MGSA Haunts

Listed below are 232 hauntings in the State of Maryland.
We've painstakingly sorted through them all and organized them by county.

1. Allegany County - 8 hauntings listed so far.
2. Anne Arundel County - 10 hauntings listed so far.
3. Baltimore City - 28 hauntings listed so far.
4. Baltimore County - 14 hauntings listed so far.
5. Calvert County - 7 hauntings listed so far.
6. Caroline County - 2 hauntings listed so far.
7. Carroll County - 11 hauntings listed so far.
8. Cecil County - 8 hauntings listed so far.
9. Charles County - 2 hauntings listed so far.
10. Dorchester County - 4 hauntings listed so far.
11. Frederick County - 18 hauntings listed so far.
12. Garrett County - 2 hauntings listed so far.
13. Harford County - 18 hauntings listed so far.
14. Howard County - 11 hauntings listed so far.
15. Kent County - 6 hauntings listed so far.
16. Montgomery County - 10 hauntings listed so far.
17. Prince George's County - 12 hauntings listed so far.
18. Queen Anne's County - 6 hauntings listed so far.
19. Somerset County - 6 hauntings listed so far.
20. St. Mary's County - 7 hauntings listed so far.
21. Talbot County - 8 hauntings listed so far.
22. Washington County - 23 hauntings listed so far.
23. Wicomico County - 2 hauntings listed so far.
24. Worcester County - 13 hauntings listed so far.
25. Washington DC - 6 hauntings listed so far.

Allegany County

Location: Frostburg
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Description: I live in SC now. 15 years ago I lived in Frostburg, MD near the train depot in a duplex. It was a very old and run down house owned by a professor at Frostburg State. When we moved into the duplex, I was a new mother and only 18. My husband at the time was a student of Frostburg State. We were very poor and the house offered cheap rent. The duplex sat on a dirt foundation. There was a very eerie basement door leading to broken steps and cobwebs below. It smelled a bit funny so we put the piano in front of the door to hide it. It was a two story duplex. At the end of the stairs in the dining room were some very odd stains on the floor that were not cleanable. Soon after moving in I began to hear strange things, especially in the evenings when it would be me and the baby. First, the glasses in the cupboards began to clank together. I would get very strange calls from satanic cults (pranks I assume) asking if I knew where they could find a blonde hair blue eyed sacrifice. (Both my baby and I were blonde haired blued eyed...) One day I was sitting upstairs, baby sleeping. I could hear children laughing and I would look out the window and the nearby school play ground was empty. I was down stairs cooking one day, baby in the swing next to me. I heard the blinds on the windows release and roll upwards. I looked upstairs to see what it was and all the blinds were up. I was half way up the steps when my baby's activity center was going off, several activities at one time. I would be in the bathroom and the electric wall heater would go off on its own. I started becoming very uncomfortable and didn't want to stay there. Everyone tried to tell me I had post partum depression and I was imagining things. Luckily, other people started to be affected. My husband became worried about me and started spending fewer nights with the fraternity and more at home. Lying in bed and half asleep one evening, there was the most blood curdling scream from the bottom of the steps. It woke the baby and scared my husband as well. The next morning, the professor that lived in the duplex next door came over and asked if we too had been hearing anything strange. We began to compare notes. The professor lived in the house with a large dog. His wife taught at another university and they would spend weekends together. He said one evening he and the dog were going upstairs to bed. Out of nowhere, he felt something strike him across his forehead. He fell down the steps and was nearly knocked out. He figured he did it to himself until he heard the screams. The worst thing that happened in our stay there was what the place did to our pets. My husband gave me a kitten and two hamsters for my birthday (I am a huge animal lover). Soon after the kitten got there (he was tiny, black) he started getting strangely mean. He loved my husband and started hissing when I was around. I soon became pregnant with my next son and I would take naps on the couch. I once woke up and the kitten was sitting on my chest and clawed my eyes out when I would open them. I had to put him out side during the day because he would jump on the baby and scratch him. He would cling to the screen window and hiss and holler. The hamsters were two standard teddy bear hamsters. They were young and healthy. One night after going to bed, we heard horrible clacking down stairs. We were too scared to go downstairs and convinced ourselves we left the hamsters in their travel ball and they were hitting into all the furniture. When we woke up the next morning, every cabinet door in the kitchen was wide open. Both hamsters were cuddled next to each other in their cage, dead and cold. All the photographs we took there had a brown hue to them and were really messed up. On the same roll of film, pictures we took elsewhere we fine. I could go on and on, but some other examples of things that happened are, the piano would play during the night after we would go to bed and did so when we had people over one night. Things like pies would be moved after we'd set them out. I was cleaning the closet one day, sitting and facing it. I heard laughter behind me that turned into a wail. There were cold spots. Everyone felt a feeling of oppression and being "held down" while lying in bed. We heard a laugh similar to the scream we heard the one evening. We stayed in this duplex for about 11 months and that was about all I could take. We were expecting our second child and I didn't want to have him there. I have tried to do some research on the area and came across the "Shadowland" website that listed the Frostburg Train Depot and Gunter Hotel as haunted. The site mentioned there is an underground tunnel going under main street that may be haunted. This duplex was right off the main street with everything else so I am wondering if that may have anything to do with that. I thank you for listening. This house made several people, normally skeptical, believe in the supernatural. If you ever investigate or find out anything, I would love to know about it. There are two other places that everyone claims to be haunted in Lonaconing, Maryland (deep in the country). I have never seen anything there, but there is a field in Lonaconing where people have seen lanterns floating and coming towards them, and a house on Mount Savage that several people I knew claimed was haunted. The house is closer to Westernport, MD where there is a giant Westvaco paper mill. Mount Savage has a very steep decline and the end of the hill comes to a brick wall created to protect the town from runaway vehicles. On the wall, there is cross for every truck driver that died hitting the wall when their brakes failed. When I moved away, there were at least 10 crosses on the wall. There are several urban legends surrounding Westernport. Now I live in a new house in South Carolina. There are no spirits stirring here. Thanks and I wish you all the best! Tammy

Location: Frostburg
Ghost Name(s): Big Bill Hurley
Description: A man named Big Bill Hurley lived in Frostburg, Maryland. He was a wicked mean coal miner. He lived in an old mine and this is where he was buried more than a hundred years ago. People say that they can still hear him whistling and the rumble of his big foot steps down deep in the mine. They believe that he is still haunting the area today.

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Ghost Name(s): Major General Edward Braddock
Description: Major General Edward Braddock was known to have buried a chest of gold when he was under attack by the French and Indians. No one knows where the gold is buried. People believe that the Major is haunting the area looking for his gold.

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Ghost Name(s): Daniel Cresap
Description: A man named Daniel Cresap was killed on top of the mountain in an Indian battle. People say that he is still haunting this area.

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Description: A young man fell in love with a beautiful Indian maiden. Their families would not allow them to marry. The unhappy lovers jumped off the mountain to their deaths. People say that you can still hear the couple and they are sometimes still seen up on the mountain.

Location: Little Kanawha River Valley/Grantsville
Ghost Name(s): Caleb Betts
Description: Caleb Betts suddenly disappeared and was later found to be murdered. People say that his ghost still roams the Little Kanawha River Valley which is located below Grantsville. People say that he is trying to get justice and wants to let people know who killed him so many years ago.

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Ghost Name(s): Civil War Brothers
Description: Two brothers took opposite sides during the Civil War. One brother fought for the South and the other fought for the North. The brother got into a heated argument in a local cemetery and the Northern brother killed ended up killing his brother. People say that the Northern brother still stands guard over his brother's graveyard trying to make amends for his horrible deed.

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Description: There is a strange ghost in one of the cemeteries in Allegany County that likes to appear and take belongings of the people who come to visit the grave. People do not know whom the ghost is and why it likes to take items.

Location: Mt. Savage (Old Coombs Farm)
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Description: This is not a ghostly haunting but a haunting by a curse. Mr. Ceese lived on this farm before the Civil War and he was a butcher. A little girl was sent by her mother to the farm to buy meat. The little girl stopped to pick an apple in the orchard that was located at the plantation. The slaves were told by their owner that they should not allow strangers to pick apples from the trees. One of the slaves noticed the little girl was picking an apple off the tree. He sent the big dogs on the little girl. He did this because the little girl did not have the owner permission. The little girl was torn to pieces by the dog and she was killed by the large dogs. The little girl mother was grief stricken and angry. The girl's mother practiced craft and she placed a "curse" on the man entire family. The curse that she placed was on the heads of the family. The curse was on the head master, the person who owned and ran the farm. Her curse stated that the head of the plantation would die. The curse was for "a hundred years." The curse predicted that the head of the house would die a violent death and that this would continue to happen for one hundred years. Seven members of the family die very suddenly and five of them violently. The one hundred years is now over now so we hope that this curse has passed.

Anne Arundel County

Location: The United States Naval Academy
Ghost Name(s): John Paul Jones
Description: There is a Chapel at the Academy that is haunted by John Paul Jones. Gatehouse Guards and visitors have heard weird noises at night.

Location: Annapolis
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Description: The Barn on Howard's Cove is located at 500 Wilson Road just outside of Annapolis, looking over a cove off the Severn River. The horse barn was built in 1850 and has been and now serves as a retreat. Lord Baltimore patented the land on September 10, 1659. Peter Porter and Sarah, his wife was granted 200 acres between Cove of Cork and the creek. The next owner was a Jesuit, they moved to the farmhouse and did not live in the larger mansion, and they tended a vineyard on the hill. The housekeeper was mysteriously murdered in 1930 and then the Jesuit moved out. After the murder people began seeing a ghost, hearing noises and doors would open. The land was sold to Walmsleys who then sold it to the Ridgelys. Mrs. Ridgely moved to Spain and sold the land to the Graham and Libbie Gutsche. Mrs. Ridgely told the Gutshe the history of the property and the story of the ghost. The Gutsche restored the horse barn and turned it into a cozy bed and breakfast. Guests enjoy staying at the bed and breakfast and historic Annapolis just two miles away.

