The moon was full, but we couldn’t see too far out on the empty freeway. It was a bad idea, and the entire group was on edge as we approached Bellaire. One of us suggested a playlist of spooky music for the last hour of the drive. Instead, we were wired and tired, with the two drivers of the four-person trip, myself and my ghost-hunting partner Lee Williams, jittery on energy drinks and taking turns grasping the steering wheel with a white-knuckle grasp and nervously checking the tree-lined shoulder of the freeway for white-tail deer. on the sixth night of our road trip, with plenty of time for rest and relaxation in the four-bedroom home. If the schedule had worked out, we would have arrived just after 8 p.m. It was around midnight when we finally arrived at the Bellaire Demon House, and like most aspects of the road trip, we hadn’t planned it that way. The house has been passed from one family to the next (according to the story, the families moved out quickly, due to “activity” in the home), until it landed in the hands of Kristen Lee, the current owner.Īfter experiencing paranormal activity in the house herself - including an instance in which she says an entity grabbed her dog and threw her across the room) - the owner began renting the house to paranormal investigators and ghost aficionados, like myself.Īs a paranormal investigator who, frankly, does not believe ghosts are real (mostly because I’ve yet to experience anything paranormal after years of attempts), this story was enough to pique my interest and make the house a stop on the two-week road trip from my home in Arizona, all the way to West Virginia. We learned about the Bellaire House from our favorite YouTube ghost-hunter show, "Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural," in which ghost-believer Ryan Bergara and skeptic Shane Madej enter haunted houses and mostly crack jokes.Īs the story of the demonic Bellaire House goes, in 1947 a woman named Lyde Heatherington died of a heart attack in the living room of the home, and her brother Edwin contacted mediums and conducted seances in an attempt to contact his sister, which opened “spiritual portals” and let several spirits into the home, including one which disguises itself as a small girl named Emily.
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