True Stories

This story takes place in Cranberry West Virginia, just outside of Beckley. When I was young growing up in Cranberry it was a favorite pastime for all of the boys to walk the train tracks to Skelton and back. We would walk on the rail as long as we...

My Aunt and Uncle used to have an old house in Clay County, West Virginia. During the summer, my sister and I would sometimes spend weekends, and even weeks there with them and their four children. Their house was what you could call "cut-off" from everyone. The driveway was...

My brother-in-law told me this story, and he stands to it that it is true. He was deer hunting one day behind his home. He was walking down a path to position himself deeper in the woods, when he saw what he described as something staggering back and forth. It...

It was Halloween night when this story took place. A friend of mine and I decided to go walking around, since there was nothing better to do. My brother and sister decided to stay home and treat the kids, and watch some horror movies. My friend and I walked around...

My grandpa Chester Morgan was murdered three years before I was born. He lived in a house that was not the best looking. After he died, everyone who would drive by or walk by at night swore they could hear gunshots and screaming. Once a woman thought, she even...

When I was a young girl living on Roger Street in Bluefield, West Virginia my two best friends Debbie and Linda and I were playing outside their apartment in the hallway. They had told me earlier that day while they were eating lunch the kool-aid pitcher lifted off the...

The story I am going to tell you, you may not believe and think its fiction, but it is real. It happened to me when I was 13 years old and I am now 56. This day on the 25th of May started like any other day. We got up...

When I was 12, my friend and I went swimming in her pool. We were talking about ghosts and she said that her room was haunted. I did not think much about it until her mom was telling me about it. We all ate some popcorn and watched a...

My husband went to college at Glenville State and we both ran the Conrad Motel. Since you had to be there 24-7, it was very stressful so some of our friends would come over and give us a few hours to our self and we would usually go for...

My sister has told me stories of her son and his friends seeing a ghost in his trailer. I did not believe it because I do not believe in ghosts. Therefore, I had to go up there and see for myself. My sister and I were going to go up...

Back when Crum Middle was Crum High, there is was pretty blond cheerleader named Kayla that got everything she wanted, the guys, the grades, the popularity, and the friends. One cold autumn night the cheerleaders were out on the field cheering on the Mountaineers. Kayla said she was going...

I used to live with my parents on Hubbard Place across from the Wheeling Park entrance off National Road. I was about 17 or 18 at the time. I am 25 now. My parents decided to rent the house instead of buying it because the backyard had collapsed off...