This story dates back to 1970, when I was just 18 years old. I will not give my name because people never believed me, and I did not even live there. I was only visiting my buddy, R.M. It has long been said by some that this was one of the most haunted hollows in West Virginia, and from everything I heard, it seemed to have a dark history.
To get into Turkey Creek, you had to cross an old bridge that many people claimed was haunted. Late one night, I saw a faceless woman hitchhiking there. She was wearing a red nightgown, and she appeared to be Mexican. People said she roamed the bridge late at night, usually between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., either trying to get a ride or appearing suddenly in the middle of the road.
R.M. once told me that one of his neighbors had married a Mexican woman named Isabella and treated her like a slave. According to the story, his two sons also abused her. One night, she escaped from the head of the hollow and walked down to the bridge around 3:00 a.m. She could not get anyone at the houses to help her, so she went to the bridge hoping to get a ride from someone heading to work. Supposedly, a panther got to her there and tore up her face so badly that she was unrecognizable.
What I know is this. She appeared right in front of me while I was driving, and when my truck hit her, she vanished.
I heard plenty of other stories from up there too. People talked about a ghostly man who would chase you from the Spaulding place to the Morgans. They said that above the old Van place, strange noises could be heard. At the head of the hollow, down in the creek, there was also said to be the ghost of a woman who drowned.
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