True Stories

I am originally from Parkersburg, West Virginia, but in 1958, I married and left home. In 1988, I was living in Meredian, Mississippi and worked at a J. C. Penney's in a small mall there. One day I was returning to the store after my lunch break, when an...

To start, I have NEVER believed in ghosts and still do not, but this story is still today, unexplainable to me. In July of 1992 I became a Deputy Sheriff in central West Virginia and from 1992 until 1995, (when the State Prison in Moundsville closed), I had made...

One night I woke up to something touching my hair, like it was behind me leaning over to stroke my hair. My bed was up against a wall at that time, so how could someone fit back there? I looked up to see a long skinny thing in the dark....

I have lived in Beards Fork all of my life. It is the type of community where you know everyone and can pretty much trust them. A close friend of mine lives just a little way down the road, so I would often just walk to her house, even...

This is just a creepy place, nothing really happened to me, but to my friend. First, I'll tell you what happened to her, she was driving home from Clarksburg one night, and decided to take Stewarts Run Road, which leads into Barbour Co. She was traveling along when she...

This story starts out when I was about 6 or 7 yrs old. It was in the summer time and a thunderstorm had just passed. It was very strange to me when the furnace kicked on; because, it was the middle of summer. Well, I looked up and I...

Located just south of the present site of Petersburg is a hollow where the ghost of a headless man walks... a lingering spirit born of tragedy that occurred here long ago. George Van Meter's small farm was located in Dorcas Hollow, just five miles from where Petersburg is now located....

My grandmother had died in 2001, and since then my family has had problems getting along. My grandmother held a deep hatred of my father for what reason I do not know, but she kept his brother as well as his sister against him. Well when she was in...

For years at my home my brother and sister and me would always hear the basement door that connected to the garage open and close. We always assumed it was dad coming home from work and we would run to see him but there was never anyone there. It...

After attending UC for 3 years now, I can tell you a LOT about this place, but Dickinson is a whole story in itself. I lived there for only a little over a month before all the students there were moved to the new dorm and Dickinson's third and...

Somewhere in the West Virginia wilderness... Once I was walking home from my girlfriend's house, when something caught my eye. It was a white flash, that only showed itself for a second, but still long enough for me to decide that I wanted to go and investigate. As I started to...

In my last submission to this site I told the history of hauntings that have occurred around my families homestead. Since that story was written, there have been some interesting things happen surrounding those houses. After living there for nearly 50 years, my grandmother decided that she was going...