Haunted Bookstore

Want to Spend Some Time In a Real Haunted Bookstore?

What About Meeting up With a Few Fantastic Phantoms?

window.jpg (37043 bytes) Parkersburg - Spiral staircase, glass floors and books

Trans Allegheny Books, Inc. Introduces:

Haunted Library Ghost Hunts!

Come on a private ghost hunt in an actual haunted building that dates back to the bygone days of the oil & gas era of Parkersburg, West Virginia!

Built in 1905, the Parkersburg Carnegie Library building is the now home of Trans Allegheny Books, West Virginia's largest used bookstore! A wrought iron and brass spiral staircase, stained glass window, and hand-carved oak staircase and mantles link the past to the present and evoke the seductiveness of early 20th century Parkersburg.

Ghost hunters & psychics proclaim the store has at least five primary spirits; three are women, another a child and also a man. The small girl (seen wearing a white bonnet) has been sighted on the wooden stairs leading to the second floor of the bookstore. Customers have actual tripped over her playing on the steps!

Many visitors claim to have seen a dapper older gentleman wearing a brown jacket and derby hat browsing the second floor, as well. There are even reports the bookstore is haunted by the ghost of a local newspaper reporter who was tragically murdered in her home on nearby Avery Street in the 1980s. The reporter spent a great deal of time in the old Carnegie Library and it was a second home to her.

Paranormal investigators have captured pictures of the spirits inside the bookstore -- so convincing was the evidence ghosts inside Trans Allegheny bookstore that it helped land the investigators a job with the television show "Scariest Places on Earth!"

Book your private Ghost Hunt now!