Hat Man Encounter Witness Shares Her Story

For today’s story I am revisiting the Black Eyed Kids given how much everyone seems to enjoy the subject. What is it that makes the Black Eyed Kids so intriguing? Is it the mystery of them? Or is it just how downright creepy they are? In my case I would say it’s both! Today’s story takes place in Glade Spring, West Virginia back in 2014. I’ll try and keep an eye out for more like this in the future. If anyone has had or knows someone who’s had an encounter please send it to us at webmaster@spookyappalachia.com.Source(s): Reddit user Kaine1212 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

3 Juni 20226min

Today’s story was sent in by a fan who had an interesting experience at the Former West Virginia State Penitentiary Moundsville, West Virginia. The facility officially opened in 1876 and during its 119-year life as a penitentiary the facility held some of the most violent killers, rapists, and other criminals. Many never left the institution alive. It comes as no surprise that this type of environment would leave behind more than a few wandering spirits.After the prison closed, the Moundsville Economic Development Council leased the complex for 25 years. Today it serves a dual purpose as a training facility and a tourist attraction. Today’s story takes place during a tour of the facility.I grew up thirty minutes south of the former West Virginia State Penitentiary. My Grandfather worked there for a bit when he moved back to the area. My Father’s first haircut was given to him by an inmate that was serving time for murdering his wife and mother-in-law by tying them up and pushing them into a wood stove. Because of my proximity to it growing up I probably toured the Penitentiary a half dozen times, each time I just had an uneasy feeling while touring it. Fast forward to 2019 I get an opportunity to tour and get some pictures with my then new camera. I was ready for a great tour, I had my camera, two backup batteries I had charged that morning, and a couple different lenses. The tour was going great until the guide let me go into the kitchen area. Typically it’s off limits for tours due to the roof leaking and the wet floors being a liability issue. They made an exception because I was the only one on this tour. The guide told me I could explore the kitchen and freezer areas and when I was done all I had to do was take a left and I’d be back in the cafeteria. I took some pictures in the kitchen and started down the hallway the freezers are in. The hallway was pretty dark and when I attempted to take a picture my camera gave me a message that the object I was trying to photograph was too close to be focused on. I tried taking another picture and it tried to focus but then gave me the same message. I gave up and tried changing to my low light lense. When I tried taking another picture it didn’t even try to focus, it just gave me the same ‘too close to focus’ message. I turned and took a picture of the kitchen from the hallway, that picture was perfectly fine. I turned back around and got the same focusing message. I turned it out of auto focus and forced it to take a picture. For some reason it was super grainy and the lighting was weird. I tried to take another one and my screen went black- no error, no low battery warning- it just went black. I tried swapping out batteries for one I had charged that morning, it was dead. I tried the other backup battery, also dead. Eventually I made my way back around to the tour guide. He asked me if I got any good pictures. I told him my batteries died, and he looked completely unphased. All he asked was ‘how much power does your phone have?’I pulled out my phone that I had charged on my way there that had been 100% when my tour started an hour prior; it was now down to 8% and in power saving mode. When I told him about that he just shrugged and told me that was why he no longer goes into the kitchen area. Apparently it’s pretty notorious for draining electronics. I still haven’t been able to explain what happened and since then I have taken pictures in darker places without having a similar issue.Thanks to the fan who sent this in! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

27 Maj 20223min

This is a sighting that stood out to me for two reasons. One, this is an area I have visited before, it is a common and popular hiking destination for folks who are not looking for paranormal experiences. Two, the sighting was not by a lone hiker. In the video you see a large group of people looking at something in the woods. Seeing multiple people looking at something like this makes it seem more legit to me. From what I heard of this story is about a family on vacation hiking in Clingmans Dome, Tennessee. As they climbed the mountain it was very foggy and cold. While walking on a trail someone heard something walking along the trees, so they stopped to take a look. They all spot something in the distance and begin filming as it walks off behind a corner.As you can see in the video, the creature stays in the area and a crowd begins to gather. Uphill among the trees you can see a figure, much larger than the local bears, with large hands and more fur. It stands still in the trees like it’s trying to hide, or perhaps observe the crowd. Then, it vanishes.I believe I’ve heard in the past that this area is a Bigfoot hotspot. I’ve actually seen a different video of Bigfoot in the same area, but I was unable to find it again. I did discuss this video with my brother-in-law and we both noticed that as the potential Bigfoot walks around the corner that the fur looks a little funny and flares up around its ankles, perhaps casting doubts on the legitimacy of the sighting, but nonetheless this is an interesting video!Source(s)The video from YouTubeParanormal Caught on Camera TV Show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20 Maj 20221min

