Busting Ghosts with West Virginia’s Ghosts Hunters

For the past year, Countere has had the privilege of shadowing some of West Virginia’s most elite ghost hunters, the Spectral Research and Investigation (SRI) team. We hopped around a West Virginia-shaped bingo board of horror movie tropes: a haunted house, a former insane asylum, and a family which claimed demonic possession of their young daughter. We discovered that in West Virginia, a paranormal investigator plays many roles: an amateur scientist, a tourist draw, an Appalachian historian, and even a social worker and family counselor. We’re pleased to present our dispatches below.