Egypt Valley Paranormal

N 2001, I ATTENDED COLLEGE IN ST. CLAIRSVILLE.NOT BEING FROM THE AREA I WAS UNAWARE OF EGYPT VALLEY AND THE PARANORMAL ACTIVITY THAT WAS SAID TO OCCUR THEIR. ONE NIGHT WHILE HAVING COFFEE AT A LOCAL 24HR COFFEE SHOP MY FRIENDS BROUGHT UP THE MANY UNEXPLANABLE THINGS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN EGYPT VALLEY. I WAS VERY SCEPTICAL AND THOUGHT THEY WERE PULLING BY LEG.
  AROUND 11:30PM I AGREED TO GO FOR A RIDE WITH THEM INTO EGYPT VALLEY. UPON ENTERING THE AREA I FOUND IT STRANGE THAT THE ROAD TURNED TO DIRT. WHILE DRIVING IT WAS VERY STRANGE TO ME THAT THERE WAS NOTHING BUT TREES AND ROADS IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE PLUS NO HOUSES. I WAS TOLD ALONG THE WAY ABOUT SALEM CIMETARY AND A TALE IF YOU WALKED AROUND IT SO MANY TIMES THAT YOU WOULD NEVER FIND YOUR WAY HOME. UPON ARRIVAL AT SALEM CEMETARY I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THER WOULD BE A CEMETARY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS. WE GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND RIGHT AWAY HEARD MOVEMENT IN THE WOODS TO OUR LEFT. COULD HAVE BEEN A DEER I THOUGHT. WE WALKED AROUND THE CEMETARY LOOKING AT THE STONES AND READING THE DATES AND NAMES. I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE 3 MARKERS THAT HAD NO NAMES. I WAS TOLD THAT THEY WERE THE THREE WITCHES. VERY SCEPTICAL, MY FRIEND AND I DECIDED TO WALK AROUND THE ENTIRE CEMETARY AROUND THE ENTIRE PERIMETER. (T HAS BEEN A WHIE SO I DO NOT REMEMBER HOW MANY TIMES AROUND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE) AFTER BEGINING OUR FINAL LAP LIGHTS APPEARED TO BE COMING UP THE DIRT ROAD. SCARED, MY FRIENDS BOLTED FOR THE CAR. MY FRIEND AND I WERE STILL WALKING WHEN WE NOTICED THE LIGHTS COMING UP THE DIRT ROAD AND OUR FRIENDS GETTING INTO THE CAR.IT LOOKED LIKE HEADLIGHTS FROM A CAR.  LUCKILY WE MADE IT TO THE CAR BEFORE THEY TOOK OFF. THE ONLY WAY OUT WAS TOWARDS THE LIGHTS THAT WERE COMING UP THE ROAD. AS WE DROVED TOWARDS THE LIGHTS THE SUDDENLLY DISAPPEARED. I WAS REALLY CRAZY I COULD NOT EXPLAIN IT AT ALL. THERE WAS NO ROAD OFF THAT DIRT ROAD WHERE A CAR COULD GO. WE SHOULD OF PASSED THE CAR ALONG THE WAY. I WENT OUT TO EGYPT VALLEY ONLY ONE MORE TIME AFTER THAT AND IT WAS DURING THE DAY AND WAS VERY UNEASY WHILE BEING OUT THERE. IT IS A VERY CREEPY PLACE DAY OR NIGHT.

In every family, there are stories past down over thru the
generations.
In our family we have some but, this story hasn't been told in years.  It
was a summer evening in the early part of the 80's and my eldest brother,
his best friend and I were on our way for a night fishing trip at the
 "tubes" in Egypt Valley (Egypt Bottom).  After making the turn from "Lady
Bend Hill", we traveled down the old Egypt Bottom road towards the old
trestles.  Upon making the turn under the trestle, our lights shown across
the swamp running along side the road.  The lights caught a glimpse of a
large hulking creature waist deep in the middle of the swamp.  This swamp is
several feet deep and completely surrounded by the many roads in Egypt.  We
came to a stop when the lights hit the creature, it turned towards us and
looked directly into the lights, it had a humanoid face but was by my
estimation 8 to 10 feet tall.  The creature then proceeded to run out of the
swamp, as we all know, it is nearly impossible to run in knee deep water let
alone waist deep, but he/it was very capable of doing so.  Once it reached
the banks of the swamp, the hulking creature again turned to us looked as if
saying come get me.  I then  hid my head under a jacket in the back seat and
screamed get us out of here, but my brother wanted to see more.  We sped
towards the area where this "thing" came out of the muddy water but it ran
faster than anything I had seen and probably ever see in my life.  It jumped
a dirt mound in one step and took of up a high wall into the woods before we
could close.  That was the last time we saw the creature even on our many
evening trips to the valley.

Maybe it looked like this.       

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A Story from Michael.


 One fall evening while working at a local steak house, a group of friends
and I were discussing local urban legends.  As a child from Egypt Valley
area, I knew of the "Liza Fox "story.  I began to tell the story and the
others looked at me like I had three heads.  I then offered to show them the
site in which the rape and murder had occurred and the marker with the
little white fence.  My friend Tommy said he would drive since he had the
biggest car and it was new and he basically wanted to show off, but I
digress, so off we went.  I regaled them with the story one more time as we
drove onto North road and made the turn onto Egypt Bottom road.  As we
turned up the long, dark back road many became very uncomfortable because
the site is so far off the beaten path.  I assured them that I had visited
many times and later than 12:30 am and nothing strange or unusual had
happened.  To me the site was simply a historical landmark and interesting "
trivia" from our area.  As we approached the small clearing where the marker
stands, Tommy pulled the car into the small driveway and turned off the
motor.  We all piled out of his brand new car and read the inscription with
lighters and cigarette embers.  Once we had our fill of history, we went
back to Tommy's BRAND NEW CAR.  I keep emphasizing the newness of the car
because he had just purchased this car the day before we took this little
road trip.  We got back to the car and got in to find the car would not
start, not a spark or the turn of the motor occurred.  It is 1:00 am on a
Sunday night in the middle of nowhere and the car will not start.  We had no
choice to walk to the nearest home and try to get help but the girls with us
would not walk down the dirt road because they were scared so we went up the
hill towards SR800.  About a 1/4 of a mile away a van came down the road,
they were friends of mine who had been "fishing" by the edge waters at
Piedmont Lake.  They gave us a ride back to the car and we then tried to get
a jump from them, to no avail the car wouldn't start.  From there they took
us to my mother and father's house so we could get some sleep and go back
for the car the next day.  When the morning came we piled in my dad's Jeep
and headed for Tommy's car.  When we got there, he decided to try the car
again before having it towed to the dealership, it started right up and he
never had any problems with the car the entire time he owned it.  Now this
may not sound like a "ghost story", because it didn't to us until the that
night at work it came to me, the site we visited was of Louisa Fox who was
raped and murdered by here beau Thomas Carr, we were in "Tommy's car" , any
significance?  You tell me.

One night me & my brother and another friend were driving around the backroads. This was back in the early 80's. That's what everybody did then. That's where the parties were. We did that a lot.
So we were standing outside of the car that night, just talking, all of a sudden my brother says look at those red eyes in the bushes. It was dark but there was nothing that would cause a reflection on an animal. But we still thought it might be a raccoon or a fox, so we got in the car and took off.
We drove for a little bit and then stopped and got out again at a different place.
I heard a noise and turned around and there were those eyes again. This time we jumped in the car and took out of there in a BIG hurry. It was freaky!
I was down there another time and we saw that house they always said disappeared. We tried to find it, but we never did.

~Becky P~