Any half-knowledgable reader of fantasy, horror, or mythology knows to be wary of ferry crossings and their guides. A post on Mysterious Universe shares a story of a cursed ferry in an unlikely place: Touseytown, Kentucky, USA.
In 1820, an American businessman named Moses Tousey started a ferry service between Tousetyown and Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and hired an abrasive drunk named William McGregor to operate it. Due to a series of unfortunate events of his own making, McGregor accidentally shot his daughter to death and was then shot by her lover. After the death of the well-liked Elinor McGregor, Tousetytown fell on hard times. Over time, the bad economic conditions turned it into a ghost town.
Surprisingly, the ferry continued doing business, but not without trouble of its own. An upgraded steamboat ferry was destroyed by an ice flow. Years later, the ferry operation was taken over by John Kizex, another unsavory character who left his companions mug his well-to-do passengers. Kizex was later stabbed to death by a Union soldier he’d taunted for losing an arm during the Civil War. The next owner was killed in a freak accident and the next was killed in a pistol duel with the man he hired to pilot the boat. A string of freak accidents and wrecked boats followed over the next decades, until 1947.
Just bad luck or something more? You decide what happens next.
