Ghost Encounters

It was a very boring night for me, my boyfriend, my two best friends and my niece. We were all sitting around my house with nothing to do, and some how got on the subject of ghosts. My niece's friend had relatives who lived on Wolf Pen Drive in Sissonville...

It was a summer night around midnight. I had just left work from Air Res on Ritter Drive. I had stopped by for a sandwich at 7-11 in Shady Spring and I was on my way home. Driving past the old antique shop at the Cherry Creek Dip, I...

I spent a few years working in a home for those with MR/DD. People familiar with Wheeling will know the house. It's on GC&P Road just past the Troy Corporation on the left side of the road. The site the house was built on used to house an old farm....

It was after 9:00 pm as I drove home from my sisters. I made it to the first bridge in Cabwaylingo State Forest, in front of cabin 8. I noticed someone standing beside the bridge. I slowed down and the person disappeared. I looked back in my mirror and...

About 10 years ago, I started building a new house a few miles outside of Farmington. This house sits off the beaten path in the woods by itself. During the construction of the house, I witnessed some events that happened that at the time I didn't want to believe...

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...

I was delivering the morning newspaper in Cabin Creek, in Ohley Hollow specifically. I am usually out in the very early morning hours, just past midnight. Okay, now one morning I was going about my business and I pulled in this guys driveway as I had many times before. You...

In early March of 2017, my friends and I decided we wanted to explore a historical place near our hometown of Hedgesville. Me being a history buff, I decided to look up historical places in our area that were abandoned. I stumbled across a few places, but one, in...

About 3 to 4 years ago, my best friend Brittany, her mother Shannon, Shannon's best friend Shina, and myself decided to take a trip to Moundsville State Penitentiary for Halloween. I wasn't expecting anything too major other than the normal creepy clowns dressed up, people jumping out at you,...

So many things took place at my childhood home, so many that it's hard to know where to begin. I'm 27 years, married w/child, and moved to a different part of the county, however, I feel as though I am still visited on occasion. I suppose I should narrow the...

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...

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...