The Starving Woman

There is an old haunted house in the southern portion of Barren County near the Austin community. It is said that an old woman whose name was Stephens starved to death while living alone there. When she was dying someone gave her a piece of cornbread. She grabbed it and ate it like she was starving. The old lady was laid to rest in a nearby graveyard, but her haint continued to plague the old house as rattling dishes and strange noises.

The hungry supernatural creature was finally quieted by a subsequent family of residents who moved in after others had been frightened away. "Go ahead and eat all you want, Miz Stephens," they would say to her, as she moved about the kitchen foraging through the dishes and utensils. Eventually, the noises ceased as the appeased spirit returned to the graveyard.