The HauntBound Trail · West Virginia
The West Virginia Haunted Trail
West Virginia's hauntings favor small, dense towns as much as open mountain country. Harpers Ferry and Shepherdstown, tucked into the Eastern Panhandle along the Potomac, carry their own cluster of Civil War-hospital churches and campus legends, distinct from the Ohio Valley stories that run through the northern part of the state. More than eighty documented sites are scattered across both regions. The featured loop keeps to one corner of that map, a curated weekend route through the towns and college halls that anchor West Virginia's northern reach.
The state of the state
82 Verified stops
7 Regions
40 Wheelchair accessible
Every stop verified by HauntBound.
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The curated weekend cut
HauntBound's editors picked 7 daytime stops and 4 overnight inns from the 82 places below and mapped them in driving order, with drive times, the full stories, and a printable field guide. Free by email.
Key MUS Museum / Historical SiteCEM Cemetery / Burial GroundTHT Theater / Performance VenueINN Haunted Hotel / InnBAR Haunted Dining / BarTUR Ghost Tour / Walking TourASY Asylum / HospitalPRS Prison / ReformatoryCRM True Crime SiteOUT Outdoor / Natural SiteHSE Haunted House / Historic HomeMIL Battlefield / Military SiteOTH Other Dark Tourism Site
Northern
31 stops CRM 123 Pleasant Street Morgantown MUS Archive of the Afterlife: The National Museum of the Paranormal Cameron CRM Berman Building Morgantown Fam INN Blennerhasset Hotel Parkersburg THT Capitol Theatre Wheeling Fam OUT Flinderation Tunnel (Brandy Gap Tunnel #2) Salem MIL Fort Boreman Historical Park Parkersburg INN Hotel Morgan Morgantown OUT Main Street Stone Arch Bridge Wheeling Fam THT Metropolitan Theatre Morgantown Fam MUS Morgantown Public Library Morgantown Fam MUS Monongah Mine Disaster Memorial Monongah Fam MUS Mothman Museum Point Pleasant Fam OUT Mothman Statue Point Pleasant Fam CEM Mount Wood Cemetery & Overlook Wheeling TUR Mountaineer Excursions Ghost Tour Morgantown MUS Parkersburg Art Center Parkersburg Fam CEM Peninsula Cemetery Wheeling MIL Quincy Hill (Quincy Park) Parkersburg CEM Riverview Cemetery (The Weeping Woman / Jackson Monument) Parkersburg Fam ASY Roney's Point Tuberculosis Hospital Triadelphia OUT Silver Run Tunnel Cairo MUS The Mountainlair (WVU Student Union) Morgantown Fam THT The Strand Theatre Moundsville Fam INN The Wells Inn Sistersville Fam OUT Tunnel Green (Hempfield Tunnel) Wheeling MUS West Virginia Independence Hall Wheeling Fam CEM Whitegate Cemetery (Penitentiary Cemetery) Moundsville MUS Woodburn Hall (WVU) Morgantown Fam CEM The Witch's Grave at Highland Cemetery Mannington MUS Wise Library (WVU Downtown Library) Morgantown Fam
West Virginia
15 stops MUS Elizabeth Moore Hall Morgantown Fam INN Frederick Hotel Huntington Fam INN Hill Top House Hotel Harpers Ferry OUT Kate's Mountain Caldwell THT Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center Huntington Fam OUT Macedonia Road Buckhannon OUT Marrtown Parkersburg Fam MUS Point Pleasant River Museum & Learning Center Point Pleasant Fam OTH Silver Bridge Disaster Memorial Point Pleasant Fam OUT Stonewall Jackson Lake (Drowned Town of Roanoke) Roanoke Fam OUT TNT Area / West Virginia Ordnance Works Point Pleasant ASY Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Weston PRS West Virginia Penitentiary Moundsville PRS West Virginia State Penitentiary Moundsville CEM Weston State Hospital Cemetery Weston
Southern
11 stops TUR Bramwell Ghost Walk Bramwell MUS Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum Hinton Fam TUR Ghost Tours of Beckley Beckley CRM Greenbrier County Courthouse Lewisburg Fam CRM Marshall University Memorial Fountain Huntington Fam ASY Old Hospital on College Hill Williamson OUT Pax Railroad Tracks (Weirwood Headless Ghost) Pax MUS Raleigh County Courthouse Beckley Fam THT Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Theatre Beckley CEM Spry-Lambert Family Cemetery at Dry Branch Hollow Harts Fam MUS Thurmond Thurmond Fam
Central
10 stops THT WVSU Capitol Center Theater (formerly Capitol Plaza Theatre) Charleston Fam OUT C&O Train Depot and Sunrise Carriage Trail Charleston MUS Flatwoods Monster Museum Sutton Fam HSE Frankenberger Mansion Charleston Fam MUS Kanawha County Public Library Charleston BAR The Empty Glass Charleston CEM Stewart's Run Road Cemetery Philippi TUR US Ghost Adventures Charleston Charleston HSE Waldomore Clarksburg MUS West Virginia State Capitol Charleston
South Central
7 stops OUT Big Bend Tunnel Talcott Fam OTH Bluefield State College Bluefield Fam MIL Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park Hillsboro CRM Greenbrier Ghost Historical Marker / Soule Chapel Cemetery Sam Black Church Fam TUR Lewisburg Ghost Tour (Lewisburg Historic District) Lewisburg ASY Sweet Springs Resort Gap Mills INN The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
Eastern Panhandle
7 stops TUR Ghost Tours of Harpers Ferry Harpers Ferry HSE Harper House Harpers Ferry MIL Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Harpers Ferry OTH Miller Hall, Shepherd University Shepherdstown OUT Screaming Jenny (Old B&O Railroad Tracks) Harpers Ferry MUS St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church Harpers Ferry TUR US Ghost Adventures Harpers Ferry Harpers Ferry
North Central
1 stopsEvery entry links to its full HauntBound page with sources, accessibility notes, and family ratings.