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Floating Man

Floating Man

First off my name is fake because no one has ever believed me. I live on Moses Fork and I was driving home one night through Cabwaylingo Forest. Just past Cabin 13 and Sweat Water, I spotted something black hovering, as I got closer it looked like a man but...
Death Trap

Death Trap

I was working at a little store on the Elk River, near Elkview. I always got stuck with the night shift and it was boring most of the time. One night at about 3AM I was standing behind the counter looking out the window when a car pulled in,...
22MineRd

Haunted 22 Mine Road

Being a Surveyor in my past career, I had come across an area that I wanted to share with my wife. A forest Fire tower and a microwave unit on one of the most remote areas in Southern WV. In surveying the area before, and probably just as true...
Cabwaylingo Bridge Ghost

Cabwaylingo Bridge Ghost

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...
Ghost Encounter at Moundsville

Ghost Encounter at Moundsville

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,...
LBH Glenville State College

LBH Glenville State College

Shortly after my retirement as a police officer, I went to work for a public safety training agency. They had a satellite location at Glenville State College, on the third floor of Lewis Bennett Hall. I was the training coordinator, and in addition to assisting with some criminal justice classes,...
A Haunting On Mud Fork (Island Creek)

A Haunting On Mud Fork (Island Creek)

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...
Ghost Bride Of Cherry Creek Dip

Ghost Bride Of Cherry Creek Dip

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...
Warlock's Grave

Warlock’s Grave

This is just a creepy place, nothing really happened to me, but to my friend. First, I'll tell you what happened to her, she was driving home from Clarksburg one night, and decided to take Stewarts Run Road, which leads into Barbour Co. She was traveling along when she...
The Headless Man

The Headless Man

I was seven years old and living in Mingo County, West Virginia, in a small community called Chattaroy. My father, uncle and my four brothers were on our front porch at dusk and beginning of dark. We were laughing, talking, and swinging, when we heard a noise coming from...
The Pax Headless Ghost

The Pax Headless Ghost

If you walk from Weirwood towards the Pax City hall on the railroad tracks at night, you may be in for a fright. It has been known that if you walk in this direction at night on the tracks you may be accompanied by a headless ghost. I have talked...
Mamie Thurman's Ghost

Mamie Thurman’s Ghost

Mamie Thurman may not be nationally renown, but her name is recognized in around the southern part of West Virginia and Kentucky. Who was Mamie? Mamie was a young woman living in the city of Logan in the 1930's. On June 22, 1932, her slain body was found and...

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