Oh the humanity!! What Kentucky story is not included in this monster!?! It’s got everything! Ronald making the fry girl strip for stealing money, Santa killing mama Claus, duels, and even perhaps Kentucky’s most famous politician! So, without further ado...lets get to the nitty gritty of these stories!
-Cassius Clay...not the boxer! This guy was besties with honest Abe and was quite a Kentucky paradox! A Kentucky aristocrat and abolitionist!?! This guy stomped out slavery while living in Lexington (home of dRock Press). Legend has it that some guy was heckling him at an anti slavery debate and old Clay pulled out his bowie knife a popped out the guys eyeball! Pretty harsh aye...but get this...he only did that AFTER he sliced the dudes ear and nose clean off his face! This guy’s the real deal! There are tons of stories like these floating around Kentucky about this guy, so keep your eye out for more dRock press Kentucky prints!
-Santa Claus...no not the real Santa Claus! This guy dressed up like santa and snuck down the chimney at the family X-mas party...sounds like a pretty nice guy...right? Wrong! Once he climbed out of the fireplace he decided it would be funny to pretend like he was robbing the house and pulled out a shot gun...he playfully aimed it around the room where the family was, and shot his wife in the face! The kids to this day are scared out of their minds during the holidays...
-Harpe’s Head Kentucky- The Harpe Bothers were bandits that robbed everyone that came in and out of the town they lived in. After being terrorized by these brothers for a while, the towns folk decided it was time to pay the piper. They strolled up the brothers layer and sawed both their heads off! But that’s not where the story ends! They attached the heads to steaks and put one on each end of the town to warn criminals! To this day the town is called Harpe’s Head!
-Some dude buried himself vertical with axes in his hands so he could fight the devil off in hell!
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-Speedy Atkins the petrified man...a science experiment gone wrong and put on display for everyone in Paducah to see....at least until the flood when he floated away...
-A sick doctor whose family had nothing to do with him until the end was near decided to grant everyones wish of having a “little something” to remember him by, left various body parts to everyone in the family!
-Some guy in Prison made a call to a Louisville McD’s claiming to be an undercover cop, he told the manager that one of his employs was stealing money from the register. The manager proceeded to force the girl to a strip search...the girl was innocent and received quite a large pay day in court for being forced to show her McRibbs!
-Some dude that shot himself in the face while looking down the barrel of a shotgun to check if it was loaded...
-Sweet Evening Breeze...Lexington Kentucky’s first transvestite!
- And last but not least...Carrie Nation....look this old broad up! She’s nutz! She would single handedly shut bars down during prohibition...not by calling the police...but by act’n a fool! She’d pull out her hatchet and just go crazy! Busting bottles, kegs, barrels, foreheads...and became famous for it! She was even invited to an elementary school and presented tiny hatchets to all the kids and sent them on their way to bringing down the booze runners!
