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Anecdotal reports in West Virginia

West Virginia keeps 14 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

14 dossiers0 counties covered100% open to visitorsTrans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum — deepest file

Also filed anecdotal:Arizona58 Hawaii55 Virginia34 Michigan31 Louisiana29 Texas26 Pennsylvania24 Georgia24

Other West Virginia shelves:documented legends35 local folklore22 media-reported hauntings16 investigation claims5 reported experiences3

Former Hospital

High confidence

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Weston, West Virginia

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

4 claims · 1 legend→

Belle Boyd House

Martinsburg, West Virginia

The Confederate spy’s Martinsburg home—where Belle listened through the floor.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine

Beckley, West Virginia

The underground tour through a real 1890s mine.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Matewan

Matewan, West Virginia

The town where Sid Hatfield shot it out—May 19, 1920.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Tu-Endie-Wei

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

The battle where Cornstalk died—1774, at the rivers’ meeting.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Blair Mountain

Logan, West Virginia

August-September 1921—the largest armed uprising since the Civil War.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

John Brown’s raid town—where the Civil War’s fuse was lit.

Spruce Knob

Riverton, West Virginia

West Virginia’s roof—4,863 feet of red spruce and wind.

Canaan Valley

Davis, West Virginia

The high mountain valley—cold, wet, and old.

Cathedral State Park

Aurora, West Virginia

The last stand of old-growth hemlock—West Virginia’s cathedral.

Oglebay Park

Wheeling, West Virginia

The 1,700-acre estate the Wheeling family gave away.

Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine

Pocahontas, West Virginia

The 1882 mine that made the Pocahontas coalfield famous.

Bluestone River

Hinton, West Virginia

The river that runs blue—through the gorge to the New.

New River Gorge

Fayetteville, West Virginia

The "new" river that’s among the oldest on Earth.

Full West Virginia record → state index· Every anecdotal filing → evidence shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive