Haunted Places in West Virginia (86)
Explore 86 haunted places in West Virginia. Read the stories and find your next ghost trip.
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Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
West Virginia
Mental hospital operating 1864-1994 — today a museum offering tours, the location of "Paranormal Lockdown".
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West Virginia Penitentiary
West Virginia
Built on an Adena burial mound — 94 executions and the notorious “Shadow Man”.
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- ⛏️ 1915 Abandoned Mine West Virginia Reported haunted location in Logan County, West Virginia, USA.
- ⛏️ 22 Mine Road West Virginia Reported haunted location in Logan, West Virginia, USA.
- 🌉 At the bottom of 5th Street Hill West Virginia Reported haunted location in Huntington, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Babcock State Park West Virginia Reported haunted location in Fayette County, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Beckley Junior High West Virginia Reported haunted location in Beckley, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 The old Stoco junior high West Virginia Voices, footsteps and echoes through the school, and writing that has appeared on the walls.
- 👻 Big Bend Tunnel West Virginia Reported haunted location in Talcott, West Virginia, USA.
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Blennerhasset Hotel
West Virginia
Reported haunted location in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA.
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- 🏫 Bluefield State College West Virginia Reported haunted location in Bluefield, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏰 Bud West Virginia Reported haunted location in Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA.
- 🛣️ Bullcreek/Long Pole West Virginia Reported haunted location in Panther/Iaeger, West Virginia, USA.
- 🎭 Capital High School Theater West Virginia Reported haunted location in Charleston, West Virginia, USA.
- 🎭 Capitol Music Hall West Virginia Reported haunted location in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.
- 🎭 The Capitol Plaza Theatre West Virginia Built in 1909 on the site of the Welch Mansion, which had stood there since 1798. Some of the family who lived in the mansion are still described in the.
- 🏫 Charleston Train Depot and the carriage trail West Virginia A depot on the bank of the Kanawha River, and a carriage trail that once led up to the Governor's Mansion, now almost invisible from the platform.
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Cheat Lake
West Virginia
Reported haunted location in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Flinderation Tunnel West Virginia Men were working in the tunnel and did not know a train was coming, or how fast. One of them could not reach a cubby hole in time.
- ⚔️ Clarksburg West Virginia Reported haunted location in Salem, West Virginia, USA.
- 🛣️ Cleveland Wildcat Road West Virginia Reported haunted location in Wildcat, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Colonial Lanes West Virginia Reported haunted location in Huntington, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 Concord College West Virginia Reported haunted location in Athens, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 DeSales Heights School West Virginia Reported haunted location in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Droop Mountain Battlefield West Virginia Reported haunted location in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏯 E. Moore Hall West Virginia Reported haunted location in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Foodlion West Virginia Reported haunted location in Summersville, West Virginia, USA.
- 🌉 The TNT area, Point Pleasant West Virginia The Mothman was reported around this former federal munitions dump on the Ohio River through 1966 and 1967, by dozens of people.
- 👻 General Jenkins House West Virginia Reported haunted location in Greenbottom, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 Glenville State College West Virginia Reported haunted location in Glenville, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 Glenville State College West Virginia Reported haunted location in Glenville, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ Gobblers Knob West Virginia Reported haunted location in Wadestown, West Virginia, USA.
- 🛣️ Grasslick Road (Site of P Fost-Greene Murders) West Virginia Reported haunted location in Ripley, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 The Greenbrier Ghost West Virginia She appeared to her mother about two weeks after her death and told her what had happened. It is the only case in American law where a ghost's testimony.
- ⛪ The boy on the hill West Virginia He was killed in the 1920s. He is seen pedalling his bicycle up the hill in a dark blue coat, trying to get home.
- ⚔️ Hanging rock West Virginia Reported haunted location in Philippi, West Virginia, USA.
- 🛎️ Hilltop Hotel West Virginia Reported haunted location in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, USA. 🛏 Book a night here
- 🛣️ In between Clarksburg, and Jane Lew West Virginia Reported haunted location in Jane Lew, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ Isaac West Virginia Reported haunted location in Hamlin, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Kates Mountain West Virginia Reported haunted location in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚔️ Lewisburg courthouse West Virginia Reported haunted location in Lewisburg, West Virginia, USA.
- 🌉 Lowell West Virginia Reported haunted location in Summers Co, West Virginia, USA.