Location: Annapolis
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Description: In 1910, the area that is now the Loews Annapolis hotel was known as the Washington/Baltimore & Annapolis Power Sub-Station, which provided electricity for the railroad and the entire city of Annapolis. In 1929, the Annapolis Dairy purchased and used the building until 1959. The dairy had interesting ghostly events happen when staff members were cleaning up after a banquet. The staff heard loud crashes on the third floor service area. The staff had problems with light flicking off and on. The staff often heard noises and voices. The Annapolis Dairy sold the building and the Loews Annapolis purchased it in 1991. The staff of the Loews experienced the small occurrences that happened in the past. Staff members, who were cleaning up after a banquet function, heard a loud crash on the third floor's service corridor. The lights in the room began to flicker; when the staff rushed to the corridor they discovered a broken bottle of milk spilled all over the floor. The one strange thing about this is that no milk was served at this banquet and the glass bottle found was not something that the hotel used; it was from a past era not of this time. One of the banquet waiters experienced a very strange occurrence one evening after a dinner party. He was cleaning up when he noticed the light dimming and heard a loud noise that made the room vibrate. He saw a very bright light through the edges of the door to the service corridor. When the banquet waiter approached the door the lights then returned to normal and the engine vibration stopped. The waiter reported the incident to his boss and he learned that a train used to run adjacent to the Power House. The train's final run of the evening was 11 p.m., and this was the exact time the waiter was experiencing the strange occurrences.

Location: Annapolis
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Description: Ariana Vanderheyden Jennings lived from 1690 to 1741. She was the granddaughter of Augustine Herman and grandmother of John Brice III. Mrs. Jennings has a strange event happen before she went to England. She saw a female figure, ill with small pox on her face sitting under a portrait. She recognized the resemblance of the apparition to be the lady in the picture. She told John Brice II about the ghostly apparition. A letter arrived from England with a message that the young woman had died on April 1741 of the smallpox. The ghostly young girl appeared in the Brice House on the day that she died. People believe that this ghostly young woman may still be residing at the Brice House.

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Description: Many years ago, a young unmarried teenaged girl became pregnant and had a baby. She was very afraid to tell her parents. The young girl took the baby and dropped it over the side of the Governor's Bridge. The girl was shocked at what she had done and she jumped off the bridge and was killed. Today, a woman can be seen standing on the bridge. She has frightened many drivers. A truck driver saw the woman standing on the bridge and as he tried to avoid hitting her he drove his truck into the side of the bridge. The police came to investigate and could find no evidence that anyone had been on the bridge.

Location: Crownsville (Honeysuckle Road)
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Description: In Crownsville there is a road right around the corner from the Ren Fest. Two young girls and an elder man are said to roam this road. The two girls were raped and killed by a psycho and the old man was killed by the psycho many, many years ago.

Location: (Fort Meade)
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Description: Fort Meade was built in 1917. Over 3,500,000 troops passed through here during the Civil War. One of the barracks is haunted.

Location: Glen Burnie (Crain House)
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Description: The house is located off of Crain Highway and that why it was called the Crain House. The house is a historical house that goes back to the days when Glen Burnie has big furnaces that we were used in manufacturing. The house has been abandon for many years. The house is very old from the 1800's and dates back to the Civil War era. The house was once a beautiful farmhouse. The house is on the Maryland Historic Properties listing, and was listed in the 1970's. The house is named after a former school teacher who once lived in the house. In the 1970's the Anne Arundel Historical considered using the house as their headquarters but it never happen, which was a shame since that may have saved the house. An old woman once lived in the house and after she died people realized that she did not past over. People became aware that the old woman was haunted the house. The old woman never liked her kitchen light to be turned off when she lived in the house. She felt safer if the kitchen light was on. The old woman's spirit is still in the house and her ghostly apparition has been seen looking out of the upstairs window. Her ghostly image has been seen by many people who come to visit the house. And if you drive by sometimes you will still see the light on in the kitchen. There is no electricity in the house but the light still come one. The house has long since been condemned and has caught fire twice. A dead body was found in the basement by the police. It was scheduled to be torn down several times but historical group have prevent it from being torn down. The house was torn down in March of 2003.

Location: Gibson Island
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Description: Captain Kidd buried one of his many treasures on Gibson Island. He did not get to collect his treasures before he died. The treasure is still on the island and no one knows where it is located. Captain Kidd was commissioned by the Governor of New York, the Earl of Bellomont, as a privateer to protect English vessels in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. He was given permission to prey on suspected ships. He was arrested in 1699 and charged with five counts of piracy and one murder. He was sent to London to stand trail He said his captured booty was lawful under the Governor of New York rule, but he was convicted and was hanged in 1701. A rich hoard of Captain Kidd's loot was unearthed on Governor's Island, near Long Island. People know about his buried treasures and treasure seeker still search for Captain Kidd lost treasurer. Treasure-hunters are hard to discourage but some people looking for the buried treasurer found more than they bargained for. One treasure- hunter had a dream about him and his friend. He dreamed that he and his friend were searching for the treasure. His friend had come along to him dig up the money. In his dream he saw a vision of a heavy, iron wagon-tire hanging from an oak tree. When he woke up he went to the area that he had dreamed about. He found the oak tree with the heavy iron wagon tire hanging from it. He took his friend along to look for the treasure. His friend held the lantern for him while he dug. All of a sudden a white ghostly form floated up out the hole that he was digging. The ghostly figure stood there staring at him. Both men screamed and then fled from the area. They were so freight that they never went back. . People still believe that Captain Kidd's ghost is watching over his lost loot.

Location: Annapolis (Maryland State House)
Ghost Name(s): Thomas Dance
Description: Thomas Dance was one of its builders of the Maryland State House and he fell from its dome and was killed during the building of the building. People say that he still haunts the area and he has been seen on occasion.

Baltimore City

Location: Baltimore (Bolton Hill Rowhouse - 152 W. Lafayette Street)
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Description: A couple moved in the basement in the 1980s. Decades before this house had belonged to a women's hospital and the basement apartment was used as an outpatient clinic for years. Someone was violently killed back in the early 20th century. The person was killed by an exploding gas refrigerator on one of the house's upper stories. Something strange made its unhappy presence felt throughout the couple's stay. The couple experienced minor electrical phenomena, which they tried to easily explain. When the couple would come home in the evening they would find the lights turned on even though they remembered turning them off. The apartment had definite cold spots. The husband woke up from a nap in the bedroom and saw small lights moving rapidly around the ceiling near the walls. The lights looked like tiny comets. He sat up startled and thought that he might be dreaming. Then he looked at the cat and saw the cat watching the ceiling intently so he knew that he and the cat were watching the same thing. One day something strange happened in the apartment's storage room. This was an unheated and poorly lit room that was filled with clutter from former tenants. The wife kept boxes of old papers in the room. One afternoon she decided to tidy up the place. She placed old clothes and trash into bags and packed valuables into boxes. Then something frightened her. She had the feeling that she was being watched. She was getting nervous and decided that she should leave and the door opened toward her. She left the room and shut the door and decided to sit in the garden until she calmed down. Two hours later she heard thumps and bumps and a screechy noise. Then she went inside the storage room. She had not locked the door but found it hard to open. Something had sorted and piled up the stuff until it was knee-deep against the door. The stuff had been placed in garbage bags and boxes but now it was thrown out of them. The wife decided that the ghost did not like her moving things around. The couple moved out. In 1989 one of their friends moved in. He performed a quick exorcism before he moved in. Bob was able to live there for several years without further haunting.

Location: Baltimore (Club Charles - 1724 N. Charles St.)
Ghost Name(s): Frenchie
Description: A cook named Lisa started to work as a bartender at the club six years ago or more. One afternoon when the club was closed around 4:00 pm she was getting things ready for the evening. She looked up the stairs and saw a small older man wearing black trousers and a white shirt standing at the top of the stairs looking down at her. The man vanished as she was watching him. She ran down the stairs to the basement and asked, "Is there a ghost here?" Martin, the owner, told her it is just Frenchie. She informed her that they did not like to tell people that they had a ghost. "We don't like to tell people that we have a ghost. Frenchie was born near Paris in 1925. During the Nazi occupation of his homeland, he served as double agent. He immigrated to Baltimore after the war. He began a lengthy career as a waiter, first at Miller Bros., then the Harvey House. He lived in an apartment above Club Charles for year. Frenchie died in the upstairs apartment in 1979 from the complications of acute alcoholism. He was buried in Prince George's County cemetery but his spirit still dwells on Charles Street. Frenchie is credited with causing some curious happening at the club. The carryout liquor bottles are often found shuffled about in odd patterns the next day. People reported seeing a champagne glass fly off a top shelf, hover in the air a moment and then fall to the floor and it didn't break. Some people are not fond of Frenchie's pranks. A group of cops and cab drivers held regular poker games at the bar for many years. After Frenchie got off work he would come to the club and playfully harass the card players. He liked messing with the cops' hair or trying to sit in their laps. The card games continued after Frenchie died and so did Frenchie's antics. Some of the card players report that they feel him ruffling their hair .One card player became angry and pulled out his revolver and fired a bullet into the ceiling. He said, "Damn it, Frenchie! Leave my hair alone!"

Location: Baltimore (Zodiac Restaurant)
Ghost Name(s): McKim
Description: Joy Martin opened the Zodiac Restaurant next door to the Club Charles. She quickly learned that the placed was haunted and not by a friendly ghost like Frenchie. Employees have reported seeing a man dressed in an old-style white linen suit sitting at Table 3. Sometimes the man is accompanied by a small white dog. Waiters have even tried to give the man a menu only to have the man disappear on them. The cook saw him sitting with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other. People say that the ghostly apparition has sinister vibes and they feel he is evil. Employees say they often feel as though they are being watched. The man gives them a sense of dread. The employees are afraid of the third-floor storage room. Martin recently got a clue as to who the ghostly spirit might be. An elderly local resident told her that during Prohibition, the restaurant was a speakeasy run by a man named McKim. McKim hanged himself in the basement when his wife left him or maybe he didn't kill himself and he is trying to tell people what happened.

