| Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world, | | | | thought to be the ghost of a woman who had |
| consists of 367 miles of passage ways with more | | | | vengefully played a trick on the man she loved by |
| being discovered all the time. The cave system is | | | | leading him into the cave, which she was familiar with, |
| actually many cave systems that connect at some | | | | and leaving him there. When the gentleman failed to |
| point underground. Among the attractions of these | | | | return to the surface again her guilt drove her back |
| cave system are limestones riddled with crinoid, | | | | into the cave in search of him. She never found him |
| blastoid, gastropod, and shark teeth, and other | | | | and continues to this day to search for the man. Many |
| Mississippian fossils. Satan spar gypsum, calcite, | | | | guides and visitors to the cave have claimed to hear |
| mirabilite, aragonite, nitratine, and other mineral deposits | | | | her in her search. |
| lie within the labyrinth of tunnels. A myriad life forms | | | | Another haunting has been recognizable as famous |
| roam in and around the caves. The most mysterious | | | | explorer Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave in 1925. |
| of the features of the Mammoth cave systems are | | | | He was exploring the cave to find the linking passage |
| the ghosts that roam the sinuous passages and | | | | to Mammoth cave when he was pinned by a falling |
| caverns. | | | | rock. After weeks of a well publicized attempt to save |
| Some parts of the caves have been used for burial | | | | him, a further collapse sealed him off. When workers |
| by cultures that inhabited the area up to 12,000 years | | | | were able to dig through Collins had already perished. |
| ago. The bodies of many early explorers have also | | | | Rather than being buried, his body was put on display |
| been found within the depths of the cave systems. | | | | in a glass topped coffin in Crystal Caves from which |
| Modern history of the cave extends from the late | | | | the body was stolen. He was recovered not far from |
| 1700's to the present. It is a history of dangerous | | | | the caves but was missing a leg. Finally his ordeal was |
| exploration, mining, war, and tourism. It is also a history | | | | over and he received a normal burial in a local |
| of strange and haunted events. While some reports of | | | | cemetery. It seems that the explorer was not ready to |
| strange noises, footsteps, weird lights, and apparitions | | | | leave his beloved cave systems, however. Many |
| can be explained as natural effects of the dark | | | | guides, tourists, and explorers have heard and seen his |
| corridors and caverns, some defy such explanations. | | | | ghosts roaming the corridors and calling out from the |
| Guides have reported happenings such as seeing | | | | darkness. |
| figures lingering away from others in tours, sometimes | | | | If you visit Mammoth caves you will find much of |
| in the dress of era's past. These apparitions vanish, | | | | interest to nature lovers of all sorts. If you stop to talk |
| sometimes right before spectators eyes. Others report | | | | to someone who seems to be hanging back away |
| feeling others touch or push them when no one is near | | | | from the group, however, and they disappear before |
| enough to have done so. Not all ghosts roaming the | | | | your eyes, don't be too surprised. Hauntings have |
| caves are unrecognized. | | | | become just one more interesting phenomena of the |
| One haunting that has been reported repeatedly is | | | | Mammoth Cave systems. |