🎥 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…
Talking crow Black Mountain: A few weeks ago, I had an experience near Black Mountain, North Carolina, that I can’t quite explain, one that feels like it belongs in the pages of an Appalachian ghost story. I was driving to work along a desolate, winding road, the kind where the dense forest seems to swallow…
The Ghost of Wilderness Presidential Resort Wilderness Resort ghost girl: Summertime, 2015. I was 15 and was doing some campground activities such as karaoke, cornhole etc. This place Called Wilderness Presidential Resort in Virginia was a nice campground full of trails, lakes, and the pool. Everyone’s favorite place. It was dark next to our Camper…
The Thunder That Never Was: This story was shared with me by a distant cousin. It’s something his great-grandpa experienced way back in the early 1900s, deep in the old mountains of East Tennessee. Back then, his great-grandpa lived close to his mother-in-law, a widow who was absolutely terrified of storms. One evening, a big…
An East Tennessee UFO encounter: This story was shared with me by a distant cousin. It’s something his great-grandpa experienced way back in the early 1900s, deep in the old mountains of East Tennessee. Back then, his great-grandpa lived close to his mother-in-law, a widow who was absolutely terrified of storms. One evening, a big…