A Guide to Haunted West Virginia Just what are ghosts and why do they haunt? Are they the spirits of the departed ro something totally different? What are ghost lights? Poltergeists? Can ghosts haunt things as well as places? Find out the opinions of what Walter Gavenda adn Michael T. Shoemaker have to say. Hear stories like the one of Miss Emily who is said to haunt Charles Washington Inn. Authors Water Gavenda and Michael T. Shoemaker. 272 pages.