The Little Rag Doll
This is not my true encounter but it was been told around a lot.
A teacher for N.C. was looking for a job and finally found one in WV. She heard the last teacher left one night without saying anything.
A week later, she moved there. The lady in charge of...
The Little Girl
My daughter was 4 years old when she began to have, what we thought an imaginary friend. Every time she would do something she knew she wasn't suppose too, she would blame it on her friend April. This was when her younger brother wasn't old enough to play so...
The Last Stop
This is not an encounter that I have had but more a story that has been passed through the years. I'm sure every body has heard the mysterious tale of Mamie Thurman, her brutal death, and the man who was paid to take the blame for it. As we...
Dancing Lights
My father had always told me about these "lights" that dance whenever someone dies. They start in the family graveyard, go up in the field and then back to the graveyard. Only a few people in the family had seen this. On March 23, 1998 my father died. My...
The Knocking
I pulled into my friend's driveway at 3:00am one morning, he was asleep and I seen that his window was wide-open upstairs. I started throwing rocks and clumps of mud into his window to wake him up.
Across the road is an old abandoned miners house that is rotting away....
The Japanese Sword
I can remember this as if it were just yesterday. My aunt and uncle called begging mom and dad to bring us boys and come spend the night with them. They lived up on West Fork of Harts Creek. They didn't have any children and they said they really...
Bobby’s Guardian Angel
In my other submissions to this site, I have mentioned West Virginian spirits or "ghosts" that seem to follow me around the country. This, too, is one of those instances.
In 1989, my daughter was on her way to the hospital to deliver a baby boy, in hard labor. It...
White Thing
It was mid-January in Four States, West Virginia and I was walking through the woods. I heard something rustling in the brush about 100 yards away. I walked up a right-of-way to see what it was. I wish I‘d stayed home.
As I topped the right-of-way, what appeared to be...
White Beast
My husband and I were taking a drive one night down Route 35 going toward Winfield. We had just gotten to where there were no lights or houses around. I was looking out my window trying not to be scared of what I might see.
Joe (my husband) had said...
What In The World Is It?
One night back in 1999 I was at Chief Logan State Park all by myself, there was no one else up there. When I was getting ready to leave, I heard something scream, but it sounded like a very high pitch, a screech, but very intense.
It sounded like no...
The Indian
I am 14 years old, this is a story that my brother told me, he is 27, and I am sure he would not lie about this. He delivers mine supplies for Belo Mine Supply in Belo, WV, which is close to Delbarton, Varney, and Ragland.
He was delivering mine...
What Followed Me?
In the 1950's I often went to my relative's in Wirt County to visit on the week-ends. The procedure was to drop them a post-card early in the week saying I would take the Greyhound bus to the stop where they picked me up.
I did exactly that one week...