Scarbro Trailer Haunting – Fayette County
Back in June I moved into a trailer with my boyfriend, his brother, and one of my friends at the time. At first everything seemed pretty normal but my boyfriend and his brother told me about how they believed there was something following my boyfriend around. They said it...
Ghosts of the Second Floor
One day at my home. When I was about 6 years old. I was playing on the stairs. And my ball hung above the stairs. It was hanging as if something was holding it and it dropped back down after 15 seconds.
When I was 12 and moved to my...
The Grey Flats Ghost
If you've hiked Grey Flats near Beckley, W.Va., you know how eerie those woods can be. But there's no more eerie a place in all the flats than the at old farm beyond the south end of the flats. There the Old Farm Trail meets the South Grey Flats...
Cat Seen Her First
In the 1960's, when I was about 8 years old, my family lived in a small hollow down off Fort Hill in Charleston. Our house had been built in the 1920's, and my deceased aunt & her family had lived there before I was born.
One night, I was asleep...
Who’s There?
This story took place at a fire station in WV.
My great grandfather was a fire fighter for over 20 years. While at the station weird things happened.
There would be rooms in the station with only one door and no windows, that you would hear things being moved around in....
Graveyard
This took place in Barboursville, West Virginia. This is my dad's story, it happened about 18 years ago.
My father and a few of his friends had gone to a graveyard near one of their houses. They had set their ouija board down in the middle of it and started asking...
Ghosts of Droop Mountain
The stories that I am going to tell you didn't happen to me but it happened to my mother, my aunt, and my mother's cousins. My mother was raised on Droop Mountain, West Virginia right beside where the Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is. At that time there was...
Ghost Dog
I went to a camp last summer that I will not name. There were many interesting ghost stories that they told the first-year, and I often got scared at night, and could not sleep. One story in particular was the Ghost dog Trevor. He was a camp dog, there...
King’s Bend, Wetzel County, WV
Let me start out by saying that, like most posts I've read on here, before this experience I was a firm non-believer. There exists a moment in this story that I actually thought, "Holy moly ghosts are REAL!". It was that vivid, that clear, and that undeniable.
This is private...
Ottawa Spirits
My grandparents live in an old coal camp house in Ottawa, which is just a stones-throw from Blair Mountain. In fact, the railroad behind their house was used to transport miners up to the battlefield site way back when. The house has some history to it, all of it...
The House in the Field
I moved to West Virginia for a second year at being a climbing guide. I loved the work and the area and couldn't be kept away. Instead of living in a campground my friend Aaron and I decided to rent a house a few miles away from work. This...
Yokum’s Campground Ghosts
I moved to Yokum's Campground for the summer while I was working as a climbing guide. Yokum sits in the town of Seneca Rocks.The area was a meeting place for Native Americans, as well as a burial ground. In the 1980s the burial grounds were excavated by the Smithsonian and...
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...