Hurricane Creek Road – Roadside Ghosts
My encounter happened in the winter of 1983. I was a senior in high school during this time. I was picking up a friend of mine who was visiting her boyfriend who lived on Hurricane Creek Road in Putnam County, WV. It was early evening and already completely dark...
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...
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...
Lucky Or Not?
A friend of mine, we will call him Frank, works at a little inn in our small town of Gilbert, West Virginia. He often works the night shift and does sleep overs, which means he is there form 4:00p.m. to 8:00a.m.
When he first started there and until this day...
Greenbrier Ghost
Besides being a unique case in the annals of West Virginia ghost lore, the story of the Greenbrier Ghost has made history in other places also, like in the documents of the American court system. It remains the only one of its kind... the only case in which the...
Loving Pet Haunts House
I'm 41 years old. When I was 6 years old, our parents decided to get cat to have for a pet and companionship.
I have three older sisters, and our whole family loved our cat. Our cat, a female, we named her Gidget and she was a Siamese cat. Gidget...
The Unrestful Spirits of Institute, West Virginia
The festivities of Halloween bring about tales of ghosts, goblins, witches, and of course the Devil himself. Year after year, we engage in the transmitting of horror stories, done solely to entertain ourselves and others. However, Halloween season 2015, I had an encounter with the undead; one I will...
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...
Screaming Jenny Of Duffields
I live in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. In an area of Jefferson County called Duffields there is an old dilapidated house along the Duffields Railroad tracks.
It was at this location that many many years ago a young girl named Jenny was running near the railroad tracks. She...
Ghost Solider
My three friends and I were headed home from the Wayne Pioneers football game Friday night around 10 pm. We were talking and listening to the radio when I rolled up on fog. I then saw him, he was hitchhiking. He was wearing a green soldier uniform and packing...
Baby Crying
I use to live in Crum, WV in 1997. I stayed with my granny Debbie a lot in Marbone. Her house was close to the railroad tracks.
Late one summer night my cousin Johnny and I were out playing. We could hear a baby crying. We went to investigate. The crying...
Yellow Boots
I live in Mingo County. I was 18 when this happened to me. Since this was our Senior year in 1999, my friends and I decided while off on Christmas break we would go sledding since we had 7 inches of snow.
We bundled up and walked to the end...
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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...
The Unrestful Spirits of Institute, West Virginia
The festivities of Halloween bring about tales of ghosts, goblins, witches, and of course the Devil himself. Year after year, we engage in the...
Ghost Solider
My three friends and I were headed home from the Wayne Pioneers football game Friday night around 10 pm. We were talking and listening...
Yellow Boots
I live in Mingo County. I was 18 when this happened to me. Since this was our Senior year in 1999, my friends and...
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...