By Ruth Ann Musick
" West Virginia boasts an strangely wealthy historical past of ghost stories. initially West Virginians instructed those hundred tales no longer for idle leisure yet to record supernatural reports that confounded traditional human clarification. From jealous competitors and ghostly youngsters to murdered kinsmen and omens of demise, those stories mirror the interior lives -- the hopes, ideals, and fears -- of a humans. like any folklore, those stories exhibit a lot of the background of the area: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil conflict period, the hardships of miners and railroad employees, and the lingering power of outdated global traditions.
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