True Stories

My brothers and some of their friends live in a big, old house in Fairmont, WV for college. Soon after they moved in, they began hearing weird noises and doors slamming. They checked with the most recent owners of the house and they had a picture of the house. Nothing...

I had just turned 16, and I had just started dating a cousin of my friend. We all decided to stay at his grandmother's that night, and all of us were very excited and we were planning a night of fun. Mostly we stayed on the large porch on...

About 12 years ago, my high school history club went to Harper's Ferry for the ghost tour. My friend had to go to the bathroom, so we went to the public rest rooms. The way the town is set up, there are streets that run down the hill to...

I use to not believe in very many paranormal things that supposedly run around in this world. But that all changed one night about a year ago... I was up late one night just lying down on the living room couch when I realized I needed to go use the...

"That is the curse of every evil deed, that, propagating still, it brings forth evil." - Friedrich Von Schiller (1759 - 1805) Why would the Blennerhassetts be cursed? For one they really started their married life out on the wrong foot. When Harman Blennerhassett was thirty his brother asked him to...

I live on an old country road called Grassy Creek and right about 100 yards, further up the main road is Leatherwood Hollow. It has had a bad name because it is full of panthers and there has supposed to been many violent things happen up there. My great...

There's a house right above our house on a hill. I have been told stories since I was 27 I'm now 47, but I know what really happened, because my mom and this lady were best friends. There was this lady Ms. Kaptis and her husband died over some...

This is an old story told to me by my mother. I believe it to be true, because my mother is a Christian and never lies about anything. It all happened a long time ago, before I was even born. My mother and dad were getting ready for bed. My...

The house our grandmother was born in was the site of a grisly murder that resulted in the last public hanging in West Virginia history. The murderer was John F. Morgan who took an axe and violently massacred the widow Green and her three children. The purpose of our story...

In the southeast corner of Harrison County, WV there is a small little community called Johnstown. It has had a long history of travelers and merchant activity. This particular story takes place not long after the Civil War. It was a time of traveling peddlers who went from place to...

Last Halloween, four of us decided to do something different for the haunted holiday. We all piled into my boyfriend Brian's Blazer, and decided to go to Stoco Junior High. We had heard about some of the ghostly rumors, but nothing with any substance. We ended up getting lost, so...

My mother-in-law used to live in a house at the junction of Rt. 7 and Rt. 20. Her youngest son was only a few months old and she would push his crib against the wall by the fireplace, so he wouldn't get cold in the wintertime. She would walk into...