Ghost stories from West Virginia, United States: Page 1

Great Gmom by Tedo

This was my first encounter with a ghost, and the only one that I cannot say to myself "well MAYBE it was just this or that". I know what I saw. This is not a scary experience, so if that is what you are hunting for I'm afraid my story is not for you. It is absolutely true though. I was young, ar...

More Than Just A Shadow Man by Alvara_Jane

I've been reading stories on here since I was around 12 and have finally decided to post a few of my own. I guess I should start with some introductions: You can call me Ally, although that's not my real name. I'm an Empath, and I've had a lot of supernatural experiences, some of which I don't und...

Grandma And Grandpa's House by southcelt

I spent a good amount of my childhood living with my grandparents in a very rural part of West Virginia. Their house, well, the whole area where they lived, was haunted. There were many times that we'd hear footsteps in a room nobody was in at the time, paper towel rolls unrolling themselves... Thin...

"i'm Ok, Don't Worry" by Aerix94

I'll start my story by saying that sometimes a spirit is the only way you'll be able to cope. Last year my sister (I'll call her Dawn out of respect for the deceased) unexpectedly and very quickly passed away on November 8th at 1:22 in the morning. She was a very hard-headed woman. We weren't on...

Dark Figures At Sad Location. Ironic Coincidence? by wvseller

I've struggled with whether or not I should share this story. The reason being the location, a scene where not so long ago a number of people lost their lives. Relatives of the deceased are alive and visit this location. Some people close to this location may even be members of this website. If one ...

Ghost In Mckendree Morgue by wvseller

I was filming the remains of the old McKendree Hospital complex in Fayette County, WV. One building there is often called "the morgue" by locals. This location is deep in the forest and is reached by a one lane dirt road. I had no signal on my phone for miles on this road. I located "the morgue"...

My Grandmother's House by Perfecttime687

My uncle came to visit for the Holidays around the 14th of this month. He also brought his 5 year old daughter and 8 year old son, along with his wife. He is very religious and believes that all spirits that walk around the earth are demons. We had a conversation about spirits and what I saw whe...

My Childhood Homes Part 3 by Perfecttime687

After we moved out of the house you guys have read about we moved into a home that was built in the 1800's in which I live in now. It has 5 bedrooms including my room that is a finished walk in attic. We moved in August of 2011 and it wasn't until June 2012 I started having experiences. I was sleepi...

Spirit Guide by Teresa26651

For as long as I can remember, I have had experiences with the "unexplained." I say "unexplained" because everyone has a different opinion, and for the sake of an argument, it is "unexplained." My first experience was when I was around the age of three or four, and I remember it all too well... ...

Another Shadow Figure Story by Chels_paigee

When I was a little girl I remember waking up in the middle of the night and seeing what looked to be a human entity, it was more of a shadow, but it was there off the wall and standing in the middle of my bedroom. If it was fully manifested I would say that it was staring at me. I was one of those ...

Dopplegangers Of My Family by lin66127

My family live in the other part of my house. One of my granddaughters sleeps in my bedroom because she doesn't have a room of her own. One morning in September of 2013, I awoke when I heard my doorknob rattle. I looked up and there in the doorway was my son-in-law standing with a blank look on his ...

Our Little Haunted House by Groovieghoulie

I was 14 years old, living with my mom in rural West Viriginia. My Father had passed away that year from lung cancer, he was a coal miner and like many men in that profession, he developed black lung and lung cancer. He was only 59 when he passed. The house my parents bought was a strange little two...

The Girl By The Computer by d2424

I can remember this as if it was yesterday. One night, it about 8:00 or 9:00, I was sitting at my mom's kitchens table talking to her. My daughter was six years old at the time. Mind you she was asleep on the couch and my sister was not home at the time, so it was just the three of us there: my daug...

The Squalling Child Ghost by d2424

One day I was laying on my couch for some much needed rest, when my daughter was visiting my mom in PA and my husband was at work. I thought I would lay down and take a nap. It was around lunch time I fell to sleep. I was sleeping for maybe an hour or two when I was awoken by a child. It was a girl,...

My Son's Ghost Friend by MissusTodd

When my son was 2 1/2 (he is now 9), our family moved into a low-income apartment which was set up much like a standard townhouse with an upstairs where the three bedrooms and full bath were located, and the downstairs included the kitchen, living room/dining area and small powder room. At first,...

Odd Noises In Our New Home by kaitlynkalopsia

The ecstatic feeling I had when we first purchased our house is now more of a faint dream than a memory. We bought the three bedroom home on March 1st, 2012. Our old house was rotting away due to all of the mould that the land owner refused to take care of. After eight years of my family living in t...

