True Stories

To start, I have NEVER believed in ghosts and still do not, but this story is still today, unexplainable to me. In July of 1992 I became a Deputy Sheriff in central West Virginia and from 1992 until 1995, (when the State Prison in Moundsville closed), I had made...

When I was only 8 or 9 years old my family (Mom, Dad & my younger brother and I) moved to a new house just down from where we had lived for several years. Upon entering the house for the first time, I can recall a great fear and...

My aunt used to live in a house in Elkins, West Virginia. She has three sons, the oldest son is 10, the youngest two are a set of 8 year old twins. Well one night my aunt was laying in bed and all of the sudden she heard a...

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...

There are so many ghosts that haunt this "holler" (as we call it), but I will only tell you about the ones that I have seen personally. There is a place up this road referred to as the "cuts" and at this certain place myself and many others have...

I was all alone in my house on a rainy night. I just started to pop some popcorn and I heard someone call, "Jessica." I froze where I was and waited a second. I saw a shadow in the hallway and went to investigate. I heard, "Jessica" in a...

In October of 1992 my grandpa died. Everyone was really upset but we had expected it to happen soon. My mom and I received a piano and two cats that had belonged to my grandpa. Things were pretty normal despite missing him. Then whenever I played my favorite song on...

My brothers and some of their friends live in a big, old house in Fairmont, WV for college. Soon after they moved in, they began hearing weird noises and doors slamming. They checked with the most recent owners of the house and they had a picture of the house. Nothing...

It was the winter of 1999. My four kids and I were coming home late on a Wednesday night from Bible study. It was around 10 pm. When we turned off of the main road, Rt. 60, onto our country road, we saw, off to the north, a bright...

I was in the sixth grade, maybe ten or eleven years old, my family and I had moved into a house in Princeton. It was an older home, I am almost a hundred percent positive it was built from the bricks of Mercer Street. The town was a part...

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...

Somewhere in the West Virginia wilderness... Once I was walking home from my girlfriend's house, when something caught my eye. It was a white flash, that only showed itself for a second, but still long enough for me to decide that I wanted to go and investigate. As I started to...