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Welcome to the Lore and Legend news category at West Virginia Explorer, where you'll find news of the paranormal, supernatural, and uncanny in West Virginia.

Northern West Virginia ghost linked to Country music's "Big Bad John"

Company houses and backyard gardens climb the hillsides at Grant Town in northern West Virginia.
GRANT TOWN, W.Va. — If you've had the opportunity to descend into a West Virginia coal mine, you might have come away with a...

Three facts about West Virginia's Mothman legend few know

The Mothman Statue at Point Pleasant overlooks Main Street in the national historic district.
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — America's quintessential Atomic Age monster, Mothman continues to attract attention in the Ohio Valley, so much so that more than...

LOVE-HATE tattoos have terrifying origin in West Virginia nightmare

Robert Mitchem displays LOVE-HATE tattoos in "The Night of the Hunter."
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — The iconic LOVE-HATE tattoos that adorn many thuggish fists in the U.S. are tied to one of the most horrific events...

Horse Creek Ghost in W.Va. said to foretell the demise of...

PAX, W.Va. — Of the many kinds of ghosts said to haunt the hills of West Virginia, among the most anxiety-provoking may be those...

Roadside ghosts account for most popular West Virginia ghost stories

PAX, W.Va. — Tales of roadside ghosts account for many of the most famous ghost stories in West Virginia, according to the publisher of...

Tale of historic tragedy haunts the hills of northern Putnam County

Dave Sibray searches cliffs for clues regarding a tragedy that killed two West Virginia hunters in the late 1800s.
LIBERTY, W.Va. — Eighteenmile Creek wanders quietly through the low hills of northern Putnam County, revealing not in the least any potential for tragedy...

Haunting near Summersville Lake in W.Va. lives on in local memory

SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — The tale of the "Ford Ghost" southwest of Summersville, West Virginia, appears several times in local lore. This telling by J.W....

The full tale of West Virginia's remarkable Greenbrier Ghost

The home of the unfortunate Mary Heaster Shue still stands in the Allegheny foothills near Rainelle, West Virginia.
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Whether you believe in ghosts, it's a fact that a ghost enters the lawbooks in West Virginia. The account of the...

Bigfoot sightings near Sutton, West Virginia, have historic precedent

Bigfoot allegedly caught on hunter's cam in Fayette County, West Virginia. The source has since been determined to be from Jeffrey Stoffel and Jenna Oleson.
SUTTON, W.Va. — Sightings of a bigfoot alleged in the wilderness surrounding Sutton Lake in central West Virginia may have a historical precedent. According to...

Did someone fake the Flatwoods Monster sighting in West Virginia?

SUTTON, W.Va. — Many West Virginians have heard of a mysterious incident in Braxton County that involved a possibly celestial creature known as the...

Tale of the "Screaming Lady" based on true West Virginia historical...

The skeleton of a woman buried alive in the 1800s may still lie beneath the soil in Mason County.
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Some of the most chilling tales of hauntings in West Virginia are based on actual events, and one of the...

Do three legendary monsters inhabit the Monongahela River in W.Va.?

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Far from the city lights that shimmer about its mouth at the Golden Triangle at Pittsburgh, the Monongahela River rises more...

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