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Friday, April 26, 2024
Horrific Screams!

Horrific Screams!

In early spring of 2008 Beau and I decided to buy new camping gear. We were so happy to put winter behind us and looked forward to enjoying Mother Nature once again. Beau was anxious to camp, yet the nights were still very chilly, and I remained a quite hesitant....
Ghost Of Cherry Creek Dip

Ghost Of Cherry Creek Dip

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...
An Encounter With The Unknown

An Encounter With The Unknown

One day I was walking the four-wheeler paths back in the woods. I walked about a mile and came on the top of a hill and out of the corner of my eye; I saw what appeared to be some type of ghost or creature with wings in the...
Unidentified Footprints

Unidentified Footprints on the Roof

While driving home one night in Glen Jean, WV, I noticed two shiny eyes in my headlights on the side of the road. As I approached closer, my headlights hit what I can only describe as a black fur covered ape-like animal. It was crouched over on the side...
Baby Crying

Baby Crying

I use to live in Crum, WV in 1997. I stayed with my granny Debbie a lot in Marbone. Her house was close to the railroad tracks. Late one summer night my cousin Johnny and I were out playing. We could hear a baby crying. We went to investigate. The crying...
Morgan House

Morgan House

My grandpa Chester Morgan was murdered three years before I was born. He lived in a house that was not the best looking. After he died, everyone who would drive by or walk by at night swore they could hear gunshots and screaming. Once a woman thought, she even...
Oxbow Lady In White

Oxbow Lady In White

During the fall of 1980, my husband and his father were hunting a wild and remote part of Ritchie County called the Oxbow. My father-in-law had a passion for collecting old bottles and spotted an old house down in a field below where he was squirrel hunting. He walked...
Creepy Woods

The Grey Flats Ghost

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...
Chicken

Chicken

I was a young boy about 12 back in the Summer of 70'. I had three best friends, Davies, Harold, and Frank. It was on Saturday and my friends and I use to sneak into my Uncle Leon's backyard to watch the neighborhood Chicken fight. This particular night at Mingo...
Houses On Haunted Hill

Houses On Haunted Hill

I live in the city of Elkins, located on the Tygart Valley River. This town for over a century has been the economic hub of south central West Virginia. On the Davis and Elkins College campus are the sprawling mansions, Graceland and Halliehurst. Both mansions where built in the...
Houses On Haunted Hill

Dead Cranberry Coal Miner Still Walks The Tracks

This story takes place in Cranberry West Virginia, just outside of Beckley. When I was young growing up in Cranberry it was a favorite pastime for all of the boys to walk the train tracks to Skelton and back. We would walk on the rail as long as we...
Grandma's Ghost

Grandma’s Ghost

My grandmother died in my house on December 23, 2004. Ever since, there has been a lot of strange things happen. For instance every night before my mother goes to bed; she turns the TV off and walks out of the room. Every night that TV comes on after...