Haunted History And Legends Tours Of Martinsburg WV

23/02/2024

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

I hope everyone is having a great year thus far! I just wanted to announce that I just signed the contract for a new book entitled “Haunted Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.” It will be released by the History Press hopefully before the end of this year. It has been approximately five years since the release of my last book, “Haunted Martinsburg.”

This book is a huge research project that will encompass Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan Counties. It is my mission with this publication, to not recycle the same stories that everybody has heard for years unless I have something new to add to them. Some famous stories and legends have been embellished over the years and the true factual parts of the tales have been overlooked by ghost storytellers and authors that have failed to put forth the effort to get the facts straight. I’m hoping to change that in my telling of the tales and to uncover and share some lesser known, forgotten stories from the rich folklore spanning these counties for generations.

Some new Martinsburg stories and updated narratives and experiences from a few locations from the previous book are sure to be included as well.

Throughout the writing of this book I welcome and encourage anyone that has a good story to tell from the region to reach out to me via text or phone call at 304-261-7470. Stories may be selected for possible inclusion in the new book!

21/10/2023

Tonight is the last night to join in on for a frightful night of history and haunts! Don’t miss out on the exclusive opportunity to explore the historic and haunted Roundhouse in the dead of night-in complete darkness!

The dead have many stories and want YOU to hear them!

We are still taking reservations and they can be made by calling 304-261-7470. $20 per person with a portion of each admission going to the continued preservation and upgrades to the beloved historic Roundhouse.

Come if you dare!

16/10/2023

This coming weekend is the last opportunity for the Annual Martinsburg Halloween Haunted History Tours with exclusive access to the historic (and haunted) Roundhouse! Don’t miss out on all the spooky fun! Tours on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm. $20 per person. Call 304-261-7470 for reservations. A portion of each admission goes to the continued improvements and restoration of the historic Roundhouse.

It’ll scare the Yell out of you!👻🎃

30/09/2023

The spookiest month of the year is just a day away! We are only 2 weeks away from 2 full weekends of spine chilling fun commencing on Friday the 13th!

We have quite a lineup of stories and surprises for this years walk involving Martinsburg’s restless dead!

Hear the TRUE story behind the Apollo Theater’s famous cigar loving George. Be shocked by the story of the town dog killer! A grieving mother, brutal hangings, hidden burial grounds, spectral soldiers, drownings, violent deaths and tragedies, and even buried treasure are all part of the tales waiting to be told!

Are you ready to face the dark woods and enter what some say is one of the most intensely haunted landmarks in Martinsburg? We’ll find out!

Only 4 dates to experience the paranormal in Martinsburg this Halloween season.

7:30 pm 10/13, 10/14, 10/20, 10/21.
$20 per person with a portion of each admission going back to the historic Martinsburg Roundhouse.
Reservations required and must be made by calling 304-261-7470.

No children under 13 are permitted on this tour!

16/09/2023

The 9th Annual Halloween Ghost Walks of Martinsburg are returning this year in a big way!!

This years lantern walks will be taking a different route and will feature lots of new stories and new narratives for some of the old stories. Walk along the new Frog Hollow Trail. Beautiful in the light of day but incredibly dark and spooky in the dead of night!

The walk will conclude on the property of the historic Martinsburg Train Station where guests will enter the Roundhouse for an exclusive lights out tour of the famed structure!

Join us this October and enter a world of shadows and secrets and find out why history never dies!

7:30 pm

10/13
10/14
10/20
10/21

$20 per person with a portion of each admission going to the continued preservation of the beloved Roundhouse.

This tour is not recommended for children under 13. The walk is just under a mile in length. There are stairs within the train station but elevators are available. Reservations are required and must be made by calling 304-261-7470.

19/10/2022

Only 2 weekends left of tours. And things are getting spookier as the veil thins. Join us at the Roundhouse this Friday or next for “History and Hauntings at the Martinsburg Roundhouse.” The dead have many stories to tell here and you will hear them as we walk through the facility in the dark! Watch out for the Artifacts Room-one of the most paranormally active areas in the entire property!

Call 304-261-7470 for reservations. Tour begins at 7:30 pm. Ages 13 & up only. $15 per person with a percentage of each ticket going to the Martinsburg Roundhouse Authority.

