Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours All Year 'Round

03/08/2020

Hello everyone. As many of you know I've been struggling with hyperparathyroidism.. I am not able to do any private tours at the moment. I may later.. it all depends on how well I feel after surgery. Thanks for understanding!

09/23/2019

11/03/2018

One last tour of the season, tonight....

10/24/2018

https://www.hauntedparkersburgtours.com/

Haunted & historical walking tours of downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia led my psychic medium, artist and author Susan Sheppard. True paranormal experiences!

11/04/2017

Scheduled tours have ended for 2017 but keep us in mind for private tours and bus tours. Thank you.

08/28/2017

Tour dates for the 2017 Ghost Tours will be updated soon. In the meantime, enjoy this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjM9zix_TLs&t=15s

Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours with Susan Sheppard, is one of the top #10 ghost tours in the nation and has some of the most unique paranormal tales in the ...

08/11/2017

The famous Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours will begin on September 29th, 2017 at the haunted and historic Blennerhassett Hotel in downtown Parkersburg, West ...

08/11/2017

Can you handle meeting this many ghosts?

04/27/2016

SIGNS OF GHOSTS & PHASES OF HAUNTINGS

04/27/2016

Many famous acts have appeared at the Smoot Theatre during its Vaudeville hey-day such as the “Singing Midgets” who later appeared in “The Wizard of Oz” as munchkins and a number of silent movie stars whose names are now long-forgotten. The Smoot Theatre was built in 1926 by the Smoot Amusement Comp…

04/27/2016

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04/27/2016

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05/04/2015

http://hauntedparkersburg.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-granderie-witches-nyx-goddess-of.html

03/31/2015

Haunted Parkersburg October 2014 Susan Sheppard with Sabrina Price.

03/31/2015

Tours begin in the lobby of the beautiful and historic Blennerhassett Hotel in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia at 4th & Market Streets.

03/31/2015

This page is for privately booked ghost tours. Due to bad weather for the last few years on the ghost tours, we have decided to offer private ghost tours available at other times of the year starting April 15. There will be no regularly scheduled ghost tours, however, as there are in the fall. In order to book a ghost tour, you will need to have at least 8 people. Price is $15 per adults and $10 per child. (304) 428-7978

03/31/2015

Parkersburg's most haunted statue, the Weeping Woman. Mysterious activity abounds in the area of this statue. She is in the historic Riverview Cemetery which is one of the stops on the ghost tour.

Parkersburg's most haunted statue, the Weeping Woman. Mysterious activity abounds in the area of this statue. She is in the historic Riverview Cemetery, which is one of the stops on the ghost tour.

03/31/2015

One of the haunted mansions along our ghost tour route. It was built in 1836 by Senator Peter Godwin Van Winkle, one of West Virginia's first senators and personal friend of Edgar Allan Poe.

03/31/2015

Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tour creator and guide Susan Sheppard appears during an episode of "Scariest Places On Earth" as a part of the famous ABC Family Channel series. Of Shawnee and Lenni-Lenape heritage, Susan is a well known psychic medium. Here is the episode about the Haunted Lake Shawnee Amusement Park bear Bluefield, West Virginia several years ago.

Director of Photography: Gary Marsh Director: David Wechter Client: Scariest Places on Earth Title: "Haunted Amusement Park" Location: Lake Shawnee, WV

03/31/2015

Haunted Parkersburg creator and ghost tour guide Susan Sheppard, the author of a number of books and well known psychic medium.

03/31/2015

A "somewhat" accurate but simplified story about the ghost tours and myself that appeared in the State Journal in 2013. This is the first time I've ever read it!

Parkersburg Haunted Ghost Tours are not for everyone. The evening walks along the streets of the Ohio River city may not be appropriate for squeamish children. Giggling teenagers may find it to be a w

03/31/2015

Catch the ambiance of the hotel's many ghosts.

Historic/Haunted Blennerhassett Hotel Study/Library in Parkersburg, WV on New Years Eve.

03/31/2015

For your reading pleasure!

The Blennerhassett Hotel is said to be haunted by a few friendly spirits.

03/31/2015

PARKERSBURG - Ghost stories have a history in Parkersburg going back to before the Civil War.

Local author Susan Sheppard has been doing the Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tour in Parkersburg for years and said there are more ghost stories in Parkersburg than can fit into the tour, so she mixes them up from time to time.

This year's Haunted Parkersburg tour will be run from the last weekend in September through the first weekend of November. It features stories about hauntings and other paranormal activities, but also features a lot of history about Parkersburg and, by extension, West Virginia since many Parkersburg residents played vital roles in the state's creation.

All tours meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Blennerhassett Hotel at Fourth and Market streets in downtown Parkersburg. For more information, contact 304-428-7978 or [email protected]. to book your own private ghost tour with Susan Sheppard as your guide.

"A lot of times, I think there may be too much history in the tour because I really enjoy history. We try to combine real history with tales of hauntings," Sheppard said of the tours.

The Blennerhassett Hotel, which serves as the starting point for the ghost tours, is believed to be haunted by William Chancellor, the hotel's builder. Sheppard said many people have reported seeing him over the years and she has a personal experience of her own. While staying at the Blennerhassett several years ago while work was done on her home, she fell asleep in her room one afternoon.

"I felt the bed shake, I opened my eyes up and I saw an older man walking away in a grey suit. I didn't see his front, but I saw from the back and he disappeared. That's the way they usually describe him," she said.

While the downtown area of Parkersburg has a large percentage of older homes and buildings, that is not a requirement to experience hauntings.

"Hauntings are not rare. They can happen in homes that are new, just as well as they can in older houses," Sheppard said.

There is a type of haunting called a place haunting or imprint haunting, which usually does involve buildings or places that are older. It will replay past events like a memory, with no interaction that might occur in other types of hauntings, she said.

There are also times when such imprint hauntings may be transferred to new locations. Sheppard said she has heard of a house in south Parkersburg that used some bricks from the demolished DeSales Heights Academy to make a sidewalk.

"At 6 o'clock in the evening -which is around the time the nuns would go to dinner - these dark figures of nuns would appear and float by the windows (of the south Parkersburg home), so apparently those bricks were holding onto the energies of DeSales Heights," she said.

Sheppard said her own home is built on the location of a former pottery plant and she has seen a man's figure go by the window on a regular basis. She will also hear sounds of old carts on cobblestones, she said.

"I don't think hauntings are rare. They tend to come in cycles and start out as very subtle. A lot of people miss those, and it's only when the haunting becomes intense" that they are noticed, Sheppard said.

Sheppard said actual visual sightings of ghosts are unusual, but they will generally look as real as anybody else, not transparent to any degree. They often appear during the day as well as at night.

Most hauntings start out more subtly, as smells, as noises, doors opening and closing and objects being misplaced, she said. Waking up at the same time at night, feeling a presence in a room or animals acting strangely around particular spots may also be indications of a haunting, she said.

Parkersburg News & Sentinel October 14-2014

03/31/2015

Spook Haus's real haunted house! Another stop on the ghost tours. This is at the bottom of Quincy Hill. There are a number of Civil War ghosts in this area of Parkersburg.

03/31/2015

On the "Haunted Rooms" website, you can book a night at a real haunted hotel in Parkersburg. Call (304) 422-3131

The classically European styled Blennerhassett Hotel offers guests a welcome respite. With the perfect blend of modern convenience and old-world charm, the Blennerhassett hotel is also the home of several ghosts, including the once city mayor William N. Chancellor, the person who funded the build ba…