True Stories

NOTE: This story comes from Bluefield, West Virginia. As woods go, they weren't much -- a tangled second growth of trees and underbrush that barely covered an acre of ground. But THAT acre of ground was one of the most haunted spots in Southern West Virginia. The ghost of a...

This story was told to me by my 12th Grade English teacher. I've done research on the events that take place in the story and as far as I can tell it is true. It is a bit long but it is worth reading. Enjoy! Many years ago a newly...

In October of 2001, I took a job in the haunted house at the old Moundsville prison. Before we started, we were told that there were ghosts and that we would hear weird noises. I thought, "Yeah, right. Whatever." I ended up working next to North Hall, where they...

In the summer of 2002, I was in the bathroom with the dog, brushing my teeth when I saw something run past the door. This black shadow looked like a person dressed in black with a black mask on. It ran past the door, but it was hard to...

It was a cold Winter night, me and my cousin Maria were on our way to see our Aunt Kate and Uncle Max. We were driving on a concrete country road and we slide on a patch of ice. As we were spinning there was this Icy face right...

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...

This is a true story about something I saw when I was around 5 or 6 years old. We had just moved into a new house when I started seeing a man named Emmett. Emmett was super nice to me and he never let me get hurt on anything....

There's a SAFE house on the old Capels road it used to be an old school house, but they closed it after quite a few years because of paranormal experiences. After people started moving into the safe house weird things started happening. One of my friends (let's call her Rosie),...

It happened when I was 13 years old. My mother and my step-father rented out a new place to live. The house was surrounded by trees, and there was a graveyard right beside it. This didn't bother me though because I had lived in the country all my life. What...

My mother, like many other West Virginians, was raised in a small two-bedroom coal camp house during the depression. It was located in Long Branch, WV. I know many readers will be able to picture this from their own childhood homes. My mother slept in the back bedroom, which...