Demons? Shadow People? Need Help Please by blueeyes13

I'm going to be 15 in August. My mom has told me when I was a baby, weird things always happened. I remember things from when I was very young (3 and up). Mom said that she would lay me down in my crib when I was about a year old and she would leave the room. When she would come back, I was asleep o...

The Old Lady With The Blanket by TechnoDawg

First, this story was told to me by my father and is 100% true and second, this happened in Philippi, West Virginia. This happened in my father's house, in his bed room with his friend. My dad was a teenager and one night he decided to let his friend (boy) sleep over at his house. So after hangin...

The House On 25th St by Sir-Boy

My name is Sam, I am 28 years old (born in '83) and live in a beautiful town called Barboursville, West Virginia. It is a small place near Huntington, WV. Prior to the age of 3, my parents and I moved around quite a bit. Finally, my father's military path led him to be stationed in Oklahoma and my m...

The Shadows On The Wall 2 by mb89

Counting on about the shadows on the wall from my last story (The Shadows on the Wall: Part 1, plus for even more background read The Last Time). Living in that house, I can honestly say, was one of the worst times in my life. From touches to shadows, from smells to sightings... It all happened i...

The Last Time by mb89

I am the daughter of a pastor and lived in the parsonage right next to the church where all of these events took place for four years, between the ages of 8-12. This story is from when I was either 9 or 10. I would often go over to the church for various reasons, this story relates the last time ...

My Dead Twin Brother by Shayneigh

When I was born, I was born a fraternal twin meaning one being a guy the other a girl. My brother, Kevin, was born with left heart syndrome. Meaning the left side of his heart was never properly formed or something like that. On the night we were born we refused to sleep in different bassinets, I kn...

Ghost Of Cat's Past by Zandra94

I once had a cat named Cory, he was an orange tabby cat and I loved him to death. I had him with me when I use to live in Maryland and Georgia. He was my cat and he didn't really like anyone else in my family. Then one day, I was living down in Georgia at the age of 8 and Cory began to have mouth ca...

My Daughter's Friend Ruth by EvilPixie62379

This story is similar to some of the things I have read on this site. Took place in Huntington, WV. My husband and our child were living in an apartment complex. One day while my husband was at work I went to check on my daughter she was about 2 1/2 years old. When I walked through the hall I heard ...

The Old House And Her Many Voices by girlheldtightdown201

In the year of 2001, I had just got married and was pregnant with my first child. My husband and I had just moved into his parent's house which was built in the late 1800's. This house had closets made of newspaper and to get upstairs you had to open the wall which was like a secret door. The origin...

Regaining My Composure by searchin4thelight

Years passed these things, these beings coming to me for some reason I didn't know why they came to me or why that some of them thought I could help until I met north central paranormal. You see when I turned thirteen we moved to a cozy house in liberty addition it's also the one I'm currently stayi...

A Nightmares Message by searchin4thelight

Due to your kind words on my last story I have decided to share more with you. A few years had passed and I had began living life as I was around the age of six. We moved to a new house thinking that would separate me from the shadow person because we didn't know if it had really been my grandmother...

Baking In The Kitchen by kec92

An exact weej after my tenth birthday my great grandmother passed away. Her battle with Alzheimer's finally at an end. By then it was getting around late January. We were all outside my aunt and great grandmother's house. When I being the youngest was demanding by my older brother to go get him a dr...

Sex With A Ghost? by vadergrrrl

I recently moved to a new town, Berkeley Springs or Bath, West Virginia. It's an old town founded by George Washington and his brother due to the mineral springs that run 74 degrees year round. Natives and soldiers came to the springs for years believing in the magical healing from the water. Lots o...

Camp Wheelgate by cndlou2

When I was a pre-teen, I was a girl scout. As all Girl Scout troops do, we attended a weekend outing at a place called "Camp Wheelgate," in WV. Camp Wheelgate was not technically a camp, as it did not have tents, or cabins. It consisted of three "Victorian Style" farmhouses. Our group was staying in...

Cowboy Killer by snms234

Up until I was about five or six I lived in a small town in West Virginia. At one point in time, pretty much everyone in my family had lived in the house my mother, father, brother and I were living in. Coming out of my room there was the bathroom to the left and then across the hallway was my broth...

Creepy Experience At TNT Area by TheresaHPIR

The former West Virginia Ordnance Works (WVOW) was an explosives manufacturing facility constructed for the sole purpose of producing 720, 000 tons of TNT per day. It was constructed on 8,323 acres along the east bank of the Ohio River, along State Route 62, 6 miles north of Point Pleasant, West Vir...

My Father's Ghost 2 by princess2

My dad has been seen on numerous occasions since he died. Especially around the old home place, where he spent the majority of his live. Matter of fact he died in one of the bedrooms in this old house. This place is located on a lonely old country road, with neighbors about four miles away. My si...

