#bobby mackeys

[geeknik]

31 Days of Halloween: Day 20, The Haunting Harmonies of Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder, KY

On Day 20 of our sinister sojourn, we traverse the haunting halls of Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder, KY. This ominous nightclub, with its dark history stretching back to the 19th century, harbors chilling tales that vibrate to the rhythm of ghostly tunes. As we delve into its eerie past, we’ll uncover how each chord strummed within its walls resonates with the whispers of bygone souls.

Historical Background

Bobby Mackey’s Music World, dubbed as “the most haunted nightclub in America,” has a macabre past that predates its musical era. Initially, the site housed a slaughterhouse in the early 19th century, whose remnants faded with the construction of a roadhouse. Over time, the establishment morphed identities, adopting various names like The Brisbane, until country singer Bobby Mackey took ownership in 1978. However, the dark aura from its sinister past refused to fade. Before its musical reinvention, the mob claimed ownership of the club during the 1940s and 50s, adding a touch of nefarious dealings to its already dark history.

Haunting Tales

The ghostly lore surrounding Bobby Mackey’s Music World is as diverse as its historical metamorphosis. The ghastly tale of Pearl Bryan, a young woman who met a horrifying end in 1896, casts a long, eerie shadow over the nightclub. Her headless body was discovered near the establishment, with the perpetrators of the gruesome crime alleged to be Satan worshippers. This sinister event left an indelible mark on the club’s spectral ambiance, with many attributing the malevolent activities within its halls to this dark chapter of its history.

Exploring Bobby Mackey’s Music World

For those seeking to dance with the phantoms of the past, Bobby Mackey’s Music World offers a hauntingly unique experience. Paranormal enthusiasts can embark on a ghostly expedition with a private, five-hour investigation for a fee. Partnered with Gatekeeper Paranormal, the tour grants the brave an opportunity to explore the nightclub’s eerie corners following a brief induction. Amidst the ghostly echoes and chilling tales, the nightclub continues to serenade the living and the dead with its country tunes, making each visit a chilling blend of music and mystery.

Conclusion

As we conclude Day 20 of our spectral journey, Bobby Mackey’s Music World stands as a chilling testimony to the everlasting dance between the living and the supernatural. Its haunted halls beckon the brave to delve into its sinister past, to sway to the rhythm of its ghostly tunes, and to unmask the eerie tales that lurk behind every chord. Venture into its haunted domain, tune into its ghostly harmonies, and perhaps, dance with the phantoms that refuse to leave the dance floor.

[perfectlysunny02]

Something that bugs me the most about the lawsuit arc is that Bobby faced no ramifications from the department for misrepresenting them.

He was suspended at the end of s2 for lying to the department and not disclosing his background over everything in Minnesota.

Then he lies to Buck saying it was the department holding him back. Bobby holds direct blame for opening the department up to the lawsuit.

And the fact he was able to actively retaliate against Buck when he was reinstated? He should have lost his position as captain, if not his job in the fire department for that.

I so wish they'd run the story using the line that firefighting is a union job. The union would have been on Buck's side and fought for Bobby to face the consequences of his actions.

But disney owned property would never show unions in a good light.

you're right and honestly you should say it more.

it's really annoying actually because there seems to be this general fandom consensus that Buck was in the wrong and everyone else was in the right. When that's simply not the case.

Say what you want about Chase Mackey, the guy was a phenomenal lawyer, and he did his job. Sure, he might not have had Buck's wishes at heart, but he did his job and he did it well. Even if Buck didn't tell him about the coworker stuff, he would've found it. Everyone was mad that Buck told Chase about everything, but Chimney was literally stabbed in the brain and was allowed back in weeks. Eddie was spiraling, literally spiraling and Bobby was like "Oh he's fine!" That man was not fine. He wasn't anywhere close to fine either. He was grieving and angry, and he joined an illegal fighting ring.

Everyone also likes to say Buck abandoned Chirs. Chris is seven or eight years old, he doesn't have a phone, and Buck isn't allowed to talk to his dad. What exactly do you guys expect Buck to do in that situation? Chris is a minor, Buck isn't allowed to talk to the person in charge of Chris, and Eddie is so pissed that Buck would've probably been better off not trying. He even offers to talk to him in the grocery store and Eddie proceeds to be so fucking mean and condescending towards Buck, meanwhile, Eddie had just spent the night in jail for assault (the dude deserved it for being ableist but still). Buck fought through a tsunami on blood thinners and was injured for that kid. He would not have abandoned Chris.

