#Haunted West Virginia

[thegirlintheturtleneck]

aunts old house in West Virginia

[officialwindywoods]

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[westvirginialover]

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[archivist-crow]

The Haunted Altas

Lowe Hotel - Point Pleasant, West Virginia

38° 50.567′ N / 82° 8.331′ W

Haunted hotel in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, a focal point of Mothman sightings and activity in the late 1960s. The Lowe—the biggest landmark in downtown Point Pleasant—has a number of invisible residents who like to get the attention of the living. Guests share their spooky experiences with owners Ruth and Rush Finley and send them photos showing mysterious phenomena.

History

The Lowe opened in 1901 at the corner of 4th and Main, near the site of what some believe to be the first battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Point Pleasant, fought on October 10, 1774. The land had been given to Andrew Lewis as part of his payment for military service during the French and Indian War (1754-1763).

The hotel was first called the Spencer Hotel, named after a local judge, the Honorable J. S, Spencer. It was owned and operated by two brothers, Homer and Grill Smith. A grand structure, it cost $65,000 to build and boasted "all the modern conveniences." There were 54 rooms on four floors. The sumptuous lobby featured a 30-foot-high ceiling and a stupendous fireplace. The ground floor housed a bank, barber shop, saloon, and wholesale liquor house.

The Lowe was the center of high society and lavish entertainment and in the 1920s was renowned as an elegant dance hall. The stock market crash of 1929 abruptly ended this glittery era, and the Smith brothers were forced to sell. The Homer Lowe, Sr., family bought the hotel in the same year and changed the name.

The Finleys acquired the Lowe in 1990 and began a restoration project that continues. The ground-level shops and services are long gone, but the lobby with its grand fireplace and impressive griffins is still a gathering place for guests. Today, 32 of the original 54 rooms are in use. Ten baths have been added, and some of the rooms have been joined into two-room suites.

Haunting Activity

One of the most commonly reported experiences is an eerie feeling of an unseen presence in halls and rooms. Guests say they feel a presence when they turn a corner in the hallway or come up the grand staircase to the second floor. Room 202 has become known as the "Keel Room," where author John Keel stayed during the first and second Mothman Festivals. Little activity has been reported in the room; in 2003, a photographic anomaly was captured in the room by Tim Frick, who, with his brother John, created the flying Mothman special effects for the annual festival hayrides. Immediately outside in the hallway by room 202, near the landing parlor, people report feeling the presence of a woman.

The third floor is the most active. In room 314, a tall, thin man in a 1930s suit, with a long beard, has appeared in a mirror. The solemn-looking fellow has not been identified, but he bears a strong resemblance to Sid Hatfield of the famous McCoy-Hatfield feuding families fame.

In the third floor three-room suite that overlooks the Ohio River, guests have reported the ghost of Captain Jim, or Jimbo, as he is also known. Jimbo tells guests that he is waiting for "the boat" to arrive. In September 2005, Jimbo drove guests from the room with his boisterous presence. Interestingly, he appeared on the same night that a real passenger barge, the River Explorer, was due to dock at Point Pleasant around midnight, as part of the Mothman Festival. According to Ruth Finley, river boat captains likely stayed at the Lowe; they were known for their drinking.

The fourth floor features the large ballroom where once guests danced nights away. But the haunting action is in an unfinished section of the floor that is used for storage. One of the items stashed away is an old rattan rocking chair that once belonged to Mrs. Lowe, who was blind. Staff have found the chair mysteriously moved around to new spots. On one afternoon, Marcia Finley, the daughter of Ruth and Rush, sneaked up to the attic to smoke a cigarette. While she enjoyed her smoke, she suddenly noticed the rattan chair rocking by itself. Startled and unnerved, Marcia sped downstairs. The experience turned her from a nonbeliever in ghosts to a believer.

Numerous photographic anomalies of unusual light patterns and orbs have been taken by guests at the Lowe. Some appear to have natural explanations, but those that do not raise interesting questions about what really walks the halls of the grand hotel.

