The Dark History of Iroquois Park (Louisville, Ky)

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In this video we dive into the murderous and ghostly history of Iroquois Park, which is located in Louisville Ky.
Introduction and Basic Information About Iroquois Park 00:00
The True Crime History of Iroquois Park 02:23
Urban Legends and Exploring the Park at Night 05:01
Sources used for this video:
- www.wdrb.com/news/man-found-d...
- www.wave3.com/story/982388/ju...
- murderpedia.org/male.S/s/simm...
- law.justia.com/cases/kentucky...
- • LMPD: Remains found in...
- • Man arrested in Ohio i...
- louisvilleky.gov/government/p...
- www.olmstedparks.org/our-park...
- static1.squarespace.com/stati...
- kool.corrections.ky.gov/KOOL/D...
The cameras used for this video include the Sony RX0 II, GoPro Hero 8 Black, and the GoPro Hero Max.

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@user-ro5ip4rv6g 6 месяцев назад

During the mid 80s it was a big hang out for cruising cars. Many great memories there!

@donaldscobie8455 2 года назад

In the late 80s my now wife and I were walking to the overlook. It was cold and a blonde girl with a tartan Fawcett haircut, wearing white bell bottoms and a red floral shirt walked by. The clothes were something you wore in summer, we waved and said hi, but she said nothing. We passed her and I had a weird feeling so I turned around and she was gone. We loomed for her and saw nothing.

@CountessKitten Год назад

Louisvillian born, raised and bred.... Will never leave here. Iroquois Park is one of my favorite spots on earth! So many lifetime memories there. None really scary or sad, as I have seen many who've commented that. But always happy, pleasurable and fun. Although, when I lived literally next door to the park, I was very aware that there were some serious nefarious goings on there. Iroquois Park is in the south end of Louisville, and that is a notoriously bad area of The Ville and as I've aged, the crime rate in Louisville has grown astronomically, so it makes sense. But, Iroquois Park is one of the places I feel most at home. ❤️💫

@KentKaliber 5 месяцев назад

When do you feel like the South end "went bad"? I grew up in the South End in the 80's and I absolutely LOVED it growing up. When do you feel it "went bad?" It saddens me so much that the South End of today is such a radically different area than where I grew up.

@thevideozone 5 месяцев назад

@KentKaliber I think that if you look at things historically, as suburbs started to develop outside of the core city of Louisville, people moved out of what was the old city to get newer homes and more property in new neighborhoods. As that happens over time, average incomes drop, and the demographics change a bit. There’s also population growth and other things going on while that’s happening. The Southern Parkway corridor isn’t as prosperous as it once was, but there have been efforts to improve things like the Colonial Gardens renovation. But crime numbers have shifted over the years, I’d have to dig deeper into the stats to kind of break down specific time periods. The only sure thing is that things will change over time, and areas of town that don’t see a lot of investment will fall behind over time.

@leachapman743 2 года назад

I lived on Inverness avenue growing up. Grew up around the crip gangs and learned a lot. I’m not stated my family’s rep name but there’s still good memories there in that park.

@michaelhobbs8082 Год назад

Didn’t even scratch the surface. My dad was part of the third district in the old LPD - the stories I heard from those officers still chill me 40 years later. Billy goat man, the ghost off the 8th hole green - well I’m changing the subject so I have a chance at getting to sleep.

@thevideozone Год назад

When putting this video together, I looked for stories online and talked to relatives who lived in the area for decades and referenced a few books and such. I’m sure with a large park like that, there have to be a lot of stories.

@davidrice3337 2 месяца назад

Whatever

@whitegeorgefloyd 2 года назад

Wow, nice video, very eerie!

