Ghost Encounters

This house was built in the 1700's by a man by the last name of Fairfax. I have all the data on it. I had heard when I was a child that my mother (who later died in the house) had seen apparitions. I know when I grew up...

If you've hiked Grey Flats near Beckley, W.Va., you know how eerie those woods can be. But there's no more eerie a place in all the flats than the at old farm beyond the south end of the flats. There the Old Farm Trail meets the South Grey Flats...

I was outside this summer and I was standing just looking out and enjoying the hot weather, when suddenly I got a real cold covering over me. Being a real fan of this web site, I decided to take a picture just to see if anything would show up, not...

If you've ever been to the Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry you probably thought it was haunted. If you ever worked at the Hilltop House, you knew it was haunted. There were stories from employees and guests. We even had strange things show up on the surveillance video. I...

This is not my true encounter but it was been told around a lot. A teacher for N.C. was looking for a job and finally found one in WV. She heard the last teacher left one night without saying anything. A week later, she moved there. The lady in charge of...

We bought a house which was also a log cabin that was built in 1766. It was located on WV 9, 3 miles west of Hedgesville, beside Tillman creek. The first night we spent there, I was sleeping on the floor when I felt something pushing up against me....

One day at my home. When I was about 6 years old. I was playing on the stairs. And my ball hung above the stairs. It was hanging as if something was holding it and it dropped back down after 15 seconds. When I was 12 and moved to my...

My brother-in-law told me this story, and he stands to it that it is true. He was deer hunting one day behind his home. He was walking down a path to position himself deeper in the woods, when he saw what he described as something staggering back and forth. It...

I have heard stories of train wrecks in Terra Alta that have killed railroad workers. Well one evening I and my friends were driving across the tracks near Washington Ave, when we were in the middle of the tracks we saw this bright train light within feet of our...

I had moved back to my grandparents farm near Lost Creek, WV.  The old house had a bedroom upstairs and two bedrooms downstairs. My parents were upstairs, I was staying downstairs. My parents had a cat that I loved with all my heart. He hated me and would hide behind doors...

I myself never encountered this, but I have always heard the story as I was growing up, and my brother who is 8 years older than me, claims to have witnessed it himself. There was a young couple who had just married. On their wedding night they were driving a...

The orange and red light that has been seen on the slopes of Cole Mountain have mystified the local residents for well over 100 years... what secrets lay behind the origins of this southern "spook light"? Outside of Moorefield, West Virginia stands Cole Mountain, an offshoot of the Appalachians and...