It’s little wonder that the West Virginia State Penitentiary has the honor of being called haunted. West Virginia has its share of paranormal stories. From the Mothman sightings of Point ...

The prison’s fate was sealed in 1986 when the West Virginia State Supreme Court ruled that confinement to a 5-by-7-foot cell was considered cruel and unusual punishment. The penitentiary closed ...

(AP) - It has been a long time since I believed in actual ghosts, but I was willing to go looking for them at the West Virginia State Penitentiary ... visited the prison chapel, a small, white ...