Speed Art Museum

The Speed Art Museum in Louisville was founded in 1927 by Hattie Bishop Speed, who died in 1942, and some staff say her presence remains. Accounts describe a woman in a white dress moving through the galleries, and shadowy figures or things moving at the edge of vision. The museum acknowledged the lore in its Supernatural America exhibition, where a bottle of spirit water collected by artist J. B. Murray appeared to jump on its pedestal at a members' preview. The stories have been covered by Louisville public radio and Hyperallergic. They are employee anecdotes rather than formal investigations, and the museum treats them with good humor.