Location: Baltimore (Gridiron Club)
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Description: This building is haunted by an elderly woman and slaves.

Location: Baltimore (Fort McHenry)
Ghost Name(s): Lieutenant Clagget
Description: During the attack of the British on the fort in September 1812, a bomb hit on a gun post and Lieutenant Clagget was killed instantly. People believe that he never left the fort and that his spirit is still there even today. Workers and people on tour have seen him and have felt his presence. A park ranger reported seeing the shadow of a man walking along one of the walls and when he approached no one was there. He told another ranger about his experience and learned that another ranger had experienced the same thing. Employees have heard footsteps when the fort was deserted. The rangers have compared experiences and discovered that the shadow and the footsteps occurred in front of the building that overlooked the spot where Clagget was killed.

Location: Baltimore (Fort McHenry)
Ghost Name(s): Private John Drew
Description: Another spirit that haunts the fort is Private John Drew. He was a young 28 year old man who came from Richmond, Virginia. On November 14, 1880, the Private was found asleep when he was on guard duty. The person who had come to relief him from his duty of guarding the outer battery was the one who found him sleeping. The young Private was placed under arrest. He was told to clean out his barracks before they took him to his cell. He picked up all his belonging including his rifle. That evening when he was alone, he placed the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. People believe that this young Private is still guarding the fort. The park rangers have had strange experience in the area where the Private was found sleeping. One of the ranger dogs came upon the spot at the outer battery and the dog sensed a presence and he began to growl and cowers and he ran back to his owner.

Location: Baltimore (Fort McHenry)
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Description: Fort McHenry was used throughout Baltimore's history as a fort to guard Baltimore, Maryland. The fort has been the place of many ghosts and ghostly activity. Visitors and staff have seen a shadowy figure marching along the paths, an evil spirit in the hallway leading to the bathrooms, floating or moving furniture. At one Ghost Tour the tour guides were surrounded in unearthly light. Employees have heard voices after the Fort has been closed to visitors. The stories are well known by local residents and many people who worked at the Fort or visited it can attest to these occurrences.

Location: Baltimore (Maryland Pharmacists Association)
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Description: The Association is located in the Kelly Building on 650 West Lombard Street. I worked in this building for over eight years and had some ghostly experiences. The ghost likes to open the heavy men's' room door and slams it shut. I would often work late at night and the sound of the door slamming would send chills up my spine. I would hear footsteps coming up the stairs and walking to the library.

Location: Baltimore (Poe House)
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Description: Edgar Allan Poe's house is haunted by a heavyset female spirit dressed in gray that has been seen by staff and visitors.

Location: Baltimore (Poe Grave)
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Description: A mysterious black-clad stranger makes a yearly pilgrimage to the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, leaving behind three red roses and a bottle of French cognac. For more than half a century, a man wearing a black hat, black overcoat and white scarf has appeared between midnight and dawn on Jan. 19 in the gothic graveyard at Westminster Church to toast the author on his birthday. No one knows the identity of the visitor or has ever guessed the origin or true meaning of the ritual at the grave where Poe lies buried alongside his wife Virginia and aunt Maria Clemm. They believe the man's son has taken over this pilgrimage. The ceremony started in 1949. A crowd usually gathers outside the brick wall to catch a glimpse of the visitor.

Location: Baltimore (The Old Western Burial Ground)
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Description: Located in Baltimore is one of the most interesting cemeteries on the east coast. It is called the Old Western Burial Ground and it holds the remains of people like Edgar Allan Poe, the son of Francis Scott Key, the grandfather of President James Buchanan, five former mayors of Baltimore and fifteen generals from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The Westminster Presbyterian Church (now know as Westminster Hall), was built over the cemetery which dates back to a century before the newer structure. Part of the old graveyard is still accessible from the catacombs beneath the church and it is here in this underground cemetery where a strange mystery has remained unsolved for many years. Some of the crypts have been disentombed. And people have wondered what strange fascination drew a number of people to a room beneath the church in the years between 1890 and 1920, to commit suicide.

Location: Baltimore (USS Constellation)
Ghost Name(s): Neil Harvey, Captain Thomas Truxton, Carl Hansen
Description: Three ghost sailors haunt the ship. A sailor named Neil Harvey was found asleep at his watch in 1797. Captain Thomas Truxton, ordered the young man to be executed in a gruesome fashion. He was tied to one of the ship's guns and blown to bits. Neil still haunts the ship. Captain Truxton also haunts the ship. The third ghost haunting the ship is Carl Hansen who was the night watchman for the ship until 1962 when an electric alarm system was installed. In 1955 after the ship was decommissioned ghost light and strange noises were reported. Sailors from a submarine name Pike where moored near the constellation and they sailors observed phantoms walking the ships decks and heard noises. Lt Commander Allen Ross Brougham photographed one of the apparitions, which was a bluish white radiance wearing an outdated uniform and sword.

Location: Baltimore (Paca Street)
Ghost Name(s): Billy Vernon
Description: Three-year-old Billy Vernon lived in a house on Paca Street in Baltimore. He loved his home where he lived with his parents. The house was large and roomy a good place for a boy to place with plenty of room to explore, he knew every corner, every room, and even the attic. Billy received a wonderful present of a little wooden horse during the Christmas of 1911. The horse was on wheels with a string attached that allowed Billy to pull the horse all through the house. Billy became ill with scarlet fever in the spring and he died cradling his bellowed Horsey in his arms. His parent was grief stricken and mourned the death of their only child. The house was filled with reminders of Billy, clothes, bed, toys and his beloved Horsey. The family preacher came to visit the couple's had hardly attended church since their son's funeral. The preacher suggested that there were too many things in the home to remind them of their lost son. He suggested that they allow him to dispose of most of them by giving them to the poor families. The parents agreed and allowed the preacher to give the stuff away. A week later, Mrs. Vernon cleaning her house when she walked into the parlor and was suddenly surprised. In the middle of the floor was Billy's Horsey. She had given the toy to the preacher and now it was back. She called the preacher on her new telephone that was just installed. The preacher told her that the child had "lost" the toy and was very child was very upset about it. The preacher asked if he could come to house and get Horsey so he to return to the child. The preacher arrived and Horsey was given to him That night when the Vernon's were getting into bed and had just snuggled down, Mrs. Vernon got the feeling that she was being watched. She told her husband and he told it that is was nonsense. She told him that she had a very eerie feeling that someone was in the room. She got up to look and she saw little Horsey on the floor. She screamed, and her husband jumped out of bed and turned on the lights. He said thought you said that you gave that wooden horse to the preacher again. She said, "I did, "and now it's back again!" They were both horrified to see Horsey rise into the air and descend to the floor. The string was now being pulled taut by unseen hands and the toy horse slowly rolled out of the room. Both understood that their son had not left and was he was now haunting the house.

Location: Baltimore (Perry Hall Mansion)
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Description: The owners died in the house on Halloween, Oct 31 in the 1700's. Since then on Halloween people visit the home and every year the people are thrown out windows. Lights turn on (no electricity), if you take movies on film nothing ever shows up on TV, voices are heard and other activities take place.

Location: Baltimore (Fell's Point)
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Description: Fell's point has a rich history and dates back a few hundred years. People have seen soldiers from the Revolutionary War walking around and then vanishing in front of their faces.

Location: Baltimore (Fells Point - Duda's)
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Description: A bartender went down to the basement of Duda's, a Fells Point tavern which is located on the corner of Thames and Bond streets. She saw a man with curly black hair and he was dressed in white trousers, an old time navy blue sailor top with gold buttons. When she turned to look at him he vanished into thin air. Duda's co-owner John was not surprised to hear of the encounter. He told her that they have ghosts upstairs, downstairs, everywhere. The three-story rowhouse has a rich history; it was built in 1850s as the Union Hotel. In the 1880s it was the headquarters for the Maryland Bay Pilots Association. Later on it became a seaman's chapel and rooming house. A tavern was on the first floor after Prohibition ended. The Dudas bought the place in 1949. The employees and tenants of the upstairs apartments have seen mysterious vanishing figures of all sorts through the years. An electrician was upgrading the wiring in the basement when he saw an older man in a flannel shirt and suspenders. When the electrician spoke to the man he just vaporized right in front of him. The electrician ran from the building and locked himself in his truck. A co-worker managed to coax him out of the truck and back to work. The bartender slipped into the basement and tapped him on the shoulder. The electrician jumped up and banged his head on the ceiling and then he fled and never came back. In the evening after closing people have heard footsteps and scraping chairs overhead. When they would go up the stairs they would find an empty room. Another spooky incident happened here concerning a merchant seaman named Doc who lived upstairs for decades. Doc had a favorite song which was an obscure polka and he was the only one who would play it on the jukebox. Months later after Doc died in 1980, people were sitting around the bar one evening when Doc's polka starting playing on the jukebox. When they unlocked the jukebox they discovered that the record was nowhere to be found.

Location: Baltimore (Fell's Point - The Whistling Oyster)
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Description: The Whistling Oyster is a bar located in Fells Point and it is known to be haunted by an unknown ghost. Employees have heard footsteps and have seen shadowy images.

Location: Baltimore (Medical and Chirurgical Library)
Ghost Name(s): Marcia Noyes
Description: The library located at the MedChi Association is reportedly haunted by the ghost of the deceased librarian named Marcia Noyes. Marcia died in 1946 but her spirit remained on. She likes to walk the fourth-floor where the library oldest books are stored. The library is a nice quiet location and you can hear the ghostly sound of the card catalog being shuffled when on one is there. You can also hear foot steps and door opening and closing when no one is there.

