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…
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…
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…
My house sits just fifty feet from the edge of the Nathaniel Mountain State Wildlife Area in West Virginia a sprawling, heavily wooded preserve known for its rugged terrain and untouched wilderness. When my family and I moved here five years ago, we thought we were moving into peace and quiet. But over time, I’ve…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud?This encounter is up on our Spooky Appalachia YouTube channel. 👉 Watch the Witness tell the story them-self! It was well after midnight, somewhere between one and two in the morning, when I found myself winding back toward Wetzel County on Route 7. If you’ve ever traveled that stretch of…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud?This encounter is up on our Spooky Appalachia YouTube channel. 👉 Watch the Witness tell the story them-self! In the autumn of 2023, my family moved to a remote stretch of the Mid-Ohio Valley. It’s the kind of place where the woods don’t just feel empty and feel like they’re…
Oakland Maryland ghost story: This true story took place on June 2, 2025, in Oakland, Maryland, near the WV mountain trails. What started as a quiet evening on patrol turned into one of the strangest and most disturbing encounters I’ve ever had. I was completely alone no other guard on duty that night. The area…
In September of 1988, a chilling feral person encounter in Appalachia left two friends questioning what really lives in the dense Kentucky woods. I was 28 at the time, working part-time at a feed store in Somerset, Kentucky. My buddy Mike, a tough Vietnam vet and skilled mechanic, often joined me on long hiking trips….
Back in 2003, in a remote part of North Carolina not far from Mayfield Road, I had an encounter that has stuck with me to this day. Strangely enough, it happened along the same road where I would later have a Bigfoot sighting though that’s another story entirely. Ruffin NC Winged Humanoid sighting: It was…
In April 1967, I was a teenager living in Pomeroy, Ohio, right across the river from Mason, West Virginia, about 20 miles north of Point Pleasant, where the Mothman legend began. Growing up in the 1960s, life was laid-back, and kids like me had the freedom to explore. The previous November, stories of a winged…
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