Carrington Rock

Kentucky · United States · Haunted site

A lookout post during the Civil War, high above the Kentucky forest. A woman paces the top for a few minutes and then goes over the edge.

Carrington Rock near Frenchburg, Kentucky is a tall sandstone formation, and local account holds that it was used as a lookout post during the Civil War.

Confederate soldiers are reported on and around it.

The other account is harder. A woman is seen pacing the top for a few minutes, and then going over the edge. Her scream is part of what people describe.

Nothing is known about her, no name has ever attached to the story, and no record supports it. What it is instead is the shape a high place takes on in local memory: almost every cliff and gorge in eastern Kentucky has a version, and the Red River Gorge country is full of them.

The Civil War in this part of Kentucky was a guerrilla war between neighbours rather than a war of armies, which is its own kind of haunting.

The rock is high, unfenced and genuinely dangerous.

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Where is Carrington Rock located?

Carrington Rock is in Kentucky, United States.