Spooky Appalachia

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...

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 environ...

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...

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....

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 th...

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 accou...

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 f...

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 sto...

Skyquakes or Trumpets are a strange new phenomenon being reported all over the world. Reports state a trumpet sounds or sonic boom coming from the sky. In some cases, a shock caused buildings to shake.  The odd thing about this one is the amount of evidence there is out there. Go on social media and search “trumpet sounds coming from the sky,” and you’ll find several pages full of records and...

Perryville Kentucky, founded in 1758, appears to be a typical, quiet small town in the middle of Kentucky with a population of about 780 people, but it has something of a dark history. If you’ve heard of Perryville, it might be because Kentucky’s bloodiest Civil War battle took place there. More than 7,600 soldiers were killed, wounded, or went missing. Or you may have heard about its reputation f...

This week we have a story from Lori, with a possible Mothman Sighting from Southern Michigan back in 2019. It’s a pretty exciting story and I’m happy to be able to share it here. Also check out our original post on the Mothman for more information on the creature.  I’ve shared this story before. I am reluctant to share again, I am sure it will sound like I’m bat shit crazy, but the truth is,...

This story was emailed in by a fan named TJ. He said he really enjoyed the story I posted last week and that had one he wanted to share. June 2016, Aberdeen, Ohio. I was working the night shift at my local Taco Bell, when I had one of the scariest moments in my life that I have ever experienced. It was 10:00 at night, the place was a graveyard, I was working the drive thru that night. We hadn...

Black-eyed kids are one of the more creepy urban legends because no one really knows what they are or what they want. Most encounters seem to take place either with a creepy duo showing up at a victim’s house asking to be let in during the middle of the night or at the window of a car asking for a ride. Witnesses always state that these kids appear to be between the ages of 5 and 15, with ragged c...

If you have never heard of it, the Mothman is a creature made famous by encounters in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Several eyewitnesses have described it as a human-shaped and sized creature with bird-like wings and feathers. Its most distinguishing feature is its reflective red eyes. There have been several sightings of this creature throughout the years, even before the incidents reported in P...

This story starts out in the summer of 1817, when the Bell family began seeing strange looking animals on their 320 acre farm. Soon after, they began hearing knocking sounds on their doors and the outer walls of their farm house. Shortly after the knocking started, the family began hearing chains being drug through the house, the sounds of stones being dropped on their wood floors, and gulping and...

According to Japanese legend, Kuchisake-onna, or the Slit-Mouthed Woman, was a human woman who was mutilated during her life. Her mouth was slit from ear to ear, like The Joker in 2008’s The Dark Knight . In some versions of the story, Kuchisake-onna was the adulterous wife of a samurai during her life, and, as punishment for her infidelity, her husband sliced the corners of her mouth from ear to...

The Flatwoods monster (also known as the Braxton County monster, phantom of Flatwoods, or “Braxxy”), in West Virginia folklore, is an entity reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, on September 12, 1952, after a bright object crossed the night sky. Our story is of one of the most famous encounters sent over from our friends at The Fla...