Mysterious Colonial Preteen Boy
I was nine when I walked to the end of my hallway I stopped suddenly in my tracks. I was just outside the living room when I saw this boy about 10-13 years of age who was in colonial dress. He was running out of the kitchen into the...
Rocking Chairs
This story was told to me by my mother. It took place in the back hills of West Virginia back in the late 1930's.
My great grandmother Judy and my grandmother Mary were canning vegetables. The house was set up that when you came into the side door you were...
The End Of My Doubt – Jackson Co.
I had just turned 16, and I had just started dating a cousin of my friend. We all decided to stay at his grandmother's that night, and all of us were very excited and we were planning a night of fun. Mostly we stayed on the large porch on...
The Knocking
I pulled into my friend's driveway at 3:00am one morning, he was asleep and I seen that his window was wide-open upstairs. I started throwing rocks and clumps of mud into his window to wake him up.
Across the road is an old abandoned miners house that is rotting away....
The Wayward Spirit
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...
Wirt Co. Ghost
I was told this story by my adoptive mother, who was born in Wirt County. I've also heard it from older family members.
Way back up in a holler in Wirt County is a two-story, white house. It has been unoccupied since the early 1900's. Rumor has it that nobody...
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...
Barboursville
There is something in the woods near Barborsville. Two boys saw it near the interstate, then it was behind a woman's garage at Ona. It has a man's face. Me an my buddies are always in the woods and we saw something way off at the edge of this...
Headless Man
I would like to tell you a story when I was about 10 or 11 years old. My baby cousin was only 5 years old at the time. He went to his friend's house and was playing with her when he asked to go to the bathroom. His mom...
Our Family Ghosts
Our family has been located in this area for five or six generations now, and it all started in an old house that stands today, though abandoned, on a certain hill right in the middle of south Parkersburg. This old house was originally a church, and there are at...
Soldiers’ Camp
One day in the summer of 1984, I was staying at my grandparents' with a friend. We were looking for deer in the field with binoculars when we noticed an old graveyard with crooked, rusty, iron gates and grass over two foot tall. We were both about eleven or...
The Ghost Who Loved Music
My sister's ex-boyfriend Eric invited me to stay with him and his college friend, who is paralyzed from the waist down. He warned me of the strange things that happen there. One day as I was reading comic books on the computer chair Eric turned on the stereo.
As we...