A Ghost’s Demand
This is a well-known ghost legend told faithfully in the southwest mountains of Virginia for 150 years. One account given …
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A Female Stranger
Port at Alexandria Virginia This story began in 1816 with an arrival of a young married couple to the Old …
The Magnetic Cloud
Many know of the apocryphal–and likely wholly fabricated–tale of the “Philadelphia Experiment,” which purportedly managed to not only visibly cloak …
HOMETOWN HORRORS
Nothing like a good frightening local legend to both titillate and traumatize. Let’s look at a few from around the …
1st Person Account: The Clocks
When ghosts are mentioned in Williamsburg, Virginia most think of the spirits of people who lived during the colonial era …
Virginia’s Woodlawn Plantation
George Washington never slept at this home but his ghost is seen on the property. The first president of the …
