.

There used to be downstairs bathrooms in the school back in the late 's but after many reports on a baby crying down there and due to the need for new bathrooms more where built upstairs and the bottom one sealed off. Now at night, you can hear a baby crying and the sound of an older woman, thought to be the mother, saying, "LET ME OUT", and beating on the floorboards. Narrow's Road is a winding back road.

In the s a police officer was hit and killed pulling someone over. Local legend says that if you drive this road at midnight, an officer will pull you over in a 's style cruiser talk to you, then go back to his car and disappear. People have often heard kids laughing and shoes tapping on the floor. On rainy or foggy nights, a woman can be seen either on the side of the road or in the back of the car.

It is said that one night her and her husband got into a fight and he beat her and threw her out of the car and left her to die, now she will take rides to try to get back home.

Many residents of the apartment complex have told that they have heard cries for help in the middle of the night and have seen random faces appearing in their home many have had exorcism done on the homes. The band room is told to be haunted. Many students have heard strange noises and seen ghostly figures in the band room.

It is also said to be haunted by a janitor that died in the basement. He was found covered with coal and nobody ever found out what exactly happened. If you stop on the side of on the second curve a head- less woman will get in and ride so far. She was claimed to have been killed in the old sawmill off in the woods. She was reported to have been raped and murdered, but there have been many other versions of this story reported over the years.

Televisions in classrooms blinking on and off with no intentions. Bats and crows blackbirds coming in and out of the windows or sitting on the windowsills. It is a place that is dark and damp anyways, but the strange Phenomena that goes on is still horrifying. There was supposed to have been a little boy who lived in the house next to the creek under the trestles. He went out one day to watch a train go by from the top of the hill and fell onto the tracks, he was then run over. If you drive under the trestles right at dusk, you can see his blue shirt blowing in the wind stuck in the middle of the tracks, and him waving to you from the tracks.

Auditorium - there have been reports of footsteps being heard coming down the large aisle and echoing in the room. They are that of a man wearing what sounds like hard-soled dress shoes.

You can drive down the road in which it is located and experience phenomenal things. Things such as whispers, undeclared figures, and unknown noises. This supposedly happens to a numerous amount of people. Like the spirit is looking for help. There are buffalo and such in the park. Many believe that the noises have to do with cries of many children who wander off into the woods surrounding the area and never return because of an evil spirit who takes lives because his was taken.

Some people also say that this person was murdered there and is just in search of the killer in look for help. This is a tourist attraction around Kentucky and fewer cases have happened because of this. So, on some night drive down that road and get out of your car and walk on the outskirts of the woods and you may be able to hear the cries.

When they were redoing the cafeteria, a worker got decapitated by a falling light fixture. He's seen after hours by the cleaning staff juggling his head and laughing. Cliffside Apartments - The apartments are said to be built on an Indian barrel ground. Strange things happen there. Unoccupied apartments with lights on, the sound of footsteps walking up and down the stairs.

A ghostly figure of a man appearing in closets of children. TV's turning on by themselves. The dials of radio's turning by themselves.

It is definitely a very haunted place. Millcreek - in there was a coal mines collapse that killed 26workers at night you can walk down the road the miners will follow you and you can see the miners go into the mines wearing their hardhats with light. A young woman in the late s was murdered and decapitated at this location--the killer took her head and threw in a well located at Bobby Mackey's bar in Wilder, Ky another haunted place seen on Unsolved mysteries --The spirit of the headless woman is said to roam the grounds.

Unexplained noises come from the 3rd floor of the assisted living wing of the nursing home--Some staff and residents have claimed to have seen the ghost of "pearl"-The nursing home is run by the Carmelite Sisters--do not go uninvited as this is a nursing home and respect the residents that reside there - WARNING - the area is highly patrolled by Ft. Thomas police in addition to Carmel Manor Security. Highlands High School is haunted by a former student named David Cecil.

He was a football player and suffered a fatal accident during a home football game. Chimes will swing, symbols will slide down the split-level floor, his "spot" gets icy cold when it's disturbed, trophies will fall from the shelves, and a door with no knob or lock will shake uncontrollably as if someone were locked inside that closet you hear and see this as it happens , and the TV goes on and off "by itself".

And sometimes, during home games if you look into the band room from the stands of David Cecil Memorial Stadium, you can see a figure of a teenage boy peering through the window even though no one is allowed access after school hours but the band members. Many people have been killed, died accidental and committed suicide at this location.

If you go you can always feel the presence of somebody who has died there. Lady Grey haunts this building along with a ghostly Indian and soldier. There is also a young woman in the back yard that was murdered. And another woman inside the house. So, altogether there are five ghosts there. During renovation of the office building, several workers have stated that they have felt like they were grabbed by something in stair tower 2. This building is located on the old State Penitentiary grounds.

Spirits of civil war soldiers are said to still haunt the house. Images of Confederate Soldiers have been seen on and around this very high sandstone rock formation, it has been said, this was once a lookout post during the civil war. Also, there have been several sightings of a woman who paces around on top and for a few minutes and then plunges herself over the edge. Her screams, as she falls, can be heard up to a mile away. The forest and surrounding hollows in this area have produced sounds of orders coming from soldiers on the battlefield, moans, cries of agonizing pain, and sightings of both confederate and union soldiers.

