Episode 15: Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park opened in West Virginia in the 1920s and was an immediate success with locals and mining communities alike. At the time, nobody knew about the land's dark past and hidden secrets... 60 years later they would unearth something nobody expected...

Join us this week to discover what lies beneath the abandoned amusement park and what tragic events occurred on the property before and during the park's operation.

Sources:

“Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park,” Visit Mercer County, WV admin, 2023, https://visitmercercounty.com/places/lake-shawnee/?utm_source=madden&utm_medium=googlecpc&utm_campaign=SEMC-WVW20&utm_content=lake_shawnee&gclid=Cj0KCQjwr82iBhCuARIsAO0EAZzLqNVAtXTpLSZfg06uvDQqzoT12jaD0ufiSPaauekCfKecC-SMqsYaAlDuEALw_wcB
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“The Terrifying Lake Shawnee Amusement Park was Built on an American Indian Burial Ground and Many Believe to be Terribly Cursed,”, Powwow Times, May 20, 2020, https://powwowtimes.ca/the-terrifying-lake-shawnee-amusement-park-was-built-on-an-american-indian-burial-ground-and-many-believe-to-be-terribly-cursed/

“Massacre of Clay Children remains an Infamous Episode,” Paul Ray Blankenship, The Wyoming County Report, May 31, 2010,
https://www.wycoreport.com/news/massacre-of-clay-children-remains-an-infamous-episode/article_194e587c-de39-5a53-99eb-600d6829000f.html

“PLAGUED WITH DEATH: Horror deaths of six children who were killed in mysterious circumstances at ‘haunted’ theme park built on burial ground,” Chris Bradford, The U.S. Sun, September 27, 2022, https://www.the-sun.com/news/6310305/kids-killed-haunted-theme-park-burial-ground/