A story of black dog ghost in Mason County (In the unincorporated community of Hickory Chapel located near Pt. Pleasant). The following is a Weekly Register newspaper from May 9th 1883 from the "local matters" page:
GHOST. - The people living along the Clarksburg road, in the neighborhood of Hickory Chapel, are very much exercised by the re-appearance of a ghost in the shape of a big black dog. They all assert that it is a veritable ghost, and it has been seen time and again by numbers of people. Men have met it in the road, while riding home on horse-back, and have tired to out-run it, but never could: it has been shot at time and again by good marksmen, but without effect. Sometimes when people are walking along the road it follows along by the side of them, and neither clubs, stones, or scolding will drive it from its position.
Source(s): https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026817/1883-05-09/ed-1/seq-3/ http://theresashauntedhistoryofthetri-state.blogspot.com/2019/11/point-pleasants-phantom-black-dog.html