Location: Baltimore (O'Donnell Heights)
Ghost Name(s): O'Donnell Heights phantom
Description: he Baltimore newspaper the Evening Sun and the Sun made a report on a community that was in a panic over a phantom stalker. The legend of the O'Donnell Heights phantom is Baltimore's own story that dates back to the summer of 1951. People reported dozens of sightings of the phantom over a three-week period. The people accused the phantom of greeting girls from underneath cars to breaking into old ladies' houses. The residents of community could not sleep. They swore that they heard footsteps on their roofs. People believed that the phantom had supernatural powers. The phantom creature scurried across rooftops and pounced down two stories to chase victims. But it was always able to disappear into one of several graveyards that encircled the community. People reported that the phantom wore a cape and dressed in black. The phantom was able to run like a horse. The Evening Sun newspaper reported that about 200 people reported seeing the phantom one evening. People in the community sat outside their houses with rifles waiting for the phantom to show up. The police patrolled the community all night. The phantom was never caught. The last time it was spotted it was heading to Highlandtown.

Location: Baltimore (Museum of Industry - located at 1415 Key Highway)
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Description: The museum is composed of two old buildings; one built in 1865 and the other dates back to the 20th Century. The museum is said to be haunted by prankish spirits. Most of the strange unexplained activities occur in the oldest building. One day the librarian came out of the machine shop with his face as white as a ghost. He reported that the power saw had suddenly turned itself on. One of the employees suggested that it could have been a faulty switch. The Librarian said it was not a faulty switch. He reported that when he went to shut it off, he found the saw was not even plugged in. One evening an employee puts some heavy boxes in one place shortly before closing, and the next morning he found the boxes moved across the room. A tour guide saw a man in 19th-century dress walk right through a wall. The museum staff did some research and learned that there had once been a doorway at the spot where the ghostly apparition made its exit. Employees have heard giggling from little girl's when there are no little girls around. And they hear printing press running when nobody's there. The employees know that they are not alone.

Location: Baltimore (Westminster Church)
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Description: The Church has been featured on "Sightings on TV". The Ghost Report can be rented at video stores. Edgar Allen Poe is buried here with his wife Virginia. The graves at this church date back to the 1700's. Ghost-hunters have visited this place with their ghost hunting gear EMF (Electronic Magnetic Field Detector) and EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon). Ghost hunters have been successful at hearing voices, and have seen and felt the ghosts that live here.

Location: Baltimore (Old Hutzlers)
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Description: A "merry" ghost haunts this old department store. The ghost rings bells around Christmas. People say they have good feelings when she is around.

Location: Baltimore (Garrett Mansion - 11 W. Mount Vernon)
Ghost Name(s): Mrs. Garrett
Description: Robert Garrett, the President of the B&O Railroad, hired architect Stanford White to build him this great mansion in 1884. The house had a three story spiral staircase that Mrs. Garrett likes to descend to make a grand entrance to greet her guests. She was the leader in Baltimore society and was known by everyone. Mrs. Garrett died in 1936. The mansion was sold twenty seven years later and was purchased by the Engineering Society of Baltimore. The Engineering Society found they were not alone when they moved in. Karen Haun the Comptroller for the Society reported that a shadowy figure would often pass her going down the second floor hallway and she felt some spirit was accompanying her. The basement was cordoned off since it was not open to visitors. The housekeepers often work alone at odd hours in the basement and they reported seeing the rope swinging and moving like an unseen hand was moving it. Peter Weston, the food and beverage director, who served from 1990 to 1998, had a strange occurrence one day. Weston was going to visit to a colleague who worked across the building and his path took him through the area that was used by the Garretts' for luxurious private dining. He reported that he got the impression of a group of eight to 10 people sitting around the table with glasses raised. He stopped in his tracks and had a shocked look on his face. His colleague said, "It looks like you've seen a ghost." Weston reported that he had just seen several of them. The Women's Auxiliary was working to redecorate the building and asked Weston to help them move a heavy sculpture in the library. He moved the sculpture and locked up for the night. When he returned the next morning the sculpture was in its original place. Weston got annoyed and asked Manny the handyman if he had moved the sculpture. Manny had not moved it nor had anyone else. The handyman turned in his resignation on Christmas Eve and his last day was to be New Year's Day. The handyman then became ill and died on New Year's Eve. A month later, Weston was downstairs working and saw the handyman sitting in a chair by the main bar, the area he liked to take his mid-morning break. Weston said "Hello, Manny," and then stopped dead in his tracks when he realized the handyman was dead. When he looked back the handyman vanished.

Location: Baltimore (Loyola College - McAuley Hall)
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Description: There is a residence hall known as McAuley Hall located on Loyola College campus just off of Notre Dame Lane, adjacent to the Notre Dame College campus. A young man haunts one of the rooms. Objects fall off of high places, even when they are not close to an edge. Eating utensils fall off of the counters all by themselves. Doors closed by themselves, sometimes slamming shut with a force. People get the feeling that you are not alone. One student saw an apparition of a young man appear in her room and when she tried to approach him he vanished.

Location: Baltimore (Christopher Columbus Marine Biology Center)
Ghost Name(s): Thomas Connolly, his mistress Eva, and his father Sterling
Description: A restaurant once stood where the Christopher Columbus Center now stands. This restaurant was known to be haunted by three separate entities. The ghosts were Thomas Connolly, his mistress Eva, and his father Sterling. The haunting occurred for several years and employees witnessed many occurrences. Many people knew Connolly's father before he died and many saw him again after he died. Other people who had never met or spoken to the man also saw him and describe him clearly. People were able to identify the ghosts by what the ghost would do. Eva had a violent temper in life and she kept it when she died. When things in the restaurant would get broken and damaged without explanation, people knew Eva was upset and her violent temper could still show itself even in death. Eva liked to break dishes or line them up from door to door in a path. She liked to throw the bread off the shelves. She also liked to throw pictures off the walls. When weird things would happen with money or the cash registers, people knew that it was Tom Connolly. His ghost liked to change the tax rates and decimal points in the registers and adding machines. He was probably changing it back to the rate when it was alive. He had a habit of moving the uncounted money. People always knew when Sterling was around; they could hear his big key ring. Some people actually saw him. He was a friendly man in life and was the same in death. He liked to come up to people and put his hand on their shoulder and he still does it now even though he is dead. He died of cancer, which caused him to wear a hat the last months of his life. After he died, hats would fly off of people's heads. When he was alive he often complained that water in the glass washing sink was not hot enough or the Styrofoam cup dispenser wasn't full enough. After his death the water in the sink would turn itself on and off while people were watching. The cup dispenser lid would fly off even after we it was duct taped. The restaurant had cold spots. Sometimes when people saw him he was just an outline, and other times they could see him as he was before he died. After Sterling's death, the other two ghosts were diminished and he was heard from the most. People wonder now that the restaurant is closed down. Do these ghosts haunt the Columbus Center or did they pass on?

Location: Baltimore (Edgar Allan Poe's House)
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Description: 203 N. Amity St is open to the public for tours from 12-3 daily. Workers and visitors have seen many apparitions and have heard unusual noises.

Location: Baltimore (Locust Point Home)
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Description: There is a private residence located near Fort McHenry. The home is located between Fort Avenue and Clement Street. The people from the neighborhood believe the house is haunted. Stories about this house go all the way back to end of the Civil War. The people who lived in the house told some strange tales about the house. The people who lived in the house believed the ghost of an Englishwoman haunted the house. The woman had lived in the house and she starved to death in the house. The woman was born from a good family but she married a gentleman who was beneath her. Her husband left her with nothing. The woman was too proud to ask her family for help. She was found dead in her home with her two small children lying dead in her lap. The woman was seated in a rocking chair near the window. After the woman died, the neighbors began hearing noises coming from the home. And sometimes people would catch a glimpse of the Englishwoman's ghost seated in the window, rocking back and forth. Everyone who has moved into the home does not stay long. The Boidie family moved in the house in 1865 and they became aware of a hostile atmosphere in the house. They found a cold spot located over the third step on the staircase and when they tried carrying a lamp past this spot, it would go out. The family heard crying that echoed through out the house. They also heard the sound of a Billy-goat running over loose planks on a bridge. The family reported that strange chills and breezes were in the house. They also heard the sound of a rocking chair creaking back and forth upstairs and they did not own a rocking chair. One of the children became ill with typhoid; the little boy was becoming very sick. The family segregated in a room on the ground floor. One evening when the family was having dinner, they heard the sound of a scream and a slap. They went to check on the boy to see what was wrong. He reported that a lady had slapped him. The little boy had a red imprint of a hand on his check. The little boy was not the only one to be slapped; the ghost slapped other family members. The family never knew why the ghost was slapping them. After the boy was well the family decided to move out. The house still stands and has been remodeled and covered with stucco that was painted to look like stone. The house still has the noises and strange occurrences happening today.

Baltimore County

Location: Cockeysville (Almes Mansion)
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Description: Faces have been seen around house and inside house. Voices of a woman, a child and a man have been heard. Things have been thrown and moved.

Location: Randallstown - Soldier's Delight (Deer Park)
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Description: This is an old battle site that dates back to the 1600's. The site has a rich history of the English fighting the Indians. If you drive to the site and put your car in neutral at the bottom of the hill, it is said that the ghosts will push your car. The ghosts are supposed to believe that they are pushing cannons up the hill. Maryland has several sites that have this strange phenomenon.

Location: Randallstown (Choate Chrome Mine)
Ghost Name(s): Choate family
Description: The mine was started in 1850. It was located on the east side of Deer Park Road. It was located southeast of the historical marker for Soldier's Delight State Park. The land at Soldier's Delight was filled with deposits of the rare mineral chromate. The mining of chrome became a major industry for the town. The Allied Chemical Company purchased the mines. The mines were discontinued when companies started buying their chrome from foreign countries. The mine was started by the Choate family. The Choate family moved to the area in 1853. They built a three-story house in 1804 on Liberty Road. The Choate's built their house as an inn and a tavern. The walls were 18 inches of solid stone and 8 inches of solid cement. People say that the house is haunted by the Choate family. People have claimed to have seen ghostly faces looking out of the windows.