Text from The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, Third Edition by Rosemary Ellen Guiley (Checkmark Books - 2007)

[the-jonestown-holotape]

summers county, wv

[letsgethaunted]

The Mothman

The motorman is a creature who reportedly lives in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Resembling a half-man, half-moth, this cryptid is sometimes attributed to a radioactive forest, an alien race, or a Native American curse.

[connectparanormal]

Greenbrier Ghost

The woman was dead. Her ghost gave spectral evidence claiming her husband had killed her. WV is the 19th century had interesting legal standards.

From the site:

The Greenbrier Ghost case in late 19th-century West Virginia is notable for its use of paranormal testimony in a murder trial. Zona Heaster’s ghost allegedly revealed her husband’s violent actions, leading to his conviction. This unique case highlights the intersection of justice and superstition, embedding itself into local folklore and tourism.

[obsidianandblacksatin]

👻 Get ready for chills! Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in WV has a spine-tingling history. Built on a Native American burial ground, it's witnessed tragic accidents and eerie ghost sightings. Perfect for thrill-seekers and ghost hunters! 🎢✨

[worminterface]

i love gecs so much and i should probably explore more of Dylan Brady's solo stuff but dear lord I hope Laura returns to her roots a bit sometime. just the emotions in her solo work are unmatched to anything 100 gecs has ever done (NOT QUALITY. just like rawness). if she did a solo hardcore album nobody would be able to stop me

[eerieluzt]

The Real Lost Town of Silent Hill

The town of Silent Hill West Virginia, is actually Centralia, Pennsylvania. In May 1962, the city had the local landfill burned in an attempt to clean up waste. The fire spread through unsealed tunnels that led to an abandoned coal mine, and the fires are still burning to this day.

[popculturelib]

Haunted States of America: West Virginia

Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales (1977) ed. by Ruth Ann Musick, with a foreword by William Hugh Jansen and illustrated by Archie L. Musick

Coffin Hollow is a folklore-focused book, consisting of stories collected by the author, her students, oral legends, and other publications. Musick writes:

For years now I've been trying to save just the stories and general lore of West Virginia. To me, these tales are almost as fascinating and individual as the state itself. One of the things I particularly like is that the tale-tellers are so sincere. Aside from legends -- and no one knows exactly how a legend originates -- these tales are told as the actual experiences of the contributors or of their relatives or friends. In almost every case the original teller, at least, believes that he or the person involved has had a supernatural experience.

Notably, Coffin Hollow includes a list of the folklore motifs in each story, following the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (1955-1958) by folklorist Stith Thompson. For example, the motif for the story from which this book takes its title is E232.1 -- Return from dead to slay own murderer.

Other books about ghosts in West Virginia include:

A Ghostly Tour of Harpers Ferry (1982) by Shirley Dougherty, drawings by Suzanne Randell

Lively Ghosts of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia (1991) by Susan Crites

Elk River Ghosts, Tales & Lore (2002) by Mack Samples

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[archivist-crow]

The Haunted Atlas

Blennerhassett Hotel - Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia

39°15′53″N / 81°33′41″W

The hotel is named after the area's most famous residents, Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett, but was not owned by them.

History

The Blennerhassett Hotel was built in 1889 by William N. Chancellor, two-time mayor of Parkersburg who made his fortune in oil and by building ornate hotels and homes after the Civil War. The hotel was the First National Bank of Parkersburg. Reopened as a hotel in 1986 with 104 rooms. The grand hotel has been restored and is the centerpiece of downtown Parkersburg today. It is a Registered National Historic Landmark.

Haunting Activity

The most frequently encountered ghost is that of Chancellor himself, who appears in various locations in the hotel dressed in a fine three-piece gray suit. He is identifable by his distinct cigar smoke smell, and also by the appearance of actual smoke. Chancellor’s portrait in the lobby has been seen mysteriously and suddenly wreathed in fragrant smoke, especially when ghost tour groups gather there to hear stories about the hotel. Cigar smoke is smelled wafting throughout the hotel.