11/10/2022

FYI….

We just had a couple of spots open up for this Saturday for the Morgan Cabin Haunted Tales tour at 6:30 pm. If interested, give us a call at 304-261-7470 to reserve your space. This tour is a highly atmospheric stroll around one of Berkeley County’s most treasured historic landmarks. Dark woods, flickering lanterns, and eerie cemeteries are all part of the fun on this fundraising seasonal event for this extremely important piece of WV history.

Also, we have the frightfully fantastic tour at the historic, and VERY haunted Martinsburg Roundhouse this Friday at 7:30 pm. This is your chance to enter one of Martinsburg’s most haunted structures at night, in the dark! This is an exclusive tour only available for the month of October. The facility is normally closed to the public at night, but is open to us for tours through special arrangement with the Martinsburg Roundhouse Authority. The tour is $15 per person with a percentage of each admission going to the Roundhouse. Must be 13 & up.

Call 304-261-7470 to reserve your spots!

09/10/2022

We had a fabulous first weekend of tours with the Martinsburg Roundhouse and the Morgan Cabin! Once again, thank you to all who attended and we look forward to seeing those who will be attending our other tours scheduled every weekend this month.

Here are a few photos from last nights Halloween tours at the Morgan Cabin. The moon made an appearance and loomed large over us helping to create the perfect ambience!

08/10/2022

A huge thank you going out to everyone that joined us on our first “History and Hauntings Tour of the Martinsburg Roundhouse!” We had splendidly spooky weather and a few strange things happen to a couple of people! We’re doing this tour every Friday night in October so if you haven’t reserved your spots, do so now because they are booking up fast!

Tonight we’re having our first ever Halloween tour at the Morgan Cabin and we have a full house so for those attending, we look forward to seeing you!

02/10/2022

Happy October everyone! While our first weekend of tours was a washout unfortunately because Mother Nature had other plans, we will be resuming tours this coming weekend. Both the Roundhouse Tours and the Morgan Cabin Tours will be premiering! Both are brand new tours featuring exciting locations and stories!

As we head into our month long venture of spooky tours just a friendly reminder so you know what to expect:

These are historically based, storytelling tours. They are NOT paranormal investigations. You are welcome to bring cameras but any other type of paranormal investigative devices used to try and communicate with the dead need to be left off of the tour. The reason for this being that these are not those type of tours and participants will not have the opportunity to be trying to capture EVP’s or actively attempt spirit communication. We do not try to interact with spirits on our tours or provoke or invite them to do so. We do not want anything following us home or hitching a ride with us. Some of the spirits at these locations are not spirits that you want reaching out to you.

With that being said paranormal experiences can and have happened on tours. If that happens-it’s because those unseen are reaching out by choice-not because we’re encouraging them to do.

For all those joining us on tours this month we look forward to seeing you and ask that you please understand and respect this policy.

Happy Hauntings!

30/09/2022

26/09/2022

This Friday marks the premiere of our brand new tour for this Halloween season, “History and Hauntings of the Martinsburg Roundhouse!” We are offering this tour on six different dates starting this weekend throughout the month of October. Have you ever wondered if Martinsburg is haunted or what goes bump in the night at Martinsburg’s historic Roundhouse? This is your chance to find out! FYI, this place is NOT for the faint of heart! Spaces are filling up fast and reservations are required so don’t miss out on this limited event. Call 304-261-7470. Ages 13 & up only.

21/09/2022

Just a brief follow up to my announcement regarding the “History and Hauntings of the Roundhouse,” tours. While the tours will be meeting in front of the cemeteries on South Street and I will be sharing stories regarding them, we will NOT be entering Old Norbourne Cemetery as in past tours. Trinity Episcopal Church has banned all ghost tours from being on the property. This is out of the control of the tours and while it is unfortunate, we must abide by and respect their rules. Since this is a very significant tour stop for both historical and paranormal reasons, we didn’t want to totally remove it from the tours. The compromise is to stand on the public sidewalk outside of the cemetery to look in so tour participants can still hear the stories and and see everything from a distance. Remember, the Martinsburg Roundhouse and Train Station property is the star of these tours! The cemetery stories are just a warm up for the main event! Thank you for understanding.