Location: (Northern High School)
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Description: There is a school in Calvert County that has one of the extension of the building is built above a graveyard. The graveyard was dedicated to the slaves that worked on the Old Ward House plantation on Flint Hill Road. The Patriot Press printed an interview of an elderly woman who grew up on the plantation and confirmed the story. The staff and people of the area believe the northwest section of the high school and the Mary D. Harrison Cultural Arts Center are haunted. Some people believe the slaves are haunting the classrooms and other people think that Mary Harrison is haunting the school. Some of the students encounter with the ghosts one day in October. The students suddenly felt a strong warm breeze and the draft was so strong it shook the posters off the wall. The heavy door to the hallway blew shut and the heavy aluminum door blew open. A white material starting falling from the ceiling just like it was snowing but the material could not be found on the floor. One of the art teachers has a strange occurrence in his class. A lid from a ceramic pot shot up in the air and travel about two feet and landed on the floor unbroken. The teacher heard mumbling voices in the hallway after the school was closed and no one was there. The custodian who worked in the school has also heard ghostly voices. The custodian also heard the sounds of chairs being dragged across the stage when there was no one on the stage. The social studies teacher saw a ghostly man wearing blue jeans that just disappeared in front of his face. Lights mysteriously turn on and off in the school.

Location: Elkridge
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Description: Lawyer's Hill is an area where a lot of lawyers build fine homes in Elkridge. The Lawn is a large two-story home that was built in 1830 by Judge George Dobbin. In 1951 another family purchased the home and soon learned that they were not the only ones living in the home. The door would lock and unlock itself, and the key to the old grandfather clock would disappear and would reappear later. A head of lettuce shot straight up into the air over a table where the wife was preparing dinner. The strange events also took place in two smaller cottages on the grounds. The tenants who rented the cottages complained that items would disappear; the toilet paper would disappear out the house and when they replaced it, it would disappear again. A couple that rented the upstairs apartment had pranks played on them by the mischievous spirit. The couple would hear scraping noises and could not locate the where the sounds came from. The ghost liked to lock and unlock their door. The upstairs had a hook and eye lock that the ghost liked to use to lock them out. The medicine cabinet where the wife kept her cosmetics was found locked with the key turned in the lock position and no one could get it unlocked. It remained locked for months until one day she came home and it was standing open. The wife found all the flowers in her window box garden pulled out by the roots. One of the tenants used an Ouija board to communicate and was told that there were several ghosts staying at the three buildings. One evening the tenants from the main house were calling their son to dinner and he kept shouting that he was busy and they continued to call; he did not come. When they went to his room, he was sitting on his bed engrossed in conversation with someone that they could not see. They asked him whom he was speaking with and he named the names of the people he was speaking with. When the family researched the name, they learned that these people had been the former occupants of the lawn.

Location: Fort Garrison
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Description: The Fort dates back to 1693 when it was built and used during the Revolutionary days. Three ghosts have taken up resident at the Fort and they don't seem to want to leave. People are unsure who the ghosts are but visitors have seen and heard them.

Location: Fort Howard (Todd's Farm)
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Description: The farm dates back before the war of 1812. This home has been the site of many haunting. In the attic window a ghostly woman can sometimes be seen with a candle waiting for her soldier to come home from the war, but he never does. Late at night people have reported that they sometimes see slaves hanging from the trees. The family cemetery is located directly behind the house. There is no electricity in the house but it has been reported that if an intruder enters, lights will turn on. Many spirits have been reported haunting this home; many spirits are not at rest here.

Location: Fort Howard (Barracks)
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Description: A torso of a man has been seen floating around the larger of the two barracks by many people.

Location: Randallstown (The Tavern)
Ghost Name(s): the Randall family
Description: Christopher Randall settled in Anne Arundel County in the year 1679. He purchased 1000 acres on three tracts of land. He named the tracts of land Randall's Fancy, Randall's Purchase, and Randall's Range. He also purchased land called Soldier's Delight. He had a wife named Johanna and two sons Christopher and Thomas. He died in 1684. The Randall family moved to Northwest Baltimore County in 1719. Randallstown was named after the Randall's. Randallstown was located seven miles from Baltimore City. Christopher and Thomas built a tavern on Liberty Pike in 1802. The tavern sat on a dirt toll road. The tavern served traffic from the west. Farmers from Carroll County used the road to bring their produce to market. They would stop at the tavern to eat and sleep. They used the Randallstown tollgate to get to the city markets. The road conditions were so bad that it was a muddy mess for half the year. Methodist services were held in their tavern from 1802 until 1845. The services were later moved to MT Olive Church on Old Court Road. During the years of 1812-1814, the male residents of Maryland between the ages of 16-45 were required to go into military service to fight the British forces in the Chesapeake Bay who made attacks on Baltimore. Men were required to attend a monthly drill. Some of the men served at Fort McHenry and others served on the field at the Battle of North Point. Eight members of the Randall family served during the Battle of Baltimore. Major Beal Randall Jr. was in the Nace's Regiment, the Stansbury's 11th Brigade. He led the rifle battalion during the Battle of North Point. The Captain of Company C was his brother John T. Randall. John C. Randall was a private in Company B of the 36th Regiment. Nicholas Randall was a private in Company D of the 41st Regiment. William Randall served in the Baltimore Volunteers. Private Aquia Randall was killed during the battle. His name is on the War of 1812 monument located on Calvert Street in Baltimore City. The house is believed to be haunted by the Randall family. Some people believe the Aquia's ghost is still living at the tavern. The house still stands on Liberty Road and a historical marker sits in the front of the tavern along the road.

Location: (Hampton Mansion)
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Description: This mansion has a rich history of being haunted. The Ridgely family previously owned the mansion. When the family was away for trip a friend stopped by to visit not knowing they were out of town. The friend knocks at the door and after some time the butler answered the door and explains the family was away. He invites her into the house and showed her around. When the family returned, she called and told them that she had drop in to visit and that the Butler had shown her around. Mrs. Ridgely was taken back since she did not have anyone staying at the house why she was away. She asks her friend to describe the person. The friend provided the description and Mrs. Ridgely was shocked, the woman was describing the butler who had died many years before. This mansion is well known for being haunted. A book has been written about this mansion and its ghost. Even the National Park Service insists that it is haunted.

Location: Loch Raven Reservoir
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Description: A father and son lived in this house alone. The father died and left the left the young man alone. The young man had a nervous breakdown and was having trouble handling his life. One evening a young couple came on to his property and was consummating their relationship. The young son began enraged and killed the couple. Later the young son killed himself. Today people living in the house hear whispers, footsteps and see footprints in the dirt that will vanish. There is a dim light in the attic that never goes out.

Location: Maryland District Line
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Description: Three soldiers were offered shelter from their enemy for the night by a man who lived in an old house just across the District line in Maryland. The three men had gotten separated from their troop during a battle and they decided they would wait to morning to find their troop. The men did not know that their host for the evening was friends with the other side. The man beat all three to death as they slept on the floor by the fire. The man disposed of their bodies and no one ever knew what he had done. He was never brought to trial for his crime. People believed that the three soldiers were battle casualties. The man was left with a problem of removing the blood stain from the floor where the three men died. The stain could not be cleaned off the floor so the man covered it with a rug. The owner of the home has long since died and a series of new owners have taken over the house over the years. The new owners could never cover the stain on the floor not even with paint. A large oak door to the hallway would never stay closed. People would bolt the door with the lock and then walk away only to her the creaking of the bolt action lock being turned by some invisible force and the door would open. A newspaper reported in the 1920's that the ghostly occurrence in that house caused the death of one owner. The French doors located on the balcony were ripped from their hinges and flung to the ground. They door did not break in the fall. The neighbors reported that the man went into a state of shock from which he never recovered. People tried to find out what had happened in the house and what else the man had seen or heard. He was never able to tell them because he died within a few days. One neighbor checked the background of the house and learned that the man who died had the misfortune of having the same last name as the murderous host who had lived in the home during the Civil War. People would not live in the house long because of all the noises, doors opening and sounds. The house fell into a state of disrepair and owners decided to tear down the house.

Location: Pikesville (Druid Ridge Cemetery)
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Description: There was a haunted grave at Druid Ridge Cemetery. General Felix Angus, the publisher of the Baltimore American, was buried in Pikesville's Druid Ridge Cemetery in the 1920's. A rather strange statue was placed on his grave. It was a large black mourning figure that the sculptor, August St. Gardens, called Grief. When darkness fell on the cemetery legends go people did not want to get near the statue. The statue earned the nickname of "Black Aggie". She became a symbol of terror and her legend grew and stories in the local newspaper would tell tale of occurrences. The legend states that the statue eyes glowed red at the stroke of midnight. The legend states that the any living person who returned her gaze was struck blind. Pregnant women who passed through her shadow would suffer miscarriages. A local college fraternity included Black Aggie in their initiation rites. The local frat initiates had to sit on Aggie's lap and one tale purports that "she once came to life and crushed a hapless freshman in her powerful grasp". One night, at the stroke of midnight, the cemetery watchman heard a scream in the darkness. When he reached the Angus grave, he found a young man lying dead at the foot of the statue, he had died of fright. One morning in 1962 the watchman discovered that one of the angel's arms had been cut off during the night. The missing arm was later found in the trunk of a sheet metal worker's car, along with a saw. He told the judge that Black Aggie cut off her own arm in a fit of grief and had given it to him. The judge didn't believe him sentence the man to jail. Some people did believe the man's strange story. Every night, groups of people gathered in Druid Ridge Cemetery. This happened nearly every night and in 1967, it had gotten so bad that the descendants of Felix Angus decided to remove statue his gravesite. They donated her to the Smithsonian Institution. The staff of the Smithsonian gave Aggie away. And this is the reason that Black Aggie does not have records of the statue in storage. The Smithsonian gave the Statue to the National Museum of American Art. The Museum place her in into storage and it was never displayed. The statute remained in storage for years. Later on the statue was given to the Federal Courts Building in Washington. The statue now stands at the Federal Courts building in Washington and it can still be seen in the rear courtyard of the Dolly Madison house.

