Witch Child of Pilot’s Knob
The Witch Child of Pilot's Knob is an urban legend from Kentucky, United States. It tells of a five-year-old girl named Mary Evelyn Ford and her mother, Mary Louise Ford, being burned at the stake in the 1900s for practicing witchcraft in the town of Marion, Kentucky. The story has no basis in fact.
What awaits
Legend. A long-standing local legend holds that Witch Child of Pilot’s Knob is haunted. The Haunted Guide carries it as local legend, not as record.
Sources: Wikipedia: Witch Child of Pilot’s Knob.
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