Lake Shawnee, West Virginia: Where the screams never left.

🏚️ The Backstory is Already Screwed

In the early 1920s, businessman C.T. Snidow had a dream.
He built a full amusement park in Mercer County, West Virginia - Lake Shawnee.
It had it all: a swing set, Ferris wheel, carnival games, and even a swimming pond.

But behind the candy floss and carousel music was something darker.
Something... older.
A curse rooted in blood.

Because that land?

It used to be a Native American burial ground.
And not just any burial ground - a sacred one.

☠️ The Death Toll Racks Up

From the start, things went... wrong.

• A young girl on the swing ride was struck by a delivery truck and died instantly.

• Another child drowned in the pond.

• Several others were injured or died in strange, freak accidents.

• In total? At least six confirmed deaths.
  Possibly more.

But despite the bloodshed, the park stayed open.
Because capitalism, baby.

Until 1966 - when it finally shut down.
Too many whispers. Too many tragedies.
Too many families burying children instead of memories.

🕳️ And Then It Got Worse

In the 1990s, a new owner bought the land.
His goal? Reopen the park. Restore the rides.
What could go wrong?

Then came the digging.

Construction workers unearthed skeleton after skeleton - some of them children.
They stopped counting after finding over a dozen unmarked graves.
Archaeologists confirmed it:
The park had been built directly on top of a Native American burial site.

Yeah. That part was very much real.
And very much cursed.

🎠 What’s There Now?

The park never reopened.

But the rusted remains still stand, and the land is now a ghost hunter’s wet dream.

• The swing set still creaks and sways - with no wind.

• The Ferris wheel moves just a little bit at night.

• Locals say they’ve heard children laughing.
  Others? Say they’ve heard screaming.

Visitors report:

• Sudden nausea

• Cameras malfunctioning

• And one woman said she felt a child’s hand grab hers - but she was alone.

Psychics have called it one of the most spirit-heavy places in America.

🖤 Moral of this messed-up fairytale?

Don’t build a theme park on a sacred graveyard.
Don’t ignore the deaths of children.
And definitely don’t sit on a swing that rocks by itself in the dead of night.

Because some funfair rides never stop.
Even when no one’s on them.

Would YOU visit Lake Shawnee Amusement Park?
Or are you keeping your ass far away from Ferris wheels with ghost passengers?

🎠 Drop your scream level in the comments.
💬 Tag your friend who'd definitely try to stay the night.
🖤 Because some playgrounds are for the dead now.