Location: Robert E. Lee Park
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Description: This area is known to be haunted but no one knows who or what is haunting this area. People have witnessed apparitions late and night and have heard noises and voices.

Location: Towson (The Hampton Mansion)
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Description: This house is haunted by a number of ghosts. There is a book of ghost stories printed about this historic mansion, which was previously owned by the Ridgely family.

Location: Towson (Medix School)
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Description: The old Medix School was previously a motel. A man killed himself on the third floor of the hotel. The man was very delusional and he believed that the CIA was after him. He even wrote "Damn CIA" on the mirror before he blew his head off. The man was a patient at Spring Grove Hospital. The ghost did not leave when the Medix School moved into the old motel. The man killed himself on the third floor which was turned into the teacher lounge. The ghost likes to open the file cabinets in this room, turn door knobs and make walking sounds. He doesn't mind doing this in front of people. The ghost also likes to ride the elevator. The Medix School has now moved down the street, the hotel was torn down and a new business has gone up in it place. The teachers of the Medix School wonder if the ghost is now haunting the new business. After the man killed himself in the room the hotel never rented the room again and no one went into the room after it was cleanup. I was able to update my story with information from Brian the manager of the old Quality Inn Hotel. The ghost likes to open the file cabinets in this room, turn doorknobs and make walking sounds. He doesn't mind doing this in front of people. The ghost also likes to ride the elevator. The Medix School has now moved down the street, the hotel was torn down and a new business has gone up in its place. The teachers of the Medix School wonder if the ghost is now haunting the new business.

Location: Monkton Area (Gunpowder River)
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Description: Back during the early 1800's a couple was living near the Gunpowder river. The couple had six girls and one boy. The husband left his wife and ran off with another woman. The woman was left alone to raise the children. The woman worried about money to raise five children. She resented the youngest child who was the son. She disliked the boy because he looked like his father and she was sure that he would grow up to be like his father. The son was the husband favorite child. One evening the mother put the children to bed. When the girls were asleep she woke up the boy and told him that she was going to take him for a walk. The boy was about three years old. The mother walked the young boy down to the river. Then she tried to drown the boy in the river. The young boy tried to run away from his crazy mother. He tripped and fell down and she mother grab him and pick him up and carried him down to the river. She pushed his head under the water and drowned him in the river The area were the boy was drown is located between two large rocks that sit on both side of the road. The area is located off of Falls Road in Monkton. People who visit the area have heard a little boy screaming. Some people have said that they saw a little boy running across the road. Someone has placed a sign on the road that says "listen". People have heard voices in the woods and the sound of screams. To get to the area you need to take 45 north to Corbett Road. When you come to the split in the road bear right and stay on Corbett Road. Take Corbett Road to Falls Road and after you past the bridge you will see a couple slabs of concrete guard rails. Further down the road you will se the rocks located on both sides of the road. When you have got to the spot turn off your car and listen. You many heard the boy screaming and the mother calling his name.

Calvert County

Location:
Ghost Name(s): The Gray Lady of Maidstone
Description: Maidstone is a haunted house that dates back to the 1700's. The original owner of the house was Samuel Chew, who built Maidstone in the late 1600's on 2,000 acre strength of land in Calvert County. It was used as a Quaker meeting house by the Chew family. The Chew family owned the house for about 200 years. The house was replaced by a stone house in the middle 1700's. The ghost of a beautiful young woman dressed in gray matches the description of Ann Chew. She has been seen dozens of times over the years. She was married to Phillip Chew at Maidstone in 1724. Members of the family reportedly saw her ghost walking the grounds of the house. She is sighted on moonlit nights, walking near the gardens. She is described as being very graceful and wearing a long gray veil those four feet in length. Some people believe the dress and veil is her wedding gown. Ann's spirit has been dubbed "The Gray Lady". The ghost has been seen in the gardens but she is rarely sighted in the house. A witness reported seeing her leave the house when he was coming from the stable. He said the ghost gave him a friendly smile. Not all of her antics have been as humorous. Ann pushed one man off the couch where he was sleeping. In the house there is an unexplained tendency of several pictures hanging in Maidstone's halls to be routinely switched around. Maidstone is a private home and is located in Calvert County on the southeastern shore of Maryland. It banks off of Chesapeake Bay.

Location: (Old Tavern & Farmhouse)
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Description: This house and tavern are located on a large estate of 250 or more acres. The farmhouse and tavern burned down in the 1960's. Workmen noticed strange noises and footsteps when they were trying to repair the house. People have seen ghostly images on the stairs in the house and feel as though they are being watched.

Location: (Hance Home)
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Description: Someone was murdered in the kitchen of this home many, many years ago. On the anniversary of the murder, blood stains will appear at the site where the body was found. Many strange paranormal events happen in this house. The home has been visited by ghost hunting experts and they have witnessed the strange occurrences.

Location: Cedar Hill
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Description: The home was built in the early 1700's. The builder was John Bigger who built the house in the shape of a cross. Eric Schneider decided to buy Cedar Hill after he saw the unusual house. He rented the house out and the tenant began having strange occurrences. One woman tenant complained the throw rug she put in the downstairs hallway would not stay in place. She was always finding it rolled up and pushed against the wall. This happen every time she laid it out. When the tenants began moving in the door would slam behind them when they would bring in boxes. The lights and television would turn themselves on and off. The sister was tapped on the shoulder by an invisible hand. The nephew came to visit and saw a man dressed in Civil war uniform standing in the den. The family heard odd noises coming from the attic. The father decided to investigate and found nothing, when he turned to go back downstairs, something pushed him from behind. He fell down the stairs but was not injured badly. The father was trying to close the door to the basement and someone kept pulling on the other side. He finally said, "I don't care if the door is open" and then the door slammed shut. The Schneiders decided to move into the home and they soon found they were not alone. The rocker would rock, the sounds of footsteps in the attic. Sometimes the noise went on for hours.

Location: (Old Tavern & Farmhouse)
Ghost Name(s): Description: his house and tavern are located on a large estate of 250 or more acres. The farmhouse and tavern burned down in the 1960's. Workman noticed strange noises and footsteps when they were trying to repair the house. People have seen a ghostly image on the stairs in the house and feel as though they are being watched.

Location: Solomons Island (Bowen's Inn)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: Bowen's Inn is haunted and employees have had some strange experiences. Robert, one of the employees, saw the ghost one Christmas. He was carrying boxes up to the third floor when he saw the ghostly woman. The ghostly apparition was very tall, about six feet tall and she was dressed in an old fashioned dress that was black with a lace collar. He said that she was standing on the top of the stair landing. He became frightened and started back down the steps and when he looked back the ghost walked down the hall. Robert told the owner of the Inn about what had happened. "Robert has never returned to the third floor. I knew he was scared out of his mind," said Costatino.

Location: Solomons Island (Grey Fox Inn)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: The Grey Fox Inn is being haunted by a ghostly dog. People who have visited the Inn on a moonlit night have seen the ghost dog. The home was built in 1913 and the owners had a small poodle. This is the dog that is haunting the Inn. The owner of the Inn has seen the dog on many occasions. Sometime the dog does not appear in its entirety. Sometimes just part of the dog makes an appearance like his tail wagging across the floor.

Location: Solomons Island (Carmen's Gallery)
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Description: In 1940 a man that was staying at the home fell off the pier and he drowned. The owner found the man's suitcase still packed in the attic. It was still packed like someone was ready to leave. Local people told the owner about the man drowning and she discovered the man's name on the suitcase in the attic. The owner has not seen the ghost but she has heard noises and things go bump in the night.

Caroline County

Location: (Drawbridge)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: A gypsy ghost haunts this drawbridge. According to the local legend, an apparition of a white stallion can be seen galloping on the roads. The man lover has seven brothers and they did not want him to marry their sister. The brothers killed their sister lover. The gypsies put a curse on the brothers for killing their friend. The curse was that for seven years, that one brother would die on each year of the seven years until all were dead. The brothers started dying mysteriously. In the 8th year, the woman the gypsy lover died while she was in a trance. Since then, the apparitions have been seen riding together.

Location: Reliance (Patty Cannon's House)
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Description: Just across the state line from Delaware, reads a sign along Route 392: Patty Cannon's House at Johnson's Crossroads where the noted kidnapping group had their headquarters as described in George Townsend's novel, "The Entailed Hat." The house borders on Caroline and Dorchester Counties and the state of Delaware. Patty began her life of crime in the early 1800's when she became the leader of a gang that was organized to kidnap free blacks. They would sell the slave into the black slavery market. She was a very large woman who had immense strength. She was ruthless and no one was brave enough to challenge her. Patty used her son-in-law Joe Johnson tavern as a holding place for the kidnap victims. Back in the 1820's a farmer was working his field near the tavern and he discovered several skeletons beneath the earth. Patty and her gang were linked dozen of murders. She even killed her husband. People believe that Patty Cannon the evil kidnapper, smuggler and murderess, is now haunting her former home in Reliance, Maryland. Her notorious deeds, which took place nearly 200 years ago, are stilled remembered by the community. She had a torture room upstairs where she committed horrible acts; this room is known to be haunted. Footsteps are also heard in this house and in the torture room. . Patty was arrested in 1829 and was taken to Georgetown, Delaware to await her murder trial. She was never brought to trial because she committed suicide. The town was known as Johnson's Corners and the towns name was changed to Reliance so that people would not associate Patty Cannon name with the town.

Carroll County

Location: Silver Run (Lost Silver Mine)
Ghost Name(s): Arwud, his daughter, and the people that were killed looking for the silver
Description: There area that was mined in the 1880's that is located outside of Silver Run Maryland which is in Carroll County. The story goes that there was a vein of pure silver located there. An old German silversmith named Arwud and his daughter staked out the site but before they could collect their wealth Indians murdered them. The location of the mine was never revealed to anyone. People have searched for this mind and two people have died searching for the silver. They went into a cave to look for the silver and it caved in and buried them alive. People say that the mine is located at the end of Kirkhoff Road in Silver Run. Some of the old pits and holes drilled into the rock are still visible. People say Arwud, his daughter, and the people that were killed looking for the silver haunt this area.

