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Due to the hunting nature of these hunted places,

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lizard discretion is advised.

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I'm your host Mark, and tonight I have a ghost story for you.

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So gather around the campfire and try to knock it scared.

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The Bishop family traveled to West Virginia from Ohio during the summer of 1999.

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They were visiting different state parks and decided to rent a cabin at Babcock State Park.

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When they walked into the visitor's center, they noticed that no one was at the front desk.

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They walked around the gift shop for a little bit. Amanda, who was 10 at the time,

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noticed dust on a snow globe. She dusted it off and saw that it was a grist meal with autumn leaves in it.

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She placed it back on the shelf when her mother Rhonda made her jump by hitting the bell at the front desk.

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A worker named Lisa came out from the back office apologizing for the white.

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Rhonda told her that they were there to get the key to their cabin.

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Lisa said they had the best cabin in the park. She gave them the key to cabin 13.

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She also gave them a map so they could find the cabin and she told them that she hoped they had a great time.

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Because cabin 13 would be a place they would never forget.

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Amanda and Rhonda walked back out to the car. They noticed that John was out of the car looking over at the grist meal.

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When they walked over to him, they heard his camera. He told them to stand in from the meal so he could get a picture of them.

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After that, they walked back to the car and drove over the bridge down a single lane paved road.

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It seemed like they were driving forever, but when they got to the end of the road, they saw cabin 13.

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The three got out of the car, got their bags, and walked down the path and the steps to the cabin.

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Rhonda tried the key in the door, but she couldn't unlock it.

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No matter how many times she tried, the key wouldn't budge.

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So John tried it a few times. Still, no lock.

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They thought that Lisa might have gave them the wrong key.

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They started to walk back to the car when they heard the door unlock.

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They all thought that someone might have been in there.

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So John went in first, but he saw no one.

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When Amanda and Rhonda entered the cabin, they were overwhelmed with the smell of roses.

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They both thought that there was an awful air freshener.

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But when they looked around the cabin, they couldn't find one.

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They put their bags in the cabin and decided to hike a trail.

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They decided to hike the island in the Sky Trail.

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After a few hours on the trail and a roll of film later, they made it back to the cabin

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and saw that John's luggage had been opened and thrown around the cabin.

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John looked around the cabin and called the park gate quarters.

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Lisa answered the phone and John asked if she knew of anyone else staying near them,

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or if anyone else had a key to the cabin.

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She said that they were the only ones staying in a cabin on that end of the road.

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And that the only other person to have a key was a maintenance man.

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But he was at the lake working on a few paddle boats.

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After a long pause, she told John this wasn't the first time something like this happened.

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Before he got a chance to ask her what she was talking about, the phone disconnected.

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John looked confused and Rhonda asked him what was wrong.

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He said nothing and that they should get the cooler out of the back of the car

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to fix the sandwich for the evening.

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After eating, John and Rhonda went outside to sit on the porch and drink some wine.

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They could tell they were the only ones around, but could hear a woman in the distance.

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They couldn't make out what she was saying, but John said she must have been screaming

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because Lisa told them they were the only ones on the end of the road.

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Amanda decided to take a bath while she was washing her hair.

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She heard the door creak open.

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She thought it was her mom checking on her, but she turned around and saw that no one was there.

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Before she could turn back around, her towel fell on the floor.

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She thought it might have been Augusta Wynn.

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She was getting out the tub when she heard footsteps upstairs.

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She ran outside to get her mom and dad.

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They said that it was just her imagination playing tricks on her.

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They decided to call it a night.

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Amanda and Rhonda took the bed upstairs, and John took the couch downstairs.

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All was well until 2 a.m.

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Rhonda woke up to what she thought was drops of rain leaking through the roof on her face.

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She looked outside and noticed that it wasn't raining.

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She turned on the light and wiped her face off and noticed that the liquid was red.

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She noticed that the mattress was covered in the red liquid and that Amanda wasn't in the bed with her.

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She looked over the railing to see if she was downstairs with John,

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but all she saw was a figure standing downstairs with something in its hand.

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When it noticed her, it ran upstairs.

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She could hear the footsteps, but no longer see the figure.

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Then she felt sharp pains all over her body and legs.

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She screamed for John, but he didn't come.

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Rhonda woke up to John shaking her, trying to wake her up.

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He said that she was screaming in her sleep.

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She told John and Amanda about her dream, and Amanda said she had the same dream,

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but that in her dream there was a woman in the bed.

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She said that the figure attacked the woman and that she was murdered in the bed.

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She told her mom that she was sleeping in the spot the woman was in.

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They decided that the best thing to do was to brush it off as just being spooked by sleeping in an older cabin.

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They all went back to sleep, but around 4am, John woke up to a woman crying.

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He jumped up, looked around, thinking Amanda or Rhonda came downstairs to use a bathroom,

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but couldn't see them.

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He went upstairs to check on them, but saw they were both sound asleep.

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He turned around and noticed a woman looking back at him, and was crying in the mirror.

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He saw that her head was split open and that she had been beaten.

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She kept asking why James would do something like this to her.

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John thought that he was just singing and hearing things when he walked out of the room and smelled roses.

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Then he felt two hands on his back, pushing him down the steps.

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He fell down the steps, waking up both Amanda and Rhonda.

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They ran downstairs to check on him.

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They all started to hear the crying.

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A rocking chair was flipped over, then a loud scream was heard.

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They decided to leave the cabin right then and there.

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They threw the luggage in the back of the car and started to back up.

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Amanda looked down at the cabin and saw a woman standing in the window looking back at her.

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John turned around and drove back to the headquarters where they threw the key at the door and drove out the park.

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Never coming back.

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When they got back to Ohio, they developed the film from the trip.

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When they looked back at the pictures from cabin 13, they all saw the same thing.

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A woman looking back at them from the window.

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On April 29, 1996, James Phillipo rented a cabin in the park.

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On April 29, 1996, James Phillipo rented cabin 13 for him and his wife, Cheryl, for a romantic getaway.

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Around 2 am and 3 am, he called 911 saying the two of them had been attacked.

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When police arrived, they found Cheryl dead at the scene in James and his underwear.

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Police saw no sign of a struggle, but they saw what looked like a staged crime scene.

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They looked at a briefcase laying locked on a table.

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They saw pictures and negatives of a man in wet clothing changing.

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That night, James became the only suspect of the murder.

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During the trial, James said that the man in the pictures was a close friend and a member of his congregation.

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That he baptized the day he booked cabin 13.

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Cheryl disapproved of this friendship in the land venture.

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She said that it strained their relationship.

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During the trial, both men denied being in a romantic relationship.

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And that the photos were just innocent post-baptism shots.

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James Phillipo was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.

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Cheryl's ghost has been reported to haunt cabin 13 and the grounds around it.

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She has been seen wearing a nightgown staring out of the window and making sobbing sounds at night.

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In 2002, West Virginia tourism removed towards the cabin 13 from their website,

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labeling it as being haunted by a murder victim.

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The site posed the question, would you dare stay in cabin 13?

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Thank you so much for listening to the second episode during our State Haunts Month.

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Stay tuned for next Friday for another State Haunt.

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