- 🌉 Macedonia Road West Virginia Reported haunted location in Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA.
- 🌉 Marrtown West Virginia Scottish settlers brought the Banshee with them to a farming community outside Parkersburg, West Virginia, and she is said to have kept working there.
- 🛣️ Meadowbrook West Virginia Reported haunted location in Harrison, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Morgantown Public Library West Virginia Reported haunted location in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ Newburg West Virginia Reported haunted location in Preston, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Old Fire Department West Virginia Reported haunted location in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ Parkersburg West Virginia Reported haunted location in Wood, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏯 Gravity Hall, Peterkin West Virginia A preacher died of a heart attack in his room in the early 1970s, getting up in the night. His wife found him in the morning. The piano upstairs has.
- 🏫 Pineville grade school West Virginia Reported haunted location in Pineville, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Piney Bottom West Virginia Reported haunted location in Harts, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Plum Orchard Lake West Virginia Reported haunted location in Fayette County, West Virginia, USA.
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The Lakin Industrial Home for Colored Boys
West Virginia
A reform school for Black children across the river from Point Pleasant, and what stayed in the building.
- 👻 Railroad West Virginia Reported haunted location in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Ransdell House West Virginia Reported haunted location in Ceredo, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏯 Ratliff Hall West Virginia Reported haunted location in Montgomery, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 Ritchie County Middle / High School around 1997-1998. West Virginia Reported haunted location in Ellenborro, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 River Park Hospital West Virginia Reported haunted location in Huntington, West Virginia, USA.
- 🛣️ Sandy Huff Hollow West Virginia Hunters and riders in this hollow describe something very large and doglike. Chickens, cats and dogs go missing from the houses along it.
- 👻 Seneca Caverns West Virginia Reported haunted location in Riverton, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 Shepherd College West Virginia Reported haunted location in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚔️ Shepherd College West Virginia Reported haunted location in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ Shepherd College West Virginia Reported haunted location in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ Spry Cemetery, Dry Branch Hollow West Virginia Dixie V Counts is buried in this West Virginia hollow beside her stillborn son Charlie. Both died during the labour.
- 👻 St. Josephs Hospital West Virginia Reported haunted location in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA.
- ⛪ St. Peters Catholic Church West Virginia Reported haunted location in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 state hospital West Virginia Reported haunted location in Spencer, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚔️ Moundsville West Virginia It was among the most violent prisons in the country, condemned and closed in 1995. It now sells itself as the most haunted site on the east coast.
- ⚰️ Stewart's Run Rd. Cemetery West Virginia Reported haunted location in Philippi, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 The Blenner Hassett Island West Virginia Reported haunted location in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA.
- 🌾 The Old Mill West Virginia Reported haunted location in Falling Waters, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏯 The Plumly Mansion West Virginia Reported haunted location in Mason County, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 the town West Virginia Reported haunted location in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, USA.
- 🛎️ The Wells Inn West Virginia Reported haunted location in Sistersville, West Virginia, USA. 🛏 Book a night here
- 🌉 Train Tracks West Virginia Reported haunted location in Pax, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Tunnel 19 West Virginia She was on her way to be married, in her dress, and she went off the platform as a train was coming. The temperature drops at the mouth of the tunnel.
- ⚰️ Tunnel Green West Virginia Reported haunted location in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Van Meter's Farm West Virginia Reported haunted location in Petersburg, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Vinegar Hill West Virginia Reported haunted location in Fairmont, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 Wade elementary school West Virginia Reported haunted location in Bluefield, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ West Point West Virginia Reported haunted location in Kingwood, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 West Virginia University West Virginia Reported haunted location in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
- 🏫 West Virginia University West Virginia Reported haunted location in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
- ⚰️ Woodlawn cemetery West Virginia Reported haunted location in Bluewell, West Virginia, USA.
- 👻 Yukon#2 West Virginia Reported haunted location in Mcdowell County, West Virginia, USA.
FAQ
How many haunted places are there in West Virginia?
Haunted Places lists 86 haunted locations in West Virginia, each with its story and GPS coordinates.
What are the most haunted places in West Virginia?
Among the most notable in West Virginia: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, West Virginia Penitentiary and 1915 Abandoned Mine.
Can you stay overnight at haunted places in West Virginia?
Yes — 1 of the haunted places in West Virginia is a hotel or inn you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.
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