The extremely haunted Lake Shawnee Amusement park.
You won’t believe how many bodies are buried there
In 1774, a man named Mitchell Clay was one of the first English settlers in what is now presently known as Mercer County, West Virginia. He received a large grant from a lord for his participation in a war. This grant gave him a great deal of land that he took his family and moved onto.
The family turned the land into farmland and made it their own. However, that land had been taken from the Shawnee tribe. Tribal members had warned the family that they were very unhappy and that they wanted their land back, but the Clay family was not interested in giving up so much land. It was later discovered by anthropologists that the tribe had not been living on the land at that point for decades, but that didn’t mean the land wasn’t being used (hint: we will come back to this later).
On one fateful day, Mitchell asked two of his sons, Bartley and Ezekiel, to build a fence around some grain that he had recently purchased and his daughter Tabitha was washing clothes nearby. The kids were doing their tasks when eleven Shawnee men attacked the boys. They killed Bartley quickly but grabbed and held onto Ezekiel. Their sister heard the commotion and started to run back to the house but ran directly into the slaughter. She wanted to save her…
