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Mount Vernon Cemetery

Mount Vernon Cemetery
Mount Vernon Cemetery / findagrave.com

Where is the creepiest place to be at night, you got a cemetery, so why did my friends and me go there, who knows, but we did. We decided that it would be fun to go and wait to see if we could see anything.

I had always heard that ghosts do not hang around a cemetery, who ever started that rumor is definitely wrong. I had pulled the car right up into the cemetery, still on the little road of course. We were outside leaning against the trunk of the car, I was drinking a Coke. My friend next to me hit me with his elbow, and said to me, “What is that?” I looked and moving through the cemetery right toward us was this gray colored mist, fog right, wrong it was about the size of a person, and there was no fog anywhere. We stood there frozen; it kept moving and went right passed us.

We should have left right then, but needless to say, we didn’t. We were still standing in the same spots, when we heard people talking, at first we thought someone else was there, wrong again. The voices kept getting closer until they sounded like they were right beside us, we could not see anyone. That’s when we decided we should leave. Now, the road was too small to turn the car around, so we had to drive through the cemetery. While driving through it we saw several of those gray mist shapes, I just kept driving. There used to be a church that sat on the cemetery property, it has since burnt down, when we drove past it the door opened, there was no one there.

Later I dated a girl that lived passed the cemetery; she told me that she always heard strange noises coming from there, especially the church.

The House Next Door

The House Next Door
Dog Howling / Stock Photo

I need you to realize that our house was not the only house on Childers Road to have problems. Our son used to go next door, to play with the next-door neighbor’s daughter.

While he was over there one time, they turned the lights off to watch TV. He said that it got very cold, and then they saw what looked like two red eyes looking at them. They turned the lights on real fast and the eyes went away.

Another time when he was over next door, he came home telling me that it had gotten very cold again. Then all of the sudden, it was as something jumped on his back; he had ran through the house screaming. He could feel whatever it was and feel the weight from it, but could not see anything. He swore to me that, that house had a demon in it.

Sometimes late at night you could hear their dog howling at something from inside their house.

The House Across The Street

The House Across The Street
Georgian House / Stock Photo

We decided to move. So we moved into this house right across the street. It did not change anything. We would hear noises under the house, in the attic, even in the house. The water would turn on by itself. Lights would turn on or turn off.

Our son told us that he saw these little furry things running around the hall at night. He even told us that he could hear voices, but could not make out what they were saying.

Our son and some of his friends decided to use the Ouija Board, just to see what they could find out. The board would not work very well for anyone but me; I later found out that Ouija Boards do not work well for non-adults.

We were sitting at the kitchen table because it was round and easier to work off. When I ask if anyone was present, the board pointed to yes. When I asked their name, it pointed to the initials MB. When I asked if they had been there long, it said yes. I again asked their name, it only pointed to MB again. I asked if they were going to stay in this house, it said yes. It never would spell out its name, only the initials MB. It then stopped answering questions. Remember I said we were at the kitchen table, behind the table were three shelves; before we finished, several items on the shelves fell off into the floor.

Several months later, I ran into someone who knew me from work. They asked me where we were living for some reason. When I told them, they got this blank look on their face, she said her family used to live their. She proceeded to tell me that she had an aunt, MB; I’ll not say the name in case the family doesn’t want it known. When this aunt and her family lived in our house, the aunt just disappeared one night and was never seen or heard from again.

We continued to hear and see things until we moved from this house, but at least we think we know who it was.

Lavalette Bedroom

Lavalette Bedroom
Shadow Ghost / Stock Photo

When I was about six years old, we lived in a house that had been added on to many times, the front porch had been in-closed and made into the living room. On Saturday nights, we were aloud to stay up late and watch TV. The room that my older brothers and I slept in had an opening where a window was before the porch was built in; I always laid in bed and watched TV through that window.

My two brothers and my parents were sitting in the living room; we were all talking and watching TV. For some reason, I don’t know why I turned over, there in my door; just standing and staring at me was a man. I could just barely make him out, but it was a man, of course I screamed as loud as I could. My parents both ran into the room, followed by my brothers.

When I told them what I had seen, my mother laughed and told me not to worry, they had all seen him, that it was the ghost of a man who died in the doorway to that room. Telling me not to worry really didn’t help any; I crawled through the window and watched TV from the couch.

Early Morning School Bus Stop Scare 2

Early Morning School Bus Stop Scare 2
School Bus on Country Road / Stock Photo

It was 6:50 am on January 13, 2006. Friday the 13th. It was unusually warm for a January morning.

My kids, as usual went out the door to catch the school bus at the top of the driveway. I always keep a watch out the living room window until they get on the bus.