One of North Carolina’s most haunted locations is located in Chatham County. If you follow Devil’s Tramping Ground Road, you will come to a strange clearing. It is perfectly round, measuring 40-foot in diameter, and completely barren. Here, nothing seems to grow. Not grass, not trees… nothing. Even animals seem to avoid the area.Beyond its strange appearance, many report that the area is haunted. People have described leaving objects in the circle, only to come back the next day and find it on the outside of the clearing. This leads me to wonder: what is going on here?Local legends say the Devil himself spends his nights in this very spot pacing around in the circle, thinking of ways to bring more human souls down to hell. The heat from his hooves kills all vegetation and causes the soil to remain barren. If he finds anything in his path—no matter the weight or size—he uses his immense strength to toss it out of his way.Residents have passed down this story through the generations since the founding of Chatham County in 1771. To this day, no one has been able to present a logical explanation for the phenomenon.Folks brave enough to attempt spending the night at this location have reported hearing howling sounds and footsteps. They have even reported seeing apparitions. Youtuber Kevin The Custodian Ghost Hunter unknowingly caught an apparition on camera in October 2019. In the video you can see what appears to be a blue, transparent woman walking by.Thanks to Kevin for allowing me to share his evidence here. Please be sure to check out his YouTube channel. After looking into it, I found stories of a massive battle between Native American tribes in this exact spot. Could that explain the hauntings? Unfortunately, the area is now fenced in with no trespassing signs posted. Even though I had hoped to check this place out myself, but it doesn’t look like I will be able to—at least for now.Do you have a Paranormal story? Let us know we would love to feature it! Email us at webmaster@spookyappalachia.comSource(s)Kevin The Custodian Ghost Hunter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13 Maj 20222min

This story is one of the more famous ones and is known as the one that started Mothman’s popularity and gave the creature its name. It comes from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, three days after the previous story, on November 15, 1966. Two couples, the Scarberrys and the Mallettes, were driving around the abandoned North Power Plant in the TNT area when they noticed a creature coming from the trees above one of the bunkers. They later described this humanoid creature as bird-like with a large wingspan and piercing, fiery red eyes. The driver put the car in reverse and started driving away from the area. It was then that they noticed a large, dead dog lying on the side of the road. Shortly after the group discovered the dead dog, the creature jumped out at them. The driver of the vehicle floored it. Soon after, the group noticed the creature flying beside the car, screeching like a giant mouse. The creature managed to keep up with the car at speeds up to 100 mph. It then disappeared into a nearby field.The group later went to the police station and reported the event. The deputy at the police station didn’t believe them at first, but, after seeing how truly terrified the couples were, decided to check it out. The deputy, along with the couples, drove around the area. Here, they noticed strange static noises coming from the radio. Also, the dead dog they had seen before was no longer there.The next day, the sheriff and the couples held a press conference at the city courthouse to share the story. Due to the description of the creature and, at the time, the popularity of the Batman TV show, newspapers coined the name “Mothman”, inspired by the popularity of the Adam West Batman show.News of the creature eventually spread outside of Point Pleasant, and it changed the town forever. Today, if you visit, you’ll see a town enriched with Mothman culture. There’s the world’s only Mothman Museum as well as several shops selling merchandise. Local restaurants have Mothman-themed food items, such as the Mothman Pizza from a local pizza shop and the Mothman Burrito from the Mexican restaurant a few blocks away from the museumDo you have a Paranormal story? Let us know we would love to feature it! Email us at webmaster@spookyappalachia.comSource(s):Jeff Wamsley Director Mothman Museum and Mothman expertappalachianoddity http://www.appalachianoddity.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

6 Maj 20222min

Not far from Morganton, North Carolina, there is an overlook you can pull over for with a sign titled “Brown Mountain”. It’s a great view no matter what time of day you stop by, but you’ll notice a lot of people pulled over at this spot during the nighttime. These people are trying to get a glimpse of the legendary lights of Brown Mountain. In today’s post, I will be giving you an eyewitness account along with some evidence they sent over. For more evidence check out Ark Adventures on YouTube.I’ve been up there probably 7 or 8 times and have seen the lights every time I’ve gone. I first went as a teenager with my father and friend on a camping trip. My father knew about the lights and told me and my friend. So of course we wanted to see for ourselves. On that first trip, I didn’t have a camera, but all three of us saw many strange lights down in Linville Gorge. We even saw a bright orange light hovering off the left side of Table Rock Mountain.After this initial trip and experience, me and my friend went back several times specifically to try and see the lights. During these next few trips, I came prepared with a Canon DSLR camera, a 75mm to 300mm telephoto lens, and a tripod. We would hike around the area in the evening to kill time till it got dark out, then head to the Wiseman’s View Overlook to try and catch a glimpse of the lights.At about 9:00 p.m. (or when it was dark out) I would set my camera up on the tripod and wait for a light to appear somewhere in the gorge. Whenever we would spot one, I would try and frame it in my viewfinder, zoom in as far as I could, and focus on the light. Then I would typically take a 20-30 second exposure. The exposure had to be this long to get any amount of light due to how dark it was outside.I would repeat taking pictures until the light disappeared or a more interesting one popped up somewhere else. There were a couple of occasions where later in the night, I took a picture and waited 30 seconds for it to complete. Me and my friend would look at the picture on the camera and get so spooked that we freaked ourselves out and left for the night. We would be very excited to get home and look at the pictures in detail on the computer though.There is one story that stands out above all when it comes to experiences at the gorge though. It’s one of those stories that sounds too crazy to be true but me and 3 friends all witnessed the same thing so I know it happened.On one trip to Wiseman’s view, me and 3 friends went to see the lights as we’ve done multiple times. Unfortunately, the night was very inactive, and we just weren’t seeing any lights at all. What a bummer. After a couple of hours of looking and waiting, we decided to pack our stuff up and go home. As soon as I turned my camera off and went to take it off the tripod, what can only be described as a spotlight shot up into the sky out of the middle of the gorge. Way too powerful to be any flashlight. The light moved around quickly and then turned and shined directly on the four of us standing at the overlook. Just as quick as it was there, it was gone. We all froze in shock for a couple of seconds, then grabbed our stuff and got back to the car as quickly as possible. It’s an event I will never forget and will swear by its truth till the day I die.Wow, that was a great story, and the photos are incredible! Thank you Ark Adventures for the story and photos! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

