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6 Mt. Zion Road

Croaker, Virginia

It is said that in front of one particular house, the Ghost of Avenel may be seen walking. The woman is said to wear a long white dress and carry a parasol. Allegedly the woman used to live in the house that is now owned by the Bedford Historical Society.

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coolJ says:

March 3, 2007, 6:52 pm

Coooooooooooooooooooooooool!

steve says:

August 5, 2007, 4:27 pm

this house is known in the area as the Potts mansion. also sometimes refered to as the abortion clinic. It is located on 6 mt zion rd in toano virginia. it is heavly covered in trees an vines now. I have taken many trips to it because i live only 5 minutes away. you can no longer explore the house due to the condition of the house. you can still enter the house threw the back window an enter a small room but thats where you stop. the floor that leads to the other rooms has calapsed into the basement. i had visted the house before the floors had caved. an we mananged to explore the basement an up to the 2nd floor. the house if very scary an very old. you get a very bad feeling as soon as you enter it. sadly the house probably wont stand more then another year or 2 due to the rotten wood. the house was a very beautiful house. its sad you can no longer explore it excpet the one room.

levi sozA says:

August 20, 2007, 11:34 pm

i just visited the house today and i actually did not get a bad feeling i got a safe feeling as if someone or something in the house was watching out for me. a floor almost colapsed under my feet till i saw bright white eyes that scared me back and away from danger.

Brittney says:

September 20, 2007, 5:49 pm

I have visited Potts mansion a few times. We entered through the basement. We were able to go all of the way up to the second floor. Everytime I have entered that house, I have heard something or felt something that is undescribable!! I would love to learn the history of the house.

John says:

March 29, 2008, 9:22 pm

I pass through Toano on the way to Henrico. I never knew this was out there. I do know that there is an old frame church (Methodist, I’m guessing), there in Toano that seems to be pretty old. The church has a graveyard too and that could really be haunted I bet. Also, be careful going into those old houses. You could get yourselves hurt and whoever owns the house might be forced to tear it down as a result of that so please just let it be.

Micheal says:

November 10, 2008, 3:53 pm

We went to this house last night. It’s off of holly fork rd. on newkent side. i heard of this house threw partys and almost all the young folks know of it… When we approched the house, it had a door or big window in the side of it, the other 2 people with me were trying to find a way into the brush to get into the house, as they walked around i saw something like a white shirt or something white move and stay infront of this door/window as if looking at us. I shined my flashlight on it to see what it was, and the light hit the object for a sec, and then it moved behind the wall. I called the rest with me, and departed since we didn’t know if it was a real person or ghost. I want to contact the owner and get a real ghost hunting group with video etc. in there.

devin says:

January 7, 2009, 6:42 pm

if someones happen to know directions to this house from roanoke va, please respond with a link!

Vegas says:

March 23, 2009, 10:27 am

some friends and I went there last night. I stayed in the truck because I was afraid and 3 of my friends went in the woods with their flashlights…a few minutes went by and I called them on their cell phones but they did not answer. after a few more minutes they came back and they were real quiet. I asked them why they did not pick up their phones and they said they never heard their phones ring…very strange. they never went into the house but they looked through the windows and thought they may get hurt inside because the flooring looked kinda rough

Noway says:

May 5, 2009, 6:53 pm

Firstly, The Bedford Historical Society has nothing to do with the place that is listed here in “Croaker Virginia”, If you care to do some research on your counties in Virginia you will find that Croaker is somewhat close to Williamsburg out on the atlantic coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croaker,_Virginia

Avenel that is mentioned above, along with the reference to the White lady as well as the Bedford Historical Society is located in Bedford Virginia which is in Central Virginia.

Before posting garbage like this at least get the locations correct.

Isis says:

July 10, 2009, 9:29 pm

This dos not say why she died.

Rachel says:

September 2, 2009, 1:07 am

OMG I think I saw tis house and I SWER I saw a really creepy looking woman in a white dress with a candle but I looked away then I looked back at nothing was there is scard the living day lights out of me

Mike says:

September 24, 2009, 9:09 pm

Where exactly is this house once you get to the location? Is there a trail of some sort? I went there today and didnt find anything.

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