Downtown Lexington historic district · Lexington's 19th-century cholera epidemics
Bites of the Bluegrass runs a slate of downtown Lexington food-and-history walking tours, including a Downtown Walking Food & History Tour, a Distillery District tour, and a Cocktails + Bites tour, alongside the Haunted by History: True Crime Walking Dinner Tour. The haunted product meets at Bourbon on Rye on West Main Street and combines a pre-ordered farm-to-table meal with storytelling about Lexington's limestone bedrock -- which local folklore holds can act as 'a portal between worlds' -- along with true-crime history covering serial killers who passed through the city, horses buried beneath downtown streets, unsolved murders, and cholera-era graves.
The tour is developed by Hangout Creative and runs on select dates (Thursdays and Fridays) rather than nightly, with private and corporate bookings available separately.
Sources
- https://bitesofthebluegrass.com/
- https://bitesofthebluegrass.com/tours/haunted-lexington-tour/
- https://www.visitlex.com/listing/bites-of-the-bluegrass/7826/
Local LegendPurported Paranormal Activity
The operator's own site frames the tour around Lexington's 'limestone foundation -- and the long-held belief that limestone can act as a portal between worlds,' alongside stories of 'serial killers who passed through town, the horses buried beneath our streets, unsolved murders, cholera graves,' and venues along the route described as having 'purported paranormal activity.'
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
