True Stories

One day during Buck season in 1995, I was hunting with my cousin just outside of the small town of Valley Head, WV. It was around noon and we decided to split up and go opposite ways. We both pretty much knew our way around the area where as...

Large tracks spotted, too large to be human, estimated size: 20 in. foot size - occurred September 23, 1997 at 10:30 am - that night we heard loud, piercing screams in the forest and a strange odor- like a cross between a skunk and sweat - I activated my...

A unidentifiable creature meeting the description of bigfoot has been seen in Capels, West Virginia by several different sources. Many unidentifiable tracks can be found. Terrible screams have also been heard. Capels, is right outside of Welch, West Virginia, their are many places in the mountains that are rarely...

I went to a friends house in the Bridgeport area to sight in my new rifle. He began to tell me a story of a strange animal that was killed on this farm by the man who owned it before his death. The farmer was an avid coon hunter and...

One night my mom and I were on our way to my grandparent's house. On the way, mom saw something in the sky and asked me what it was. I looked up and there was a weird shape in the air, like a cone. So my mom stopped the...

Until my retirement I was a Sergeant on patrol on the WV Turnpike now I77 and I64 between Charleston and Beckley. Many stories circulated about strange sights and happenings along this highway. In the many years I patrolled this area I never saw anything strange except for one twenty second...

A state police trooper in Raleigh County thought he was responding to a prank call early Thursday when he received a report of strange lights in the sky near the WV Turnpike. But Trooper John Ferda of the Beckley detachment discovered when he reached the scene in the Sand...

Recently my boyfriend and I were headed home from Kenna to Fairplain on Rt. 21, south of Ripley. We noticed a line of cars sitting almost still when we arrived to the turn off to our road. Wondering what the commotion was, I looked to the sky and immediately...

I was 13 or 14 years old it was I my friends Mike Wayne and my brother Jamie, and Mike's little brother Anthony. We were all going to "brave the elements" and camp out, in Mike's front yard. Wayne and Jamie went to the store to get the normal...

On night my boyfriend and I was driving to my house on Beechview Rd. that connects from Maple Fork to Sand Branch. As I got close to my house I could see two very bright lights hovering over a vacant lot that had been cleared out. At first I...

When I was 12 years old I used to watch television at my grandmother's house every night. This was back when satellite dishes weren't as popular as today, so not many people owned them. One night in early August I was returning home with my dog when all of...

Every summer you'll hear reports of eerie lights on top of North Mountain near Lost City. I've seen them on several occasions. The first time we were across the valley up on Shenandoah Mountain we watched little balls of light shoot straight up off the mountain. Some balls would...