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Here is a list of ghost hunts I have done WV Pen in Moundsville WV. Also I have done numerous Cemetaries around my area and also the site where Pretty Boy Floyd was killed by Melvin Purvis at the Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio which the place is very haunted I have proof of that. I posted a pic of gretchen,s lock. well thats all I have.
Interesting, LK! I didn't know what Gretchen's Lock was, so I looked it up and here's a bit of what I found. (And now I see you also told more about it inthe Ghost Pics area. oops!) Thanks for sharing it with us - I've never heard of the place.
LK's pic can be seen in the ghost album on page 2. Here's the direct URL: Gretchen's Lock by LK[/URL]
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Gretchen's Lock
"Gretchen's Lock" near Sprucevale still stands in Beaver Creek State Park, under disrepair. There are several legends that go along with the lock.
One such legend is of E.H. Gill, canal engineer and his daughter Gretchen. According to the legend E.H. Gill, his wife and daughter were travelling from Europe to the United States, his wife died on the way and was buried at sea. The grief stricken father and his little daughter, Gretchen, completed the journey. At the time the lock above Sprucevale was being built, Gretchen contracted malaria and died. A crypt was prepared in the masonry of the lock and Gretchen was entombed there for a while. When Gill resigned during the panic of 1837 and decided to return to Europe Gretchen's casket was removed from the crypt in the lock and taken aboard ship to be returned home for burial. On the trip, a storm at sea took the ship and all were lost. E.H. Gill and Gretchen joined their wife and mother in the waters of the Atlantic.
Another legend revolves around a bride who is said to appear at the locks on a certain day each year.
[ October 22, 2002, 04:10 PM: Message edited by: KellKell ]
LK's pic can be seen in the ghost album on page 2. Here's the direct URL: Gretchen's Lock by LK[/URL]
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Gretchen's Lock
"Gretchen's Lock" near Sprucevale still stands in Beaver Creek State Park, under disrepair. There are several legends that go along with the lock.
One such legend is of E.H. Gill, canal engineer and his daughter Gretchen. According to the legend E.H. Gill, his wife and daughter were travelling from Europe to the United States, his wife died on the way and was buried at sea. The grief stricken father and his little daughter, Gretchen, completed the journey. At the time the lock above Sprucevale was being built, Gretchen contracted malaria and died. A crypt was prepared in the masonry of the lock and Gretchen was entombed there for a while. When Gill resigned during the panic of 1837 and decided to return to Europe Gretchen's casket was removed from the crypt in the lock and taken aboard ship to be returned home for burial. On the trip, a storm at sea took the ship and all were lost. E.H. Gill and Gretchen joined their wife and mother in the waters of the Atlantic.
Another legend revolves around a bride who is said to appear at the locks on a certain day each year.
[ October 22, 2002, 04:10 PM: Message edited by: KellKell ]