Chancellor has been seen in the hotel's corridors, elevators, and guest rooms, startling visitors. He is especially active on the second floor. Chancellor is believed to play with the buttons in the elevator, causing the doors to open and close repeatedly. In 2003, a guest turned out his light at night and immediately felt a weight at the end of the bed. Turning on the light, he was startled to see Chancellor's form sitting at the end of his bed. The ghost said, "I was here first!" and disappeared. At the time, the hotel was undergoing extensive renovation, and Chancellor’s portrait had been temporarily removed from the library. When the portrait was restored—and the renovation completed—sightings of Chancellor decreased. Apparently, the ghost was stirred up by all the activity.

On the first floor in the bar and lounge now called Spats, apparitions have been seen in the huge mirrors. The mirrors were made from framed door casings of a New York City Victorian apartment. Among the ghosts appearing in the glass are a man dressed in a white tuxedo and carrying a black cane and a sea captain dressed in a dark coat and hat.

Guests have sometimes been startled by the shrieking of an invisible woman. Her voice comes over microphones set up in the ballroom and also emanates in guest rooms. Sometimes she shrieks and sometimes she sounds like she is laughing hysterically. One possible explanation concerns the death of a woman during the days when the hotel was a bank. She was crushed against an outside doorway of the building by a tractor-trailer rig that jumped the curb.

A ghostly maid continually mops the floor in the lobby. Phantom big band music drifts about, and at Christmas-time the voices of children singing "Jingle Bells" can be heard above the hotel's piped-in music.

Other phenomena include poltergeist disturbances such as the unexplained breaking of glasses; electrical malfunctions and oddities; apparitions of unknown persons; and a mysterious "bad" feeling in the Red Room, used for business meetings and social functions.

Text from The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, Third Edition by Rosemary Ellen Guiley (Checkmark Books - 2007)

[duranduratulsa]

Spooktober Haunted Places: Moundsville Penitentiary in Moundsville West Virginia #hauntedplaces #MoundsvillePenitentiary #moundsville #WestVirginia #moundsvillewestvirginia

[beyondthebizarre]

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Yours bizarrely,

Brianna

[moonmausoleum]

The Greenbrier Ghost that Went to Court

Read the puzzling story about the Greenbrier Ghost that solved her own murder case and how it all went down. See you at #moonmausoleum 👻🖤 #paranormal #ghosts #haunted #truecrime

The Greenbrier Ghost the supposed ghost of Zona that returned from the dead to testify that she was in fact killed by her husband and wanted to see him jail. How do we explain unnatural occurrences that actually makes sense? This is a debate the people of Greenbrier dealt with in Victorian times when the story of The Greenbrier Ghost came about. There is something of a dissonance in the universe…

[freyasfatale]

being careless of male validation has brought me to a point of extreme happiness and freedom.

I am a sex trafficking/work survivor. I am a domestic violence survivor. Unfortunately, my rape is on the internet many times over.

when I had to return to my hometown at 19 after being trapped for 6 months in that industry, I was not welcomed in my patriarchal, Christian West Virginia small town. I was humiliated, harassed, and shamed for years. constantly being told no man would ever love me or want me, that I was a used car, ran through, more dicks in me than years of my life, as well as ignored, fetishized, preyed upon, etc by men used to haunt me. This was when I cared about being a wife and mother to a man and his children.

Through radical feminism and the community, I no longer care. I found a community of women who understand what I went through and believe me, and who know that the oppression of my sex is why I endured such trauma. So when a man tells me “you did porn, who would want to be with you”, like my abusive ex did, it means nothing to me. My worth is more than whether or not men want to date or fuck me. I do not wish to marry or bear children to a man. I am free.

And by the way, not sure why the moids are both so obsessed with penetration while neglecting the fact that lesbians exist, and I am one.