29 Apr 20223min

Perhaps the most famous cryptid of all time is Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Normally, I like to do a “Story of…” post before I start posting stories and sightings of these creatures. It has been tough to track down one source of the first story; there are many opinions on where it all began. So, I will try to summarize a few that I think may have started it. At a later time, I will be posting sightings from in or around Appalachia because they seem to happen all the time!Leif Ericson and his men are thought to be the first European explorers of North America. During their first visit in 986 AD, they reported seeing something strange. Leif wrote of huge hairy men who towered over him and his men. These men were loud and foul-smelling and lived in the woods. They had several encounters with the creatures and noted they were very different from the other natives they found in the new world.Another documented early story I found happened in 1924. Albert Ostman, a lumberjack and outdoorsman, was asleep in his sleeping bag on a vacation camping trip in British Columbia when a Sasquatch picked him up and carried him for about 3 hours. He was taken to what seemed like a family of four creatures. Most reports say he was held captive for 6 days by the creatures. All that is known about Ostman’s time with them is that they fed him some type of sweet grass. Ostman was able to escape after he gave the largest creature some snuff, which caused it to get sick.On August 27, 1958, near Bluff Creek, California, Jerry Crew arrived at a road construction site for work one morning and found tracks measuring a whopping 18 inches in length. He showed the prints to his co-workers, who referred to whatever was making the prints as “Big Foot,” thus giving the creature its name. A month later, more prints were found, and a plaster casting was made of one of them.The Patterson and Gimlin footage from 1967 is the last one I’ll cover this go-round. On October 20, 1967, Patterson and Gimlin were horseback riding around 1:15 in the afternoon. They went around a downed tree and noticed a figure crouching, a man-like creature. They observed that it was about 7 foot 6 inches tall and covered in dark reddish-brown or black hair. Thinking this was odd, Patterson dismounted his horse and took out his camera. Paterson started running towards it while filming, which he explains is why the footage is so shaky, and at one point he even tripped. The creature eventually noticed the two and began walking away but looked back at them before disappearing. This video is probably the one that started the hype surrounding Bigfoot. It is how I first heard of him as a kid.There you have it. These are some of the biggest stories that have encouraged Bigfoot fever. There are reports, pictures, and even videos of sightings of the creature all over the US these days. I have even seen several very near where I live. One day, I might cover some of those. If you have ever had an encounter with Bigfoot and would like to share your story, please email me at webmaster@spookyappalachia.com. I would love to hear your story and share it here.Do you have a Paranormal story? Let us know we would love to feature it! Email us at webmaster@spookyappalachia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22 Apr 20223min

This was sent over by one of the members of our discord. If you haven’t yet, be sure to join to get all of the latest updates and come chat with other fans of the site! You can join our discord here.I used to do IT work in Roanoke VA, and one of the buildings I went to was a remodeled farm house from 1928 that got turned into the La Maison french restaurant and later into an office. The story I heard while working there was that the building was haunted by two different ghosts.The first ghost was called Old Man Coulter. He was the owner of the original farm house and all the land around the area. You could tell if the ghost was nearby there was always the smell of cigar smoke.The other ghost was called the Blue or Gray Lady. She was seen looking out from the front windows that overlooked a graveyard across the street.In my time working there I had never seen this Blue Lady but there were many occasions when I would randomly smell cigar smoke. Keep in mind this was a non-smoking building. I always thought that was kind of weird.For example I would be fixing a network jack in the wall when the faint smell of cigars would reach my nose. I liked doing a lot of my work between 12pm-1pm so that everyone would be gone for lunch and I could work in peace. So usually when I looked around I did not find anyone else. My first thought was someone was smoking on their lunch and came in with the smell on them. But it always seemed like no one else was around me.Then the smell would slowly fade away.Anyway, I never could explain it and as far as I know this story is not widely known so I wanted to share.Very interesting story, thank you for sending it in. I know if I were working and started smelling that smell being the only one around I would be pretty creeped out myself. Don’t forget if you have your own stories, be sure to send them in to webmaster@spookyappalachia.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

15 Apr 20221min