Ghost Encounters

"That is the curse of every evil deed, that, propagating still, it brings forth evil." - Friedrich Von Schiller (1759 - 1805) Why would the Blennerhassetts be cursed? For one they really started their married life out on the wrong foot. When Harman Blennerhassett was thirty his brother asked him to...

I live on an old country road called Grassy Creek and right about 100 yards, further up the main road is Leatherwood Hollow. It has had a bad name because it is full of panthers and there has supposed to been many violent things happen up there. My great...

There's a house right above our house on a hill. I have been told stories since I was 27 I'm now 47, but I know what really happened, because my mom and this lady were best friends. There was this lady Ms. Kaptis and her husband died over some...

This is an old story told to me by my mother. I believe it to be true, because my mother is a Christian and never lies about anything. It all happened a long time ago, before I was even born. My mother and dad were getting ready for bed. My...

The house our grandmother was born in was the site of a grisly murder that resulted in the last public hanging in West Virginia history. The murderer was John F. Morgan who took an axe and violently massacred the widow Green and her three children. The purpose of our story...

In the southeast corner of Harrison County, WV there is a small little community called Johnstown. It has had a long history of travelers and merchant activity. This particular story takes place not long after the Civil War. It was a time of traveling peddlers who went from place to...

Last Halloween, four of us decided to do something different for the haunted holiday. We all piled into my boyfriend Brian's Blazer, and decided to go to Stoco Junior High. We had heard about some of the ghostly rumors, but nothing with any substance. We ended up getting lost, so...

My mother-in-law used to live in a house at the junction of Rt. 7 and Rt. 20. Her youngest son was only a few months old and she would push his crib against the wall by the fireplace, so he wouldn't get cold in the wintertime. She would walk into...

This is entirely true. It was the summer of 1994, and I was 13 years old. I do not remember the city because it was a short visit, and I am from a large town in Florida. Telling this still gives me chills. My father is half Cherokee and was...

My name is Amanda and I'm 15 years old. I live in Panther, WV and within the past 3 years a lot of strange things have been happening to me and my family. In the 80's my cousins used to play with Ouija boards and things of that nature...

I do not know if I am the only person to ever see this, or if others have seen such things also. I am a seasonal employee of Pipestem Resort State Park. The supervisors prefer to have guys work the night shifts whenever possible. For some reason, they think that...

I'm currently living in Myrtle Beach, SC. I'm originally from Spencer, WV in Roane Co. I stumbled upon this web site and thought I would submit a story that hasn't been told yet. I lived out side of town on a road called Steel Hollow Rd. I lived there...