My Father's Ghost by princess2

This actually happened to my daughter and her cousin. We were all at the funeral home. My dad had died of a brain aneurysm a couple of days earlier. My daughter and her cousin were sitting out on the swing on the front porch of the funeral home. They were just sitting there talking when they loo...

Abandoned Graveyard by princess2

Have you ever been to one of those graveyards that are so far back up in the country where nobody ever goes anymore? Well not far from where I grew up there was this old graveyard. We had to go up a one-lane dirt road surrounded by woods on both sides for about two miles. We had to drive in the midd...

Our Guardian Angel by princess2

I've heard of people having experiences with guardian angels. But up until now I don't remember ever having any experiences before. One cold winter day me and my sister decided to go visit our cousin, who lived about ten miles from us. We were on a two lane country road that was both steep and c...

Scary Old Farmhouse by princess2

This happened back when my sister and me were little. We lived in a real old two-storey farmhouse, about two miles from the nearest neighbour. We were always hearing strange noises in the house. The stairway that led upstairs was very narrow with a door that closed them off from the downstairs. ...

Little Lady Says Goodbye by ZUKISMOM

I have worked in an ER on midnights for about 10yrs now and there are some seriously strange things I have seen and heard. One stand out the most was a sweet little elderly lady I had as a patient. She came from a nursing home and was well into her 90's. Now we see a lot of Patients and people die ...

The Man And Dog On The Guardrail by ZUKISMOM

I have had a strange experience that has happened more than once. I work the late shift in a hospital in the city and drive home early in the mornings around 7am. I have to get on the interstate and travel for about 10 miles to my home. Close to the entrance ramp I have seen a man sitting on the gua...

Did A Demon Kill My Grandma? by Fallen__Angel

This is a true story and I think it was a demon, and it killed my grandma. One day I was home alone. I live with my grandparents and my grandpa was taking my grandma to the doctor. I was on the computer and I heard someone open the door. It was locked but I thought it was just my aunt Sherry beca...

Great Grandfathers Ghostly Visit by ZUKISMOM

I was 6 years old when I saw my first ghost or spirit. I was riding my bike around in the basement of the house that we lived in which my father had built in 1961. I am an only child so I was very comfortable roaming around alone and finding things to do. My point here is even at 6 years old I did n...

Shoe Lane Ghost by Brook

This is my 2nd ghost story I've submitted (it seems like I attract ghostly activity). In September of 2005, I was house-sitting for my aunt who was on vacation. She rents a house in Shepherdstown, WV off of Shoe Lane. The house has 3 apartments in it and the house is very old at least over 100 years...

My Mom's Ghost by RESCUE243

In the month of April, 2007 my mom was diagnosed with cancer. I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. My mom and I were as close as a son and mother could be. She was my world. My wife and I stood through it all with her. She seemed to do fine with the cancer until one day she seemed to get more...

Ghosts in the House by Eston L. Cullers II

My nephew Jason told me one time that he seen a ghost in their house out at Rig, WV where they lived as he was growing up. Now Jason is much older now but, this is what he told me about that one day. He said he had seen a ghost of a pilgrim standing in the bathroom. Now, this house has been standi...

My Granny by Linda

When I was 15yrs old my granny passed away at my uncle's house. About two weeks before she passed away, I was getting ready for school in my bedroom, looking in the mirror. Over my shoulder I saw my grandfather who had passed away eight months before. I never thought anything of it because I have se...

Wright Street Haunting by RESCUE243

In a small community, in lewis co, stands a small cottage home that dates back well beyond 1935. I bought the property in April of 2001, not knowing the home was haunted. I've always believed in ghosts, but I never guessed my home to be haunted. Boy was I wrong, many times after moving in, late at n...

Something in my Bed by Nicole Rogers

My ex-husband, Jamie, and I use to live with his dad. We were always told that this house was haunted. There have been numerous things happen to a number of different people. This is my story... Every morning Jamie would get up to go to work and (our room was in the upstairs of the house) every m...

Someone Saying My Name by strawberrybabe2010

I was getting ready for bed the other night and I was checking to see if my little sister was ok and asleep. I went and told my parents goodnight because they were already in bed. I took my dog with me and I went to bed. I was getting all comfy and it was all quiet and all and I was laying there on ...

Look Alike Figure by strawberrybabe2010

Hi I'm courtney, I just want to tell you all about a couple of my stories I have encountered. One was when I was asleep in my living room chair. My little sister is about 13 now and she had a friend stay the night with her. They were outside getting ready to come in and something made them stop and ...

A Haunted House by hotbabe

We live in my house for about 15 years and we had things happen to us. I was taking a bath with the bathroom door opened and I looked in the hall way and I saw a dark shadow. At night my TV changes channels and turns on be itself! I have things move in the house. One day my friend saw a boy walk in ...