Carrington Greens Golf Course has had reports from several of their customers about weird noises and seeing soldiers on the course, which is located on most of the battlefield. Sightings include solders riding house back late into the night. As well as a woman running down the road with blood coming from her mouth where her tongue was removed. An old man walking along holding a lighted lantern and many more.

The ghosts also have been said to haunt several of the homes along the roadway. Reports from a man walking home one night of an apparition of a white transparent headless horseman. Later, members of his family report it followed him home and it had been seen outside the home when they awoke to see him in the yard and the doors open.

A Woman having just left her husband, was on her way to her mother's house when her car hydroplaned off a small bridge. If you pass the bridge around the same time of the accident you can hear the baby cry from the trapped car. Ten years later the same bridge takes two more lives on a rainy night. Two year-old boys a week shy of their high school graduation drowned after hydroplaning off the bridge.

Both accidents happened at the same exact time. Greensburg has the oldest courthouse in Kentucky. The courthouse was in use until Sounds of courtroom activity, talking and footsteps have been reported.

Whether you are stopping in or passing through the small town, the courthouse will draw your attention with its historical presence outside and from within. The school is about to be torn down however years ago a lady was said to have jumped out of one of the upper-level windows and killed herself on the ground below. Also, if you walk next to the large windows on the side of the building you are supposed to be able to see a little girl in a white nightgown hanging in the window. Many people go there at night and claim to see and hear strange things.

A graveyard around the mountain in Hardburly is haunted. Hardburly is an old mining camp in Kentucky. It has legends of hauntings. The story is a boy drown in flood waters there.

He still screams. In the s a guy was chased by an unseen thing. Faster he ran it ran, just behind him. He stopped to catch his breath it was heard gasping for air also.

After he got up a bank he did not hear it any more. Usually at a. Up in Catrons Creek in a hollow named Bardo Hollow every spring, there is a mysterious light that appears at the end of the hollow. It usually stays up there and eventually disappears but there have been times that the light will start floating down to the bottom of the hollow.

It has been seen for many years. There have been numerous encounters of a female ghost named Cheyenne. There are keys rattling and doors slamming.

It has been reported that you can feel Cheyenne walk up behind you and breathe down your neck. When you turn around, she's gone. Childscreek - it is said that on a cold, rainy night that you can see a headless man by the name of Doc walking up and down the hollow trying to find his head and the people that cut it off. Footsteps heard, apparitions seen. The story is a male janitor died from falling into the furnace.

Watts creek - there are several hauntings in the small community one that most people in this community has experienced is an old coal miner who died in an explosion he still walks the old path from his mines to his home and is seen quite often. Residents of the Eastbrook apartments have heard little girls in their bathrooms talking about putting on makeup. And heard voices calling for help and constant banging on doors and a cry for help.

Doors close, unlock and open by themselves. Cold spots reported at times. Employees feel as if being watched at times. Unwanted children were once reportedly thrown into a pond by the Shakers. This was verified generations later when the pond was drained, revealing scores of baby skeletons. It is said that sometimes at night, one can hear the babies crying.

Young's Park was the site of a ball in the late s. A young woman is said to have danced herself to death. People have reported seeing her dancing there late at night. A woman has been seen walking along the railroad tracks, that had got married the same day she was struck by a train in the 's. Also, the coal mines, workers have seen a man on his knees working that had been killed several years before, also they have seen men coming out with their mining lights on.

There have been several hauntings on big creek too many to be told on here, there are also several houses as well. Many people who have once lived here have reported a weird occurrence. You will sometimes hear beads fall down your steps and your dogs may sometimes stair up the stairs and have an uncontrollable bark. This site is believed to be built on an Indian burial ground. You may sometimes see scratch marks on the trees, because this was how Indians cut their fingernails.

Anyway, if you visit this cemetery late at night like 1 or 2 something will sound like it is running beside the old church banging very hard on the walls. Sometimes this unseen force that will rock your whole vehicle will slam your whole vehicle.

Many years ago, a little girl was murdered and decapitated there. Her body was thrown off the hill. At night if you park your car there and flash your headlights three times the little girl will come walking up the hill with her head in her arms.

Known as one of the most haunted areas in the U. Actually, eastern Kentucky with its old-time mountain superstitions, abandoned coal mines, isolated hollers and remote forests has some of the best settings and conditions for scary stories and hauntings. Here, you find tales and accounts laced with local history and flavor, such as the Civil War soldiers who still walk the hallowed Ivy Mountain battlefield grounds at night, or the old Prestonsburg courthouse where many locals say you can hear the desperate cries of prisoners trying to escape.

And the Benham Schoolhouse Inn in Cumberland is housed in what was once a high school and is now where witnesses claim ghostly students run, laugh and slam doors throughout the halls of the building. She consistently appears atop the cliffs above the falls and around the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park Dupont Lodge and has been seen and heard weeping by a number of park employees and visitors.

Cumberland Falls is also home to some accounts of phantom creatures along the paths to the falls. Red Dog Road in Harlan is the site of flickering lights and sounds reportedly connected to a shooting incident between two miners in the s where one was killed.