The Strange Man
I was around 11 years old at the time of this sighting. My friend and I were sitting in my room listening to our new Walkmans around 5 or 6 PM. We were sitting next to my window and the curtains were drawn, but the window was open with...
My Ghostly Sleep-Over
On a Friday night, my sister and I were going to spend the night with our best friend, Tia. Her house is over 40 years old. Well, we were home alone from 4:00pm to 3:00am. It was just like another normal night when we spent the night with her.
About...
The Slumber Party Ghost
My friend Sarah was spending the night one night. It was getting very late, around three o' clock. We was sitting down stairs, recording messages on my sound recorder, and watching TV. When Sarah said "oh come over here" and when I did, we saw a light come on...
My Encounter
My friend Brian and I were walking our friend Josh home one night when we decided to take him pass the old basketball court. When we walked down the hill toward it we all felt something pulling us toward the basketball court where it has been reported that you...
The Scariest Night Of Our Lives
The summer of 1998 was the scariest night of our lives. This happening occurred in late June after a Family Reunion.
We were 9, we stayed at our Aunt's house in Yukon in McDowell Co. We got back to the house around dark. We went swimming when we got home....
The Sad Soldiers
One night, I was walking home from my friend Tiffany's house. It was late and dark, so I took a shortcut through the graveyard. When I got to this one grave, I saw two men standing there. They were dressed in old army uniforms. I asked them if they...
The Restless Soul
One night my uncle wanted me and a friend of mine to go to the store for him. We were on our way back home, coming up the hollow where we lived, when I saw a bright light. I thought that it was a car coming the other way....
Moving Objects
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...
Mother’s Watcher
When my brother was very young, my mother was driving down the street in Franklin and came to a very busy intersection. The streets were so busy that she decided to go down a back street and wait for traffic to subside. When she parked on a corner, she...
The Pax Headless Ghost
If you walk from Weirwood towards the Pax City hall on the railroad tracks at night, you may be in for a fright. It has been known that if you walk in this direction at night on the tracks you may be accompanied by a headless ghost.
I have talked...
The Orkney Hollow Hanging
Every since we was little our parents told us not to go out of the hollow after dark, because a colored man was hung in the big beach tree for sleeping with a white man's wife back in the (1940's).
When we became the ages of 12 and 13 we...
Man In The Shadow
When I was about 17 years old, my dad bought me a 4-wheeler and he forbid me to go into the woods with it. So being the curious teen that I was I just had to go and check it out. Just as I got out of the point...
Latest Ghost Encounters
Silver Gap Ghost near Oak Hill
I was walking with friends at night along the tracks that lead west out of Oak Hill toward Dothan. This gap is where the...
The Spirit that Stayed Around
This is a true short story from my newest book, Stories of the Fire House. Enjoy!
No collection of firehouse stories would be complete without...
Buried Secrets
This story took place at my parent's home in Brooke County in a town called Wellsburg, WV. My parents purchased this home back in...
The Shadow People
I have lived in the small town of Burlington my whole life. Burlington is rich in history that is extremely hard to find. One...
Log Cabin 1766
We bought a house which was also a log cabin that was built in 1766. It was located on WV 9, 3 miles west...