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Aw, great! Hope you enjoy!

The family had to move away and the parents are buried in Barboursville Cemetery. I had read that the mother, Emma Jane Gorrell Mooring, suffered health issues and could not return. He is still among family in Mount Welcome Cemetery; hopefully she felt some consolation in that!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it! I have so much fun doing them!

Awesome! Thank you!

Haha. I only laugh because I have done it a hundred times and get the frustration. I just went back to add it to another book (Haunted Ohio Hiking Trails), so here are the directions directly from the newest book: "Hikers explore the Elliott homestead, cemetery, and the area of legends of a witch’s grave and a curse. Hikers park along Cable Line Road near the gate (41.130578, -81.121123). Do not block the entrance. Take the second marked trail to the right, D Loop Trail, which quickly intersects Machine Trail. At the junction of these two trails, if you go straight (D Loop) about 30 steps, you will see the location of the Elliott House to the left. This is one area with the stacked rocks that some believe is the Witch Grave. Watch for stinging nettle! Return to the latter intersection and turn left to follow Machine Loop Trail around the old property and the cemetery. Turn left on Yellow Trail. Once back on the road (looped), turn left and walk to the top of the small hill on the roadway, and there is a trail (41.129167, -81.126700) to the left leading to the old cemetery (41.129817, -81.127267)." You can also get the directions for this one and other haunted trails on: www.amazon.com/Haunted-Hiking-Trails-Ghost-Stories/dp/B0CHL9FLXK

Thank you for this!!! I explore all things haunted Marion, Ohio...❤❤❤ I am utterly obsessed with witches. I also want to visit the warlocks grave...

Look above. I added directions.

I have seen it, yes.

So cool!

Perhaps, instead of the English teacher, talk to your science teacher. They will fill you in on the science behind the mystery.

You can hop on here: Pike 2 Bike 3300-, 3346 Pump Station Rd, Waterfall, PA 16689 40.048851, -78.095820

The Sideling Tunnel is in Harrisville Pa .

It is a nice ride! I ride it often, although it is a little bumpy about a quarter mile before.

Probably at night. But during the day, I've never had a problem.

Yep. I was among a few in a group who showed them around. They bought us lunch-:)

It definitely is so creepy!

I'm going to check out your story!

@@LoneGhostWriter Hope you like it when I put it out. Mason Country lights this coming Friday. PS I bought your cryptid book!

That place has the most unique vibes. Not bad. Just ghostly.

Yeah, I love going into these haunted places. It is always the hiking back out that makes me want to quicken the pace.

Glad you like them! Just finished an Appalachian haunted hikes too. It was so much fun working on that one. Love trekking outside my local zone.

@@LoneGhostWriter Haunted trails? Awesome!

That is downright frightening! I got a really weird vibe at about that area too. It was about the point during daylight that the dark just enveloped me. It wasn't just the dark, though. I believe you. There was something grayish that looked to me to be from the waist up and higher on the wall. At first, I thought it was somebody rock-climbing it to the ceiling. Then figured it was just my eyes getting used to the light. Crazy now that I hear your story!

I had always just assumed gravity pulls were actually some magnetic force but now understand that they are optical illusions. "A gravity hill often referred to as a mystery hill, is a spot in the road where the layout of surrounding land and landmarks creates an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope." Ghostly or not, they are hard to wrap the mind around when staring at them!

It was actually about 3.5 miles from the school where he was last seen and to where the body was found, although the marker does say 7 miles. 7 miles would be up and back. It would not be completely unheard of for a 4-year-old child to walk that far in a pretty short time- Most people can hike about 3 miles in an hour. So even if he stopped often, Ottie could have hiked for 5-6 hours and gotten there. Although, I often wonder if there was not some "foul play."

@@LoneGhostWriter ohh I believe it was definitely something nefarious at hand!

@@LoneGhostWriter I actually hiked this recently from the old school area on Pera Road and it is indeed around 7 miles one way. It was 9 miles from the old schoolhouse to the BRP parking area for Bluff Mountain.

