Man In My Room
You know how you can feel when someone is watching you even if you are asleep. Well I felt like someone was watching me as I was asleep one night, so of course I woke up thinking maybe it was my mom or dad. No, it was not either...
Mamie Thurman’s Ghost
Mamie Thurman may not be nationally renown, but her name is recognized in around the southern part of West Virginia and Kentucky. Who was Mamie? Mamie was a young woman living in the city of Logan in the 1930's. On June 22, 1932, her slain body was found and...
The Old Lady
I was outside this summer and I was standing just looking out and enjoying the hot weather, when suddenly I got a real cold covering over me.
Being a real fan of this web site, I decided to take a picture just to see if anything would show up, not...
The Old Darksville Church
If you go through Gerrardstown, just past the elementary school, you will come to a four-way intersection. Take a right and you will come to a small area known as Darksville. When I was a child, I used to visit my best friend's Grandma nearby. My friend and I...
The Mass Grave
Did everyone know that Hawks Nest State Park in Fayetteville used to be a coal mine? Well, something happened, like a flood or the mine collapsed or something I am not sure, but a whole lot of African-American mine workers died in the disaster.
I live in Glade Creek, WV,...
The Man
One night my sister and I were sitting on the couch and we were looking out the window. We saw a man walking down the railroad tracks. We noticed that he had a bag on his back.
We watched him to make sure that he was not trying to steal...
The Little White House
My first experience with the paranormal came in the early 1970's when my parents, sisters and I were living in Calhoun County WV.
At first, we were living in town but due to circumstances beyond our control, we had to move. It was short notice but dad came through and...
The Little Rag Doll
This is not my true encounter but it was been told around a lot.
A teacher for N.C. was looking for a job and finally found one in WV. She heard the last teacher left one night without saying anything.
A week later, she moved there. The lady in charge of...
The Little Girl
My daughter was 4 years old when she began to have, what we thought an imaginary friend. Every time she would do something she knew she wasn't suppose too, she would blame it on her friend April. This was when her younger brother wasn't old enough to play so...
The Last Stop
This is not an encounter that I have had but more a story that has been passed through the years. I'm sure every body has heard the mysterious tale of Mamie Thurman, her brutal death, and the man who was paid to take the blame for it. As we...
The Knocking
I pulled into my friend's driveway at 3:00am one morning, he was asleep and I seen that his window was wide-open upstairs. I started throwing rocks and clumps of mud into his window to wake him up.
Across the road is an old abandoned miners house that is rotting away....
The Japanese Sword
I can remember this as if it were just yesterday. My aunt and uncle called begging mom and dad to bring us boys and come spend the night with them. They lived up on West Fork of Harts Creek. They didn't have any children and they said they really...
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...