@user-ej6gz7xd5f 6 месяцев назад

Born and raised here. This is so misleading. I’ve been there morning, noon and night. I’ve never had any scary, or mysterious times there, there was no figures, ghost or any of that. Iroquois park is just located in a bad area. Always has been and it’s only got worse over the years. It’s just a small hood in Louisville. That’s why there was so many killings. It’s a shaded park with a lot of trees, places to hide out etc. there is no “urban legend”. Urban legends are typically just stories people make up. Especially in these days

@thevideozone 6 месяцев назад

In the video we even say that it isn’t necessarily that the park is dangerous, it’s the fact that it’s in the middle of a city which is why things have happened there for the most part. Cherokee park is in a different part of town, and things have gone down there as well. Being able to drive a few miles and find a place that is isolated and out of view like that will lead to bad things happening sometimes. The urban legend is just something that people have talked about for decades, not something that’s necessarily based in reality. I have gone through the park at night quite a few times by myself and never seen anything paranormal. I thought it made sense to give that context while exploring for the video though if people were curious about that.

@E.C.2 4 месяца назад

@@thevideozoneJust because it hasn't happened to us doesn't mean it's not true. I've never won the lottery but others have.

@bretttownsend6495 4 месяца назад

I use to go here a lot I never saw anything bad or heard anything bad. All the teens like me went there never heard or saw nothing bad

@TheJaydonone 11 дней назад

@user-ej6z6xd5f Same here. NEVER had anything but a good time

@gyorgischwartz 2 года назад

A park in louisville that might be worth looking into is Tom Sawyer. I used to spend a bit of time there until I found cameras hidden throughout the park. Not sure if it's for safety or if they don't want you to explore too much

@thevideozone 2 года назад

I have gone to the park quite a bit just to use the trails, but they have the cameras and security to keep people out of Sauerkraut Cave. I don’t think there’s much left of the old asylum to see anymore, but I might go explore more with the drone sometime soon.

@thepurplevelvet 3 месяца назад

I recall this place in my childhood but scary I don’t really remember it pretty spooky.

@ANiceishKaren 2 месяца назад

Cruised this park many times, family bbq and it creeped me out then and I had so much anxiety when he was there at night.

@juliestreble1346 3 года назад

Great narration!

@kencatlett7365 Год назад

I remember one night some friends of mine and I while exploring the lookout saw a ghost car. That was back in the late 90's. And I know of other weird things that have happened in Iroquois park area.

@dustypeerlesgecko3115 6 месяцев назад

dude i live next door to the park and have hung out in it my whole life, nothing scary/supernatural has ever happened to me. ur just insane

@Mrshvdows 4 месяца назад

walking in a full moon at night at iroquois park is cool also the sunrises when the leaves have fallen

@thevideozone 4 месяца назад

Going through when the trees are bare, it’s a very interesting view at night.

@drinkingthenews 3 года назад

I did not know all of that!

@rhondawells401 Год назад

You get a sense of sadness while at the top of that park, there was a spot in particular that every time I got to that location, I would cry. I never knew that park had such a dark history

@thevideozone Год назад

As a kid I always thought that it would be scary to be at the top of the park at night time, but I went at night time a few times when shooting this video and it was mostly chill. I don't know that I would walk up there at night by myself though as it would be pretty isolated, but that's advice for most parks and places like that in general. I think larger parks within cities all have similar issues as it allows space for things to go down without a ton of people around.

@pasthuman Год назад

@@thevideozone Absolutely! I met a young woman up on the trails one night she was by herself no flashlight first thing I said to her "Are you alright?!" Very weird, first time in my life ever seeing a woman walk in the park at night by herself...and in the woods on the trail no less.

@geminisunleomoon Год назад

Beautiful park.. I drove through there once with friends back in the mid 1970s

@royalgoddess3284 Год назад

I live in Louisville and never knew this like wow 😮

@donaldirish7726 2 года назад

From what I've been told. by my mother who grew up on Taylor Blvd there was a serial rapist back in the early 1950's

@thevideozone 2 года назад

Unfortunately there have likely been bad things happening that didn’t make the news over the years, or at least weren’t well publicized since the area is in a city with a decent sized population and a lot going on.

