LEWISBURG, WV (WVNS) — Join the Greenbrier Valley Theatre as they breathe live into the story of the Greenbrier Ghost!

In 1897, 23-year-old Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at the bottom of her staircase in rural West Virginia. Her death was quickly ruled natural, despite bruises on her neck and her husband’s ...

On this day, 112 years ago, Zona Heaster was found dead in West Virginia, leading to the case of the Greenbrier Ghost and perhaps the only murder conviction in American judiciary history based on the ...

One January afternoon in 1897, Erasmus "Edward" Shue, a blacksmith, sent his neighbor’s young boy to see if Elva, Shue's wife of three months, needed anything from the market. The boy walked through ...

Troubled Waters: A WVVA Special on the Floods of 2001. Clayton Morris reports. The Greenbrier Valley Theatre is bringing an ...

On this day, Jan. 23, 1897, Elva Zona Heaster was found dead in Greenbrier County, W.Va., leading to the case of the “Greenbrier Ghost” and perhaps the only trial in United States history where ...

A WVVA Special on the Floods of 2001. Clayton Morris reports.

In the winter of 1897, two men on horseback ride onto the Heaster Farm deep in the mountains of West Virginia to solemnly inform Mary Jane and Jacob Heaster that their daughter, Zona, has died. Even ...

Now here's a weird, apparently true story from history. Elva Zona Heaster Shue died mysteriously in late January, 1897, with the official cause of death being that she had expired during childbirth.

Nearly every town’s got a ghost story. Far more rare is when a ghost story can be traced back to one specific, legally documented criminal case. Still, they do exist, and the stories they spawn are ...