After standing at the top of the hill for just a couple of minutes, my 11 year old son, Jonathan, came running back down the hill, running across the front porch, and in the door all excited and scared at the same time.

A noise. A LOUD noise coming from the sky was heard. Jonathan said it sounded like loud static, like what you hear on a TV when there is no signal/reception. He said they heard it several times. The sound would last about 4 seconds, then stop for a few seconds, then do it again. It did it about four or five times.

I told Jonathan to go back up to the bus stop and I would step out on the back deck, and listen for the sound myself. I stood on the back deck for maybe a minute. I walked to the edge of the deck, and hollered around the house to the kids that I don’t hear anything. It must have stopped. I then heard, far away, the bus coming. It had just rounded a curve on up the road from us (about 1/4 mile away), and I could see the headlights. I then hollered back up to the kids that the bus was coming. The bus stopped up the road from us to pick up the two boys (ages 9 and 11) that live in the house above us.

Then I heard it. One loud burst of static, exactly the sound I heard, which I had described as a rocket booster sound on a rocket in another story I have posted on here (Triangular UFO seen overhead). I stood at the back door listening as the kids were picked up and the bus went on its way.

I stood at the back door for several minutes. No sound was heard again. I then went back inside, locked the door and turned off the lights in the living room. I went upstairs to check on my oldest daughter, Sarah, who was staying home from school that day. I went back down stairs, and climbed back into bed. I laid there thinking about the noise.

About 1/2 hour or so after I had went back to bed (around 7:30 am??), Sarah (age 17), said she heard a faint rumble sound overhead, like a train rumbling by (we have no train tracks around for miles). She said the tin roof on the house started, what she described as, shaking. The rumbling got louder and she said whatever it was flew over our house slowly. It took maybe 10 seconds for it to pass over the hill and was gone. After it passed over the hill, the tin roof on the house stopped “shaking”. Sarah said she was too scared to go to the window and look out.

I never heard it downstairs. I have a humidifier running in my bedroom and it drowns out any noise inside and outside the house.

When my older kids got home from school, they told what happened when they got on the bus that morning. They said the bus driver asked them if they heard a loud noise. The driver said the boys, who caught the bus up the road from us, got on the bus terrified, telling him all about what they heard. They heard the same thing! The noise had scared them to death!

So, this time we aren’t the only one’s that heard it. We aren’t imagining things.

Mercer County Airport

Mercer County Airport
Mercer County Airport / Wikimedia Commons

The aero medical group I work for recently opened a new base at Mercer County Airport in Bluefield, West Virginia. When not flying, the employees stay at the Base in a Hanger 24 hours a day. Many duties require the crew to be outside very late at night and in the early morning. Whenever I would do my duties, I would often feel chills going over my body for no apparent reason. I just reasoned the feeling away. Out of conversation among crew members, it was discovered that they had experienced similar feelings. Some reported the feeling of being watched. Others report hearing sounds of banging in the very early morning. Our crews are the only people at the base and airport at night.

The stories circulated amongst the employees. When a long time resident of the area, local Paramedic, and flight nurse reported a story about a horrific plane crash, which killed everyone on board. The members of the plane were very traumatically injured. It is also documented that a medical helicopter recently crashed near the airport.

I am not sure about ghosts or anything paranormal. I do know that I feel a sense of urgency when outside the hanger at night. I have also recently heard the banging that the other crew members spoke about. The local area we are located at is littered with tales of ghosts. Shawnee Park, one of the top ten scariest places on earth, was recently shown on a national cable television program and is a stones throw away. The feelings, sounds, chills, and experiences continue on a daily basis.

The Little Child

The Little Child
Child / Stock Photo

My aunt lives in a small HUD house in Valley Bend WV, I go to her house sometimes when I feel sad. My aunt finally told me she believes her house is haunted, the reason so because one night my Aunt was checking on her three little boys before bed. When she finally got comfortable, she heard this little child hollering for their mom, she answered what honey and nothing replied. She got back up went to the bedroom and all boys were sound asleep!

Another occurrence was when she was in the shower. She heard the same thing. She did not answer because she knew her sons were at school.

There is one more thing that happened to her that really scared her. Her husband left to go to the store. My aunt was in the bedroom napping when she awoke to a blue light floating in her closet. She just laid there and soon it was gone. Nothing has happened to her since but I asked my grandma and she said that the little child might have lost their mother in some sort of tragic way, but I do not know!

Screams

Screams
Open Window at Night / Stock Photo

When I was little around six or seven we lived in a small house with three bedrooms and one bath. Every night in the summer, I would sleep with my mom because my room would be terribly hot! Every night when we were settled in and sleeping, we would hear a woman screaming through the open window. My dad would go out and investigate to find no sign of any human life! Either we had a good prankster or a ghost at the time I was hoping it was a prankster.