@bretttownsend6495 4 месяца назад

I use to be one of the teens. Driving around the park in the 70s and 80s

@TheJaydonone 11 дней назад

I remember some of us partying up there in the middle of the night. I never heard, saw, or heard of anything spooky

@thevideozone 10 дней назад

@TheJaydonone I think in all truth, the only thing scary you might encounter at the top of the park at night is people. I have gone up there a number of times and it has always been fine. I still take precautions though visiting any isolated spot like that at night though.

@trentmills6219 2 года назад

The woman with the holding her head that's haunts the park. While her husband was away Indians attacked the cabin and killed her. That's how the legend goes

@thevideozone 2 года назад

Yeh, that is what I found as well. I tried looking for information related to the woman’s name, or where specifically people lived in the area before it became a park without any luck.

@angelatankersley6431 2 года назад

@@thevideozone Remains of cabin were close to archery range

@thevideozone 2 года назад

I had found pictures on a Facebook group of a cabin more towards the bottom of the park, I wonder if that would be the same one?

@angelatankersley6431 2 года назад

@@thevideozone Could be..I remember coming across remnants of either cabin or house back in the 70s, as a kid.

@laurab8158 5 месяцев назад

of course the lengend goes that way, because rather than anything else killin her, add to the list of settler lies & colonial mindset by blaming Indigenous people. Could have been true that they fought for their land. Much like people who fight for "stand your ground" laws SHOULD understand. And unless one is from the Native community or from India, Native & Indigenous, First Nations & the actual Nation you are discussing are better words to use when discussing the people on whose land we inhabit. Ys know, the Iroquois, Shawnee, Delaware perhaps?

@StMedicRic 11 месяцев назад

used to be able to drive to the overlook..a big parking area in the late 50s a body of a girl was found at the overlook who tthey thonk she fell over or jumped over the wall

@thevideozone 11 месяцев назад

I remember the configuration of the outlook before the current remodel, where you could still drive up to it, but it wasn’t the older design with all of the parking. I could see accidentally falling from up there.

@bretttownsend6495 4 месяца назад

Dusty hill of ZZ Top did his last show there at the amphitheater. A couple years ago sad

@edwardadams7408 Год назад

These Woods are haunted and the spirits will follow you sometimes they will just patch you on the shoulder or grab your clothes one woman told me that they followed her home and tormented her for weeks

@brownbunny04 19 дней назад

I'm from Louisville and grew up not too far from the area. I didn't know any of this.

@bretttownsend6495 4 месяца назад

I use to drive up to the outlook with friends in the park in the 70s as a teen no big deal then, stayed in the car though lots of teens in cars there radios blaring rock n roll lol. Fun

@krisone5253 Год назад

In the 1970's the Louisville Outlaws motorcycle gang cruised and hung out up there. A lot of stuff happened in the fields up in the top of that park. Especially near the cabin house!

@davefoley9602 2 года назад

Thanks for making this video. I'm an older man but my wife knew a girl that was killed up there back in the seventies they tied her around the tree up there actually it's like you're going up toward the hills where they found her I believe I could be wrong on that. My wife said her name was star.

@thevideozone 2 года назад

I am sure that plenty has happened at the park that I couldn’t find records of. Stuff that happened pre-internet era is kind of hard to track down unless it was a really big story.

@ACintheVille 2 года назад

Definitely missed the urban legend of animal sacrifices at the top of the Northern Outlook, Southend local stories rumor an ominous tale.

@thevideozone 2 года назад

I actually had not heard about that before, I’ll have to see if any of family members who lived by the park for years know anything about that.

