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0Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Weston, West Virginia
19.4 miles from Despard, WV
Once the Weston State Hospital, the asylum is said to be haunted by former patients who passed away there. The plentitude of paranormal phenomena heard, seen, and felt here has prompted its appearance on TV shows such as Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures.
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0Graceland Inn and Conference Center
Elkins, West Virginia
34.8 miles from Despard, WV
This inn, restaurant and conference center is said to be haunted by several entities: a ghost named Grace, senator Henry Davis, and a former servant named Katie.
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Kingwood Public Library
Kingwood, West Virginia
35.2 miles from Despard, WV
The circa-1966 library is said to be haunted. Witnesses report noises and footsteps, objects that move on their own, doors that open and close by themselves, and books that jump off the shelves. A jail that once stood on the site is believed by some to be the source of ...
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0Wells Inn
Sistersville, West Virginia
41.4 miles from Despard, WV
At this 1890s inn, both the guests and the staff have heard the sounds of writing and footsteps, witnessed doors that open or close by themselves, and felt a chilly presence.
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Hutton House Bed and Breakfast
Huttonsville, West Virginia
43.4 miles from Despard, WV
Built in 1898 by Eugene Elihu Hutton, the Queen Anne-style Victorian home is now an inn, and is believed to be haunted. Folks say that at 5 a.m. the unexplained smell of baking bread wafts through the inn, although the kitchen is closed and the ovens are cold.
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The Mather Miners
Mather, Pennsylvania
46.3 miles from Despard, WV
In the center of the town there is a small church, the post office, an apartment building(which used to be a general store) and a baseball field. Up a small connecting road is the old schoolhouse ( now converted into a persons home). Right before dawn when walking ...
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0West Virginia State Penitentiary
Moundsville, West Virginia
49.2 miles from Despard, WV
Once considered one of the most violent prisons in the US people believe that this prison's violent past has left an indelible mark on the building. People believe it is haunted by both active ghosts, possibly men who were murdered there, and also residual hauntings that take the form ...
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0Century Inn
Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania
56.5 miles from Despard, WV
Reported to be the oldest inn along Route 40, this inn is said to have a mysterious presence. There is one unexplained very cold room, and an innkeeper there has described a mysterious figure that appeared near its door. As well, strange footsteps have appeared in the snow outside the ...
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Allen’s Haunted Hayrides
Smock, Pennsylvania
58.2 miles from Despard, WV
Psychics say that the energy here is high because there an Indian burial ground beneath the land. This may be the source of the glowing white figures that are reported, or the strange light manifestations. The hayrides are year-round so visit freely! (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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0Comfort Inn Marietta
Marietta, Ohio
60.2 miles from Despard, WV
Some surprising reports have come from people who have stayed at this Comfort Inn. Doors open when there is no one there, curtains are closed by unseen hands, and TVs turn on by themselves. Some even say they have felt the touch of an unseen presence on their shoulders.
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Fallingwater
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
61.7 miles from Despard, WV
A solitude woman is said to be seen staring out of the window of the master bedroom. She is believed to the first wife of Edgar Kaufmann, depressed by his unfaithfulness. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Levee House Café
Marietta, Ohio
61.7 miles from Despard, WV
The Levee House, built around 1826 as a dry goods store for merchant Dudley Woodbridge, later became La Belle Hotel and was rumored to have been a brothel at some time in its history. Its legend says that a brothel employee and a man who was visiting her were both ...
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Lafayette Hotel
Marietta, Ohio
61.8 miles from Despard, WV
Voices and footsteps have been heard in empty hallways and rooms, while appliances turn on and off by themselves, doors open and close on their own and furniture and luggage is moved around suites. Staff and guests have seen misty apparitions in the corridors, and a ghostly maid in a ...
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Marietta College - Alpha Xi Delta
Marietta, Ohio
61.9 miles from Despard, WV
Marietta College's Alpha Xi Delta sorority house, built in 1855, is said to be haunted by a former Ohio governor. George White and his family lived there after the turn of the century, and he became governor in the 1930s. George's apparition has been seen by witnesses, wearing a gray ...
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Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theatre
Marietta, Ohio
62 miles from Despard, WV
The Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theatre is home to specters who move objects in the prop room, create icy breezes, and grab the living by the shoulder. Rumor has it that the ghost is a former theater owner.
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The Castle
Marietta, Ohio
62.1 miles from Despard, WV
The Castle was built in 1855 by attorney and abolitionist Melvin C. Clarke, who died in the Civil War battle Antietam. In 1889, the Castle was owned by newspaper publisher E.W. Nye's daughter Lucy Nye Davis. She and her husband Theodore Davis had two daughters named Jessie and Grace. Jessie ...
