Eighteenmile Creek wanders gently through the green hill country of northern Putnam County, revealing not in the least any potential for tragedy along its banks. But tragedy visited a group of hunters camped out one night in a cave.
Where exactly this tragedy occurred is not widely known, though some speculate the cave was located near a bend in the creek in the valley near Extra, P.O., a former hamlet, the name of which is all-but-forgotten by a few.
Historians of the lower Kanawha Valley have cited the story in a number of publications, though I’ll defer to master story-teller Jim Comstock, who published this retelling of the incident at least twice in the West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. I’ve excerpted this from supplemental volume four, page 12.
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