Dead Cranberry Coal Miner Still Walks The Tracks
This story takes place in Cranberry West Virginia, just outside of Beckley. When I was young growing up in Cranberry it was a favorite past time for all of the boys to walk the train tracks to Skelton and back. We would walk on the rail as long as...
Valentine Ghost
It was 1995 and I was 16 and had my first boyfriend, I'll call him James. James was 18 and had a 77 Charger and took me out to the Valentines dance at our high school. We had fun and James promised to have me home at 10. We said...
The Bleeding Floor
The house our grandmother was born in was the site of a grisly murder that resulted in the last public hanging in West Virginia history.
The murderer was John F. Morgan who took an axe and violently massacred the widow Green and her three children. The purpose of our story...
The Black Thing
In the southeast corner of Harrison County, WV there is a small little community called Johnstown. It has had a long history of travelers and merchant activity. This particular story takes place not long after the Civil War.
It was a time of traveling peddlers who went from place to...
Strange Encounters At Pipestem State Park
I do not know if I am the only person to ever see this, or if others have seen such things also.
I am a seasonal employee of Pipestem Resort State Park. The supervisors prefer to have guys work the night shifts whenever possible. For some reason, they think that...
The Baby
My mother-in-law used to live in a house at the junction of Rt. 7 and Rt. 20. Her youngest son was only a few months old and she would push his crib against the wall by the fireplace, so he wouldn't get cold in the wintertime.
She would walk into...
Strange Happenings In Panther
My name is Amanda and I'm 15 years old. I live in Panther, WV and within the past 3 years a lot of strange things have been happening to me and my family. In the 80's my cousins used to play with Ouija boards and things of that nature...
The Lantern Ghost
This isn't my story and I didn't witness it but my mom told me about it. I'm not really sure but I believe it was a Fall night around 10:00, about 10 years ago, my mom was out on the porch talking on the phone to my aunt. I...
The Basketball Ghost
Last Halloween, four of us decided to do something different for the haunted holiday. We all piled into my boyfriend Brian's Blazer, and decided to go to Stoco Junior High. We had heard about some of the ghostly rumors, but nothing with any substance.
We ended up getting lost, so...
Tea Time
This is entirely true. It was the summer of 1994, and I was 13 years old. I do not remember the city because it was a short visit, and I am from a large town in Florida. Telling this still gives me chills.
My father is half Cherokee and was...
The White Wolf of Whitlock Farm
I guess a lot of people know about Wolf Creek near Fayetteville because it drops into the New River Gorge in a series of spectacular cascades. But I don't suppose many know that the creek heads up in the plateau near Oak Hill and that it was named because...
Chapmanville Grade School
Chapmanville East Elementary School is very spooky first of all. It's a very large and exceptionally old brick building and it stinks inside. The school has a lot of character to say the least.
I knew a teacher that worked there very shortly. She said that sometimes if she was...