Security Guard Story: Night patrols in the mountains are usually quiet. Too quiet, most nights. Same roads, same gates, same beam of my flashlight cutting through the same dark trees. There’s one spot near the ridge where I’m required to stop—kill the lights, sit for a while, watch, listen, and report anything strange. We don’t…
Black Eyed Kid Story: This happened in 2016, not long after I moved into my place in Radford, Virginia. At the end of my street sits a small park, the kind you barely notice in daylight and try not to look at after dark. I was pulling in from a long work trip at about…
When I was a kid there was an old house Cross Creek nobody wanted had nothing to do with because it was owned by a witch. People thought the house was cursed. Back where I grew up, There were roads and things, but there were still a whole lot of old paths that people still…
Virginia is known for its old battlefields, shadowed forests, and haunted small towns — but few tales from the Commonwealth send chills down the spine quite like the story of the Henrico County. Stories of a wolf-like being have circled Henrico County for over a century. Witnesses describe a tall creature standing between six and…
Reece was a fisherman living in the small community of Addison, West Virginia, in the early 1970s. Most days, you could find him out on the Ohio River in his old boat, working the water for a good catch. Like everyone else, he’d heard the strange stories coming from nearby Point Pleasant back in ’66…
Halloween in Blacksburg, Virginia, is usually something my kids look forward to all year. The crisp autumn air, the glow of jack-o’-lanterns on porches, the laughter of children echoing through the neighborhoods it’s always felt safe, familiar, and fun. But on Halloween night in 2023, that all changed. What started as an ordinary evening of…
Marrtown Banshee Story | Chilling West Virginia Legend Nestled among the rolling hills near Parkersburg, West Virginia, lies the quiet community of Marrtown — a place with a haunting legend that refuses to fade. Beneath its peaceful surface lingers the chilling tale of the Marrtown Banshee, a ghostly woman whose cries are said to foretell…
Lowell North Carolina UFO Encounter | Terrifying True Story of Mysterious Lights Over the Sky Lowell, North Carolina, may be a quiet town, but one evening in the late 2000s turned that calm into something unforgettable. Around 2009 or 2010, a local resident experienced something that would haunt his memory for years a strange and…
The Lyric Theater opened in 1909, on the corner of Wilson Ave and North Main ST in downtown Blacksburg. In the 1930 it moved to it’s current location with a 900 seating capacity (reduced to 477 in 1990’s reconstruction), state of the art equipment, an orchestra put, and a pretty big luxury for the time,…
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, is a place where history and hauntings seem to walk hand in hand. Tucked among the mountains where the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers meet, the town has seen more than its share of tragedy, from Civil War battles to railroad disasters. But few tales are as heartbreaking—or as terrifying as the…