Whelp, I know what I’m going to look for now! Thanks for letting us know, I love The Haunting of Hill House!
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I found a wonderful new video today!
Thurmond: The Haunted Town That Never Let Go
Y’all, I’ve been to Thurmond. I live about twenty minutes from there! While I knew it was said to be a ghost town, I didn’t know it was that haunted!
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Oh… I want to watch that one! I’ve been finding all kinds of little tidbits about PA, VA, WV… My ancestors were settlers there 
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It’s a good video, I watched it with Sally, who had walked through the town and had heard one or two of the stories.
I’m trying to get into WV folklore more, to connect to the land I live on. Unfortunately, I can’t find any local versions of the Fae. Just spooks and cryptids. Not sure if we don’t have any, or if Sheepsquatch ate them all.
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LOL
We have the Chupacabra, here: goat sucker. A Native told me she’d seen a skin walker trying to get into someone’s apartment one night at the old complex. Most of the rest are ghost stories- Haunted Highway 101 just outside of Grants, ghost towns, haunted stages and art theaters, and tales of Billy the Kid trying to get people to see his truth. Of course, we have the original UFO crash site in Roswell, too.
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See, you got all the cool cryptids! Other than Mothman, we have Sheepsquatch, some alien called The Flatwoods Monster, the Vegetable Man, the Grafton Monster, which is some redneck cryptid with no neck, and apparently that Bat Boy from that old supermarket tabloid is from WV. So yeah, I’m kinda embarrassed.
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@Amethyst I’ll have to see what I can find on WV in all the things I have to do with my ancestors… We’ll find something other than Sheepsquatch…
Side note: My husband has decided that our Shelby Rose is also part Skinwalker… She is really way to good at being up on her back paws & moving around… Either insane balance ability or skinwalker… I’m going with incredible balance & puppy energy.
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I hope so, and that they’re cooler than Bat Boy of all things!
Yeah, me too. Otherwise, she’d steal the debit card and the card keys and make a weekly trip to PetSmart!
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Just wait until Bat Boy grows up….
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When I was a little girl my parents would dress my brother and I in pajamas load us in the car and drive to the drive in movie theater. We would get a drink and popcorn and go to sleep. When I was 6 years old, my parents went to see The Exorcist, and guess who stayed awake to watch the entire movie! My dad snuck into my room that night and started shaking my bed! I ended up sleeping with them!
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That story came out in the 90s’, so Bat Boy is now Bat Entering Middle Age Man. LOL!
That one kinda backfired on your Dad, I think! I hope you stuck your cold feet on him, that was a mean trick!
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My mom was mad at him for scaring me like that, but the movie scared my mom so bad she wouldn’t let us go outside and play for a week because she was scared to be alone in the house!
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I guess she was upset with him! That’s a mean trick. 
It reminds me of something similar that happened when I was a kid.
Does anyone remember the scary short (maybe a Twilight Zone episode or something similar?) that featured dolls that were being used in voodoo and trained to go kill people?
It scared me to death and that night, I went to my room to get ready for bed and someone had set a doll on my bed - sitting up! I screamed and my mom came running. My sister was laughing her head off in the next room - it wasn’t hard to figure out who put it there.
To this day, I cannot be around dolls. Or clowns. They creep me out! 
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Soooo… when my birth mother passed away her sister decided it was a great time to reconnect with me. Her & her boyfriend came here to visit with gifts. One of those things was a plastic tote. My oldest son… He was introduced to the movie It at way too young by his aunt & cousin… So clowns are out (he never mentioned this until he was close to 18) & he loved The Conjuring series with The Nun & Annabelle… Anyway, this tote was filled & I mean filled… With old dolls… Porcelain, cloth, they were all from the late 1800s & probably the first 50 years of the 1900s. There were toys from when my grandmother was a little girl & she would play with them… One was a tall porcelain doll with red hair in 2 braids… Another was a doll from the Vatican of a nun but her foot was off so she was in a bag. The others were just… old dolls.