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Edward G. Acheson House
Monongahela, Pennsylvania
66.3 miles from Despard, WV
The ghost of a little girl has been seen here. Two other ghosts, seen as orbs, also have been seen. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Parkersburg Art Center
Parkersburg, West Virginia
67 miles from Despard, WV
The ghosts here are transplants from the former haunted Camden Theater, which once stood on this site. The theater burned down in 1928, and its resident ghosts remained to haunt the land where the theater once stood. When the Parkersburg Art Center was built, the "homeless" ghosts moved right in. ...
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Smoot Theater
Parkersburg, West Virginia
67.1 miles from Despard, WV
Built in 1926, the now-restored Smoot Theater is believed to be the site of some strange goings-on. Witnesses have reported strange sounds and shadows at night, cold spots, and unexplained electrical issues.
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0Blennerhassett Hotel
Parkersburg, West Virginia
67.2 miles from Despard, WV
A wide variety of ghosts and haunted activity is claimed about this hotel with the hard to pronounce name. Allegedly there is a man in grey who haunts the second floor and this floor is also where the elevator makes frequent, unplanned and unasked for stops. Is the ...
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3406 Brownsville Road
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
77.1 miles from Despard, WV
3406 Brownsville Road is said to be haunted by a demon, known as "The Demon of Brownsville Road" in the book by Bob Cranmer. According to Cranmer, the demon manifested in many ways, including a black fog, a bad smell, or an unseen attacker. Cranmer also described blood-dripping walls, bent ...
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Old Homestead Police Department
Homestead, Pennsylvania
80 miles from Despard, WV
The former Homestead Police Department building is said to be haunted by something that taps folks on the shoulder, slams doors, turns on appliances and created unexplained footsteps. Ghost investigators caught slams and screams and video of ghostly activity.
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Carnegie Library of Homestead
Munhall, Pennsylvania
80.2 miles from Despard, WV
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1896, the library was built with a music hall and an athletic center with a heated swimming pool. It is believed to be haunted. Witnesses have reported apparitions of steel workers, books that fly off of shelves, shadowy figures and unexplained male and female voices.
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Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
Despard, West Virginia
81.1 miles from Despard, WV
The Droop Mountain Battlefield was the site of an 1863 battle. Folks have reported soldiers' apparitions, some headless, in the fog that comes rolling over the mountain.
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0Omni William Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
81.3 miles from Despard, WV
At this famous 1915-16 hotel where among other luminaries JFK has stayed, and Bob Hope proposed marriage in 1934, there are said to be two haunted floors. Floors 22 and 23, both unused, are visited by strange sounds, cold wind gusts, and ghosts that hide and watch folks, giving them ...
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University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
82 miles from Despard, WV
Four ghosts are said to haunt the University of Pittsburgh campus: a prima ballerina in the Tansky Family Lounge of the William Pitt Union; Harriet, who committed suicide in 1201 Bruce Hall; a grandmother who rumples the quilts and bakes phantom bread in the Early American Room of the Cathedral ...
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Allegheny Center, Building #7
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
82 miles from Despard, WV
The student housing here has a high turnover rate believed to be caused by the poltergeist activity. Students report loud noises throughout and have yet to disprove the source. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
82.3 miles from Despard, WV
Few people realize that, in paranormal aspects, living near a hospital is like living near a cemetery. Many who have died within this building are said to remain here; in the South Wing (where most of the activity occurs), voices and strange noises are heard. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Frick Mansion - Clayton
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
83 miles from Despard, WV
The Frick Mansion was home to industrial magnate Henry Clay Frick and his wife Adelaide Howard Childs, who began living there in 1883 and the family moved to New York in 1900. Their youngest daughter, Helen Clay Frick, kept up the mansion all those years and then moved back in ...
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0Dixmont State Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
85.3 miles from Despard, WV
The 1862 hospital was haunted by many entities, notably a male spirit who was said to guard the morgue area and frighten away intruders. The hospital building was closed in 1984 and was demolished in 2006.
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0Colonel Taylor Inn Bed and Breakfast
Cambridge, Ohio
85.6 miles from Despard, WV
The people here say that Colonel Taylor and his lady still haunt this 1878 Victorian mansion. Guests have seen both of their apparitions on the stairway, and they may shake the beds from time to time. The ghosts are said to be friendly and angelic, watching over the guests.
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Cambridge Northwood Cemetery
Cambridge, Ohio
85.8 miles from Despard, WV
Cambridge Northwood Cemetery, burial place of congressmen John Earl Henderson, James Joyce and Charles Ellis Moore, is said to be home to a ghostly woman in a white formal dress from circa 1920. She has been seen for a short time before fading away, usually on clear summer nights.
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Hawks Nest State Park
Ansted, West Virginia
91.8 miles from Despard, WV
The site of the famouse cliff Lovers' Leap, this park has a long history of being haunted. Its legend tells of 1800s lovers who leapt off the cliff. Some say the pair were Native Americans, others say they were pioneers. In some tales the girl became dizzy and fell, and ...