@grxggo_ 5 месяцев назад

crazy to think id be at the park '16-'18 12A-4A jus chillin with friends or by myself

@majorskepticism7836 5 месяцев назад

50 years ago, every Sunday morning, there were thousands of cars, a few hundred motorcycles, countless bicyclists and joggers, pot everywhere, some alcohol (but not much), people making their own music, singing, laughing - it was great. There were no police most of the time, just not really needed - the crowd did not tolerate troublemakers. You got the impression that everybody knew everyone. I saw Outlaws helping another rider fix a flat tire. There was an area where people brought custom cars and motorcycles, a car show every week. EVERYBODY got along. Nobody sitting on a bench with a cellphone taking all there attention, noone passing others without a smile or even looking at the stranger. It all changed one Sunday in the 80's when a car caught fire at the first lookout and it took hours for a fire engine to get up the hill. The next week there was a barricade at the bottom. Paradise lost. The Amphitheater - the old amphitheater was very small, no walls, no gate, anybody could come in, find a seat, maybe watch a bunch of stoners acting out Shakespeare, making up most of the lines. In all the Sundays I spent there I never saw a fight, and heard few cross words. You could drive your car all the way to the north lookout. Now you can't even drive the loop around the park. I don't go there now. Maybe it's because I remember what it used to be. OZ is gone.

@robertoluis3598 20 дней назад

I knew a 17 year old boy that killed a girl there went to prison but I think he is out now .

@Bampitas74ps Год назад

The gentleman’s voice sounds just like my cousin, Christopher. He lives up in Louisville. Lol. Sounds just like him.

@jason00121 Год назад

You did not mention the fratracide, and precedent changing legal settlement that led to the land being sold to the city.

@thevideozone Год назад

When I was doing the research for the video I came across the information about how the mayor originally purchased the land and the politics involved, but I left it out since I was more focused on the park’s age and physical attributes. Maybe at some point point I’ll try to do a proper historical account of the park. I’m not sure what the fratricide is being referenced. Unfortunately a lot of news stories around things happening in the park before the early 2000’s or 2010’s are not super easy to find online. Since I was putting together a video about how the park had a dark side, I didn’t think I needed to include every incident that ever happened, just enough to establish the pattern, so I mostly had more recent stories. If I was doing an actual documentary, or longer video I would have tried to get into contract with a historian or spend time at the library researching old news papers. I tried to find confirmation that people at some point lived at the top of the park to provide some confirmation the urban legends around the ghost woman were even possible, but I couldn’t find anything.

@jason00121 Год назад

@@thevideozone my grandmothers grandfather apparently was the oldest and inherited the family farm. He was murdered by his brothers. His widow fought for the property in court and was the first case in which property was awarded to a woman over surviving male siblings. She then turned and sold it at first opportunity. I don’t recall her or her husbands name off the top of my head, but the event was referenced in the book “the churchman’s of Kentucky” which claimed it as a suicide.

@thevideozone Год назад

That is very interesting, and I’m sure there is plenty of tragedy like that across time. I’ll have to look into that book.

@larryhillebrand5421 Месяц назад

I was at that park throughout the 80s it was where all young people showed off there cars an hung out an that was everyday of the week the cars would be lined up off the new cut Rd an traffic backed up all the way around the park the only problem I ever had was my car over heating or police running us off so all threw the park on both sides of the road peaple were parked an when we did get run off we all went to greenwood boat docks til they ran us off the alot of us went to family billiard game room on Preston hwy looking back at it now the police ran us off an there was no guns being shot no fights no crimes happening an they still ran us off an today peaple do whatever they want an police hav no authority how did this ever happen any I never saw anything ghostly or nothing out of ordinary

@CrookedShoeTales 2 года назад

So have you already covered the goat man trestle situation? Also, Shawnee and Cher park are also haunted. But if you want the REAL scares go to sleepy Hollow road.

@thevideozone 2 года назад

I have done a video doing some exploration around Pope Lick (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hx0QZqs5v34.html), and I also explored Sleepy Hollow Road on a motorcycle (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yJf0NIaZGTE.html) and had done a shorter video about that as well. Sleepy Hollow road is kind of tough to investigate, as you can’t really get out and explore much as there are no sidewalks and it’s mostly all private property, and you don’t really want to walk on that road on foot, especially at night time. I had planned on doing a video about Cherokee Park at some point, as well as Tom Sawyer park covering the old Lakeland Asylum.

