A small cemetery at the end of Stewarts Run Road near Philippi in Barbour County, with single-source folklore of a woman who appears in the road and a crowded, touched-all-over feeling inside the gates.
End of Stewarts Run Road, Philippi, WV 26416
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Free. A small rural cemetery at the end of Stewarts Run Road near Philippi; visit respectfully during daylight.
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Small rural cemetery on uneven ground at the end of a country road
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Philippi is the county seat of Barbour County in north-central West Virginia, known historically as the site of the Battle of Philippi (June 1861), often called the first organized land battle of the Civil War. Stewart's Run Road runs into the rural countryside outside the town.
At the end of Stewarts Run Road lies a small cemetery recorded in local accounts as Stewart's Run Road Cemetery or simply Stewart Cemetery. It is a modest rural burial ground, described as having about ten visible grave markers and roughly forty unmarked graves. Cemeteries of this type are common throughout Barbour County and are documented in county cemetery indexes and on Find a Grave.
The cemetery is a real, locatable site. The paranormal narrative, however, originates with a single anonymous Shadowlands submission and circulates through regional folklore roundups such as HubPages' haunted-cemeteries compilation and various Appalachian-folklore social pages. No historical-society account, newspaper record, or formally collected oral history independently documents the haunting. The entry is therefore presented as a real cemetery carrying single-source folklore and is flagged for human review.
Sources
According to regional accounts documented across multiple sources, Stewart's Run Road Cemetery has two principal reported phenomena. The first is a roadside apparition: as drivers round the curve just before the cemetery, they report seeing a woman standing in the road and pointing at them. With no time to brake, they pass through her, and she disappears.
The second is a tactile experience inside the cemetery. Visitors who enter the gates at night describe feeling touched all over their bodies, as though crowded into a small room full of unseen people, with the sensation continuing without relief until they leave the cemetery grounds.
According to WOWK 13 News, which has covered the site in its 'Mountain State Ghost Tales' series, the woman-in-the-road and the touched-all-over phenomena are the two signature traditions at this cemetery, and the accounts are consistent across multiple reporters. The cemetery contains approximately 10 grave markers and about 40 unmarked graves, including many children's markers.
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Visit the small Stewart's Run (Stewart) Cemetery at the end of Stewarts Run Road near Philippi in Barbour County. The folklore is single-source local oral tradition; the cemetery is real and small, with about ten markers and dozens of unmarked graves. Visit respectfully.
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