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0Hurricane Creek Rd
Hurricane, West Virginia
16.3 miles from Hamlin, WV
A woman and a small child in out of style clothes have been seen, before vanishing. Not much is known about them. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Keith-Albee Theatre
Huntington, West Virginia
20.9 miles from Hamlin, WV
This 1920s rococo theater building is said to be one of the area's most haunted places. Deaths that have occurred here include two electricians electrocuted in the basement, a maintenance man who died in the projection room, and a homeless man who froze to death below the stage area. Witnesses ...
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Colonial Lanes
Huntington, West Virginia
21.6 miles from Hamlin, WV
The 1959 bowling alley, in particular its tavern, is rumored to be haunted by Mr. Frankel, a former owner. Witnesses describe a smell of cherry pipe tobacco, heavy footsteps coming from the stockroom, their names being whispered or called out, the kitchen door opening and then slamming shut, and other ...
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Jenkins Plantation Museum
Glenwood, West Virginia
22.7 miles from Hamlin, WV
The plantation, now a museum, was originally built in 1835 and was named after Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins of the Confederacy. The general is believed to haunt the house. Witnesses have seen his apparition and heard the sound of his boots walking in the building.
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Capitol Plaza Theatre
Charleston, West Virginia
25.8 miles from Hamlin, 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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Z. D. Ramsdell House
Kenova, West Virginia
25.8 miles from Hamlin, WV
Businessman Z.D. Ramsdell's home was completed in 1858, and rumor has it it was built on the site of an Adena Indian burial mound. It was said to have contained a hidden basement used in the Underground Railroad. Ramsdell died of tuberculosis in 1886, and although the restored house is ...
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Empty Glass Cafe
Charleston, West Virginia
26.7 miles from Hamlin, 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
26.7 miles from Hamlin, 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
26.9 miles from Hamlin, 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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Bluegrass Inn
Ashland, Kentucky
32 miles from Hamlin, WV
Its room 129 and 127. Very light blue orbs about the size of a softball feeling of dread and hair stay raised up whole time in the rooms and I was scratched 3 finger nail scratches down my back that were not deep but very bright red and burned a ...
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Paramount Joe - Paramount Arts Center
Ashland, Kentucky
32.4 miles from Hamlin, WV
Originally called the Paramount Theatre and opened in 1931, the Paramount Arts Center is said to be haunted by a ghost locals call Paramount Joe. According to Joe's legend, as the theater was being built, four workmen were in the auditorium. Three went to lunch, and when they came back, ...
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Woodland Cemetery
Coal Grove, Ohio
33.6 miles from Hamlin, WV
Along the banks of the Ohio River in Ironton, Ohio is Woodland Cemetery, also known as the City of the Dead. Founded in 1871, it presently contains more than 8,000 graves. The cemetery entrance is beautifully gated and the cemetery itself is beautifully landscaped. Its departed residents include veterans from ...
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Our House Museum
Gallipolis, Ohio
36.9 miles from Hamlin, WV
Our House Museum is housed in a former 1819 tavern, rumored to be haunted. Footsteps have been heard in the front hall, and a woman has been heard singing in the second-floor ballroom.
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The Historic Lowe Hotel
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
39 miles from Hamlin, WV
Opened in the early 1900s, the historic hotel is believed to be haunted by many ghosts. The most well known may be the apparition of a beautiful and disheveled young woman seen dancing on the mezzanine between floors 1 and 2. There are also rumored to be many other ghosts ...
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Glen Ferris Inn
Glen Ferris, West Virginia
49 miles from Hamlin, 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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Ramada Inn
Paintsville, Kentucky
50.2 miles from Hamlin, WV
This Ramada Inn is said to have a ghost of a woman who walks in high heels through the atrium as well as unexplained voices, levitating objects, and a man's apparition. A woman is heard laughing in Room 216.
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0Wildermuth Mansion
Pomeroy, Ohio
52.2 miles from Hamlin, WV
My family has been restoring the old Wildermuth mansion for the last 18 years now, have had lots of interesting things happen there and sightings too. Hhave seen animals several times in the house as well as seeing Mothman twice flying over the house! Yes twice! In the process of putting ...
