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Would you have ever guessed that’s where I’m from?

And now the area is known for its meth, labs drug dealer, high crime, kkk. And it’s corrupt sheriff’s office with a history of covering for meth, dealers, and Elliston, Virginia just asked Beth patsel and her daughter Laura vest that we’re both running a meth lab and dealing drugs with a young girl around small children. They better watch out for them Yankees.

My oldest brother and sister was born at High Splint. Papaw Houston worked in the mines at Lynch, Red Bud, Loyal, Insull and other mines. He last lived on Evarts Hill in Evarts Ky. My cousin Ed Houston pastors a church in Haraln. Mom and Dad were married at Blackmont.

My dad graduated in 1958

Where was the first church, it looks just like one in pearisburg va

My dads hometown. Wayne Wiley

Cool! If walls could talk!

Always enjoy these pics of houses from the past.like shrines,they still stand.

Such beauty left to fall apart 😢

Do not give their locations as the squatters and illegal immigrants will come running

Stay strong WV help is on the way

James McGavock was my 8x’s great grandfather. Fun video to watch.

This can't be correct, the school system taught me Steve Austin was the bionic man.

Nicely done, my friend!

I grew up in this area and have great childhood and teenage memories from here. 🧡🧡

Thanks for the history of the surrounding in Austinville , Ivanhoe, and Fort, Chiswell .I been driving through these areas, and seen some amazing homes built in 1700s and 1800s.

❤WV! ❤Appalachia. Looks like i have another place to visit. Thanks for the content!

My Uncle Clarence and Aunt Ruby lived next door to the Methodist Church. Uncle Clarence Butte was the town doctor in the 50's and 60's.

My brother and sister grew up in Coalwood W Va. They lived just a block apart from Homer. My brother went on to be a teacher in the original launch of the Redstone missle and he was instrumental in bringing Warner von Braun to Alabama Redstone. He is in heaven now after years of questioning who God is. The scientific mind has to doubt but if they came to trust in Jesus it’s with that same drive. I miss him so. He was 17 years older and he was always so much a part of my life.

Love the video! I respectfully have 1 correction though... At video mark 8 minutes and 10 seconds you shared the Deputy Richards story. You said his name was John, but in fact his name was Thomas Jefferson (aka TJ) better known as Jeff. He was my Great Grandfather! Great video though! Great information! I appreciate you!

If that's you singing and playing, I think you should record yourself. I'd like to listen to full songs of whoever is singing and playing the guitar.

Who sings this?

My great-grandmother was from down around there. Years ago they went down and bought a Sarvis tree from down there and planted it at their house in Hagerstown Maryland where the tree still is today. They planted it over 60 years ago. I'd love to visit my great-grandmother's hometown and the towns she may have visited growing up there.

Worked all through there. Years ago on the rail gangs.

That place was legendary.

Pocahontas Fuel Stores, were in fact high quality, one of the few company stores that was open to the public, was in business way up into the 1980s. Shopped there my self in my early railroad days.

The morgue was downstairs

Bark?

The electric chair I will hope finally goes down in history as a barbaric instrument like ones in museums. We are still in the dark ages to still use such a crude machine.

I lived in Arista as a little kid😂😂😂

My Mom was born in Thorpe,WV in 1922. Thorpe was incorporated into Gary in 1971. My Grandfather was a coal miner who was killed in 1927. Grandpa worked for US Coal & Coke. Grandma and her 4 kids were evicted from coal company housing shortly thereafter. I still have the legal summons that the constable served her. Thanks for this video.

I"ve investigated haunted places since 04. I tend to incorporate the paranormal/haunted in with exploring abandoned places'.

EXCELLENT video - “creative” writing and presentation. Thank you for posting it.

Well done, all around. Thank you for posting it.

WOW, so much information there, so sad what happened to parts of WV, we give tens of Billions for illegal aliens and foreign Countries but areas like that get NOTHING!!!

Very interesting!

I enjoyed this. Subscribed

Your documentaries are so cool. I love the details you provide, not to mention the excellent historical imagery to back the story. Thank you for the awesome work!

This was so interesting!

Excellent presentation

You’re such a great story teller. And I love your books!

We just stayed at the Blackburn inn Saturday night! It’s amazing but creepy. You could tell our room used to be a patient room/cell… the door still had the little window with the locks on it where they used to peep into the rooms to observe the ppl inside

This is such a cool video. I was recently in Pochahontas learning a lot about it because my Grandfather was born and raised there. He took me out and we spent the day there and a few other places nearby that he used to do stuff in. The history of this place is astoundingly wonderful and very much overlooked when it seems like in its hayday it was a very important place in our history. We didnt visit the cemetery so Im glad you went through it. I want to return one day and visit it as well.

The tombstones are Hungarian. My grandparents and parents were hungarian and I grew up in Pocahontas. My mother was Irene nagy Smolarick. My grandparents lived at the top of Water street. Gaspar and Suzy Nagy. I lived on Maple Grove what's now Kennedy Street I believe. Miss it very much. 😢

Hi I have watched your video about Dr. Joseph Dejournette and I love it

A mile from my house

Several “official” news prints, police reports, etc.. are sketchy at best much like today. Facts get left out for various reasons, things get omitted. And the legend/lore of things like this gets told over and over for generations. I wasn’t there, so I can’t say one way or another what is factually correct or even accurate. What I can say is, hats off to you for getting out there and trying to create content. Actually taking the time to put this together, and telling a story as you knew it or had heard it over the course of your life. So, it’s entertaining, thank you. And perhaps it will lead others into their own research, or even get them out and about looking for things. Cheers

My whole family is from Pulaski , Va.. born and died there for hundreds of years .. growing up there in the early 2000’s the spirit of the town was dead .. I had no idea the history of the town or anything like that growing up , we all just wanted to get out . All grown up now with a family of my own and I miss home a lot .. hope to one day be the 1st in my family to buy land there and leave it to my son so he can build and keep us there forever