Laura Jackson Roberts

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Laura Jackson Roberts is an environmental writer and humorist in Wheeling, WV. Her work has appeared in man publications, including Hippocampus, Terrain.org, Brevity, Defenestration, Brain-Child, Bayou Magazine, The Museum of Americana, Animal, and the Erma Bombeck humor site. She's served as an editor for Literary Mama Magazine and is a VP of West Virginia Writers, the state’s largest writing and literary organization.

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Haunted Ohio Valley History: A Halloween Horror Trilogy

Laura Jackson Roberts October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 3 Comments 15739 Views

by Laura Jackson Roberts, Christina Fisanick, and Seán Duffy with research by Erin Rothenbuehler

Introduction: History is Ghostful

The Ohio Valley is haunted. That’s an undeniable fact.

Like any place on the planet with a past chock full of human triumph and folly, greed and generosity, good and evil – the Ohio Valley is haunted by the ghosts of its own, by turns, bloody, joyful, corrupt, tragic, and hilarious lived human experience – its rich, much celebrated, sometimes regretted, and often downright scary, history.

“Real” ghosts? Ghouls? Spirits? Specters? Poltergeists? Phantoms? Yeah, those too…

Maybe. Perhaps. Kind of…

So, how about a trilogy of the latter for Halloween fun? Fact or fiction? History or lore? You be the judges. But be warned: these reasonably true tales of terror are not for the faint of heart.

Turn on some lights, and read on…
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