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Neerly House Mystery: "Said he heard it," the boy said of Dotson. "Something that seemed to be dragging itself along and grunting every few minutes."

The house that vanished overnight: West Virginia’s Neerly House haunting

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FAIRMONT, W.Va. — At least two mysteries tangle in the tale of the Neerly house. What happened to the house? What happened to "old...
David Sibray visits the Ebenezer Church (est. 1880) beyond the Low Gap at the head of Skull Run.

The horrors of Skull Run recounted by late West Virginia historian

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SKULL RUN, W.Va. — A traveler motoring through the pastures in this wooded section off the Ohio River might have little idea of the...
Solomon Spaulding claimed to have uncovered ancient plates along Prickett's Creek in Marion County, West Virginia.

Giant skeletons and buried copper plates—a strange Marion County folktale

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FAIRMONT, W.Va. — In the hills and river bottoms of Marion County in north-central West Virginia, stories have long circulated that blur the line...
Ludington's Giant Shorthorn Ox

Colonel Ludington's legendary giant ox was real, and it weighed 4,450 pounds

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FRANKFORD, W.Va. — Long before viral videos and roadside attractions, West Virginia produced a creature so outsized that stories about him drifted into legend....
The "Star of the West" is caught in the treetops near Clayton, West Virginia..

Quiet West Virginia village of Clayton named for 1835 hot-air balloon crash

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CLAYTON, W.Va. — Few West Virginia place names come with a tale as improbable or as theatrical as that of Clayton, a quiet Summers...