Location: Westminster (Cockeys Tavern)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: Visitors and staff have had various sightings of a woman in green colonial dress. Pictures jumping off of walls, objects falling from the back of shelves, ghostly voices and more.

Location: Westminster (Crybaby Bridge)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: This is an old bridge that was used by the KKK to drown black babies in 1800's. If you go there after dark you can hear distinctively babies crying.

Location: Westminster (Avonlea Bed and Breakfast)
Ghost Name(s): Leigh Master
Description: Built on the old property of Leigh Master, this home was owned by a very cruel angry man during the Civil War, this man was not liked he was feared. Leigh is known to haunt the house he has been seen. The home is also haunted by the ghosts of several slaves that he murdered in his basement. The home is haunted today by this cruel owner and the spirits of the many slaves he murdered. The skeleton of a woman and child were found behind a fireplace in the 1930's. Today his is known by the locals as the Ghost of Furnace Hills.

Location: Harney (Haunted Bridge)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: Is a very small Maryland town that is located near the border of Pennsylvania. There is an old one lane bridge in Harney that is reportedly haunted. People say if you stop your car on the bridge you will hear strange noises and sometime a ghostly apparition will appear. The bridge is located on Starner's Dam Road.

Location: Furnace Hills
Ghost Name(s): Leigh Master
Description: The area called Furnace Hill in Carroll County is now a housing development. Leigh Master home was located on this land along time ago. Leigh Master operated a smelting business during the 18th century. The Furnace that Leigh Master used for smelting is still there and people say that it is haunted. People have seen Leigh master ghostly spirit walking in the woods near the furnace. Other ghostly apparitions have also appeared. People believe that these ghostly apparitions are the slaves that he burned in the furnace. He was a very cruel master and liked to punish slaves who he was not happy with. People always believed that he had murdered one of his slaves. The slave mysteriously disappeared and people though that he had murdered him by burning him in the smelting furnace. Two skeletons were discovered walled up behind the fireplace in Leigh Master's former home in Avondale in 1930. People believe that the bodies were those of the murdered slave's wife and her son, fathered by Leigh Master. Leigh Master has also been seen in the woods near his home. A ghostly figure riding a horse galloping on the road near his home his been seen on a number of occasions. Leigh Master was originally buried on the grounds of his home. It is reported that his corpse rose to the surface after a number of years and his remains were then moved to Ascension Church.

Location: Westminster (Westminster-City Hotel)
Ghost Name(s): Jim Hopes
Description: The hotel had a barber shop in the hotel. A man named Jim Hopes was the barber. Everyone in the town liked this friendly man. The man was loved theater and liked to entertain his clients. Jim died of a heart attack while he was cutting a man hair. He was buried in Ellsworth Cemetery. People in the town say the Hotel is haunted by Jim. People have felt his present in the building and people have seen his ghost looking out of the windows.

Location: (Westminster (Westminster Tavern)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: The Tavern was built in the early 1800. The ghosts of the tavern are very active and they are known for boot stomping, glass rattling and picture moving. One ghost is a civil war soldier whose heavy boots can be heard when he walks through the Tavern. The Tavern staff believes the ghost has a fondest for liquor, the guest has been known to help himself to a drink. This ghost likes to rearrange the pictures in the tavern. One Tavern patron was voicing her opinion that they were not such things as ghost when a picture sailed off the wall and hit her in the head. Both visitors and staff have had various sighting of a woman in a green colonial dress and hearing the solider foot steps. Pictures have jumped off walls, objects falling from the back of shelves and ghostly voices have been heard.

Location: Westminster (Westminster Opera House)
Ghost Name(s): Marshall Buell
Description: The Opera House if more than 100 year's old. A comedian named Marshall Buell from Alabama was entertaining the audience in the Opera House by telling political jokes. The audience was pro-North and they became irate over his jokes. When he was packing up to leave the town he was attacked by a group of people who stabbed him and left him to die. The towns people report seeing a headless body of a man standing near the back stairs where Buell was killed. The headless man stand animated gesturing and motion as though telling a story. The people in the town believe that Buehl haunts the opera house. The Opera House was turned in a printing company. The employees of the printing company report strange things occur in the building where Buehl was last seen alive his last night.

Location: Westminster (Leppo Farm/Living Faith Farm)
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Description: The house was built in 1827 by Christian Royer as a meeting house for the Church of the Brethren and has been know by several names. The Fangmeyer purchased this home and soon learned that they were not alone. Ms. Fangmeyer would get the feeling that she was being watched. The family began having problems with the VCR and stereo the family would find them turned on and they turn it off only to have it turned back on. The door in the basement would open and close itself, usual when the family was gathered together. The family's dog would go into the guest room and bark at something that no one could see. After the family finished painting the ceiling, they found brown crayon writing on the ceiling. The husband was walking up the stairs one evening when he heard a disturbance in the master bedroom as he reached for the door; he was startled by the dog that came running out of the adjoining room. Right behind the dog a wicker basket was sailing through the air about five feet off the ground, thrown by an invisible force. The family believes their house if haunted by several ghost and that one of them is a child. The family often hears the sound of small feet running softly down the hall and the sounds of a child playing with a ball. The ghost likes to remove the cushion off the sofa and chairs and piles them on the floor. Object placed on the coffee table are moved during the night. A Thanksgiving dinner the wife father complained that the dog was tugging on his jacket and the dog was not in the room. During a Christmas dinner with guests the lit candle on the table rose up in the air and sailed across the room and they were blown out and throw to the floor. A man in a civil war uniform has been seen setting on their porch and rocking in the rocker. If you approach him, he fades away. A woman has also been spotted in the house. The sounds of voices have been heard in the house. People who stay in the guest room complain of the temperature changes in the room. If pictures are taken in this room, orbs appear in them.

Location:
Ghost Name(s): Peddler Jack's Dog
Description: Jack was a peddler that travels from town to town selling Doctor Zollickhoffer's Vegetable Purgative. The tonic was made of prune extract, whiskey and laudanum which were an opium derivative. Jack travel with his dog that would dance and do tricks to entertain people. Jack made a stop in Taneytown to sell his tonic and the farmer allowed him to spend the night in his barn where Jack slept in the hay. When the farmer got up in the morning he found blue in the face, with his eyes rolled back. The farmer went to town to get the doctor but Jack died before he got back. The farmer collected money from the congregation of Baust Church. Jack was buried in a pauper's grave between the apple tree and the road. Jack's dog was upset over the loss of his owner and he hung out at Jack grave. When the dog died people say that Jack's dog is still hanging out at Jack grave and that you can see him on moon lit night running through around the head stones.

Cecil County

Location: Elk Mills
Ghost Name(s):
Description: In 1985, George Reynolds moved into an old, vacant, two-story house in Elk Mills. The home was in need of extensive structural repair because of years of neglect. Although Reynolds lived in the house by himself, he soon discovered he wasn't alone. Unknowingly, when he took possession of the home, he got more than he bargained for. The dwelling came complete with plenty of closet space, large bedrooms, a good piece of property and ghosts. While restoring the house, he slept on a cot in the living room. His first eerie experience happened in a nearby room where Reynolds said Hannah Simpers, the former owner, had spent some of her last days. Simpers, who never married, was born and raised in the home. The 70-year-old Reynolds believes she was the first of several frightening spirits he encountered. One night he went to bed only to be disturbed by an inexplicable event. Somewhere around two to three o'clock in the morning, I'd hear all these crazy noises out there, like somebody stomping and thumping and walking around," Reynolds said. The noises continued at the same time each night, taxing Reynolds' sanity. His next brush with the supernatural was a preexisting problem. Hannah Simpers had been tormented by it, too. "Every night, almost near the same time, two to three in the morning, somebody would beat on the back door and knock on the back side door next to this little room where Hannah slept. When he answered the door no one was ever there.

Location: Conowingo
Ghost Name(s):
Description: A Girl Scout camp is built on the Bell Plantation, which was part of the Underground Railroad. There is a deep sub-basement where the story goes that slaves died hiding from the Southerners. Unusual events take place in the house, lights going off and on by themselves, the radio turning on and changing channels. There is also a large chimney left over from another home that was burned down by the solider because the women was friends with the both the North and South. The women hid her children in the chimney when she heard the soldiers surrounding her home. They came into the home and took her out of the house and set it on fire. The children burned up in the house. The story is told that on moonlit nights the children can be heard crying in the chimney.

Location: Elkton
Ghost Name(s):
Description: Dr. Abraham Mitchell built a house in 1769 on land in Elkton. He had a medical practice in Cecil and Harford Counties. He converted his home into a hospital during the Revolutionary War. In 1933 the Sclavos family purchased the home. John Sclavos was only a small child when his family moved into the Mitchell House. John had two dreadful encounters with ghostly spirits when he was a teenager. He was in his bed one evening relaxing, when something forcefully grabbed him. The ghostly hand rocked him back and forth like the ghost was trying to wake him up. There was no one there and he found this very frightening. This happened to him twice over a four-month period. His sister Mary was awakened from a deep sleep and she had the feeling like someone was in her room. When she looked up toward the ceiling she saw two hands reaching for her. She reached out and grabbed the two hands that seemed to be female. Mary said, "Oh my god," and the hands disappeared. John's mother was periodically awakened by a ghostly figure dressed in dark clothing standing at the foot of her bed. The maid saw a ghostly woman appear in front of her when she was busy cleaning. The ghostly figure was dressed in clothing from another century. The ghost asked the maid what the name of the family was who lived in the house. The maid gave the ghost the family name and then the ghost walked through the door and disappeared. The maid ran horrified from the house. On occasions the family saw a ghostly apparition float down the stairs and disappear. The family also heard unexplained footsteps and loud noises of heavy items being dropped. The family dog would growl at the ghostly apparition. In 1952 the Sclavo family sold the house to the Rollins family and the strange occurrences continued. Tracey Williams, the granddaughter of the owner, came to care for her grandmother while she was ill. She sensed a presence in her room that woke her up. She looked around and at the foot of her bed she saw a ghostly man that disappeared right in front of her. The house is now the law offices for Edward D.E. Rollins, III. He said some times when he works late, the hair on the back of his neck stands up and he has the feeling someone is there. His secretary has endured some strange incidents in the house. One evening she turned the lights off in the office and she went to get into her car and when she looked back the lights were back on. Rollins' six-year-old son Kyle came to visit the office and the child asked to be shown around. The child was carried to the basement and when they got to the bottom of the stairs, he pointed his hand and asked who the man was. There was no man there but the child insisted that he could see a man who was wearing a hat. The child liked to be taken to the basement when he would come for a visit and he always said the man was still there. The Mitchell House has been converted into apartments which are above the office. The sounds of footsteps and furniture being dragged are still heard in this house.