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Hawks Nest State Park
Ansted, West Virginia
54.6 miles from Hamlin, 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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0X Cave - Carter Caves State Resort Park
Olive Hill, Kentucky
55.7 miles from Hamlin, WV
Cave X is called this because it has 4 entrances that meet in the center, like an X. This cave is said to be haunted by two Cherokee lovers. It is said that warrior Huraken found this cave and its hidden vein of silver, but kept it a secret so ...
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Soldiers Memorial Theatre
Beckley, West Virginia
60.7 miles from Hamlin, WV
Built 1931-32, the theater is believed to lie near a Civil War-era cemetery, although this fact doesn't seem to have to do with the hauntings here. Witnesses say they've seen an apparition of a man in his 60s wearing 1930s clothes. Also, ghosts and sounds of children playing have been ...
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Harvey Wells House
Wellston, Ohio
62.8 miles from Hamlin, WV
This historic house was a dark history, with a former owner jumping to his death from the upper floor after a combination of troubling equations and a drinking problem. The was refurbished as a nursing home, which closed down several decades ago. Staff working here claimed to see him ...
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0Athens Lunatic Asylum - The Ridges
Athens, Ohio
71.6 miles from Hamlin, WV
Featured on TV's The Scariest Places on Earth, the asylum has long been a place of mystery and hauntings. There are 1,930 graves at three cemeteries nearby, all marked with only a number. Research has shown that some of the mysterious dead mental health patients may have been veterans, victims ...
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Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
72.4 miles from Hamlin, WV
Ohio University has a few different spots that are said to be haunted: The Brown House is haunted by donor Millie Brown, who peers out a window; also the phantom sounds of kids splashing in a long-gone pool have been heard in the back yard. The Delta Tau Delta fraternity ...
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Mount Unger Cemetery
Otway, Ohio
72.8 miles from Hamlin, WV
Local legends say Mount Unger Cemetery is visited by the spirit of a man who hanged himself here after having murdered his wife.
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0Blennerhassett Hotel
Parkersburg, West Virginia
74.1 miles from Hamlin, 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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Smoot Theater
Parkersburg, West Virginia
74.2 miles from Hamlin, 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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Parkersburg Art Center
Parkersburg, West Virginia
74.4 miles from Hamlin, 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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0Emmitt House
Waverly, Ohio
75.5 miles from Hamlin, WV
Ghost tours here may turn up somethine eerie at this historic house, which has been featured on TV's Haunted Collector. Rumor has it that there are bones buried under the home's concrete slabs, which may be the catalyst for the spooky stuff that happens here.
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Motel 80
Emmalena, Kentucky
80.6 miles from Hamlin, WV
Rumor has it that at this site, a man once committed a double murder. It's said that he found his wife together with another man in a hotel room, and shot and killed them both. Witnesses say the spirit of the man who was shot still remains behind, turning the ...
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Schrader Road Tunnel
Chillicothe, Ohio
83.7 miles from Hamlin, WV
Schrader Road Tunnel is rumored to be haunted by a ghost or two. A legend says that a woman put her unwanted baby on the train tracks, and then, in some versions of the story, hanged herself. The baby is heard crying here. But there may be another ghost as ...
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Wickerhamm Inn
Peebles, Ohio
84.5 miles from Hamlin, WV
At this 1800s building, a murder is said to have led to the haunting that occurs here. The place was a tavern until the 1850s, and so the legend says, a stagecoach driver was murdered and beheaded here in a 1820s robbery. Although there were bloodstains on the floor and ...
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Lafayette Hotel
Marietta, Ohio
85.7 miles from Hamlin, 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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Levee House Café
Marietta, Ohio
85.7 miles from Hamlin, 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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The Precinct Office Center
West Union, Ohio
85.8 miles from Hamlin, WV
This historic former jailhouse is now the county office, but has a haunting dating back to the turn of the nineteenth century. Prisoners were reportedly frightened by a apparition robed in white, who repeatedly floated past their cells without making a sound before vanishing. This manifestation has made various ...
