Tunnel Green

Along the Wheeling Walking Path

Legend has it and facts as well, that the railroad put this tunnel underneath a cemetary. You can still see the old cemetary on the top of the tunnel with a bit of a hike. The Hempfield RR Tunnel, known to the locals as Tunnel Green (it's now a pedestrian tunnel), has murder written all over its walls. One spook has been reported by countless passersbys. It's the spirit of a young immigrant worker who was robbed and killed by an acquaintance.

He floats above the train tracks, seen with his mouth agape in a frozen scream and covering his face with a bloodied hand, still trying to fend off his attacker.

There have been reports of ghosts hanging from the roof of the tunnel, dripping slime, along with shadowy figures in the distance that disappear when approached. There was said to be an old cemetery 

The Former West Virginia State Penitentary

Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville WV about 12 miles from Hotel

Murders, executions in this old gothic style prison ,led it to being one of the most haunted locations in the world. The daily prison tours are led by fantastic Prison officers, who know every sordid detail of the old prison. If you get the chance do a lock down all night in the prison. Its a night you wont soon forget!

The Main Street Bridge

In downtown Wheeling, the Main Street Bridge is allegedly haunted by a gent who was trampled to death by his own team of horses, after he spooked them by jumping down from his wagon to repair a loosened hitch. He's been seen on the bridge, asking if anyone has seen his horses. He probably wants to shoot the dang critters!

Another bridge ghost is of a local contractor. While building the bridge in the late 1840's, he was checking out the scaffolding that his workcrew used. He was walking it to make sure it was in good condition. It wasn't.

The structure collapsed, and he was carried away by the powerful currents of the Ohio below. His body was never found, but his spirit is still there for everyone to see.

Greenwood Cemetery

Though there are no ghost stories persay about this grand old cemetery. The architecture is amazing from the chapel grave shown to the left to the larger than life monuments to the founding fathers of Wheeling, WV. Its a beautiful place for a walk, or to have a photography day.

Peninsular Cemetery

The Peninsula Cemetery is sometimes referred to as Foundry Cemetery, because it's near an abandoned WW2 armament factory. Visitors at the boneyard report they have seen the spook of a woman wearing a black cape, in the old southwestern part of the city of the dead. She stands guard at her own grave, as if protecting it from some impending danger.

And she may have good reason. The Peninsula Cemetery was first opened on May 2, 1842, and many bodies in the upper part of the graveyard date back to its opening. They were removed from the old Sixteenth Street Cemetery, which had the misfortune of being sold to become a RR right-of-way, and reburied there. Maybe she just doesn't feel like picking up her old bones and moving yet again.
The tombstone of Richard Moxley, who died at 64 in 1855 and was laid to rest at Penisula, reads thus:
"Stop Stranger as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so must you be
Prepare for death and follow me."

Eerie but accurate parting words, no?

 West Virgina's Own.....THE MOTHMAN

Mothman – Point Pleasant
Although the Mothman Legacy began nearly 40 years ago, it still has a strong hold on the small community of Point Pleasant and the thousands of townspeople and visitors who have hunted for him. Does he exist? Where did he come from? What really happened? Come and participate in guided tours of the areas where he was seen and hear the stories of eyewitness accounts and strange occurrences.
Contact: Call (304) 675-3844 to arrange for a guided tour or visit www.mothmanlives.com for more information.

Trans Alleghney

Lunatic Asylum

In Weston, WV about 3 hour drive but well worth the trip

God's Acre Cemetary

Bethany, West Virginia

The God's Acre Cemetery in Bethany goes by many common names, including The Campbell Cemetery, and simply, Bethany Cemetery.  It is the final resting place of Alexander and Thomas Campbell, the first missionaries in the Bethany area.

A two and a half foot thick stone wall, erected from stones from taken from two local old flour mills, was added in 1866, after the death of Alexander.  It is said that because of this wall, the souls of the those laid to rest are trapped in the cemetery, resulting in an eerie presence that permeates the entire place.

Wetzels Cave

(By Tunnel Green ask directions

Lewis Wetzel, born 1763 - died 1808, was a famous local Indian fighter, an accomplished woodsman and an expert rifle shot. Settlers in the Wheeling area relied on him for years as a trustworthy scout.
     He was an American frontiersman who became a famous folk-hero in his own lifetime. When his father and youngest brother were ambushed and killed by Indians in 1787, Wetzel went on a lifetime crusade against the red man to avenge their deaths. Legend has it that he hunted Indians as if they were wild animals.
     Lewis Wetzel was reported to have used Lewis Wetzel Cave as a hiding place along an Indian trail from which he shot eleven braves.
     The following is an account of the best known legend about Lewis Wetzel and the cave:
     In 1788, Lewis Wetzel made one of his occasional visits to Wheeling where he visited his sisters in Fort Henry. He soon learned

of a turkey-call which had been plaguing everyone so much because it had been heard many times and many places, thus giving the call a supernatural quality. Men had tried to find the source of the plaintive sound frequently never returned. After hearing many different stories, Wetzel left the Fort in search of the mysterious bird.
     Night fell as he searched the hills, so needing a good vantage point, he climbed to the fork of a tree. The mournful cries soon came at intervals and at times seemed to be very close and then far off in the distance.
     In the light of the moon he saw something pass silently through the brush up toward the top of the hill.
     At dawn he descended from the tree and found some faint marks in the brush which led him sixty feet above the creek on the east side of Creek Hill where the trail ended suddenly. "Here he found the mouth of a capacious cavern, running he knew not how far underground, the entrance almost completely obscured by a heavy growth of vines and foliage,"(1)
     He hid in the brush and late in the afternoon a piercing turkey-call broke the silnence. "The cries came from the cavern!"(2) Wetzel saw an Indian slowly rise in the mouth of the cave and, "

Then,twisting his mouth into a long horn-like shape, the red-skin sent forth the shrill, prolonged, and peculiarly distressing, moaning cry

Wetzel raised his rifle and aimed carefully at the warrior's head. He pulled the trigger and ended the turkey-cry forever.

Bethany College

Bethany, WV

The town of Bethany is a jewel. It is like walking back in time.

A real General Store (On Main Street), with great homemade to order sandwiches. The College of Bethany one of the finest Colleges. The Campus and ancient buildings will remind one of of Hogwarts from Harry Potter!

Take Bethany Pike through the countryside, past West Liberty then you will arrive in the village of Bethany for a day you will long remember.

Phillips Hall is reported to have a ghost by the name

of Sarah. She hung herself in the attic of Phillips Hall.

Things would come up missing and then reappear later on.

Below the Great Hall at Bethany College