A Haunted House in West Virginia

When asked to add any creepy stories I ever heard about that 

house by  Michelle Boggs, I started racking my

brain to try and remember them all.    Michelle grew up next

door to the pretty, yet errie, old home. And is the granddaughter

of  John Boggs,  son of Clay and Gladys.  She is my cousin.

 Before I ever moved into the house

 I remember going to visit my

 Great Aunt Suzie there.  

I remember she lived alone.  We 

lived in Spencer and never got to see 

her very often but I loved it there!

 She had the kind of  furniture 

you see  in the movies that 

goes into those old victorian  

places.   It was all original stuff 

from  when John furnished it.  To me, 

it was all so breathe takingly 

beautiful.  To everyone else, it

was a haunted house just 

waiting to attack.

Downstairs there was the entrance grand hallway.

To the left is the beautiful master stairway.  It curved up

and to the right.   Upstairs across from the top of

these stairs is the room we made into our own personal 

living room.  If you were to walk down the hallway from

there you will see my mothers bedroom on the left.  Then 

a matching huge bedroom across from hers.  They each had

bay windows and fire places.   Next on the right is the choice of 

either going down the servant  aka slave stairs or walking 

down a short hall to the door which lead to the stairs to 

the full walk in attic.  Across the hall  from the stairs

is the master bathroom.  

 The  same bathroom that my  Aunt Suzie was found dead in.

Dont worry I have a creepy story

about her death.

In due time,  in due time.

It is very interesting.

Right next to the bathroom.... was my room 

and across the hall from  me  was Aunt Suzies old 

bedroom.   It now belonged to my sister, Shonna. 

  My Aunt  Anna Mae and her husband Nelson

bought the house after Suzie died and they had their bedroom 

downstairs.  

 It wasnt long after my dad died that my mom had to be

 hospitalized and my sister and I had to come stay with 

them for a while.  Then when  mommy was able to 

come home we all talked her into moving from our 

hometown of Spencer  to the upstairs portion of the families 

famous John Boggs house.  Sadly, this was the happiest part

of my life.   

                              Names to know     

*Great Aunt Suzie Boggs was the sister to my mothers dad.  

She lived alone in that house for years before she mysteriously

died. Found in the bathtub.   

  She kept a gate,  chained and locked, at the end of the

  driveway.   She would watch out her

windows or on horseback using her binoculars.  

This lovely, sweet, very, very, old lady was rarley 

seen with out her gun.  Seems to

me she lived in utter fear.      I really loved her.

*Aunt Sabina     She lived with Suzie her sister, for years until

 she passed away.  I never met her.  Sabina was never married.

 When she died  it was  then that Suzie was left all alone.

*John Boggs  ok this one can get confusing because there is

 like a hundred John Boggs'.   I am  Not talking about  the 

builder of the the house  .

This John was just named after him many generations later.

 This John is the brother to Suzie, Sabina and Grandpa.  He 

grew up living in the house with them until he died 

at the age of 19. 

 John and three of his brothers were in a terrible car wreck. 

John was the only one killed.   The other three brothers

never told the secret of who was driving the car that killed 

their brother.   

*Henry Clay Boggs    My moms dad. He  was one of

the surving brothers of the crash that killed John.   ( if you

ever go up the interstate passing  Big Otter ~ North... You will 

see a  barn and cilo over in the field on the right.   It reminds

me of the picture  on the WV drivers liscense.   Well,  that was

my mom's barn.   There once was a house there too.

 The government bought their house and

tore it down to make  interstate 79)

Gladys  Marie Ball Boggs  Gladys and John were dearly in love. 

  When he was killed  in the car wreck , it broke her heart.  

She later fell in love with Johns brother,  Henry Clay .  They 

married and   had 11 children.  My mom was the 10th child.  

 She named her first son after John.  My Grandpa and Grandma 

both loved John and agreed on the name.