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Townhouse Ghost

Townhouse Ghost

We had moved in to our rather expensive townhouse, and two days later, my mother suddenly became sickly ill. One night around 11:00, I had went in to her room to tell her goodnight, and she told me to get another blanket to put on my baby sister. I...
Toddler With Connections

Toddler With Connections

My family and I moved to Morgantown, West Virginia when my son was around 9 months old. We lived in an apartment on the second floor of a house directly across from a very old, very large cemetery. It is a well maintained cemetery and has many walkways. We...
Tinda

Tinda

Well I was born in Marietta Ohio in 1984 and two years later my family decided to move to my father's home town of Parkersburg West Virginia. So we got a nice house in Parkersburg. Our address was 520 5th street in the business part of Parkersburg...You know... down...
There’s A Ghost In My Attic

There’s A Ghost In My Attic

One Friday night, my little sister was spending the night with my grandma and my other sister was spending the night at my other grandma's house. I was on my computer until after midnight, it was between 2:30 or 3:00 when I got off. That night I was sleeping on...
My Own Personal Ghost

My Own Personal Ghost

I am not sure what it is that I have following me, but I think it maybe a ghost of some sort. When I was 13, my mother and I moved into a house in Harpers Ferry, WV, with my aunt, uncle, and younger cousin. I have always heard the...
My Murdered Grandpa's Ghost

My Murdered Grandpa’s Ghost

When I was 9 years old (March 21, 1999), my grandpa, whom I was very close to, was murdered. The woman he lived with murdered him for insurance money. A while after she killed him I had these strange feelings like my pa paw was watching over me. Supposedly my...
The Wayward Spirit

The Wayward Spirit

When my Grandma Belle was a very young girl, her father Leander was a deeply-religious-man, many in the town of Ripley, West Virginia looked to him for spiritual leadership. An example of such is the nature of this story. A local family was experiencing "visits" from a spiritual entity that...
My Horrifying Night

My Horrifying Night

First of all I have two ghosts in my house, a good one and a bad one. One night when I was going to bed I saw something through my mirror standing in the hallway, at first I thought it was my dad because he was tall, had black hair,...
My Great Grandmother

My Great Grandmother

This story happened before I was born to my father while he was in boot camp. He was having problems with some of the guys who was there with him. He went to bed one night after being up 24 hours for a drill course. He dreamed of his grandmother...
My Grandparent's Haunted Attic

My Grandparent’s Haunted Attic

One summer, while I was staying at my grandparents' house for the weekend, they were having a pretty good day. They have pretty good health yet some days are better than others. Anyways, I was laying on the couch with nothing to do while my grandpa was outside working...
The Visitation

The Visitation

To be perfectly honest, most of my life, I didn't believe in ghosts (or other supernatural phenomenon for that matter). I never DENIED their existence but I never acknowledged it either. A vacation in West Virginia, however, changed all of that. I and a female friend, who was a firm...
My Grandmother's Visitor

My Grandmother’s Visitor

This happened to my grandmother about 10 years ago. My grandma lives in the east end of Charleston in one of the many "hollers" that are found in West Virginia. A long time ago, probably in the late 50's early 60's, my great grandfather had loaned a cousin of...

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