Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Everything went wrong from the day the stranger knocked on the door. Nothing was ever the same after his arrival, but what did really happen, and what was the frightening voice people heard? Where did it come from? Whom did it belong to?
As always when historical events turn into a legend, it becomes difficult to determine how much of this story is true, but Rev. Alfred E. Smith editor-in-chief of the Catholic Review and secretary to Cardinal Gibbons said this incident was the “the truest ghost story ever told.”
Were people in West Virginia really confronted with supernatural phenomena? Some are still convinced this was the case and they avoid talking about the incident.