19/09/2022

I am very excited to announce that we have partnered with the historic Martinsburg Roundhouse to bring you something new and exciting this Halloween season!

“History and Hauntings at the Martinsburg Roundhouse” is a spine chilling tour you don’t want to miss!

Begin the evening at the infamous “Graveyard Hill,” for stories contained with these 2 historic graveyards. Then, drive to the historic, and some say, very paranormally active Martinsburg Roundhouse property where we will enter the landmark structure in the dead of night for incredible tales of ghostly encounters within and on the grounds and surrounding areas of the East side of Martinsburg. Join us if you dare!

Tours begin at 7:30 pm on the following dates:

Friday 9/30
Saturday 10/1
Friday 10/7
Friday 10/14
Friday 10/21
Friday 10/28

Cost is $15 per person with a percentage of each tour admission price going towards the continued upkeep and restoration of the Martinsburg Roundhouse property. Participants will be required to sign a liability waiver before the start of each tour. No children under 13 are permitted. Reservations are required and must be made by calling 304-261-7470.

PLEASE NOTE: We will not be entering the cemeteries-the stories will be told from outside the cemetery perimeters. This is out of the control of the tours. Thank you for understanding.

27/08/2022

This October will mark our ninth season of giving ghost and history tours in historic Martinsburg. This year we are very excited to be able to expand to another historic and haunted landmark in Berkeley County-the Morgan Cabin!

Famed for being the homestead for the first permanent white settler of WV-Col Morgan Morgan, the cabin and the surrounding areas are full of mystery. These special tours are conducted by lantern light on cool, dark fall nights.

Hear about the bloody apparition of James Morgan-brutally murdered in the 1700’s and the amazing story of a recently discovered unmarked cemetery and of visitations and messages from beyond the graves!

Morgan Cabin Haunted Tales is being offered on 4 nights this October:

10/8

10/15

10/22

10/29

Each night there are two tour slots available at 7:00 pm and 8:30. Please note that the 7:00 pm tour on 10/15 is booked. Space is extremely limited and reservations must be made by calling 304-261-7470. While there is nothing blatantly scary and no one will try to intentionally frighten you-these tours are not recommended for children younger than 10. The entire tour is in total darkness involving dark wooded areas, graveyards, and discussion of a violent death.

These tours are free of charge but donations are greatly encouraged and will go towards the continued upkeep and maintenance of this historic gem.

We hope to see you on one of these very spooky tours this year! There are some very cool things in the works for the Martinsburg tours this year more to come on that.

02/05/2022

We are completely booked solid for the ghost tours on 5/13 & 5/14! The response we have received from the community has been overwhelming and much appreciated! A huge thank you going out to everyone for their interest and participation these tours! For those that wanted to come but didn’t get to reserve spots or are unable to attend that weekend, we do offer private tours for groups and are planning to offer public tours on a more regular basis through the spring and summer.

For those of you joining us on Founder’s Day weekend, we will see you then!!!

24/04/2022

This year celebrates the 250th anniversary of the founding of Berkeley County. Founder’s Day weekend, May 13-15 is going to be a fun filled weekend with an assortment of activities celebrating our heritage. There is something for everyone and for those that like the spookier side of history-there will be special ghost tours of the historic district of Martinsburg!

“History Goes Bump"-Ghost tour of Martinsburg
Friday May 13 and Saturday May 14 at 8:00 p.m.

Join local historical and paranormal researcher, Justin Stevens, author of the book, “Haunted Martinsburg,” for a spine tingling evening exploration of ghosts and hauntings from the town’s rich, often dramatic past. Native American history, the Civil War, the devastating Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918, and so much more will be discussed on this lantern led, 1 mile stroll through the historic district. This is a fun, but serious tour that examines the strong ties between history and present day paranormal happenings. Stories are based on real eye witness accounts from locals who have experienced them.
Tour begins at 8:00 pm on both nights and is $12 per person. Reservations are required and must be made by calling 304-261-7470. Not recommended for children under 12.

19/10/2021

Are you ready to meet the ghosts of Martinsburg this Saturday, 10/23? We are filling up fast so don’t wait till the last minute to reserve your spots! Our walk is a creepy look into the dark side of Martinsburg’s history and the hauntings that continue to resonate today. Special guests will be joining us this Saturday so don’t miss out on the ghost party! Call 304-261-7470 for reservations. Tour starts at 7:00 pm and is only $12 per person.