My aunt put the tote in my living room & the other items on the coffee table. My daughter comes home from school, then my middle son, & my oldest comes home from work. Didn’t even make 1/2 way through the living room before he jumped up & just yelled NO!!! That is a tote of NOPE!!! Then ran downstairs to his room. Now my younger 2 want to know what happened. They walked back into the living room looked at the floor in front of the coffee table & both turned & ran to their rooms. Now they are yelling from their rooms to let them know when the tote is gone
They weren’t wrong they were all creepy as all get out, but that one porcelain doll was the one that three of them would avoid like the plague. I put it at the bottom of the tote & just it being in the tote would send them into a tizzy.
I did manage to not have the dolls in my house anymore. A bunch got sold online & the others I gave away. My kids all but threw a party when the tote & dolls were gone
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Your kids are smart! I’d have been right there with them, yelling NO!!! (I love the “that is a tote of NOPE!!” from your son)
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If you love that you will love this… At one point in time we were cleaning out the basement. Way before that, my father’s wife gave us a porcelain doll clown… Kind of anyway… It was in a black & white clown outfit. But we had put it in the basement because we only had it upstairs, when she would visit. My oldest went downstairs & was moving boxes. I was upstairs putting something away. I hear a yell, then a crash. No idea what it was, run to the stairs as he is erupting from the doorway yelling "No F*ing Way!!! I’m all done!!!"… He moved a box & without looking grabbed the doll by the leg & when he looked at it and saw what he was holding he pitched that dolll across the basement & the crash was the clown doll’s head & feet breaking against the foundation wall. As he threw it he took a left & ran up the stairs
A few years later & his room is in the basement. He loves horror movies, Halloween, (Definitely my kid ) so when it was time to start decorating the house for Halloween, we have a large banshee that we would hang between our rhododendrons. It’s basically a fake skull with arms that extend out but is covered in muslin/cheesecloth type of material. So it blows but flows in the wind. My son was being sassy with me earlier that day. My husband, other son, & a family friend came by when they got out of work. I had the banshee upstairs to go between the trees… The friend knows all of us & was laughing & said well, if he wants to give you the business… We can give him a jolt when he comes home. He is over 6 feet tall… He took the banshee, opened the basement door, then hung the banshee above the stairs. So on the way down you had to walk through the muslin. My son comes home & when he was ready to go downstairs we were just sitting in the living room. He started down the stairs but didn’t hit the switch at the top for the lights. Jogs down, through the muslin… He tripped, spun around, ran up the stairs, slammed the door & just looked at all of us & started yelling… Who did that? What the frick? What is wrong with all of you? That is so messed up! Aaaahhh!!! There was more but you get the jist.
After that we didn’t mess with him again, but he did get very interested when we were watching the Annabelle movies. He came home & walked through the living room, got to the door to his room, & asked us what we were watching. I said one of the Annabelle movies but I don’t know which. He looks at the screen just as Annabelle did something & he just ran down the stairs yelling F** that doll!* Then we didn’t see him again until the next day But he loves him some horror movies, so believe me he has seen all of them but hates dolls & clowns… Still watches the movies. Like the Hell House LLC series of movies… He loves them… As long as the clowns aren’t in the same room as him afterward.
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I’ve never seen the Exorcist in full, not because it scares me, but because I tend to get bored during the medical stuff and go away and forget to come back. I’m gonna try again this year! After Monster Squad of course! LOL!
There was one where the dolls a slave woman made on a plantation came out of a painting and killed a racist. That was a good one! Was that it?
Modern dolls don’t bug me, but old dolls? They are creepy AF. Although a whole bunch of any kind of dolls in one room or house is creepy. All those eyes.
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He’s my…soul child. 
Finally! Someone who understands!
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I completely get it He is my little horror movie lover & his favorite color is black… Definitely mine I will let him know that he needs to reach out to his soul adult… He’ll be sending you movie recommendations & give you a brief synopsis of the how the movie got here The last thing he got for his son was a squishmallow that is a little black bat. He walked around with it saying… Aaawww for a day & a half before he put it down.
Oh we also just recently found the movie Slender Man for free on… I can’t remember what we started watching it on, but we are going to restart it tonight to hopefully watch the entire thing before falling asleep.
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