Andrew's world West Virginia history

                                            Our capitols   As I mentioned before when I wrote about the Wheeling conventions, our original Capitol was in Wheeling, WV. It was in the Linsly Institute building. This was viewed as a temporary Capitol. This building served as the state Capitol from June 20 th , 1863- April 1 st , 1870.The Linsly Institue building was built in 1858 and is still a Wheeling landmark.   Something more permanent was needed, so in 1870, the state Legislature decided Charleston would be the permanent seat. The building was started in 1869 and completed in 1870, located at what is now Capitol Street ( Capitol Street was called sixth street prior to the Capitol building being there) and Lee Street. It was built by the state house company, a corporation, which was led by John P. Hale, a prominent Charlestonian. It is said that John ended up paying for much of the project himself. The building was leased to the state by the state house company. John did all this be

  Photo sourced from Pintrest.com          Britannica.com defines “paranormal” as very strange . Not able to be explained by what scientists know about nature and the world..     We have had several things in the mountain state that would fall under that category. Usually, when people hear “paranormal ”, they think of ghosts, but you can’t forget the cryptids. “ Cryptid” is usually defined as an animal that is said to exist but isn’t proven to.     We have had at least a couple of those over the years, but one is unique to West Virginia. I’m of course talking about the Flatwoods monster AKA the Braxton County monster AKA Braxxie .   Back in 1952, in the small West Virginia Village of Flatwoods, something terrified six kids, a mother and a dog. The story goes two young brothers had been playing in their school yard on September 12 th, 1952, the boys were 12 and 13 years old. They were playing there with their friend, who was ten years old. The three boys saw a red light