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Greenbrier Ghost Grave — Soule Chapel Cemetery

Smoot / Meadow Bluff, West Virginia, United States

Cemetery · local-legend

The Story

Zona Heaster Shue’s grave commemorates the woman known as the Greenbrier Ghost. Her mother said Zona returned after death to explain that her husband had killed her, a story connected with the investigation that followed. The cemetery is the identifiable memorial destination for that legend; the account does not establish that the apparition occurred at the grave.

The Hauntings

Zona Heaster Shue’s grave commemorates the woman known as the Greenbrier Ghost. Her mother said Zona returned after death to explain that her husband had killed her, a story connected with the investigation that followed. The cemetery is the identifiable memorial destination for that legend; the account does not establish that the apparition occurred at the grave. Folklore-associated memorial rather than claimed graveyard sighting. Do not count roadside marker and grave separately. Respect worship, funerals and cemetery rules.

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