A Real WV Haunted House

STORIES OF THE OLD

JOHN B. BOGGS HOME

Big Otter WV

  My Great, great, great,

 great... Great, Uncle 

John Boggs, built 

his home in Big Otter,

 West Virginia. 

Many years ago.

It is a  beautiful, white,

two story, victorian, 

 home that 

still  stands today. 

 It is the house 

that sets way back in 

the field behinde 

Big Otter Go~Mart.  

   You can actually look

directly upon it while

exiting I~79.

For a  period of time,

as a child, 

I lived there.

When asked, by my 

cousin Michelle Boggs

to write any creepy  

stories I ever heard 

about that house....  

I started racking my

brain to try and 

remember them all.    

Michelle grew up next

door to the  errie, 

old home.  She is the 

granddaughter of  

John Boggs, the 

son of 

Clay and Gladys.

From one generation 

to the next,  the

house has been passed

down.   

Even though new

family members move 

in and out of the home,

seems the old family 

members will never leave.

I wanted to make sure it 

was know just how warm

and inviting the house 

has been to me.   

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. 

To me, it was all so breathe 

takingly beautiful. 

       To everyone else,

it was a haunted house just

        waiting to attack.

For all the stories I am going

to be sharing about this house 

~~ I need to fill you in on some

 details and names. 

Let me try to quickly describe

 the layout of the house.

Downstairs

 there was the 

entrance and 

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, 

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.

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 ...    

 Suzie Boggs was the 

sister to my mothers dad.  

She lived alone in there 

for years before she 

mysteriously died. 

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

 old lady was rarley 

seen with out her gun.  

Seems to me 

she lived in utter  fear.     

 I really loved her.

*Aunt Sabina lived with

 Suzie her sister,

 for years until

 she passed away. 

She was never married.

When she died 

 Suzie was left all alone.

*John Boggs  

ok this one can 

get confusing 

because there is

like many John Boggs'. 

All named after the 

"John" before them.

 I am  Not talking about 

 the builder of the the 

house.   

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 

that killed  their brother.   

*Henry Clay Boggs    

My moms dad. He was

one of the surving 

brothers of the crash

that killed John.   

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.  

Together they named

their first son after

 John.