The Down Under - Covington, Ky

The historic City of Covington has many stories to tell. Founded in 1815, the spirit of the city grew significantly during the 19th century as German immigrants moved here creating diverse and distinct neighborhoods. This growth opened the door to new manufacturing and local merchants who situated themselves within the first commercial center of the city – between Third & Fourth Streets near Greenup and Scott Streets. With close proximity to the courthouse and the post office, the businesses, public market and retail stores in this area flourished as the city grew. Today this area is still very diverse with multiple restaurants and bars all overlooking another historical landmark, the Roebling Suspension Bridge.

The historical energy of a growing river city is a ghost hunter’s dream. There are two types of hauntings that can exist in this environment – Residual and Intelligent. A Residual haunting is like a movie clip that is replayed over and over again. The spirit entity cannot interact with a person. It performs the same action – like walking through a room – over and over again with no reaction to someone else in the room with it. This type of haunting can also manifest itself with a certain smell, such as cigar smoke, or with noises, like footsteps in a high traffic area or people talking. An Intelligent haunting is one where the entity will respond to you when you ask it a question or seek a response. These are the most fun for ghost hunters because the response can come in any form. It can come in audible sounds, moving objects or even temperature changes. Most often an intelligent haunting can be picked up on video recorders or on audio recording devices such as an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Question and answer sessions with an intelligent haunting can aid in discovering more about the spirit and the location that is being investigated. Since everyone has access to some kind of recording device, it is the quickest method of investigation for anyone who may want to research unusual events that occur at their location. As a ghost hunter, it is always a win-win situation whenever one of these types of hauntings exists.

Our next paranormal investigation took us right into the historical business center of Covington - The Down Under Restaurant & Tavern located at 128 Park Place. The lot, which sits on the corner of Park and Court, was initially used as a horse livery in the 19th century. The current structure was built for The Union Light, Heat and Power Company in the early 1900’s. After 1950 it was remodeled for additional office space and a bar/restaurant moved into the basement of the building where the Down Under now resides. Since the building has been used for a variety of purposes throughout the years, there are bound to be residual and intelligent spirit energy at this location. Amy, the owner of the Down Under, provided us with many stories of apparitions, voices and unexplained sounds that she and her staff have experienced over the years.


On the early morning of August 8th, our investigative team included Rita Volz, Jayme Cundiff, Laura Stupak, Robin Ahrens and Reverend Dan Dunham, medium. Dan has been on several of our investigations and always provides some interesting “behind the scenes” information that our cameras and audio recorders fail to pick up. Dan sensed a lot of residual energy at the Down Under specifically in the back rooms and entry ways. As our investigation progressed, Dan was able to identify a specific male spirit that was associated with an occupation connected with horses or automobiles. This corresponds to the location’s original business of a livery back in the late 1800’s. Dan states that this male presence is one that died there and it feels at home at this location. We were unable to pick up any audio recordings from this spirit and historically, we were unable to find any newspaper articles about a death at this location. This isn’t unusual based on the type of news coverage that was reported at that time.


We used a variety of devices to capture paranormal events that morning. We placed several cameras and audio recorders throughout the restaurant. Temperature gauges and motion detectors were also used. While we are still researching the hours of audio and video we collected that morning, our preliminary findings lead us to believe that the Down Under undoubtedly has spirits who reside there. Some of those spirits want to be there and some that are trapped there because of past events that hold them to the site.

The Down Under is a unique establishment with lots of history. Experience it for yourself and who knows, you may have someone sitting right next to you and not even know it!

Upcoming investigations

What does the Spring and Summer hold for PIC? Lots of interesting investigations that's for sure! We continue to accept more investigations in Covington Ky and continue to contribute to our column in The Village Breeze. We are actively working on a few new locations as we speak and will have more to report on in the next month!

If you would like for us to investigate your location, free of charge, please contact us at ghosthunters@paranormalcincy.com.

The Village Breeze

The latest edition of The Village Breeze is in circulation in Covington, Kentucky. I don't think they have an online edition as of yet but you should be able to find a copy of this newspaper in any establishment in downtown Covington.

Our new column is called "The Ghosts of Mainstrasse Village". We will be writing of our paranormal investigations about every four months or so. It is very exciting for us to be involved in this local publication. The City of Covington is filled with so much history and it is a great walking city to explore on a nice afternoon.

Our next investigation will be at the La Cherie Bistro at 522 Main Street. La Cheri is a fabulous place to grab a quick bite to eat for breakfast or lunch. Check out their menu on Urbanspoon!

More to come on La Cherie in the near future!

Tis the season

We have once again entered the last few months of the year and things have been very busy around the PIC team! After sharing our investigation results with Rosie's tavern owner, Diane, we were allowed back for a follow-up investigation.

This past weekend we spent another three hours in Rosie's with additional recording devices on hand to gather more credible information than our first visit. We also were very fortunate to have Dan D. with us for our follow-up. Dan is a medium and is very attuned to the paranormal energy that surrounds all of us. With his assistance, we were able to isolate the particular entities that inhabit the areas of the building - the bar area and the apartment areas.What a wealth of information he was able to share with us on our walk through! We are very fortunate to have Dan in our midst and we look forward to working with him again in the future.

Our review of the audio and video are ongoing and we expect to have that completed by the end of the holiday season so we can provide all of the additional information to Diane.

More news.....we have been asked to write a column for a local paper in Covington called The Village Breeze. In this column we will discuss each of our investigations and talk a little about ourselves and what we do as a team. Look for the next issue to be released sometime in December! We are so excited to be participating in such a fine local publication.

One last thing.....follow us on Twitter! @Paranormalcincy

Comings and Goings

A few months have slipped by and we have lots to update.


Let's begin with Scarefest! Wow.....what an event that was in Lexington! There were above average crowds on Friday and Saturday! I must admit there were a few of the horror celebrities that I would not know if I passed them on the street. However, I am now educated and really enjoyed a few of them. In particular, Gunnar Hansen (from Texas Chainsaw), who had a great dry sense of humor. A real charming guy outside of the movies! As with Gunnar, the celebrities and vendors all had high praise for the volunteers at the event. Take a look at the following video produced by Infernal Dreams! A great time and I look forward to volunteering again next year!


Our latest investigation took us to Rosie's Tavern on Bakewell Street in Covington Kentucky. The building itself has been around since the early beginnings of Cincinnati and Covington - late 1700's. As the years progressed, the building was used primarily as a boarding house on the 2nd and 3rd floors and a tavern on the first floor. During the prohibition years in the early 1900s it became part of the local grocery chain called Kroger. Once prohibition ended, it became a tavern owned by several different people over the years. Covington Ky also has a lengthy history of gambling establishments. This building was reported to contain slot machines as early as the 1950's when it was the Tiny Mite Social Club - Tiny's for short.


We spent approximately 3 hours in the building and managed to walk away with two credible EVPs from the basement. We were able to hear other voice noises on the recorder but nothing that we could isolate as a word or a phrase. We are meeting with the owner of the establishment this week to review our findings. It was a great opportunity for us because all members of our team have been visitors to this tavern at one time or another.


We are currently working on our logo for the team. We have found that a refresh is in order and we have a few rough drafts created that might just do the trick!

We are looking for another investigation opportunity! We have a few new members who are able to join our team and we would love to put their investigation expertise to good use!


If you know of anyone who would be interested in our FREE investigation, please contact us by the email on this site. We pride ourselves on our professionalism and our research in regards to every location we investigate.