Legend of the Rainy Night Ghost

Told by: Ronald Lester
Told to: Rose Nicole Lester

About 30 years ago, the legend was on a rainy summer night. You could ride a horse up defeat branch, where the pine trees overlap the road, Sayingoes,when your you do ride a horse through that area, that you can feel the presents of someoe behind you breathing down your neck.So, if you would like to feel the presents of a ghost, just ride through hear on a rainy summer night. IF YOU DARE!!!

The Ghost on Blueberry MountainTop

Told by: Pearl (Trent) Hatfield
Told to: Glenda (Hatfield) Cline

It was the year 1935 when houses were in the woodland. Not many vehicles in the area. And no roads for vehicles in the area where our home was. SOme people might even say that where we lived was considered new days the boogie woods. It was a hot summer afternoon when Mother and I had decided to go pick blackberries high upon the mountain top. As we approached a weedy area there was the strangest feeling came over Mother and I. We could feel the hair stick up on our heads from the fear. We looked directly in front of us and seen the weeds fold down as if someone was stepping on them. However, there was no one to be seen, but the smell there was such a stinch. The odor there was no explanation right to this day of what we had experienced. And when my grandchildren ask me to take them to that mountain top I will tell them no way, because the feeling, and the smell and what my eyes saw that day I do not wish to relive again.

The Teen Bottom

Told by: Van Ray and Gregor Lester
Told to: Greg Stimson

As the sun was rising above the morning dew in the 1920's in Deaf Branch in Little Huff Creek in Wyoming Co. Teen Steele sat at his table eating breakfast and having his morning coffee as he usually did.

A shot rang out. The shot came through the window hitting Teen in the back of the head and killing him on the spot. The shot came from a hog rifle. As the legend goes, it was over a moonshine steel but no one really knows the shooter. He is still unknown at the present time.

There have been a number of accounts of people hunting in the area where Teen was killed and they have heard a tree fall beside them and there was no tree thereand rocks roll down the hill by them and no rocks were there and the hog rifle fire.

There is one account of two girls looking for fish bait on the creek right around where Teen was shot and a tree fell in the creek beside them and splashedthem with water. And they look and no tree had fallen.It scared them so bad they left there leaving what fish bait they already had caugh never to return to again.My mother and her friend played in the Teen bottom often as little girls they often road horses in the bottom and they to have heard the rocks roll and the tree fall and the hog rifle fire but they dismissed it as someone trying to scare them because my mother and brother offten tryed scaring her and her friends.

today you can go to the teen bottom and change and you will hear the rocks roll or trees

The Haunted House In Iaeger

Told by:Judy Simpson
Told to:Anna & Daniel Jude

Two women told me a story about something that happened to the in the 1950's. They asked me not to mention their names. They are two sisters that grew up in a hollow near Iaeger.

The girls lived in a house which their parents had bought. They also had three brothers. Strange things started to take place.

One night as the family was walking home after a church meeting. They saw the lights in the house come on and then go back off continuously. They thought somebody was in there. When they got to the house they saw that the door was still locked.That was the only unexplained incident.

The house had an attic, and you could hear footsteps coming from it. There were old trunks of clothing which belonged to their deceased grandparents, which were stored there by their mother. The children would ask about the footsteps. The mother played it off and said,"That is just your grandpa and grandma trying on their clothes.

There was another incident which was so frightening that it caused the girls' great aunt never to spend another night in that house again. She came to spend the weekend;but the first night she was awakened by a thunderstorm;that is when she heard a baby crying. The girls had a younger brother. Mike was his name. He was just a baby at the time. Their aunt got up the next morning and asked their mother about Mike crying, but much to her surprise Mike had not woke up at all that night. Their aunt left that same morning.

They told me about another incident. Their family was sitting in the kitchen when a very loud crash hit the back of their house. The sound was so loud their father went outside to see what had caused it. They thought that a boulder might have rolled off the hill behind their house, but when he looked, there was nothing.

Perhaps the scariest thing that ever happened was one night as the family and some of their kin people sat outside laughing, singing, and talking. The girls' father was playing his guitar. All of a sudden they heard a voice from the mountain behind the house. It was calling out clear as day "Herman". Nobody lived on the mountain, the only thing that was up there was an abandoned old mine.

As to why those things were happening, it was told that before the girls' parents bought the house, someone had died in there. This person had been sick and before he died he yelled out,"Help me! I'm being burned alive!" The girls and their family moved out of the house and rented it to a lady who reportedly moved out soon after. She also was frightened and said it is haunted. It was sold later because of delinquent taxes and then torn down.

Now there will be those of you who will say that there is no such thing as haunted houses, but for one of those women who told me of her childhood, still gets goosebumps when she talks about it.

Raw Head And Bloody Bones

Told by:Armor England
Told to:Nicholas Stinson

This is a story that has been in my famliy for 5 generations. It is about a monster called Raw Head and Bloody Bones. My Great- GreatGrandparents, (Armorand Mary England),built their 2 story log cabin home in the early 1920's. It is located in Suke Creek hollow near Hanover in W.Va. In those days Kids weren't allowed to playin the house. But kids being kidsthey tried to anyways. So my Great Great Grandfather, Whom everyone called Poppy, told his 8 kids that their was a monsterthat lived up stairs called Row Head and Bloody Bones. and if they didn't behave he would come after them and no one would ever see them again. Well their kids grew up and had kids of thier own. And when they visited the house their parents told them the same story. And they told their kids and now they are telling there Kids. No one has yet to see " The monster up stairs".Because every Kid that goes in that house behaves. In fear that Row Head and Bloody Bones will come after them.

Hopefully when I grow up and have kids of my own. The house will still be there for my kids to visit so I can tell them the legend of Row Head and Bloody Bones.