Elkins Downtown Ghost
In downtown Elkins, there are a lot of old buildings. On Davis Avenue, a long time ago there was a great fire that destroyed 3 blocks of the city and 12 people died. One of those people was Sharah Goodwest. She died in the old Opera house. If you...
Weirdness At Weirton Medical Center
For five years, I worked 3-11 in the Housekeeping department at Weirton Medical Center in Weirton, West Virginia. There were several ghosts in that building, and I have a few short tales here. My ghost tales are amusing now, but weren't at the time. My job at WMC was...
White Thing
It was mid-January in Four States, West Virginia and I was walking through the woods. I heard something rustling in the brush about 100 yards away. I walked up a right-of-way to see what it was. I wish I‘d stayed home.
As I topped the right-of-way, what appeared to be...
Broken Tree Limbs
My brother-in-law told me this story. As far as being a true story, I do not know. The only thing I do know is that he stands to it that it really happened. He told the story like this; he and my other brother-in-law were out riding around on...
Polite Ghost
My husband and I had just been married and moved into a house on Bagwell Ave in Nutterfort, WV. I had two children from a previous marriage.
Everything was fine when we first moved in there. Then things started to happen.
One night, Ryan (my husband) and a friend of ours...
West Virginia Traveling Ghost?
I am originally from Parkersburg, West Virginia, but in 1958, I married and left home. In 1988, I was living in Meredian, Mississippi and worked at a J. C. Penney's in a small mall there. One day I was returning to the store after my lunch break, when an...
Haunted Welcome Center
In the early morning hours of September 9, 2018, my family and I were on our way home from vacation in Florida and my husband decided he was too tired to drive anymore so he pulled over at the I-64 Welcome Center. I was frustrated because we were only...
Unforgettable
Somewhere in the West Virginia wilderness...
Once I was walking home from my girlfriend's house, when something caught my eye. It was a white flash, that only showed itself for a second, but still long enough for me to decide that I wanted to go and investigate.
As I started to...
Rivesville
Years ago, I can remember a family living close to the entrance to the hollow. The teenage boy swore he saw Bigfoot in the hollow. Needles to say no one believed him. When the incident started be told, one person said that there where guys from Rivesville that ride...
Blume Haven
I help my aunt Sandi clean the Blume Haven. Well one day we were there and the jukebox kicked on by itself. Me and my Aunt were both upstairs. I was like cool, my aunt was like it does that all the time. Well I went back and helped...
Ghost Of Darkish Knob
During the years prior to the Civil War, the Underground Railroad was the path to freedom for many slaves who were held in the south. The route through the rugged hills of what is now West Virginia was a favorite among guides for these escaped slaves because of the...
The She-Devil
This story even leaves me a little bit skeptical, which is odd because I am a firm believer in ghosts and the like, but it is still a little hard to grasp.
It is a story of an experience that my mother had when she was around 11 or 12...