I'm a 118 apologist. The 118 can do no wrong in my eyes. I close them whenever they're doing some fuck shit, but this I can't excuse. It's trash, and then the fact that they ostracized him later at work?? Hen and Chimney know what that's like better than anyone and they proceeded to do it to him. He didn't even sue Eddie, Chim, or Hen, and they acted like he did.

I don't know, I find the whole thing messy and gross, and I just don't agree with the idea that Buck was in the wrong. The only thing he was wrong about was not going through the union but like you said, this is Disney and Disney hates unions.

[vaporlocke81]

Today's Tarot: The Lovers § HARMONY

[ken-hutchinson]

amir survivng for ten years, not knowing anything about what happened to robert nash. he's going through the motions, day by day. it's hazy and it's gray and he buries the thoughts of his family deep inside where no one, not even himself, can touch them.

it all changes one day.

he's on shift at the local hospital. it's been a good shift, despite the snow related injuries. He's filling out some charts on the computer when a man dressed in a gray suit walks toward the front. He's skinny and he feels off. He's about to call security when the man opens his mouth.

"Hi Amir, my name is Chase Mackey, and I have some information about Robert Nash."

[julystruck]

Nothing says I miss you quite like “I’m running out of time”

[whitepolaris]

Demolishing a building won't erase the ghosts.

[you-me-we-04]

Just watch a video that mid way kinda just implies that Nick Groff is trauma bonded to Bobby Mackey's Music World and then quickly moves on so I paused the video and spent 5 minutes starting into the sun

[patrickjesson]

Sharing some older paintings I’ve made. This one is of the very haunted Bobby Mackey’s Music World, made even more famous by the show ‘Ghost Adventures.’ Unfortunately, the building is soon to be torn down. I made this with acrylic paints on canvas.

[vaporlocke81]

Today's Tarot: Four of Wands § REUNION - art by @benjaminmackey -

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

People Helpless And Unable To Walk Being TERRORIZED By DEMONS! | TRIPLE EPISODE! | A Haunting

[fandom-madness69]

Every Ghost Adventures fan with a Xitter account RUN do not walk SPRINT to this tweet

Secure us another episode at Bobby Mackey's!!!!

[smidgen-of-hotboy]

<3<3

Rn I've gone back to listening to "Constant State of Ohio" by Lincoln, sad songs about lost opportunity and lost love. It's only 5 songs. It means everything to me.

@gwenlena @kitsuna21-alt @waters-and-the-wilde no pressure ;)

EVERYONE GIMME AN ALBUM U REALLY LIKE AND PASS IT ON PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

I'll go first, 666 by Aphrodite's Child :)

@leahandherstuff @lichenstone @sotalia-fluviatilis @field-cryptobotanist @forflightlessbirds @bat-luun @theoneandonlywinnie

[screaming-universe]

Bashing Fics in the 9-1-1 Fandom

Inspired by @beforeastorm‘s very neat look at 9-1-1 bashing fics in August and in September 2024, I took another look at the numbers yesterday (23rd January 2025) and… it’s been interesting.

Methods and materials:

For that I selected the 9-1-1 (TV) tag on ao3 while logged into my account and thereby ensuring I would see both public and locked fics; beforeastorm only considered public fics so by god I hope that some of the increases can be explained by that. Then I used the Include filter function to search for [Character Name] Bashing. Where this returned nothing I employed the Search within result function to search for “[character name] bashing”, trying out variations (last or first or nickname). To double-check I also did this search for characters with established bashing tags, using the Exclude filter to ensure that I would not count any fic twice.

Some characters have a bashing tag for themselves and a couple bashing tag. For example: if you search for Margaret Buckley Bashing, you will be offered two tag: Margaret Buckley Bashing and Margaret Buckley and Phillip Buckley Bashing. As far as I could tell, searching for the individual bashing tag also always counts the couple bashing tag, so the couple bashing tags could be disregarded. A list of the characters I looked at is under the cut.

The numbers were collected in an excel file and assigned the characters categories: main (meaning main adult character), family, love interest and other. I also took note of the gender. I did some analysis in excel before having the smart idea that I might as well use this as a training exercise for R (and I am very bad at R).