After we moved away, my brother’s friend moved in. He has had no encounters with the screaming woman!

Mysterious Colonial Preteen Boy

Mysterious Colonial Preteen Boy
Civil War Cannon / Stock Photo

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 living room. He ran through the living room to the end by our windows and disappeared into thin air. He stared at me while he ran through the room. I was terrified. My cousins were living with us and two were in there room and the other was in the shower.

My mom was on her computer so I knew none of them could have done that. We live in a house that was built in 1991 on Civil War Winter Camp Grounds. I later told my mom she said she felt things run behind her in the kitchen as if to run into the living room and her friends say that they have seen figures run through the kitchen.

I am 11 know going on 12 and I feel he is still here as if he is my guardian angel. I am the only one who has seen him though. When my friend Stephanie who is a year older then I am and can sense when a ghost is present by getting tingles through out her body came over she got a tour being as she had never been here before got so many tingles in our basement that she had to come upstairs because she started feeling sick. Today, I share Stephanie’s story of our experience here with some of my friends.

We have seen a lot of things in pictures like orbs and other things that are hard to explain.

Ghost In The Bathroom

Ghost In The Bathroom
Bedroom Bathroom / Stock Photo

I was about 6 years old when this happened to me. It was a normal night and cold in the house that we stayed in, as usual.

Because I was so young, my mother allowed me to sleep with her in her bed. The way the master bedroom was set up, you could see directly into the bathroom from the bed. Even though I was young, I remember this as vividly as if it were to have happened yesterday. I was in the left side of the bed deep in sleep when a thump coming from the bathroom woke me up. I opened my eyes and at first did not see anything. I looked over to my mother who was still asleep and cuddled closer to her. As I started to doze off again something caught my attention from the corner of my eye, I snapped my head quickly towards the bathroom and saw a jagged movement of what looked like a human form crossing in front of the bathroom door.

It was odd because it was not a smooth movement from one side to the other, it was almost as if someone was hitting the play and pause button repeatedly on a VCR or something similar.

I was too scared to move so I stared into the bathroom watching this figure move back and forth repeatedly. It got to the point where I was trembling and because I had gotten so close to my mother, I had woken her up. She asked me if I was cold (she was still half-asleep). When I did not respond she woke up entirely and noticed my trance like stare into the bathroom.

Because I appeared to be so scared, she moved into the living room with me where we pulled out the sleeper sofa and there we spent the rest of the night. I never told her what happened until I was about 14 or 15, and by then she did not remember that night.

Campbells Creek Spirit

Campbells Creek Spirit
Crackling Fireplace / Stock Photo

The house that I grew up in on Campbells Creek in Eastern Kanawha County had a restless spirit in it. On more than one occasion, we would hear a clanking noise coming from the area where the fireplace used to be, it was a metallic sound like someone hitting a fire grate with a poker.

The most frighten story how ever was one night my Mother and I were in the basement watching TV. It was close to time for my Father to be coming home from Wednesday evening church service. We heard the front door open and close followed by footsteps across the floor. However, my father never called down as he usually would and he did not come down stairs. My Mother and I found this strange so I went up stairs to see if my Father was okay. No one was upstairs and my father’s car was not in the driveway. About 10 minutes later, my Father arrived home.

These types of noise’s and happenings continued until my Fathers death in 1990. Since then the house has been quiet.

My Great Aunt In The Attic

My Great Aunt In The Attic
Elderly Woman in Rocking Chair / Stock Photo

This woman, Moll Tickey, I am not sure how I am related to her; I think she is my great aunt. She had died sometime ago. She was a very old woman and had gray hair, which she always kept in a bun. My family had said she was a “demon”. She lived with my great grandmother and had even tried to kill her once, but my uncle Ernie stopped her.

Moll Tickey died at age 91. My mother and many others said when she died in her bed, her hair that was solid gray turned pitch black. Her eyes turned red, and there were snakes under her mattress.

My sister Ashley and cousin Sam are now both 19 (their birthdays are 2 days apart) were about 12 at the time. We were outside of my great grandma’s house. They looked in the attic window, and saw a woman. Rocking in a chair with her hair in a bun.

They say that when they stay in that house they hear strange noises, and feel really cold and disturbed. Ashley said she was in Moll Tickey’s old room and it smelled horrible! No one stayed in that room since.

My great grandma died, and another family moved into that house. I entered the house once. They have done a lot of work to the house. Nevertheless, it is still frightening.

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