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The house that vanished overnight: West Virginia’s Neerly House haunting

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — At least two mysteries tangle in the tale of the Neerly house. What happened to the house? What happened to “old man Neerly? And where did the late folklorist Ruth Ann Musick encounter the legend? The following version of the West Virginia tale appears in the West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, edited and published in 1976 by Jim Comstock, a storyteller himself. Its author, Musick, meticulously documented the sources of her co…
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West Virginia Explorer broke the news on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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