Lexington
The Burl
The Burl operates inside a 1926 freight-loading building in Lexington's Distillery District, with the original wood frame and open ceiling intact under a bar, beer garden, and a 300-capacity stage. The room books local-friendly nights and national-club tours through the week, sized so the bar, the stage, and the side patio all feel like part of the same set.
// prior contact
The Stanford abductions, January 6, 1976
Forty miles south of this venue, on the night of Mona Stafford's thirty-sixth birthday, Stafford, Louise Smith, and Elaine Thomas left a restaurant near Stanford, Kentucky and lost roughly ninety minutes on Highway 78 to a red-lit object they described as bigger than two houses. Six months later in Lexington, Detective James Young of the Lexington Police Department administered polygraphs to all three women, and all three passed. The case is the one Allen Hynek's CUFOS and the APRO investigated in parallel, and it sits in the US record as one of the best-documented multiple-witness abductions ever filed.
- abduction
- government
capacity
300
year opened
2016
venue type
club
doors
tba
// market
Lexington-Fayette, KY MSA
city
329,437
2024 est.
metro
535,174
2024 est.
// coordinates
375 Thompson Rd, Lexington, KY 40508
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