Hulu's 'Living for the Dead' features Waverly Hills and Louisville Palace. What to expect
Just in time for the spooky season, Hulu has a new show with a major Kentucky connection.
"Living for the Dead" by executive producer and Academy Award nominee Kristen Stewart, features five queer ghost hunters as they investigate famed haunted locations around the U.S.
The eight-part docuseries includes a heavy pour of Kentucky with two of the spookiest locations featured in the series, Louisville’s own — Waverly Hills Sanatorium and the Louisville Palace Theater. Additionally, one of the main stars of this supernatural series is Ken Boggle, a tarot card reader and a proud Lexington, Kentucky resident.
"Going from a holler to Hulu has been mind-blowing," Boggle told the Courier Journal. "My granny taught me everything I know about spirits, reading tea leaves and tarot cards and all sorts of mountain witchy stuff."
The show's other four ghost hunters include Alex Le May (the tech expert,) Juju Bae (the resident witch,) Logan Taylor (the psychic), and Roz Hernandez (the paranormal researcher). In addition to executive producing the show with the creators of "Queer Eye," Stewart narrates each episode.
"It’s so cool and enlivening that me and my best friend CJ Romero had this funny idea and now it’s a show," Stewart said in a statement. "It started as a bit of a hypothetical silly pipe dream and now I am so proud to have shepherded something that is as moving and meaningful as it is truly a gay old time."
So true. This is no stuffy scientific ghost-hunting expedition, instead, the team of "Living For The Dead" crisscrosses the country in a camper van dressed in eccentric outfits. Exploring some of the world’s most infamous haunted locations the team visits the Copper Queen Hotel in Arizona, the Clown Hotel and The Palomino, in Nevada and the Louisville Palace and Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Kentucky.
"Personally I love Kentucky and it was very, very important to feature the state where I have lived my entire life on this show," said Boggle. "I am so proud of my culture and I hope that viewers from Kentucky will be proud when they see two locations on the show and a proud Kentucky boy in the cast."
Boggle pushed hard to get the show's producers to record episodes in the Bluegrass State and it paid off. At Waverly Hills Sanitarium, the team encountered a Louisville couple who have been living with unpleasant consequences from a previous visit to the haunted location.
"We want to improve the lives of the living as well as the dead," the Lexington-based tarot card reader told the Courier Journal. "I can't give away what happens but I can say that Waverly Hill Sanitarium is incredibly haunted and what occurs in our episode has never happened on any other paranormal television show."
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See for yourself when "Living For The Dead" debuts Wednesday, Oct. 18 as part of Hulu's “Huluween” programming.
As for Boggle, he hopes a second season of "Living For The Dead" is in the cards. In the meantime, he's putting the finishing touches on his autobiography "Becoming Ken Boggle" and is available for tarot card readings and classes to help you develop your psychic abilities. To find out more visit kenboggle.com.
Reach features reporter Kirby Adams at kadams@courier-journal.com.
This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: 'Living for the Dead' debuts on Hulu with Waverly Hills stop