Disclaimer: this will not include all bashing fics because sadly some people are not familiar with tagging or love letting people run into a fic they will not enjoy. Also while I much prefer it when people tag bashing, some are overly careful and may use bashing tags when not really needed. Still, I much prefer that to people not tagging.

Results:

Disappointing but hardly surprising at this point: the extremely dubious honour of being the most bashed character goes to Tommy Kinard with 660 bashing fics to his name. That obviously makes him the most bashed character of the love interest category, followed by Ana Flores (241) and then Taylor Kelly (118 ^^). The most bashed characters of the family category are the Buckley parents (347 and 325) followed by the Diaz parents (238 and 176), with the mothers being given more bashing fics than the fathers. In the other category, Vincent Gerrard leads with the 66 times his bashing tag was used. Chase Mackey is in third place with 26 fics, and in second place is the Firehouse 118 Crew (45) which probably could be rather counted to the main character category.

Which brings us to that category. Chimney has been bashed in 317 fics, making him the most bashed main character. Followed by Maddie with 223 fics and Bobby with 163. Out of all the main adult characters, Buck is the only one without an established bashing tag. There are 7 fics out there that you can find if you employ a variation of queries with his name + bashing; that is if I have made no mistake. Because honestly? Finding Buck bashing fics is hard. Athena and Buck are the only main characters with less than 10 bashing fics to their name.

Fig. 1: This fucking barplot was a pain to make but here we are! Characters on the y-axis and number of fics that use respective bashing tag on the x-axis. The total number of respective fics are shown next to the bars; colour indicates the category the characters have been placed in. Top: continuous x-axis to allow for an easier overview of the proportions of the bars, bottom: x-axis with a break to allow a closer look.

Dishonourable mention: why the fuck would anybody write a fic with Christopher bashing?

Honourable mentions: Boeing and dolphin bashing. It did make the otherwise pretty depression task of data collection much better.

Gender-wise there are more bashing fics about men (54.3%) than there about women (44.3%) (of course I did not look at every character so I will have missed a few bashing fics). If nobody was writing Tommy bashing fics, that would be flipped (male: 43.0%, female: 55.3%).

Fig. 2: A lovely pie-chart showing the bashing fics per gender, with male subdivided into Tommy, and the other male characters.

Which brings us to the tragedy that is the hate this fandom has for Tommy Kinard. If you add up all the bashing tags I found (which does not equal fics, some people are happily bashing away in their fics), then his account for about 20%. Which is insane, wtf.

Discussion:

This was really depressing tbh. I showed the bar plot to my sister and she asked me what bashing is. She’s been in fandom for years; she was in the supernatural fandom and has read fics and somehow I still had to explain bashing to her. So really: yay for us, this fandom really is something.

 If you look at beforeastorm’s tally from August, you’ll see that Tommy bashing fics began popping up in April 2024 and since then he has become the most bashed character (out of those I looked at, I’m pretty sure that this holds true).

Now you may be wondering why these characters are being bashed. Warning: the following part is based on my opinions. I did not read the fics of all 3291 bashing tag instances that I found.

In some cases it seems pretty straight forward: Vincent Gerrard, Chase Mackey, Doug Kendall and Olivia Ortiz need no further explanation. Other “villains” such as Jeffrey Hudson and Jonah Greenway have no bashing fics that I could find though.

The Buckley and Diaz parents getting bashed is also not surprising. Can’t say that I’m wild about it since my experience with reading fics that tag bashing was usually “here’s a random evil person I made up and then gave the name of an existing character”, but I understand where people are coming from.

Now the main characters… I’m just gonna say it: it’s people who have wronged Buck – according to some of the fandom at least. Chimney’s crime: the punch (no, I’m not defending it, but some people really have run with this). Maddie’s crime: not telling Buck about Daniel and then wanting to talk to him about it when he didn’t want to. Bobby’s crime: not allowing Buck back to work. Hen’s crime: idk, being Chimney’s bestie?

As for Eddie: I guess he’s a misogynist now, if you ask some people? Idk, it’s not like I read the summaries of all the fics because there are too many and also just no.

The love interests – which yes, in this case all happen to be Buck and Eddie’s love interests, imagine my surprise – happen to be “in the way” of shipping I guess. I did look at other love interest or ex-relationships and could find nothing.

