The House in the Field
I moved to West Virginia for a second year at being a climbing guide. I loved the work and the area and couldn't be kept away. Instead of living in a campground my friend Aaron and I decided to rent a house a few miles away from work. This...
Yokum’s Campground Ghosts
I moved to Yokum's Campground for the summer while I was working as a climbing guide. Yokum sits in the town of Seneca Rocks.The area was a meeting place for Native Americans, as well as a burial ground. In the 1980s the burial grounds were excavated by the Smithsonian and...
Screaming Jenny Of Duffields WV
As a child I grew up in Duffield WV. My brothers and I would walk down the tracks, going to a store in Shenandoah Junction. We would often pass an old house nestled between two orchards. This home was said to be the house of screaming Jenny.
I have listened to...
Kyawiley Wildthing
My Uncle Tony told me this story right before I left for basic training in 2008. In Genoa, West Virginia in Wayne County; my family owns a small farm. We only have a single cabin on the grounds, and it's used for recreational purposes only. I've grown up hunting...
Get Out of My Room
When I was twenty one years old, my new husband's family offered to sell us a house that had been in his family for generations at an incredibly cheap price. They had a difficult time keeping it rented and did not want to hassle with it anymore. We jumped...
The Black Thing in Lewis County
This happened to me this past hunting season in the woods right close to my home, keep in mind I been hunting these woods for years. It was the first week and I didn't see any deer. I didn't even see a squirrel. The woods were strangely silent. I...
The Dead House
This story took place near Parkersburg WV, years ago when my dad was a young teenager. He is now 54.
My dad, one of his cousins, and a few friends often went camping in the woods located behind a house my dad grew up in. My dad knew these woods...
Bruceton Legend
This happened to me and a friend in 2010. We were in the 7th grade and talked a lot after school on the phone. Well, we were talking one night and she told me that another house had burnt down in Bruceton. Ok, usually that's not a ghost thing,...
White Thing of Ragland
For a very long time people have told me about the "White Thing" of Ragland, WV, a small community outside of Delbarton, WV in Mingo county. Several trusted friends of mine have told of their encounters with the thing.
One friend said it could run faster than anything he'd ever...
Beast in the Night!!!!
Hi I am a West Virginia native. This is a true story told by my father when he was a teenager. The family farm where he and my mother still live. It was late on a November night with a deep snow, he woke up and went to the...
Black Creature Watching Me
My cousin lives on the out-skirts of Morgantown on a place we call Crown Hill. It's near Rivesville. Well, my cousin and I had a fight at 1:30 AM on 7/23/11. I walk outside to take a breather. In front of me was a large hill with a few...
Ghostly Admirer
In early 1983, my then husband and I moved into our first house off Mud River Road, in Barboursville, WV.
We had to do some painting and such, but we thought we'd be able to have a comfortable home, along with a nice yard...wrong. From the moment I entered the...