THE HAUNTED ATLAS / CITY FILE3 RECORDS

3 Haunted Places in West Virginia

West Virginia · graded case files, legends and skeptic reports

Every case file on record in West Virginia — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.

  1. Point Pleasant — Thirteen Months of the Mothman

    A · Main Street, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, United States — For thirteen months between November 1966 and December 1967 the Ohio river town of Point Pleasant saw America's biggest cryptid sighting wave — a seven-foot winged figure with glowing red eyes, seen b…

  2. Flatwoods — The Braxton County Monster

    B · Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, United States — On the evening of 12 September 1952, seven named witnesses — the brothers May, their mother Kathleen, a National Guardsman and the neighbourhood children — climbed a Flatwoods hillside after a fiery o…

  3. Fayetteville — The Sodder Children of 1945

    B · Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States — Five children who went into a house fire on Christmas Eve 1945 and were never found: when the Sodder home in Fayetteville burned in the small hours, George and Jennie Sodder and four of their children…