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The Sad Soldiers

The Sad Soldiers

One night, I was walking home from my friend Tiffany's house. It was late and dark, so I took a shortcut through the graveyard. When I got to this one grave, I saw two men standing there. They were dressed in old army uniforms. I asked them if they...
The Restless Soul

The Restless Soul

One night my uncle wanted me and a friend of mine to go to the store for him. We were on our way back home, coming up the hollow where we lived, when I saw a bright light. I thought that it was a car coming the other way....
Moving Objects

Moving Objects

In October of 2001, I took a job in the haunted house at the old Moundsville prison. Before we started, we were told that there were ghosts and that we would hear weird noises. I thought, "Yeah, right. Whatever." I ended up working next to North Hall, where they...
Mother's Watcher

Mother’s Watcher

When my brother was very young, my mother was driving down the street in Franklin and came to a very busy intersection. The streets were so busy that she decided to go down a back street and wait for traffic to subside. When she parked on a corner, she...
The Pax Headless Ghost

The Pax Headless Ghost

If you walk from Weirwood towards the Pax City hall on the railroad tracks at night, you may be in for a fright. It has been known that if you walk in this direction at night on the tracks you may be accompanied by a headless ghost. I have talked...
The Orkney Hollow Hanging

The Orkney Hollow Hanging

Every since we was little our parents told us not to go out of the hollow after dark, because a colored man was hung in the big beach tree for sleeping with a white man's wife back in the (1940's). When we became the ages of 12 and 13 we...
Man In The Shadow

Man In The Shadow

When I was about 17 years old, my dad bought me a 4-wheeler and he forbid me to go into the woods with it. So being the curious teen that I was I just had to go and check it out. Just as I got out of the point...
Man In My Room

Man In My Room

You know how you can feel when someone is watching you even if you are asleep. Well I felt like someone was watching me as I was asleep one night, so of course I woke up thinking maybe it was my mom or dad. No, it was not either...
Mamie Thurman's Ghost

Mamie Thurman’s Ghost

Mamie Thurman may not be nationally renown, but her name is recognized in around the southern part of West Virginia and Kentucky. Who was Mamie? Mamie was a young woman living in the city of Logan in the 1930's. On June 22, 1932, her slain body was found and...
The Old Lady

The Old Lady

I was outside this summer and I was standing just looking out and enjoying the hot weather, when suddenly I got a real cold covering over me. Being a real fan of this web site, I decided to take a picture just to see if anything would show up, not...
The Old Darksville Church

The Old Darksville Church

If you go through Gerrardstown, just past the elementary school, you will come to a four-way intersection. Take a right and you will come to a small area known as Darksville. When I was a child, I used to visit my best friend's Grandma nearby. My friend and I...
Warning In A Dream

Warning In A Dream

Back in the spring of 2002 my mother-in-law began to show signs of a terminal illness. She was losing weight and wasn't doing well at all. We tried to get her to go to the hospital but, she was very stubborn and refused. My husband and I talked and...