Halloween is the perfect time for a good ghost story, and even country music legends have a few spine-tingling tales up their sleeves.
The late Dolly Parton once recalled a particularly unsettling experience from her early days in Nashville, when she and her husband, Carl Dean, began hearing mysterious noises inside their home.
And what happened next was enough to leave the “Jolene” singer wondering whether something supernatural was at play.
In her 1994 autobiography, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business, Parton explained that she and Dean had shared their home with her longtime friend Judy Ogle and several of the singer’s siblings.
One evening, while the others were visiting family in East Tennessee, the couple settled in for a quiet night.
Or so they thought.
“One night we locked the doors and windows, as we routinely did when living in the city, and went off to bed. We soon began to hear noises in the kitchen. We heard the familiar sounds of cabinets opening and water running,” she wrote.
Parton admitted she wasn’t concerned initially, thinking Ogle and her siblings had already returned, writing, “We weren’t too disturbed because we knew Judy had a key.”
But the noises didn’t stop, as the couple heard footsteps climbing the stairs, followed by the sound of water running in the upstairs bathroom. Parton brushed it off and went back to sleep.
Hours later, however, things took a decidedly creepier turn.
“In the wee hours of the morning, I got up to weewee. Just as I entered the bathroom, the hot water came on full force, all by itself,” she wrote, revealing she “screamed in horror” and “Carl came running.”
“Now, that was a hard faucet to turn on anyway, and it always took a while for the water to heat up. I was scared,” she elaborated as to why the incident was especially unsettling.
The couple soon realized they were still alone in the house.
Naturally, there could be many explanations, including rats and plumbing problems; they never determined the cause of the mysterious activity that gave them quite a fright that night.
It wasn’t their only spiritual encounter either.
Parton’s aunt, Dorothy Jo, described sensing the presence of her recently deceased mother, Rena, around the same time. She also discovered an open kitchen window the following morning.
“She said, ‘I believe that Mama visited me last night,'” she recalled.
For Parton, the experiences strengthened her belief that the spiritual world might be closer than people realize.
“I still don’t know what happened,” she explained in her memoir, adding that it made her “feel that much more certain that there are spirits and angels with us.”
“I’ll leave it to you to figure out,” she concluded to fans.
Whether it was an unexplained plumbing problem or something more mysterious, it’s certainly a ghost story worthy of spooky season.
Years later, Partons released a song, “These Old Bones, about a psychic mountain woman who told people their fortunes, on her 2002 Halos & Horns album.
Per SongFacts, she “created this old woman who lived up in the woods that everybody was afraid of. They thought she was witchy. I sang the old lady’s part in the song, the way my Mom and my aunts would sing. So that song is real special to me.”
Parton died on Aug. 25, 2026, at the age of 80, while Carl Dean passed away a year prior, on March 3, 2025, at 82.
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