A ghost hunt at 'the Mouth of Hell'

Why do people always go to the Mouth of Hell when I'm not around? Seriously, if I didn't have to be out of town this weekend, this is where I'd be:

APRIL 30, 2005

PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION: HAUNTED CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD FAR FROM THE GLORY...FORGOTTEN BY MOST…THEIR GHOSTS WALK THAT KILLING GROUND TO THIS DAY!

They were the forgotten men! It was the Mouth of Hell!Those who died are restless souls…crying out for help…wandering the battlefield looking for lost friends…waiting for the proper burial that NEVER came!

The bodies were forgotten for so long that many became fodder for the roaming pigs. A local farmer whose family lived on the battlefield during the Battle of Antietam took me to this place. He wouldn't even get out of the car.

"My grandmother heard the screams comin' from here from thedying about a week after the battle. She made my grandfather and uncles get in the wagon to go check. When they got here, they could hear the screams and wails of the wounded…but wasn't one ofthem left alive. Never used that part of our fields agin. Never came here agin. They didn't eat the pigs that come down here,neither. You stay away from here, Missy! This here's the mouth ofHell!"

AND, THEIR GHOSTS ARE SAID TO BE ACTIVE RIGHT NOW!THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!

April 30, 2005

Meet us at 8:30 PM in the parking lot behind McDonald's in Shepherdstown off of Route 45 East.

(There's only one McDonalds in Shepherdstown!)

$25 per person. Reservations, please!

This Investigation is not appropriate for elementary school-aged children.

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT FORGET YOUR PROTECTIVE STONES!

For a list of upcoming events, visit the West Virginia Society of Ghost Hunters. You also may join their Yahoo group for details of upcoming events, classes and reports of their investigations.