17/10/2021

One of the best things about the Halloween season is watching scary movies! There have been some great movies dealing with ghosts/haunted houses.

My personal favorite is the 1963 version of “The Haunting.” Based on the 1959 classic novel “The Haunting of Hill House,” by Shirley Jackson, it is the definitive haunted house story. A parapsychologist invites a group of people to investigate a monstrously haunted mansion with a 90 year old legacy of death, murder and su***de. During their stay, they come to recognize and eventually confront the true evil of the house.

This movie gets into your head by telling much of the story from the point of view of a mentally unstable woman with a troubled past. As the house’s evil influence begins to infiltrate her psyche we begin to see the insidious way in which this house claims it victims and truly believe that this isn’t just a house with ghosts-but a living force with a mind and will of its own!

If you haven’t seen it, for a serious case of the creeps, check it out this month. For a good read, the novel is a must as well!

What is your favorite ghost movie?

17/10/2021

Martinsburg’s dark history and spine chilling ghost stories return to haunt you on Saturday, October 23rd. Don’t miss your chance to join in on a lantern led stroll to the town’s spookiest places where hauntings have been reported for generations! Vanishing tombstones, hitchhiking ghosts, spectral dogs, the vengeful spirit of a hanged rapist-murderer, the terrifying hauntings in a former funeral home, and much more await you! Tour begins sharply at 7:00 pm. Only $12 per person, extremely limited space. Reservations are required and must be made by calling the living at 304-261-7470. Leave the youngin’s at home on this tour!

17/10/2021

Awesome tour last night with perfectly spooky weather! A big thanks going out to all who attended! We had a blast!

We’re doing this again next Saturday 10/23 and have some special guests and perhaps, a few other surprises…….don’t miss out on the fun! Make reservations by calling 304-261-7470. Tour starts at 7:00 pm and is $12 per person. Young children are not recommended for the tour.

15/10/2021

We are almost fully booked for tomorrow night’s walk! Only a few spots left so if you’re still planning to go-don’t wait, call 304-261-7470 to reserve your spots. We still have openings for Saturday, 10/23 if you can’t make it tomorrow night.

Come celebrate Halloween with us and hear ghastly tales as we explore Martinsburg’s dark shadows! The ghosts of Martinsburg are dying to meet you! 💀👻🎃

12/10/2021

Did you know that this building was the Berkeley County Jail for nearly a century before it became Martinsburg’s first hospital, King’s Daughter’s Hospital? Just imagine if this walls could talk, the stories they’d have to tell. Many locals believe that spirits trapped here from past traumas are still trying to tell the living their stories. Learn about the hair raising occurrences that give this historic landmark its reputation as one of Martinsburg’s most haunted places!

Spots on the Martinsburg Halloween Ghost Walks on 10/16 & 10/23 are filling up fast! Call 304-261-7470 to reserve space before they sell out!💀🎃👻

11/10/2021

Get into the Halloween spirit by going on a frightful Martinsburg Ghost Walk! The “Grim Reaper” and the “Lady in Black” will light the way with lanterns through the historic district of town. The walk is a creepy, less than 1 mile stroll exploring haunted places and local legends. Tales of vanishing tombstones, exorcisms, spectral dogs, mad caretakers, the vengeful spirit of a hanged rapist-murderer, the terrifying occurrences in a former funeral home, mysterious underground tunnels and much more await you!

Tours run on Saturday 10/16 & 10/23 and start at 7:00 pm sharp. Admission is $12 per person. Space is extremely limited. To walk with the spirits, you have to make reservations with the living by calling 304-261-7470. Not recommended for young children. Private tours are available Thursday through Sunday all month long except for the dates of scheduled public tours. Inquire for more information. The tour is all outdoors and is a fun, safe, and spooky way to celebrate the season.

It may just scare the yell out of you!

10/10/2021

It’s the season for ghost tours!

MARTINSBURG -- Between Charlestown's Haunted History Walks, Shepherdstown Mystery Walks, Charles Town Ghost Tours, Ghost Tours of Harpers Ferry, Shepherdstown Ghost Tours and Martinsburg Ghost Walks, there are several choices