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Historic haunted places in Parkersburg, WV. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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This 1863 Union hilltop fort above Parkersburg has picked up stories of soldiers walking the earthworks and low moans on the summit, mostly around dusk. The accounts are local word…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
The art center occupies the site of the old Camden Theater, and its best-known ghost sign is the smell of buttered popcorn in a building that hasn't sold snacks in about a century.…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
A Civil War tent hospital and a smallpox outbreak brought suffering to this hill, and local stories say it hasn't forgotten. People report soldiers' figures on the slope and groans…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Staff and guests describe Gilded Age figures going about their business: men in top hats, women in furs and period dress, even children on tricycles. Cigar smoke drifts through non…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
Bookstore-era staff and customers in this former Carnegie library described a girl of about eight in a white bonnet sitting on the stairs between floors. They also reported an olde…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.