Recreation made at actual area where Girl in White was seen

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One night several years ago (in the 1990s) I was on my way back to Pineville, KY. after having been to see my fiancée. She lived at Black Snake, KY. which is just off of US 119, about nine miles from Pineville. I say night but it was actually around 2:00 a.m.

    The area where the Light House Mission is located has been different things – a garage, a restaurant, etc. At that time some of the coal truck drivers where parking their trucks in the lot around the building that was there. As I approached this place I noticed there was a young girl in a long white dress standing on the step on the driver's side door. It appeared that she was looking in the truck.

     I realized that no one should be around those trucks at that time of morning. I had already passed the area, but I was only 40 or 50 feet from it. I turned around to go back and see if the girl needed help or what was going on. When I pulled into the lot my head lights swept the truck she had been on, but she wasn't there.

     I got out of the car and looked around the trucks and the lot, but the girl was nowhere to be found. I realized then that it had been a dissatisfied spirit that I had seen. I got back in the car and went on home.
     A few weeks later I was going to my fiancée's. I was driving along US 119 , headed toward Harlan, KY.  It was about 8:00 p.m. and was dark and dreary, as there was a light drizzle of rain falling. As I passed the lot where the trucks were parked I again saw a girl in a long white dress. She was standing on one of the trucks , looking in the window.
     I stopped my car in the middle of the road to look back at the girl. But when I turned my head to look she was gone.
     I just saw this apparition twice and have never heard of anyone else seeing her, but I believe The Girl In White roams that area looking for something or someone.

Thanks
~Tim~

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Actual Court House Building

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Over the years I have actually been involved in some ghost "sightings." Here I'd like to tell you about one of the earliest ones.

Back in the 1980s I was Supervisor of Bell County Dispatch which handled telephone and radio calls for the Bell County Sheriff's Department, the Pineville Police Department and the Bell County Volunteer Fire Department. At that time Dispatch was located in the basement of the Bell County Court House.

The person who worked the midnight shift, from 12:00 midnight to 8:00 a.m., was a lady named Pat Whitt. Pat had told me that two or three times during the last month or so she had heard someone on the upper floors opening and closing doors. There wasn't supposed to be anyone else in the building during those hours except for the state police troopers who had an office next door to dispatch who would come into the building occasionally to do paper work.

I discussed this with Bell County Volunteer Fire Department Chief Earl BeBusk, who also had office space close to dispatch. We decided to have a group of volunteers on stand-by and the next time Pat heard the doors opening and closing she was to call me and we would search the building from top to bottom.
 

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Not actual bones, just used for reference

This is a guest post by Tim Cornett. Tim is a amateur Kentucky historian and author.
Tim has worked as a reporter, publisher, editor and photographer.
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Several years ago Dr. James S. Golden, Jr. of Pineville told an interesting story of the discovery of skeletons on the mountain just outside of Pineville.
According to Golden, a local hunter stopped to rest just before dawn. Sitting down on what he thought was a pile of brush and branches at the bottom of a tree, the hunter discovered he was seated on a pile of what looked to be human bones.

These bones were taken to Golden, who was able to assemble four almost complete skeletons - complete except for the skulls. Golden said that the skeletons appeared to be from a race of people who were “short and stocky. The femurs were twice the diameter of a modern man’s, and shorter.” He estimated that the people would have weighed between two and three hundred pounds, based on their skeletal structure.

Without the skulls there was no way of determining more about these people. Theorizing that the bones had come from some ancient burial site on Pine Mountain, Golden, the hunter, and others scoured the mountainside for more bones, and hopefully, the skulls.
Dr. Golden’s best theory was that the bones had washed out of their resting place during heavy rains over many years and lodged against the tree where they were found. He guessed that the skulls, being round, would have rolled on down the mountain side and possibly entered the Cumberland River just south of Pineville, where US 119 meets US 25E.

The skulls were never located and Golden, unable to glean any more information from the skeletons, sent them on to The Smithsonian Institution, where presumably they rest today. (Efforts by the author to locate these skeletons have been unsuccessful; Golden forwarded them to the museum, but calls to the Smithsonian have proved fruitless in finding their exact whereabouts.)

-- excerpt from Bell County, Kentucky: A Brief History by Tim Cornett

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