There are many of scary tales and many ghost stories, but some of them are true. Many men died in the civil war, buy their spirits never left the battlefield or the area. But one true story in Baltimore has caught my eye.
During the Civil War, Baltimore was in Confederate hands. The union came from both land and sea. The ammo had to be destroyed. They detonated the ammo, but one soldier was still trapped in a hotel when half the hotel was blown away. The soldier tripped and his head was blown off and his body cremated with the fire, after the blast in Room 4.
One hundred years later, the hotel was rebuilt. But in doing so, they had disturbed the spirit's restless soul. Creepy things were happening. Moaning came at night from the place where Room 4 was being built. Tools and equipment were being moved from one place to another. Reports of strange phenomena were happening in and around Room 4 at night during construction, but the hotel was built right on schedule.
But before it opened, strange activity was happening in the new and old parts of the building during the day. Things moved and lights were turned on and off. Phone wire connections were unplugged. Televisions unplugged when people were watching them, and there was no one around the plug.
At night things got very scary. Strange light moved in the halls at night, moaning and loud footsteps were heard when no one was in the hall on the anniversary of the battle. A scream echoes through the hotel from Room 4 when no one has checked it out. The room is locked but the door opens to reveal a headless confederate soldier floating and moaning.
One night, a couple was sleeping in Room 4 when the husband was awakened to a sound and saw the soldier four feet away from the bed. He had the gall to touch the headless soldier's uniform. The soldier let out an ear sharttering moan and it went away. We may never know why the soldier is restless. He may be fighting a lost battle, or maybe he is looking for his lost head, or maybe he is looking for another one. He may be angry at the hotel.
the mothman, a true story
Strange things sometimes happen that can turn a simple event into a nightmare.
On November 16, 1966, around 9PM, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wamsley invited their friend Marcella Bennett and her two year old daughter Tina to join them in a surprise visit to their friends the Thomases. The Wamsleys lived in a little town in the West Virginia countryside. Ralph Thomas lived up the road in the midst of woodlands.
The Wamsley party drove down the dirt road towards their destination. On the way, they had to pass an area formerly used by the Army for storing explosives. The cement domes, or igloos, built to contain the explosives were abandoned. They stood empty. The deserted place had an eerie feel about it. However, as the Wamsleys drove by, they noticed a strange red light hovering over one of the igloos. Not having any idea of what it was, Richard Wamsley stepped on the gas and sped away. Soon after, they reached the Thomas house and parked in front.
Marcella Bennett was the first to jump out of the car, carrying her sleeping daughter. At that instant, a figure began to rise slowly behind the car. Marcella thought it must have been lying on the ground when it was disturbed by their arrival. Unable to move, she stared at it as it loomed before her. It was the shape of a man, but huge and gray with great wings folded on its back. And it had large red eyes that glowed in the dark.
Marcella collapsed, dropping her child who screamed in pain and terror. The Wamsleys were as terrified as Marcella. They jumped out of the car and raced for the Thomas house. Behind them, Marcella broke through the spell that she was under, snatched up Tina, and rushed after them. The were let into the house by three of the Thomas children, who said their parents were not at home.
Ralph Wamsley locked the door behind them and made for the telephone. Excited by the hysteria of the older people, the children rushed to the window and looked out. They saw the strange gray monster shuffling onto the porch.
By the time the police arrived, the creature had disappeared. However, the Mothman, as it came to be called by the press, continued to make numerous appearances elsewhere in West Virginia. Throughout November, witnesses in five counties phoned Law Enforcement agencies to report sightings of the Mothman.
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Five days later, Richard West, who lived in Charleston, West Virginia, phoned on the evening of November 21 to describe a "Batman" that was sitting on the roof of a neighbor's home. The Batman, he said, must have been 6 feet tall, with a wingspan of some 6 to 8 feet. Besides it's great wings, the most distinguishing thing about it was it's pair of huge, red eyes.
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Four days later, on November 25, Thomas Ury, who was driving along Route 62 at about 7:15 in the morning, phoned in to tell about a tall gray man standing in a nearby field. As he watched, the "man" spread a pair of huge wings, and flew straight up, like a helicopter. When it was about 150 feet above Ury's car, it began to circle over it. Ury, now driving at 75 MPH, could not shake the creature. He sped towards the only protection he could think of - Sheriff George Johnson at Point Pleasant. By the time he got there the Mothman was gone. But Ury was so unnerved he couldn't go to work that day.
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The next day, on the evening of November 26, Mrs. Ruth Foster of St. Albans, West Virginia, phoned to say that the Mothman was standing on her front lawn beside the porch. It was tall and had a pinched face that didn't seem to have any other features except for huge, red eyes that seemed to pop out of it's head like the eyes of a crab.
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At 10:30 on the Sunday morning of November 27, 18-year-old Connie Carpenter, who was driving home from church, came face-to-face with the Mothman, which almost caused her to have an accident.. That evening, the Mothman returned to St. Albans and chased two young girls, 13-year-old Sheila Cain and her little sister, as they ran screaming for home....
These are but a few of the reports phoned in to law enforcement agencies about the Mothman. More than 100 were received by the time the month came to an end.
What was this Mothman? Where had it come from? People began putting forth all kinds of explanations. Perhaps the Mothman was a bird from Prehistoric times. Perhaps it was some lost, almost extinct, species of human being or a mutation caused by gasses escaping from the isolated explosives area where it may have been making its home.
Scientists would have loved to examine that strange and terrifying creature. But they never got a chance. As suddenly as it appeared, the Mothman disappeared, leaving behind no footprints, no droppings, no signs of its visit... only questions.
As i was watching tv one day i heard a loud crash come from the basement so i went down to see what it was and i saw a dead person just hanging there from a rope i ran up the stairs because i was so scared then a few minutes later i went down to investigate and it was just hanging there till suddenly his eyes snapped open and in a roaring voice he said im gonna get you. and i ran out so quick the basement door slamed shut behind me . i knew it wasnt human so i just didnt go back down there. but that night i was watching tv and as i was watching some evil creature appeared on the tv screen i thought it was a show till it said my name and started to come out of the tv i jumped back and when he got out of the tv he said im gonna take you with me to H**L and he looked so scary i phanted and woke up with bruises on my WAIT I HEAR SOMETHING AGAIN ITS COMING FROM THE BASEMENT I GOT TO GO
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