Just in time for the start of spooky season, West Virginia's wildly popular 'Paranormal Trail' has relaunched with an expanded edition featuring new destinations and prizes. Created by the state's Department of Tourism last October, the tour of unusual spots worth seeing in West Virginia proved to be a smashing success with visitors from 45 states and four countries taking part in the strange sojourn that included sites like the Mothman Museum and Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. No doubt hoping to capitalize on last year's tremendous turnout, tourism officials have added four more stops on the Paranormal Trail and new prizes for those who participate.

The new additions to the tour for 2025 include Martinsburg's Apollo Civic Theater, which some believe to be haunted, and the similarly spooky Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg. Also included on the list this year are the Greenbrier Valley Theater, in recognition of a murder trial that famously featured testimony from a ghost, and the eerie Seneca Caverns. Those who travel along the Paranormal Trail and mark their stops with a digital passport provided by the Department of Tourism can win a variety of prizes, including a commemorative sticker, key ring, or hat. Should some industrious individual manage to visit all 21 locations, they will receive a limited edition lantern.