Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 5 min readFor 119 years, the West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville was one of the most violent prisons in America — 94 executions, 36 murders, and cells five feet by seven. It closed in 1995. The ghost hunters arrived almost immediately.
About 5 min readIn 1897, a young West Virginia woman’s death was ruled natural — until her mother said the dead woman’s spirit had told her it was murder. The trial that followed convicted a killer on a ghost’s testimony, and the case has never been repeated — or explained.
About 4 min readOn a September evening in 1952, seven people climbed a hill in Flatwoods, West Virginia, following a fireball — and came face to face with something ten feet tall, with a spade-shaped head and glowing eyes. The Air Force blamed a meteor. The witnesses never changed their story.
About 4 min readIn November 1966, four people reported a tall, winged figure with glowing red eyes near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Thirteen months later, a bridge collapsed — and the two events became one legend.