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Depreciation Lands Museum
Hampton Township, Pennsylvania
92.2 miles from Despard, WV
A rather helpful man in a long coat and out-of-date boots has been responsible for catching a painter's ladder after the man lost his balance, catching a cleaning woman who fell, fixing a broken window, and saving a group of girl scouts when the ceiling collapsed over them. (Submitted by ...
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Siesta Motel
Norwich, Ohio
92.4 miles from Despard, WV
This motel is said to be haunted by the spirit of an angry man who had been staying at the night there after a fight with his mother. And as it so happened, that night he was the victim of a burglary. The still-enraged man attacked the burglar upon finding ...
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Glen Ferris Inn
Glen Ferris, West Virginia
92.7 miles from Despard, WV
The 1839 inn is thought to be haunted by a ghost of a Confederate soldier with a long beard, nicknamed The Colonel. He is a friendly and playful ghost, known to close doors behind people, make the birdbath water bubbly and frothy, and walk around with audible footsteps. His apparition ...
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J.C. Thompson Building
East Liverpool, Ohio
93.1 miles from Despard, WV
This building dates back to 1892, and is rumored to have once housed both a speakeasy and a brothel. Under new ownership and recently restored as of July 2014, numerous paranormal occurrences have been recorded here in the basement and elsewhere. It is believed multiple spirits reside here.
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Kelly Road
Industry, Pennsylvania
94.9 miles from Despard, WV
This road, also called the Mystery Mile by residents, is said to be haunted. What else could the explanation be for strange white apparitions and the tendency for animals here to turn from tame to fierce and bloodthirsty? Strange sounds are also heard along this road and in the forest ...
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Summit Hose Company
Tarentum, Pennsylvania
95 miles from Despard, WV
Voices and odd noises are heard, doors open by themselves, and shadows have been seen here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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By the Side of the Road Bed and Breakfast
Harrisonburg, Virginia
95 miles from Despard, WV
This historic b&b was built just a bit after the American Revolution, and it was used a Civil War hospital in 1864. It is said that when the area was burned by Union soldiers, the flame-retardant building just wouldn't catch fire, so it became a sort of haven during the ...
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Brush Creek Inn
Warrendale, Pennsylvania
95.1 miles from Despard, WV
Keep watch for airborne bottles if you visit Brush Creek Inn! It is said that the spirits at the restaurant will shatter bottles at the bar or hurl them across the room. Witnesses also have reported that the windows open and close by themselves and furniture flips over.
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Allegheny-Kiski Valley Heritage Museum
Tarentum, Pennsylvania
95.4 miles from Despard, WV
A former volunteer named Jack is commonly seen in the basement. He is said to be seen mostly around the old gardening tools. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, Virginia
95.6 miles from Despard, WV
Cole Hall at the est.-1880 Bridgewater College is rumored to be haunted by its namesake, Dr. Charles Knox Cole. Built in 1929 by Cole's daughter, Mrs. Virginia Garber Cole Strickler, the hall is an auditorium, and Mr. Cole's ghost is said to attend the plays shown there. The ghost sits ...
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Empty Glass Cafe
Charleston, West Virginia
96.3 miles from Despard, WV
The café and bar is haunted by a former bartender who died in a car crash. He has been known to change the jukebox music and has been seen walking through the bar area by patrons before vanishing. Staff have also encountered another entity on the second floor who slams ...
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The Empty Glass
Charleston, West Virginia
96.3 miles from Despard, WV
The haunt at this bar is rumored to be a former bartender who was killed in a car accident. Witnesses say the ghost plays pranks on both employees and bar patrons, such as playing his favorite songs on the jukebox. One report says that when the jukebox came on by ...
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West Virginia State Capitol
Charleston, West Virginia
96.3 miles from Despard, WV
The 1930s Capitol building is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman as well as the spirit of a maintenance man who perished of a heart attack on the job. Some believe the 2 ghosts actually died in a 1921 fire; others dispute that claim.
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Capitol Plaza Theatre
Charleston, West Virginia
96.6 miles from Despard, WV
The ghost of John Welch and his daughter Molly are said to haunt the theater. Welch was the owner of a mansion that stood on the property in the 1830s to 1860s, before it was torn down to build the theater. Molly died of pneumonia at age 8, and her ...
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Virginia Quilt Museum
Harrisonburg, Virginia
96.7 miles from Despard, WV
This 1856 antebellum home was formerly known as the Warren-Sip House, and during the Civil War, it served as a hospital for wounded soldiers. Visitors to the current museum have reported sighting the apparition of a Confederate soldier on the second floor of the building. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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0Culmerville Hotel - Zottola's Pub and Eatery
Tarentum, Pennsylvania
97.6 miles from Despard, WV
A spirit is said to reside in the former Culmervilel Hotel, now Zottola's Pub and Eatery.
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Grand Midway Hotel
Windber, Pennsylvania
102.1 miles from Despard, WV
This historic hotel has been in operation for over a century, but is now believed to be a private residence. The owners have been known to auction the rooms for a night, which is enough for some guests to leave the hotel in fear. Staff have reported a wild apparition ...
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