Parkersburg, WV
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been. There are many stories and legends surrounding this beautiful old building, such as the boy who mysteriously died
after stealing a priest's cross and several of the nuns being laid to rest in the basement. When I began my trip there I had
very high expectations but we experienced very little paranormal activity such as a door that slammed, but our pictures
showed a faint image of a face in a downstairs window only a few feet from the camera and several other strange things. I
would say that DeSales Heights Academy is haunted without a doubt. DeSales which has stood for 100+ yrs is scheduled to be
torn down this summer. Only in West "by God" Virginia would they just level a piece of history like this.
my beautiful
girlfriend waits
eagerly in the back
yard of DeSales at
dusk to take the
night tour(If you
notice on the
second floor, in the
second window
from the left is
where the other
WV ghost hunters
say that there is an
apparition of a nun
but it is nothing
more than a
broken out window
and a reflection.
right is a magnified portion of
the picture to the far right you
can barely make out what
appears to be a face in the
section highlighted in red and
two small blue orbs are also
visible directly above the face
highlighted in green.
(They are also visible in the
unedited larger picture to the
right but they are very hard to
make out)
classroom window, so I snapped a picture and as you can see five
distinct orbs showed up right next to the window. (The orbs are
highlighted by the green arrows)
marble alter in the chapel on the first floor
of DeSales. Imagine what it looked like ten
years ago
the middle pictures are a magnification of the orbs in the picture to the left and a
picture from a postcard from the 30's, and the picture on the right is a picture of
my girlfriend in front of the front door of DeSales at night. All in all this was a
great place to visit, and we had alot of fun. I am truly saddened by the fact that
DeSales Heights Academy will soon be gone forever
