True Stories

Fort Mulligan located in Petersburg, WV is a beautiful spot with a lovely view of the town itself. It sets above the Grant Memorial Hospital and thankfully, can be visited without much interference from other people. My mother and I have always studied the paranormal and since I was...

The events took place in Dunbar, WV. I live in a 1930s home on a hill with the wooded area beyond the property, across the street a cemetery. I've seen deer pass by a lot and a coyote or two but nothing like this. Day One 7/21/18: Around 11:30 PM I encountered...

This isn't my story and I didn't witness it but my mom told me about it. I'm not really sure but I believe it was a Fall night around 10:00, about 10 years ago, my mom was out on the porch talking on the phone to my aunt. I...

When I was about 3 or 4 years old, we lived in West Virginia for a brief time. I will always remember the moment when I saw the ghost in my closet. It is one of my earliest and most vivid memories. I really have not told many people...

My Family went and stayed at Cabwaylingo state forest in 2015 for the first time ever. First off we were from Ohio and didn't know what to expect. When we arrived we were staying in cabin #7, but there was a plumbing problem. Six hours later we were moved...

I was with my daughter at Cabell Huntington Hospital sitting in the ultrasound waiting room. I saw plain as day a dark-haired child walk down the hall. The side of the waiting room against the hall was glass and I saw this little boy in a red and white...

My name is Stacy and I was sixteen at the time that my friends and I had the Halloween Party in the cemetery of the Hills in West Virginia. I'm not certain but I recall the cemetery's name was Webb. We rode the ridges on four-wheelers and jeeps and found...

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...

I use to live in Wayne County WV. I grew up in a holler. At the head of our holler was a cemetery and my friends and I would walk to it a lot. We were there so much that we knew every name on the tombstones and we...

The Summer of 1980, I was sixteen and was visiting my family in West Virginia. My mom and my sister stayed with her parents for the summer while my dad was away at work. I grew up in Pennsylvania but we visited WV a lot. As the 4th of July...

It was March 13, 2002, me and two of my friends was walking home from my house down to the store a mile down the road. It was right after school at about 4:30 in daylight. Being March it was very windy and rainy but the rain had stopped...

In January 1996, a massive snowstorm made travel along West Virginia back roads nearly impossible to traverse. At the time, I was employed by the Federal Prison Camp Alderson. With the storm at its most severe, I got off from work one night at midnight. The previous night I had...