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Heavenly Orb

Heavenly Orb

Since making a doll in Girl Scouts, I have loved to sew and do needle work. I'm not a seamstress, I just dabble, but when I was maybe in the seventh or eighth grade I decided I wanted to learn to sew. I wanted to make my own clothes....
One Night In McDowell

One Night In McDowell

When I was 12 years old I used to watch television at my grandmother's house every night. This was back when satellite dishes weren't as popular as today, so not many people owned them. One night in early August I was returning home with my dog when all of...
North Mountain Lights

North Mountain Lights

Every summer you'll hear reports of eerie lights on top of North Mountain near Lost City. I've seen them on several occasions. The first time we were across the valley up on Shenandoah Mountain we watched little balls of light shoot straight up off the mountain. Some balls would...
Cigar Shaped

Cigar Shaped

I do not see much odd stuff, nothing in nearly 35 or so years of memory, but I did see something that I do not tell many about. I saw it in the sky, in late August of 1999. I saw this in Parkersburg WV. It was huge! Some...
Something Strange At Harpers Ferry

Something Strange At Harpers Ferry

My brother and I are avid reenactors and we live in a town called Frederick, Maryland. Our hobby takes us to many places like Gettysburg, Yorktown, Fredericksburg, but in particular, Harpers Ferry. I remember an event we were doing about 3 years ago when we portrayed Union soldiers from the...
Soldiers’ Camp

Soldiers’ Camp

One day in the summer of 1984, I was staying at my grandparents' with a friend. We were looking for deer in the field with binoculars when we noticed an old graveyard with crooked, rusty, iron gates and grass over two foot tall. We were both about eleven or...
Calhoun County Ghost

Calhoun County Ghost

NEARLY 40 years ago the Calhoun County correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer prepared the following account of Calhoun's most prominent ghost, which the Enquirer printed. Interested persons saved clippings, with the result that the story has reappeared recently in various weekly papers in that section of the state. It...
Sand Branch UFO Sighting

Sand Branch UFO Sighting

On night my boyfriend and I was driving to my house on Beechview Rd. that connects from Maple Fork to Sand Branch. As I got close to my house I could see two very bright lights hovering over a vacant lot that had been cleared out. At first I...
The UFO that Vanished

The UFO that Vanished

I was 13 or 14 years old it was I my friends Mike Wayne and my brother Jamie, and Mike's little brother Anthony. We were all going to "brave the elements" and camp out, in Mike's front yard. Wayne and Jamie went to the store to get the normal...
Bud Mountain

Bud Mountain

My family has a long history with the ghosts on Bud Mountain and plenty of other places in West Virginia and other states. However, this story will deal only with Bud Mountain. The first ghost is that of George Sizemore. His stepson killed him. My family moved into the house...
Buried under the House?

Buried under the House?

I used to stay with my Grandma and Grandpa in Logan County, West Virginia. They lived at a place called Madison Creek by the river. Although she has mentioned on a few occasions before she died, I cant remember much about who owned the house grandma and grandpa lived...
Triangle Of Lights

Triangle Of Lights

Recently my boyfriend and I were headed home from Kenna to Fairplain on Rt. 21, south of Ripley. We noticed a line of cars sitting almost still when we arrived to the turn off to our road. Wondering what the commotion was, I looked to the sky and immediately...