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West Virginia Ghost & Monster Tours
This is a list of all the festivals, ghost tours, and activities
in West Virginia. If you know of one that I have forgotten or missed, please let me know.
Tellabration! at WVU's Mountaineer Week
Location: Hatfield's, Mountainlair, West Virginia University, Morgantown,
WV
Date: Nov. 15
Time: 4:00 pm
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Join over a half-dozen members of the West Virginia Storytelling Guild
as they perform haunting tales from around the state. This event is part of Tellabration! as well as WVU's Mountaineer
Week. Scheduled to appear are:
Jason Burns
Gail Herman
Donna Wilson
Fred Powers
Granny
Sue Holstein
Rich Knoblich
The Mountain Echoes
West Virginia Ghost & Paranormal Conference
August 29-30, 2008
Location: Sumner School, 1016 Avery St, Parkersburg, WV
Schedule:
Friday:
7pm - Meet and greet & lecture
9pm - Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tour with Susan Sheppard. Rated
#10 Ghost Tour in the USA. Bring your recorder and camera, some believe the Sumner School is haunted. It was the
first free African-American School south of the Mason/Dixon line, and was established during the US Civil War. The Sumner
museum will be open for those attending the conference.
Saturday:
10am - Tom & James Moore of the Mid-Ohio Valley Ghost Hunters, Jeff
Wamsley (Mothman), Susan Sheppard (Psychic Medium, author, and ghost tour entrepreneur), Michael Sundstrom, Scott Britton,
and Ron Nelson.
Ghost hunts at two locations: Quincy Hill (Civil War era fort)
and Trans-Allegheny Books (formerly the Carnegie Library)
Victorian-style seance - Messages from the Beyond (Susan Sheppard)
For more information on this conference, please visit the MOVGH.
Pre-registered cost for the conference: $60 each
Register at the door: $70 each
Payment may be sent to: James Moore, P.O. Box 5252, Vienna, WV 26105-5252
Candlelight Walking Tour of Haunted
Houses & Sites of Historical Lewisburg
Where: Lewisburg, WV
Every Friday & Saturday Evening from The General Lewis Inn on Washington Street
Tours
Friday:
Combined Tour (mansion & cemetery) - 7:30pm
Saturday:
Mansion Tour - 7:30 pm
Cemetery Tour - 9:00pm
Cost: $10 per tour or evening pass
$15 combined pass
For more information, please call: (304) 256-TOUR
(8687)
Harper's Ferry Ghost Tour
Location: Harper's
Ferry, WV
A ghost tour of the haunted buildings and locations of Harper's Ferry,
WV. For more information, visit their website here.
Braxton County Monsterfest
Date: September 13, 2008
Location: Flatwoods, West Virginia
Celebrate the legend of the Flatwoods Monster with a drama, live music,
dancing, a jungle safari, a masquerade dance and history. Arts and crafts available with sidewalk sales at the Flatwoods Factory
Stores. Hours are 10 a.m. until 9 p.m.
The one-day festival will be held in the parking lot
of the Flatwoods Outlets in Flatwoods, WV, and it is expected to bring in at least 1,000 people. Those darkly-dressed individuals
photographing the crowd will not be members of the intelligence community, but merely Mothman and Flatwoods Monster fans and
the local media.
For additional information, please contact The Braxton County
Convention and Visitors Bureau at 304-765-3300.
Mothman Festival
Date: September 20-21, 2008
Location: Point Pleasant, WV
This is a festival dedicated to everything Mothman. Celebrated in the streets
of Point Pleasant, WV. For more information, visit the website here.
Haunted Wheeling, WV
Tour groups are dying
to come to Wheeling
to experience a city filled with history and hauntings. The very name "Wheeling"
originates with a grisly story dating from frontier times. Local legend tells that the Native Americans were so displeased
by newly arriving pioneers that they placed the scalped head of one of the white "intruders" on a pike at the mouth of Wheeling
Creek to warn away other potential settlers. Thus, "Wheeling" translates to "The Place of the Skull".
DAY - WV Penitentiary Tours (Moundsville, WV) $7 per person for the 90 min tour
Kruger St Toy & Train $5 adult / $3 student
60 min tour
NIGHT - Dungeon of Horrors (October weekends)
- $10 per person for the 60 min tour
Boo at the Zoo / Laser Light show (Oglebay Zoo)
Foggy Bottom Haunted Houses
$ Murder Mystery Dinner Theater $
DAY / EVENING – Wheeling's Victorian Homes Ghost Tours - $3 per person up to
3 houses
WV Independence Hall $3 adult / $2 student
Cemetery Tours by
reservation
Contact the Wheeling CVB for details:
1-800-828-3097 or www.wheelingcvb.com
WV State Penitentiary Ghost Tour
Location: Moundsville, WV
Are you brave enough to take a tour of one of the most haunted sites
in the country? The former state penitentiary at Moundsville, WV is haunted by former inmates, who couldn't escape the
massive prison even in death. For more information, visit the website here.
Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours
Location: Parkersburg, WV
Join WV ghost author Susan Sheppard as she takes you on a tour of the
#10 Top Ghost Tour in the US! For more information, visit the website here.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (Weston, WV)
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, formerly
known as the Weston State Hospital, served as a sanctuary for the mentally ill from the mid-1800’s until it
closed in 1994. The history of the building holds fascinating stories of Civil War tales, a gold robbery, the "curative" effects
of architecture, and the efforts of determined individuals to help better the lives of the mentally ill.
Arguably one of the most haunted buildings in West Virginia, the asylum offers ghost
tours and ghost hunts of the building. Tour
this nationally recognized landmark and see how it left a lasting impression on local and national history. In addition, daily
heritage tours are available for both small and large groups.
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