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Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theatre
Marietta, Ohio
86 miles from Hamlin, 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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0Comfort Inn Marietta
Marietta, Ohio
86.2 miles from Hamlin, 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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Marietta College - Alpha Xi Delta
Marietta, Ohio
86.2 miles from Hamlin, 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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The Castle
Marietta, Ohio
86.2 miles from Hamlin, 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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Crosskeys Tavern
Chillicothe, Ohio
86.9 miles from Hamlin, WV
Established in 1972, the Irish tavern is haunted by a prankish spirit called Harold who likes to turn the lights on and off, move objects, break glasses, and make footsteps and whispering sounds in the basement. Speculators say Harold may be the ghost of a man who was murdered behind ...
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The Majestic Theatre
Chillicothe, Ohio
86.9 miles from Hamlin, WV
The Majestic Theatre, formerly the Masonic Opera House, was built in 1853 on the site of Chillicothe's first bank, which burned down. In 1918 when a Spanish flu epidemic hit nearby Camp Sherman, the theater became a makeshift morgue and autopsy site. It is said that the soldiers' spilled blood ...
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0A Georgian Manner Bed and Breakfast
Logan, Ohio
89.7 miles from Hamlin, WV
At this historic inn, a murder mystery is said to have taken place in 1898. Then-owner John Engle was allegedly poisoned by his wife, who put strychnine in his coffee. She was acquitted of the crime. Witnesses have seen apparitions of a man and children in period clothing playing on ...
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The Inn at Wise
Wise, Virginia
93.6 miles from Hamlin, WV
The 1910 historic inn was in a dilapidated condition for many years prior to being refurbished, and now encapsulates its colourful past through delightful guest rooms, fine dining and a whole trove of ghost stories. Reports range from ghostly voices and screams from empty rooms to curtains opening and ...
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The University of Virginia's College at Wise - Bowers-Sturgill
Wise, Virginia
93.8 miles from Hamlin, WV
The University of Virginia's College at Wise is believed to be home to a ghost. According to legend, she is the spirit of a young girl whose apparition appears hanging from the pipes in Bowers-Sturgill Hall, where she committed suicide.
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Twin City Opera House
McConnelsville, Ohio
95.6 miles from Hamlin, WV
The 1890s Twin City Opera House is said to have been haunted since at least the 1960s, when a janitor wan out never to return. The apparition of a little girl named Elizabeth, age 10, has been seen peeking down from the catwalk and giggling. Another apparition of Everett Miller, ...
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Laurel Grove Cemetery
Norton, Virginia
96 miles from Hamlin, WV
Laurel Grove Cemetery, often referred to as Ramsey Cemetery or the Ramsey Family Cemetery, is said to be haunted by something that makes the temperature inside very cold after midnight. Shadowy figures, leaves that move without a breeze, and footsteps also have been reported.
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Campbell Cemetery
Busy, Kentucky
96.9 miles from Hamlin, WV
Ther is a site at Campbell Cemetery called Coffin Rock, where locals say a man was shot and killed long ago. Now, when it rains, there appears to be blood running down the rock. Several ghosts are said to call this area home as well: an old man who flags ...
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Roundtown Players
Circleville, Ohio
101.9 miles from Hamlin, WV
Built in the 1890s as a memorial for Civil War soldiers, this building has housed a public library, an armory, and now the Round Town Players theatrical group. An apparition of a Civil War soldier has been seen reflected in the mirrors at Memorial Hall.
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0Benham School House Inn
Cumberland, Kentucky
102.1 miles from Hamlin, WV
The building that houses the inn was an old high school, and some say the ghostly students return to their old stomping grounds. According to reports, the inn still houses the student lockers and class photos in the hallways, and in these hallways witnesses have heard unexplained runnning footsteps, laughter ...
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Mickey's Bar & Grill
Lancaster, Ohio
102.4 miles from Hamlin, WV
This historic tavern was formerly the headquarters for an oil company, and at the turn of the nineteenth century, a man was allegedly killed in a machinery accident on the premises. His apparition has been known to talk to patrons in strange voices and he has also been known to ...
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Tammi Jo Jean's Cafe
Lancaster, Ohio
102.8 miles from Hamlin, WV
This historic store and an adjoining row of stores are believed to be haunted by a series of playful entities. Bumps, bangs, voices, whistles and missing items are all among paranormal activity reported here. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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