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Spooked By The Light

Spooked By The Light

This story is similar to the Fayette County - Lick Fork Rd. (Witchy Hollow) Story. I was driving South on Rt. 79 in 1991. I was between the Sutton exit and Rt. 19 exit. While driving I saw bright headlights coming at me in my rear view mirror, but...
Something Strange At Harpers Ferry

Something Strange At Harpers Ferry

My brother and I are avid reenactors and we live in a town called Frederick, Maryland. Our hobby takes us to many places like Gettysburg, Yorktown, Fredericksburg, but in particular, Harpers Ferry. I remember an event we were doing about 3 years ago when we portrayed Union soldiers from the...
Soldiers’ Camp

Soldiers’ Camp

One day in the summer of 1984, I was staying at my grandparents' with a friend. We were looking for deer in the field with binoculars when we noticed an old graveyard with crooked, rusty, iron gates and grass over two foot tall. We were both about eleven or...
Sliding Glass Door

Sliding Glass Door

It happened on a dark, crisp, Fall Friday night in Morgantown, West Virginia. It was raining outside, it had been for most of the day. My girlfriend and I had settled in to watch a movie and enjoy some time to ourselves. All my roommates had gone for the...
Sistersville Greenwood Cemetery

Sistersville Greenwood Cemetery

We went up to the cemetery to look around to see if we saw any ghosts. There were six of us for a while there it was all calm we were walking around checking out the place. A few people touched one tombstone it was very hot to the...
Shepherd College - Gardiner Hall

Shepherd College – Gardiner Hall

I lived on the second floor of Gardiner Hall, my friends and I have had some weird experiences there. Yes the homecoming Queen did die when she slipped in the shower but she died in 1986 (there is a plaque of her over the picture of Mrs. Gardiner in...
Seneca Caverns Ghosts

Seneca Caverns Ghosts

On occasion, the staff at Seneca Caverns goes through the cavern between tours to sweep the steps free of the gravel and pick up trash that tourists sometimes leave behind. On many occasions while sweeping the steps, particularly while sweeping the set of stairs directly above the area known...
Screaming Jenny Of Duffields

Screaming Jenny Of Duffields

I live in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. In an area of Jefferson County called Duffields there is an old dilapidated house along the Duffields Railroad tracks. It was at this location that many many years ago a young girl named Jenny was running near the railroad tracks. She...
Loving Pet Haunts House

Loving Pet Haunts House

I'm 41 years old. When I was 6 years old, our parents decided to get cat to have for a pet and companionship. I have three older sisters, and our whole family loved our cat. Our cat, a female, we named her Gidget and she was a Siamese cat. Gidget...
Lucky Or Not?

Lucky Or Not?

A friend of mine, we will call him Frank, works at a little inn in our small town of Gilbert, West Virginia. He often works the night shift and does sleep overs, which means he is there form 4:00p.m. to 8:00a.m. When he first started there and until this day...
Locked Door

Locked Door

This is about my grandmother she told me this story when I was little. She lived in Nolan, WV when she was little and this story takes place in her house I cannot remember the exact location but it is now a highway. My Grandmother lived in a small house...
Livingston Wizard

Livingston Wizard

One of the strangest poltergeist cases of all time haunted the home of a farmer named Adam Livingston, who lived in this small community at the end of the 1700's.... some say, these strange events are still going on at the property today! The Adam Livingston farm in Middleway became...

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