That was my group that went there. I think you guys played cards in the kitchen when you weren't hanging around with us. I doubt that I still have the footage - it was 12 or 13 years ago. If I come across it, I will let you know, but that was probably 8 computers ago for me. That said, the place was probably one of the most active I've ever been in (and I've been to thousands). It was so active, in fact, that we checked the electricity in the building to make sure that it wasn't surging and causing hallucinations. I actually had old souls tell me their names, chat with me, and we were able to look them up in the nursing home archives. But you lived there, so you know--there was nothing really terrifying, just dead people still sticking around like it was still a nursing home in operation. I pulled up some info I had posted on my website back then on the internet archive: web.archive.org/web/20121127024109/www.hauntedhocking.com/Laurelville_Nursing_Home.htm

@@LoneGhostWriter Sadly the EVPs are lost on the Wayback Machine. I can't believe I even found this in the first place. My boyfriend is skeptical when it comes to the paranormal so I thought I would give it a try to find something lol. Thank you so much for the link! I have 3 very clear memories about living there. When my grandma and I got into an argument there was really loud banging right on my bedroom wall. The other one is my family and I were way up in the living room area and we heard 2 notes on the piano play way back in the nursing home area at the end of the hall. The last vivid memory I have is I was around 9 years old and I was scared because of everything that was going on so I went into my grandmas room and went to sleep in here bed with her, I remember waking up to something I just wasn't sure what woke me up. There was no fan, no air nothing moving in the house everything was still it was really eerie. I looked to my left and the ceiling fans strings started to like dance around each other kinda like something was playing with it or something. About a minute or so they just stopped. It wasn't like you just let it swing and eventually stop it just stopped like something grabbed it. Just felt like sharing a few of my experiences. Thank you again!

Yeah, it was strange. Moonville doesn't give me the creeps, but it just "feels" like there's always something there!

That's just the way the wind comes through the tunnel.

You are so right!

Her story centers around Isaac Meason's gristmill (built in late 1700s) where she took her grain. The early articles on Betty (1919- 1930s and including the Connellsville, Pennsylvania newspaper The Daily Courier, August 9, 1919, The Morning Herald in 1925, The Pittsburgh Press in 1923) stated the story was near the Revolutionary War. It was not until the 1970s that the story shifted to Civil War times, probably due to the popularity of Civil War movies during the mid-1900s. That is what is perpetuated and you probably see online. Here is another that firms it up from the book: History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania completed in 1882 digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A00aft2784m/viewer#page/610/mode/2up

@@LoneGhostWriter I spoked to the Friends of the Dunbar Historical Society and they stated it was Civil War times.

@@Sleepyhollow77 They may not be aware of the 1882 edition of "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania" which clearly states that Meason's mill was built pre-1800 and also stated that it was this mill that Knox visited at this particular time. It is not uncommon for stories to change time periods to fit the needs of those who tell them (possibly someone interested in the Civil War era) and the local historic society probably received their information from articles in the 1970s. The book with the correct dates is in in the University of PIttsburgh collections, but can be visited at the above link. Regardless, it is an interesting story!

That's funny! Sounds like something my dad would do-

And I thought that my family's picnics under an underpass bridge where weird ... unique but weird

Oh wow! How did you get up that hill! Oh, my!

Where's this located at

I just finished a haunted hikes book and it just tore me apart while researching for it how much land the government gobbled up at the time. Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina . . .I've had it happen to family members and I read the stories of folks in the Smokys while writing the book that had their land taken from them (Cades Cove, Roaring Forks) and I had a real hard time walking into the cabins that the parks kept there because I felt this horrible feeling I was trespassing. There was no stopping them.

@@LoneGhostWriter And the 3 TVA lakes of N GA as well. They flooded massive ancient native towns in the river valleys without research (not Cherokee).

Thanks 😁

Really? I hate it so much.

Wow! That is wild!

I was standing at Betty’s spring admiring how well she lined it with Creek stones (all were still in place after 200 plus years) when all of a sudden a bolt of light shot through the tree tops. It looked like lightning, but there was no thunder. Those are old woods. Some of the Hemlocks are well over 300 years old. There’s definitely energy in that area.