Somerset, Kentucky is one of those places that you rarely think has a dark side to it. Of course, all the inhabitants of the region are trying to dissuade visitors from negative thoughts that will hurt the tourism trade that helps bring the city to life. But it is a dark secret, much darker than most places. It is a shrine of the soul waiting for the dangerous to enter and visit if they can bear the feeling of evil and its ghosts that dwell there.
The very chapel of the Soul was a historical landmark. The chapel itself was the second oldest Methodist church in Somerset and had one of the oldest cemeteries. It stopped, was used for services around 1930, caught fire and was maintained in the late 70’s and was finally burned by two scholars around 2005. These are all well-known stories, but sometimes people are taken away and you just can’t tell the real story from the fiction.
Facts attributed to the chapel include that it was the site of a civil war which was occupied by many during the Somerset period. (Unfortunately I have to disprove this one, at least for some part of Somerset, only one real battle, The Battle of Mill Springs, was ever fought in Somerset, and it didn’t lead to a takeover). This story also refers to the blood-soaked chapel floor that forms the basis of our next story.
From the beginning he tried to convert his flock little by little. It started out simple enough with a few rituals here and there. Pentagrams drawn on the floor to summon demons (please note that the story does not differentiate between occult and satanic and I am not trying to say they are one and the same). Gradually these works were left in the ground as more serious crimes followed. The smallest animals were turned into sacrifices in the nocturnal rites of the church. Then the animals were wanted. Human sacrifices are soon to be prepared.
When this was done in the city of Somerset, he began to distrust the new reverends. At length the word emanated, whether by one of his own, or by some other means, no one knows to this day. Now that it was known, she was soon brought to the church by the common people, and she hung Rmo on the beams of the roof being built.
Although this story below is not true. Almost all of the ghost hunters and satanism have heard of this site in the tri-county area and beyond. he was farther away. The ritual and practices of spirit hunting there keep the place hot with paranormal activity. Whether that story is true I cannot say. I am only repeating a legend that I have heard from many who have visited.
Sources cited:
An oral legend of Somerset, Kentucky
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