Haunted History Walks of Point Pleasant WV

04/08/2026

Dark history ✔️
Frontier battles ✔️
Unexplained encounters ✔️
Small town… BIG secrets.
📖 Point Pleasant: A Haunted History
I'm super excited for this!

04/02/2026

New book due out soon!

03/28/2026

Point Pleasant: A Haunted History will be out in late May and I am super excited to share what I have "dug" up. Lots of old newspaper stories, folklore, high strangeness, and dark history. A sneak peek at the back cover. ☠️

03/24/2026

Point Pleasant: A Haunted History. 🪾
I am so excited to get this book wrapped up soon, and today I'm offering a snippet from the frontier chapter:
Long before Point Pleasant was whispered about for Mothman, Men in Black, UFO's and the fall of the Silver Bridge, it already had its own dark watchmen. They wore buckskin, carried rifles, and kept their eyes fixed on the tree line, listening to the rivers and the silence between them. The danger they feared was human, but the ground beneath them was already gathering something older, heavier, and harder to name. In a town where blood had been spilled and grief had taken root, the hauntings had begun long before anyone ever looked to the sky.
In the eighteenth century, the ground around this area belonged to that uneasy category of places where history and dread walked side by side. This was the world that shaped Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, two of the most enduring frontier figures associated with the Ohio Valley region. They were not ghost stories, but they moved through a landscape already haunted by war, memory, and the knowledge that the wilderness did not care whether a man survived it.
The list reads like a who’s who of the frontier: Daniel Boone, George Washington, Mary Draper Ingles, Simon Kenton, Chief Cornstalk, Simon Girty, Mad Anne Bailey, George Rogers Clark, and others all left their mark on this unforgiving ground. They walked these trails, swam the rivers, hunted for food, and fought to stay alive in a wilderness where each day carried its own risk. They lived bigger in those days, perhaps because death always walked so close beside them.

03/19/2026

Support your local authors. ❤️ So much love, work, research and sleepless nights go into writing books...especially ones with a large amount of history.
My latest endeavor, Point Pleasant: A Haunted History, will be around 275 pages (so far) and published in late May.👻

These books shown...and my own stack of files represent some of my research from home. The rest of my research is thru digitized records, newspaper archives, personal interviews, rolls of microfilm and books at various archives and libraries. This book has been a labor of love! I'm excited for this baby to be born. 👌

03/07/2026

Working on George Washington's chapter for the Point Pleasant book today. Yep, old George has a pretty important role in this town's history. Here is a snippet from his chapter:

George Washington and the Making of Point Pleasant

George Washington is remembered first as the commanding face of the American Revolution and the first President of the United States. His image has been polished into marble so thoroughly that it is easy to forget he was once a young man in muddy boots, moving through forests and river valleys with compass, chain, and notebook in hand. Long before he stood at the center of a new nation, Washington was a surveyor, a land speculator, and an ambitious Virginian with a sharp eye for the future. To understand his connection to the Point Pleasant region, it helps to set aside the familiar portrait of the statesman and see instead the frontier-minded Washington: practical, curious, calculating, and keenly aware that the Ohio Valley represented not merely wilderness, but opportunity.

That opportunity came wrapped in danger. The Ohio Valley in the mid-eighteenth century was not an empty place waiting for arrival and naming. It was a contested world of Native homelands, trade routes, imperial rivalries, military ambitions, and deep uncertainty. The confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, where Point Pleasant would later emerge, stood within a landscape that carried strategic value long before Americans attached permanent town names to it. It was a place of travel and exchange, a point of passage, and a place where powerful interests collided. Washington’s story in this region is not simply about a future president visiting the frontier. It is about empire, land hunger, war, and the early shaping of a place that would one day become deeply woven into the haunted and historic identity of Point Pleasant.

Washington’s lesser-known life as a surveyor began early. He inherited his father’s surveying equipment and learned the trade by assisting a local surveyor who helped lay out the town of Alexandria. On January 20, 1747, he received a commission from William & Mary College as surveyor of Culpeper County. In that role, he prepared numerous surveys of land on the western frontier. This work did more than teach him technical skill. It taught him how land translated into influence. A young man who could map property lines could also imagine fortunes, settlements, and the future shape of power. Surveying was not merely mathematics in the woods. It was a way of seeing the country as acreage, claim, and promise.

That vision placed Washington squarely in the world of western speculation. The colony of Virginia and its leading men were increasingly interested in the Ohio Valley, both for its agricultural potential and for its position in the larger contest with France. The Ohio Company, founded in 1749, was created to develop parts of the Ohio Valley and had ties to prominent men including Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie, George Washington, and others of status and ambition. The original grants included 200,000 acres in the Kanawha and Monongahela regions. These claims were not abstract. They represented wealth, political leverage, and a foothold in an enormous interior landscape. French claims to the region threatened all of it.

MORE TO COME.......

02/24/2026

Point Pleasant isn’t one story. It’s a collision site of history and oddities. Battlefield history + frontier grit + river-town lore + modern high-strangeness (Mothman) all stacked in the same zip code.
NEW DATES FOR 2026 walking tours in town will be announced next week PLUS did you know we are working on a book? Hopefully to be published this May!

11/30/2025

This Thursday, December 4th, I'll be haunting the Addison Visitor's Center in Webster Springs, West Virginia, selling and signing my haunted history books. Swing by and visit with me from Noon until 3:00pm at 110 N Main Street.

10/29/2025

Wishing you all a wonderful Halloween/ Samhain!

10/17/2025

Tomorrow night-Saturday October 18th finds me strolling the streets of historic Point Pleasant, WV. It's not too late to join up, $25 per soul, 90-minute walk covering everything from the Battle of Point Pleasant to the arrival of Mothman. 8pm-9:30pm. We meet at the Mothman statue.

Mothman and More Tours with author, Sherri Brake. Join her in Point PLeasant as she leads evening tours featuring Mothman, UFO's, Battle history, Superstitions, Men in Black and more.

10/03/2025

Our last one of the year!!! 👻💀☠️👽
Join me on Saturday October 18th at 8pm.

Mothman and More Tours with author, Sherri Brake. Join her in Point PLeasant as she leads evening tours featuring Mothman, UFO's, Battle history, Superstitions, Men in Black and more.