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Princeton, West Virginia
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Lake Shawnee is an abandoned amusement park near Princeton, opened in the 1920s and closed in 1966, built on land where Mitchell Clay's family was attacked in 1783, when Bartley and Tabitha Clay were killed and their brother Ezekiel was taken. Ghost-tour stories tell of a smiling and then bloody woman near the swings and a figure on the Ferris wheel. Claims of several deaths at the park and of 3,000 Native American burials are unverified, and some researchers dispute them. It is a stop on the state's Paranormal Trail.
Open only for guided tours arranged in advance, mostly around Halloween; the walk is over wet or overgrown ground.
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