Six Haunted Houses in Virginia

6. The Greenbrier Ghost

Usually ghosts are perceived as a harassing disturbing presence that makes the occupation of a place ever more difficult. It’s not like that in this case. This Ghost helped solve the murder that actually created the ghost. The Ghost, Elva Zona Heaster, was born in the early 1870s. She also went by the name Zona. She married Erasmus Stribbling Trout Shue. He moved to Greenbrier to start a life as a blacksmith. The two married each other quite quickly and so the marriage was opposed by her mother.

A day during the following year Erasmus sent a little African American boy to the house to ask Elva is she needed anything from the store. When the boy arrived to the home, he saw her lifeless body and ran and told his mother. Before the coroner and the local doctor could arrive, the husband moved the body upstairs and dressed her in a dress that had a very high and stiff collar tied with a large bow and a veil covering her face. While the body was being examined, he sat there and cradled his wife’s head and upper body and sobbed.

Her mother believed her daughter faced a foul end due to the sheet she was wrapped in turned pink when being washed. Her mother, Heaster, prayed that Elva would return from the grave in order to tell the truth of what happened to her so that she can have eternal rest. She did cross over and haunted her mother’s dreams for four nights as she explained the abuse from her husband and how. She showed her mom how when not having dinner ready Erasmus broke her neck.

5. The Cavalier Hotel

Located in Virginia Beach, Virginia this elegant hotel overlooks the North Beach. Paranormal activity that has been witnessed within the hotel include things like the elevators run when no one is riding in them, toilets flush on their own, and guests made reports of their towels changing colors from time to time. Even the piano in the ballroom pays by itself. But these are quite little compared to tragedies that began a couple years after the hotel opened.

This hotel is quite similar to the Overlook hotel in the movie “The Shining.” There is also a feeling that something is lurking about which greatly aids to this anomaly. There is a waiter who walks through the walls of the Pocahontas room. A lady and a ghostly dog cross the lobby floor. As well as spirits of those who brood over the misfortunes of their lost life.