The Dead Man’s Ultimatum

When convicted murderer William Van Dalsen walked calmly to the Louisville gallows in 1905, his eerie lack of fear stunned guards and doctors alike—a quiet composure fueled by a sudden, eleventh-hour conversion to Catholicism. But the real horror began days after his execution. Past midnight, a young Baptist woman named Ethel Gentry—who had visited him shortly before he died—woke to find a glowing, luminescent figure standing beside her bed, tugging at her blankets and speaking in a cold, unnatural whisper. Night after night, the apparition returned with a relentless supernatural ultimatum: she must convert to the Catholic faith, or he would never leave her in peace. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy uncovers the bizarre Louisville haunting of Ethel Gentry and the chilling bargain that silenced an executed killer's spirit the moment his final demand was fulfilled.

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