Table of Contents
Introduction 1
The Eastern Panhandle
Harpers Ferry and Environs 9
Harper House 14
Wager House 15
Fire Engine House 15
Hog Alley 16
Camp Hill Soldiers 16
Maryland Heights 17
St. Peter's Church 18
Jefferson Rock 19
Harper Cemetery 19
The Iron Horse Inn 20
Hilltop Hotel Site 21
Charles Town and Environs 22
Jefferson County Courthouse 23
Old Jail Site 26
Gibson/Perkins House 27
Zion Episcopal Church and Cemetery 27
The Ghost of William Bailey 29
Edge Hill Cemetery 29
Washington House Inn 30
The Old Opera House 30
Paddy's Irish Pub 32
Shepherdstown and Environs 33
Shepherd University 34
Ender Hotel and Historic Shepherdstown Museum 39
Shepherdstown Sweet Shop Bakery 40
Devonshire Arms Café & Pub 40
Elmwood Cemetery 41
Apollo Civic Theater 42
Berkeley Springs and Environs 43
Berkeley Castle 44
Lot 12 50
Dutch Cemetery 51
Panorama at the Peak 52
Cacapon Resort State Park Golf Course 54
Middleway and Environs 55
Legend of the Wizard Clip 56
Priest Field 65
Potomac Highlands
Droop Mountain 69
Denmar Correctional Center 75
Watoga State Park 76
The Cole Mountain Ghost Light 76
The Screaming Ghost of Darkish Knob 77
Seneca Caverns 78
Seneca Rocks 79
Davis & Elkins College 81
Phantom Hitchhiker 83
A Peddler's Ghost 83
Mountaineer Country
Morgantown and Environs 87
West Virginia University 87
Morgantown Public Library 89
Cheat Lake 90
The Headless Horseman of Rivesville 91
Fairmont and Environs 92
Marion County Historical Society and Museum 92
Headless Railroad Ghost 93
Fairmont Avenue 93
Pricketts Fort 95
Pricketts Homestead 98
The Ghost Lights of Benton's Ferry 99
The Flattened Man of Vinegar Hill 100
The Coffin Rider 100
Waldomore Mansion/Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library 102
Flinderation Tunnel 103
The Northern Panhandle
Wheeling and Environs 107
Main Street Bridge 108
Capitol Theatre 108
Tunnel Green 109
Peninsula Cemetery 110
Wetzel's Cave 111
Monument Place 112
West Virginia State Penitentiary 114
Grave Creek Mound 121
Aspen Manor 122
Bethany and Environs 125
Bethany College 125
Alexander Campbell Mansion 127
God's Acre Cemetery 128
Sistersville and Environs 129
Wells Inn 129
Greenwood Cemetery 131
The Ghost of Gamble's Run 131
The Jennings Gang and Doolin Run 133
The Mid-Ohio Valley
Parkersburg and Environs 139
Blennerhassett Island 139
Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History 145
Blennerhassett Hotel 146
Riverview Cemetery 148
Holliday Cemetery 152
Quincy Hill 154
Trans Allegheny Bookstore Building 155
Eaton's Tunnel 156
Marrtown Banshee 157
Silver Run Tunnel 159
Former Ravenswood Theater 160
Burnt House 161
The Gale Betts Ghost 163
Mountain Lakes
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum 169
Millstone Run 181
West Virginian Wesleyan College 182
Hacker's Creek Hill 183
Glenville State College 184
The Hellfire Band of Gilmer County 187
Third Run 188
U.S. Route 19 188
The Headless Ghosts of Braxton County 189
Powell's Mountain 190
Haunted Valley 192
New River-Greenbrier Valley
The Greenbrier Ghost 197
Greenbrier County Courthouse 205
Beckley and Environs 206
Soldiers Memorial Theater 206
Raleigh County Courthouse 207
Ghosts of Cherry Creek Dip 207
The Cranberry Coal Miner 208
Kate's Mountain 208
Bluefield and Environs 210
Bluefield State College 210
Mercer County Airport 211
The Sandstone Ghost Light 212
The Phantom Dog of Peach Tree 212
John Henry and Big Bend Tunnel 213
Babcock State Park 215
Big Sewell Mountain 217
Pax School House Cemetery 219
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park 219
Metro Valley
Point Pleasant and Environs 227
Tu-Endie-Wei State Park 229
Lowe Hotel 231
State Theater 235
TNT Grounds 235
Huntington and Environs 237
Former Frederick Hotel Building 239
Keith-Albee Theater 240
Marshall University 241
Spring Hill Cemetery 243
Colonial Lanes 244
The Hitchhiking Ghost Girl of Fifth Street Hill 245
Guyandotte and Environs 248
The Lady in Black 250
Madie Carroll House 251
Buffington House 253
Grace Methodist Church Cemetery 253
Charleston and Environs 254
State Capitol Building 256
West Virginia State Capitol Center Theatre 257
University of Charleston 258
Woolworth Building 260
Former Shelton College 260
Hatfield-McCoy Mountains
The Ghost of Mamie Thurman 265
Hatfield Cemetery 273
Spry Cemetery 275
Bibliography 277
Acknowledgments 279
About the Author 280
