Ravenswood is a city in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River.

One story tells that the town was originally named Ravensworth, after the English relatives of a founding family.

A permanent settlement was first established in 1810, and the town streets and lots were laid out in their current pattern by descendants of Washington in 1835.

During the American Civil War, the 1863 Battle of Buffington Island took place one mile (1.6 km) north of Ravenswood.

[8] In the local cemetery is a gravestone marking the grave of George Elwood Sharp, a two-year-old toddler who died 1917.

The ceramic photo plate on the stone was said to be "of a demonical baby, complete with hollow eyes, fangs, and horns.

What’s more, the claim is that at night the ceramic picture plate on this tombstone emits an eerie, iridescent glow.

Not only that, but if you listen carefully, you may be able to hear the child’s disembodied cry drifting through the air across the cemetery lawn.

"[9] According to researcher Daniel Reed, the three claims made by the legend can easily be explained: the demonical baby depicted in the image plate is simply the result of years of deterioration; the eerie glow is nothing more than a reflection of the setting sun (or reflection from a security light); and the disembodied cry is likely sounds coming from the nearby residential area (along with psychological priming and confirmation bias of ghost hunters).

He went on to become a planner with the National Capital Planning Commission, and develop the community of Columbia, Maryland, for the Rouse Company.

[11] Henry J. Kaiser opened what was then the world's largest aluminum refinery six miles south of Ravenswood in 1957.

[14] On March 26, 2010, Mike Ruben, a reporter with the State Journal newspaper, announced that Ravenswood was "transforming" the town into "Aluminum City, U.S.A." to help attract local tourism revenue: "L.A.

[17] The climate in this area is characterized by relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year.