Conrad-Caldwell House Museum

The Conrad-Caldwell House was built in 1893 in Old Louisville for tanner Theophilus Conrad, who died in 1905, and the Caldwell family lived in it for about 35 years after that. From 1947 to 1987 it was a Presbyterian retirement home, and since 1987 the St. James Court Historic Foundation has run it as a museum. Ghost author David Dominé has written that Conrad, who by his account died on the staircase, appears as a misty man with a goatee who wags a finger and vanishes. Executive director Kate Meador has said staff believe three women from the retirement-home years remain in the house and get upset when things are moved, and Beth Caldwell, a descendant of the Caldwell family, described balls of light and a voice that warned a housekeeper about an open window. The museum itself promotes the haunting, noting more than 40 deaths in the house and running after-dark paranormal investigations.