@SuzyQ1956 Год назад

Do they not have open carry law in Kentucky? Thank goodness, Virginia is open carry. It looks so creepy, lived near there in the 70’s.

@thevideozone 11 месяцев назад

They do have open carry laws here, but most of the more recent events seemed to involve guns, so not sure if that would have helped much in those instances. Luckily the park is overall safe, with unfortunate acts occurring occasionally.

@loupremo 2 года назад

its a good park i love riding my bike there up the hill and then racing back down at 20 mph

@thevideozone 2 года назад

It is a fun park, when I was in high school my friends and I would take skateboards and stuff up there and ride down from the top, you could go pretty fast!

@mybikerides1069 2 года назад

Wow, if there was ever evidence that carrying a pocket knife is good for your hhealth, this is it.

@georgemikkelsen8973 2 года назад

Up there almost everyday. Very nice park I have seen some weird shadows. Heard some weird sounds. But beautiful park.

@sonnylew1113 2 года назад

Honestly I'd say don't go at night rumors about a cult or even ghosts coming out at night

@bretttownsend6495 4 месяца назад

They need to station one cruiser there every day ,then a night shift unit

@trentmills6219 2 года назад

My wife friend daughter was murdered in Iroquois Park.

@thevideozone 2 года назад

Sadly, a large park within a city allows for things to happen since you can be relatively isolated, even though you’re within a few minutes of a major road via car. Sorry for the friend’s loss.

@cousindeedee9803 2 года назад

My great nephew's dad was the 26 year old in the red.. Sleep peacefully Dj.

@thevideozone 2 года назад

Sorry for your loss, it’s always so tragic to lose someone to violence like that.

@JakeWheat 2 года назад

1:17 Did you say archery ranges while showing the climbing wall for kids? LMAO - then you say playground equipment. I laughed at this way too hard.

@thevideozone 2 года назад

When editing this, I realized that there wasn’t usable b-roll footage of everything mentioned, so for a few things I had the voice over for a few things run over a single bit of footage, maybe that wouldn’t have been as jarring there if I flipped the order of the dialogue and had it say playground equipment first, haha.

@JakeWheat 2 года назад

@@thevideozone I am kidding with you, as you did a great job! I walk there every day, and when I pass that I am now going to laugh and say -- that is the archery range! :) LOL! jk

@thevideozone 2 года назад

Ha, well glad to provide some entertainment! I have gone up to the park recently some as well to hike up to the outlook.

@annmcgruder8770 Год назад

Lol I thought it was just me maybe he made a mistake

@donnafoley8431 Год назад

😂😂😂

@julianregnier9764 2 года назад

i'll never buy Liberty after all the commercials

@markd1199 Год назад

Oh. I am taking my kids there today. No worries

@thevideozone Год назад

I have gone there for years without issue at least. The worst thing that I have run into would be unleashed dogs.

@BigSadClown Год назад

MY FUCKING PARK IS HAUNTED GREAAAAATTTTTT

@crypticdimensionsparanormal 4 месяца назад

We will see. Sceptical people. Coming there soon. And this is a true case

@thevideozone 4 месяца назад

If you’re wanting to explore the top at night, you’ll have to park at the bottom and walk up to the top, even on days when the top is open, they close the gates at sunset.

@guykiernan537 Год назад

I went to high school with Mike Lockhart. Sad stuff.

@thevideozone Год назад

It's always crazy when things like that happen, just sad all around.

@guykiernan537 Год назад

@@thevideozone He was incredibly popular and had such a bright future and threw it all away. He could've been super successful in life.

@223twan5 Год назад

@@guykiernan537 his sister is my big cousin heard he was a good basketball player shit crazy

@guykiernan537 Год назад

@@223twan5 He was a GREAT basketball player. I swear I believe if he would've worked as hard as he did on the basketball court in high school and put on a little bit of muscle he could've been a first round draft pick in the NBA.

