Ghost Encounters

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...

First of all I have two ghosts in my house, a good one and a bad one. One night when I was going to bed I saw something through my mirror standing in the hallway, at first I thought it was my dad because he was tall, had black hair,...

My wife and I, along with our two children moved into an apartment located on Main Street, Oak Hill. Shortly after moving into the residence my oldest daughter, who was 3 years old at the time started acting a little out of her ordinary. One night while I was watching...

My aunt lives in a small HUD house in Valley Bend WV, I go to her house sometimes when I feel sad. My aunt finally told me she believes her house is haunted, the reason so because one night my Aunt was checking on her three little boys before...

When my Grandma Belle was a very young girl, her father Leander was a deeply-religious-man, many in the town of Ripley, West Virginia looked to him for spiritual leadership. An example of such is the nature of this story. A local family was experiencing "visits" from a spiritual entity that...

When I was little around six or seven we lived in a small house with three bedrooms and one bath. Every night in the summer, I would sleep with my mom because my room would be terribly hot! Every night when we were settled in and sleeping, we would...

My mother, like many other West Virginians, was raised in a small two-bedroom coal camp house during the depression. It was located in Long Branch, WV. I know many readers will be able to picture this from their own childhood homes. My mother slept in the back bedroom, which...

I am pagan and I have read a lot about seances. A group of friends pressured me into conducting one, even though I had never held one before. We went to a cemetery in Twin Falls; it was an older cemetery and there is a play area within the...

A few years back I was working at a home for troubled teens called Burlington. One night I was sitting in the hall monitor chair, I seen a figure walk across the hall in front of me, and go into a room that is padded for when the teens...

In the summer of 1986, my family moved into a parsonage in Logan, where my father was to become the new minister of a church there. The previous minister, a Reverend Rush, had passed away. As a tall man, he was unable to go upstairs to use the bathroom...

I was sitting at home enjoying some TV after laying my baby boy down for bed. My wife was in the hospital after a difficult c-section surgery and I was caring for our baby who was about 3-4 weeks old. Anyways, I was sitting on the couch when out...

In the Fall of 1996, I was living in Huntington, WV sharing an apartment with 3 friends. Our apartment address was 1913. I came home after work one evening and walked inside. No one was home which wasn't unusual but it was a typical night where we didn't have...