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0Comfort Inn Marietta
Marietta, Ohio
24.9 miles from Ritchie County, WVSome 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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0Levee House Café
Marietta, Ohio
26.2 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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
26.3 miles from Ritchie County, WVVoices 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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Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theatre
Marietta, Ohio
26.6 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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Marietta College - Alpha Xi Delta
Marietta, Ohio
26.6 miles from Ritchie County, WVMarietta 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
26.8 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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0Wells Inn
Sistersville, West Virginia
26.8 miles from Ritchie County, WVAt 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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Parkersburg Art Center
Parkersburg, West Virginia
27.2 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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
27.3 miles from Ritchie County, WVBuilt 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
27.4 miles from Ritchie County, WVA 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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0Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Weston, West Virginia
33.1 miles from Ritchie County, WVOnce 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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0Wildermuth Mansion
Pomeroy, Ohio
52.3 miles from Ritchie County, WVMy 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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Twin City Opera House
McConnelsville, Ohio
53.3 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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0West Virginia State Penitentiary
Moundsville, West Virginia
53.8 miles from Ritchie County, WVOnce 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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0Athens Lunatic Asylum - The Ridges
Athens, Ohio
56.3 miles from Ritchie County, WVFeatured 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
56.4 miles from Ritchie County, WVOhio 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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The Historic Lowe Hotel
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
62.2 miles from Ritchie County, WVOpened 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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Capitol Plaza Theatre
Charleston, West Virginia
65 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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Empty Glass Cafe
Charleston, West Virginia
65.1 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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
65.1 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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
65.3 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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0Colonel Taylor Inn Bed and Breakfast
Cambridge, Ohio
65.4 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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
65.9 miles from Ritchie County, WVCambridge 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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Hutton House Bed and Breakfast
Huttonsville, West Virginia
66.5 miles from Ritchie County, WVBuilt 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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Siesta Motel
Norwich, Ohio
67.6 miles from Ritchie County, WVThis 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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Hurricane Creek Rd
Hurricane, West Virginia
69 miles from Ritchie County, WVA 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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Glen Ferris Inn
Glen Ferris, West Virginia
71.5 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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Hawks Nest State Park
Ansted, West Virginia
73.1 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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The Mather Miners
Mather, Pennsylvania
74.2 miles from Ritchie County, WVIn 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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0Century Inn
Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania
82 miles from Ritchie County, WVReported 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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0Prospect Place
Trinway, Ohio
83.2 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 29-room mansion built in 1856 by abolitionist G.W. Adams is said to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. The house is said to be haunted by ghosts from its past, and has been featured on TV shows such as Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures.
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Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
Ritchie County, West Virginia
85 miles from Ritchie County, WVThe 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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The Corner House
Warsaw, Ohio
94.1 miles from Ritchie County, WVThis small, abandoned wooden house at the intersection of the two major roads is haunted by the apparition of a woman in black. Her husband murdered her in the house many years ago, and people driving past have reported smelling burning flesh and hearing the screams of a woman. (Submitted by ...
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