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Gilmer County Ghost

Gilmer County Ghost

I had hunted all my life and I have never heard of anyone say anything about my buddy's farm until one deer season in 1981. We started out one morning, going to Little Bull Run in Gilmer County to go hunting. I had a pretty good day until that...
Ghost Train

Ghost Train

I have heard stories of train wrecks in Terra Alta that have killed railroad workers. Well one evening I and my friends were driving across the tracks near Washington Ave, when we were in the middle of the tracks we saw this bright train light within feet of our...
Our Playmate

Our Playmate

I have lived in this small former mining community for all of my life. At one time, this was actually a very large and very busy little town. There were numerous businesses, a large school, a company store where you could get anything you could imagine, even a movie...
The Old Woman

The Old Woman

When I was only 8 or 9 years old my family (Mom, Dad & my younger brother and I) moved to a new house just down from where we had lived for several years. Upon entering the house for the first time, I can recall a great fear and...
Mountainside Assembly

Mountainside Assembly

Two of my friends were hiking through the woods behind the Regal Oaks housing development a little while ago. They hiked for what they said was around two hours. There is a trail, and the land is very remote. In several places, my friends noted, that the trail was...
House Of Hauntings

House Of Hauntings

When I was 6 years old, we lived in a house with a graveyard in the backyard. When I first visited the house something about it freaked me out, but it didn't seem to bother my mom at all. The landlord's mother was said to have died in the...
Haunted Rich Mountain

Haunted Rich Mountain

I am 15 years old and live in Huttonsville, WV. I haven't had any encounters with any of the ghosts on Rich Mountain but, I do know people who have. My dad has told me stories of when he was young and has heard noises and he has seen strange...
Miner’s Premonition

Miner’s Premonition

This story was told to me by my brother who is a coal miner in a local coal mine. Robby, my brother operates a "man trip", a sort of miniature train that carries miners and supplies into and out of the coal mine. He stated that he had taken...
Lost Soldiers

Lost Soldiers

I was born and raised in West Virginia. I use to live in Bolivar near Harpers Ferry growing up. Near Harpers Ferry Middle School (then known as Harpers Ferry Jr. High), there was a cemetery across the street. There are some soldiers from the civil war buried there. My...
Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

It was Christmas Eve, my mother was waiting for her brother to arrive, who was going to spend Christmas with us. It was getting late; he was supposed to be taking the bus that ran from Huntington to somewhere above Wayne. It had already passed the house and he...
Childers Road Barboursville

Childers Road Barboursville

Several years after we lived in Wayne, we moved into a house on Childers Road. This house felt strange from the time we moved into it. It began with just hearing what sounded like footsteps in the attic, and then one evening we were out back, my son looked...
Beech Fork Road

Beech Fork Road

We lived in a small house on Beach Fork; we used to always sit out in the yard during the summer, especially in the evenings. We were sitting in the yard one evening; when we began to hear what sounded like a woman screaming. No one could see anything,...