I used to live in West Virginia for about twelve years and I heard and read on my own about creatures that skulk about in the Mountain State as well as the spirits that will hopefully find peace.
(Photo is my moms).
Elva Z. Heaster's ghost allegedly helped solve her own murder case in 1897. She was married to Erasmus Shue and after a year of being married she died. Despite the local custom in Greenbrier County, of letting the women of the town clean and dress Heaster's body, Shue did it all.
Rumors began to spread that he probably killed Heaster, but no one could prove it. No one except Heaster, who began to appear nightly at the side of her mother's bed to explain how she'd been murdered by her husband. Heaster's mother took some of the information to the local prosecutor, who then helped dig up the body and proved she had indeed been murdered by her husband.
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