Tommy’s crime: loving Evan.

Conclusion:

If you write bashing please keep tagging it.

Appendix:

All the characters I looked at: characters with no bashing fics I could find, characters with an established bashing tag, characters with no established bashing tag but bashing fics can be found

Main adult characters:

Athena Grant, Bobby Nash, Hen Wilson, Chimney Han, Evan Buckley, Eddie Diaz, Maddie Buckley.

Recurring characters, family:

Michael Grant, David Hale, May Grant, Harry Grant, Beatrice and Samuel Carter, Emmett Washington;

Marcy Nash, Tim Nash;

Karen Wilson, Denny Wilson, Antonia Wilson, Nia and Mara;

Albert Han, Chimney’s father/Sang Han, The Lees, Jee-Yun Buckley-Han;

Margaret Buckley, Phillip Buckley, Daniel Buckley, Doug Kendall;

Christopher Diaz, Isabel Diaz, Helena Diaz, Ramon Diaz.

Recurring characters, love interests:

Tommy Kinard, Natalia Dollenmeyer, Taylor Kelly, Lucy Donato, Ali Martin, Abby Clark;

Kim, Marisol, Ana Flores, Shannon Diaz;

Eva Mathis;

Tatiana.

Recurring characters, others:

Firehouse 118 Crew Bashing;

Chase Mackey, Vincent Gerrard, Jonah Greenway, Jeffrey Hudson, Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz;

Josh Russo, Lena Bosko, Ravi Panikkar, Claudette Collins, Brad Torrance;

Boeing, Dolphin.

[sethdomain]

I don’t know if you care for them or have as much interest in them as you used to 💔 but if you had to assign your clingyduo some songs, what would they be and why?

I still love them, but my dsmp interest has been visibly dwindling down. But, i cannot pass the chance to assign my clingyfaggots their song

Heres my song I associated with them

Are we still friend? By Tyler, The creator

Do I even need to say anything, this song is the one I've heavily associated with them. If i could i would have wanted to make an animation of them with this song. It capture the despairity in their relationship forced to be broken by the politics around them.(and of course the evil green man)

How I survived Bobby Mackey Personal Hell by Lincoln

This song really fit c!tommy way of thinking in exile with c!dream supposed 'theraphy' or 'rehabilation' fucking him up. This could be about his relationship and view of c!tubbo while in exile.

Andy, You're a Star by The killers

C!Tubbo infatuation for c!Tommy 😁😁

Theophobia by ROAR

C!clingy break up💔💔💔💔💔

I will never Forget by Kimya Dawson

c!clingyduo progression toward everything they've gone through and the other half sense of self-hatred and self-sacrifice for one another.

Such small hands by La dispute

Yearning and regret

I'll just list those songs since its the one on top of my head, they're all sad but im feeling like putting those songs there. Enjoy

[emgiehae]

Buddie Post-Lawsuit prompt: With medical bills and lawyer's fees piling up, Buck is in serious financial trouble and even though he's back to work, Bobby doesn't let him on calls or work the extra hours he needs. Chim and Hen are sympathetic but can't do much. Eddie stubbornly holds onto his hurt even though he is painfully missing Buck. In desperation, Buck makes the awful decision that he is gonna sell himself for some much needed money. He goes to a seedy part of town to do the deed, only to be spotted by a certain police sergeant/mama bear before he does anything illegal. Athena gets both a meal in him and the horrible truth out of him and she is absolutely appalled. She takes Buck home and in no uncertain terms kicks Bobby out with a glare and no explanation. Next day Bobby, Eddie, Hen, and Chim will all have to deal with hurricane Athena when she comes to the station to clue them in on what's been going on with Buck and tear everything and everyone apart for her boy. CUE THE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF HORROR AND GUILT AND BUCK NOT FORGIVING ANYONE EASILY!

HURRICANE ATHENA MOMMA BEARRRRRRRRRRR

tbh i love fics where buck has to move out from his loft to a shitty part of town cause the lawyer fees were too much (medical bills probably he hit the max for the year and so he's ok but LAWYER FEES? WITH MACKEY?? OUFFFF) and hhhhhhhhhhhhhh so much angst yes plz bring in athenaaa

TYSM ANON FOR THIS PROMPT.

I need to start a google sheet for all these prompts omg