@eunicestone838 2 года назад

All the parks are given Indian names. Cherokee. Iroquois. Shawnee. Etc

@thevideozone 2 года назад

6 of the Olmsted designed parks were named after Native American tribes, so it definitely seemed rather intentional. There’s also even the Indian Hills neighborhood where a lot of the roads have stereotypical names like Tomahawk Rd and Arrowhead Rd.

@pasthuman Год назад

An old acquaintance of mine who was living in the park told me about how'd he hear a few little girls talking off in the not so far distance up on top of the hill. Do I believe him...idk.. not really...think he was methed up.

@thevideozone Год назад

Sound can carry pretty far when you’re on top of a hill like that, so it wouldn’t be crazy to hear someone talking who is actually pretty far away.

@pasthuman Год назад

@@thevideozone he was pretty specific with me describing his alleged encounter, said it happened a few times when he was up there alone...however the guy is one of tall tales so idk I've never seen or heard a ghost in my life.

@CountessKitten Год назад

Sounds about right for a homeless Louisvillian living in Iroquois Park. 😂🤣

@pasthuman Год назад

@@CountessKitten well yeah but that park does have a dark history...idk I'm willing to bet his brain is just methed up though at this point so I didn't believe him. I've personally never encountered any ghost or the sort so also as to why I'm not inclined to buy his story.

@MARKBART02 Год назад

Live near there and played basketball and other events there and never liked spending to much time up there after dark and was told as a kid the grounds were cursed by the Indians

@anthonysmith3442 Год назад

In the late 70's a young lady comitted took her own life near the playground with a hand gun.

@thevideozone Год назад

Unfortunately a number of people have probably taken their life in the park. I think news channels and newspapers tend to not report on suicides unless they’re high profile, so there probably wouldn’t be an easy way to see just how many have happened. Hopefully there haven’t actually been many though.

@EtherealAiArt313 10 месяцев назад

Where are the ancient wall

@thevideozone 10 месяцев назад

Are there stories about an old wall there? I think most parts of the park date back at the oldest to when the park first opened, but a lot has been updated over the years.

@Brooklyn-fg6ns 2 месяца назад

You’re brave asf for going up there at night alone 😳 man did you forget where you were? 😂

@thevideozone 2 месяца назад

Since the road to the top is typically closed, there aren’t usually many people at the top at night most days. When recording this, I did run into a person or two, but they were just walking their dogs. I wouldn’t recommend most people go walking alone in parks at night regardless of location, but I wasn’t too concerned since I was on the scooter that could do around 20 mph.

@E.C.2 4 месяца назад

I'm burying a few Latin blessed St Benedict medals in this park. Some apparitions are Holy Souls in Purgatory appearing so we'll have a Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for their Soul.

@lannlann 3 месяца назад

Urban achievers dump their bodies there.

@user-fw5ti1en4b 4 месяца назад

Russians bit me from Shenandoah county

@davidrice3337 2 месяца назад

Ive been all over Iroquois park and I've never seen anything supernatural - thats a bunch of BS

@thevideozone 2 месяца назад

I am incredibly skeptical of anything paranormal or supernatural myself, but I do find it interesting and figured it would be worth it to cover the urban legend related to the park that had been shared for decades.

@bobhimself2590 Год назад

Too bad it's in the ghetto and not very well maintained.

@CountessKitten Год назад

You're wrong. It's NOT in the ghetto, it's MY HOME, AND IT IS MAINTAINED FINE.

@bobhimself2590 Год назад

@SweetJustice ⚖️ I don't know what kind of drugs you have to take to think that's a nice part of town but people out there are probably doing it what ever it is. The park is ghetto, the overlook is always blocked off it's too crowed and despite being In the ghetto is has plenty of old people, middle age losers and karen types walking around staring at everyone just like everywhere else in looserville.