Location: Chesapeake City (Bohemia House Bed and Breakfast)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: This home was built in 1850 and has tunnels and catacombs running under the homes that lead down to the river. The tunnels were used during the civil war to hide slaves and help move them north. A former owner named Margaret disappeared in 1920 and was never seen again. The locals believe that she was murdered and buried in the catacombs. The home was turned the home into a Bed and Breakfast. Employees have heard organ music and voices and when they go to investigate the sound fades away. In one of the rooms a heavy clock moves from one side of the dresser to the other side. The closet door opens and the bedcovers are tossed on the floor. After the bed is made, shortly it will look like someone has lain on the bed. The dog will not go into the Elk Room. The employees believe the home is haunted by Margaret and they believe that she does not like artificial flowers. Whenever artificial flowers are put into vases, they are thrown onto the floor.

Location: Elk Mills
Ghost Name(s):
Description: In 1985, George Reynolds moved into an old, vacant, two-story house in Elk Mills. The home was in need of extensive structural repair because of years of neglect. Although Reynolds lived in the house by himself, he soon discovered he wasn't alone. Unknowingly, when he took possession of the home, he got more than he bargained for. The dwelling came complete with plenty of closet space, large bedrooms, a good piece of property, and ghosts. While restoring the house, he slept on a cot in the living room. His first eerie experience happened in a nearby room where Reynolds said Hannah Simpers, the former owner, had spent some of her last days. Simpers, who never married, was born and raised in the home. The 70-year-old Reynolds believes she was the first of several frightening spirits he encountered. One night he went to bed only to be disturbed by an inexplicable event. "Somewhere around two to three o'clock in the morning, I'd hear all these crazy noises out there, like somebody stomping and thumping and walking around," Reynolds said. The noises continued at the same time each night, taxing Reynolds' sanity. His next brush with the supernatural was a preexisting problem. Hannah Simpers had been tormented by it, too. "Every night, almost near the same time, two to three in the morning, somebody would beat on the back door and knock on the back side door next to this little room where Hannah slept. When he answered the door no one was ever there.

Location: Elkton (Frenchtown Tavern)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: This is located about three miles from Elkton along the Elkton River. The tavern dates back to the War of 1812. A man and women purchased the property in 1944. When the family moved in the mansion they soon learned that they were not alone. The wife and daughter were in the original kitchen located in the basement when the room turned very cold and wind started blowing in circles around the floor picking up debris and twisting it around. The women fled from the basement. The family was remodeling before they moved in and allowed the workers to stay in the home. The workers reported that they could not get a night's sleep in the house. They reported that they were kept awake all night by the sound of footsteps, chains rattling and the workers refused to stay in the home another night. One daughter heard talking and laughter when she was alone in the home, another daughter while walking up the stairs saw a hand appear out of nowhere. The hand grabbed the girl's ankle and forced her to fall forward onto the step. She screamed for help and the hand disappeared. Another evening the family was enjoying watching television when a loud noise surprised them, they went upstairs to see what the noise was and found a large crucifix ripped off the wall over the bed and thrown across the room at the other wall. The house has a very cold spot on the third floor that everyone notices when he or she visits. One of the grandchildren saw a man in a uniform and the child called the man the gray man. The family said they never felt threatened. During remodeling the family found a windowless room that had been closed up, they assumed it was used to hide slaves. Two fires destroyed the home in 1960; one fire was from a faulty furnace and the other by a child playing with fire.

Location: Havre de Grace (Bell Manor)
Ghost Name(s):
Description: Bell Manor is a lovely an antebellum mansion which is located near Havre de Grace. In the 70's the Girl Scouts used it as a summer camp. Bell Manor is haunted by a ghostly woman. The ghostly woman has been seen wearing a green formal dress. The woman hanged herself from the banister in the late 1800s.

Location: Port Deposit (Tome School)
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Description: Jacob Tome was born August 13, 1810 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He did not complete his education because his father died when he was very young. Jacob married Caroline Webb in 1841 that died. He married his second Eva S. Nesbitt in October of 1884. Jacob was a successful business man. He investing his money into a lumber company and then invested in railroad dealings. He also built banks in Port Deposit, Elkton, and Hagerstown. Jacob became one of Cecil County first millionaire. Tome was involved in politics and served in the State Senate in 1860. He was also the chairman of the finance committee. Jacob Tome ran for governor, but lost the election. He died on March 15, 1898 of pneumonia. Jacob shared his wealth by becoming a benefactor who supported education. Jacob was a trustee of Dickinson College Tomes donated $25,000 for the construction of a science building in 1883; the building was completed on June 24, 1885. Jacob Tome opened school in Port Deposit. He built an elementary school and a high school He also built the Jacob Tome Institute a private school that was opened in September 1894. Jacob donated $3 million to the school. The Tome School was a college preparatory school. The school was able to charge a lower tuition than other independent schools because of the funding provided by Jacob Tome. Many students who were sent to school died because of illness and many died in childhood. There was no penicillin in those days so many people died from common illness. In the 1800's, there were many outbreaks and epidemics of plague, smallpox, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, pneumonia and other dread diseases that ravaged entire populations. Back in the 18th century, life expectancy was short the average life expectancy was 31 years. One of the worst killers at this time was smallpox, which killed one out of every ten children under the age of four. Students sent away to school were often subject to cold building and disease spread through the schools. Many students died and never returned home. The school is haunted by some of students who died while they were attending the school. The Tome School became the home of Bainbridge after the school had sat empty for a decade. The Navy purchased the Tome School site in 1942 to use it for a navy training center. Back when the navy was using the Tome School for training, people working in the building had some strange experiences. People working alone in the building at night would complain of hearing footsteps walking through the building. People reported seeing children in the building but when they approached them they would disappear.

Charles County

Location: Port Tobacco Creek
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Description: Peddler's Rock is haunted by the apparition of a dog. This dog has been dead over 200 years. People say you can still hear the dog howling on cold winter nights. The dog is large and charcoal gray with a blue tint in color. The dog was a faithful companion to an old peddler who was murdered for his gold during the Revolutionary War. The peddler and his dog were known to have worked the same route for years. The old peddler was murdered for his gold and the dog was murdered because he tried to save his master. It was reported that George Washington said that he saw the ghost dog when he was staying at the home of his doctor Dr. Gustavius Richard Brown at Rose Hill. It was a foggy evening in February when he and Union General Joseph Hooker came across the phantom dog. People say that even to this day the ghostly dog is still standing guard where his master died.

Location: Waldorf (Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Home)
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Description: Dr. Mudd's home has been turned in a Museum which allows visitors to learn about the life of the doctor who treated the leg of John Wilkes Booth in 1865, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Louise Arehart was behind the restoring home; she is the great granddaughter of Dr. Mudd. What prompted her to restore the home were visits from the ghost of Dr. Mudd. She began hearing knocking at her front door and when she answered it no one would be there. She would hear footsteps walking up stairs when no one was at home. She then began catching glimpses of a man dressed in all black pants, vest and a white shirt with sleeves rolled up. Louise realized that this was her great grandfather visiting her. The home of Dr. Mudd was failing into disrepair and she felt that he had come back to get her to save his home. So she began writing Congressmen and looking for help to save the history of the home. The home is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and she is sure her great grandfather is pleased.

Dorchester County

Location: (The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge)
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Description: This is a unique ghost tale because it involves an animal. A mule used to reside at the refuge and after he died, people still would see the mule. The mule had green eyes that some people have been able to see after the mule died. People say that if the ghost of the mule appears a disaster will follow within a few days. People believe the ghost came to give a warning.

Location: Cambridge
Ghost Name(s):
Description: There is a haunted house located near Cambridge. The house has a long history of being haunted. Information is available about this house from the Maryland Historical Society Library, Historic American Building Survey (HABS) Collection PP85.

Location:
Ghost Name(s): Harriett Tubman
Description: Harriett was born in Dorchester County around 1820. She was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland on the lower eastern shore. Her family had been brought from African during the first half of the 18th Century. She was named Araminta but she called herself Harriett. She worked in the fields, plowing and picking crops. She was struck in the head with a weight by her owner for defending a young slave you tried to run away. She received an injury from being struck and she had recurrent sleeping spells the rest of her life. She was force to marry John Tubman by her owner. She freed more than 300 blacks from slavery. She moved the slaves from the South to freedom in the North. For her commendable work she herself was nicknamed "Moses." In 1849, she ran away from the plantation and went to Pennsylvania. She left her husband and her family. While living in Philadelphia and she became involved with the Underground Railroad. She used the home of Thomas Garrett a Quaker who lived in Wilmington, Delaware as a checkpoint. She made some twenty dangerous missions where she journeyed to the south, and led slaves to freedom in north. She always warned the slaves that she helped to escape that the penalty for running away was death. People in the South put a price on her head of $40,000. Harriet rescued her sister in 1850 and her brother in 1851 and her other three brothers in 1854, and her parents in 1857. She bought a home for her parents in Auburn, New York from Senator William H. Seward of New York. She served in the Union Army as a cook, nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War from 1861-1865. After the war she moved to Auburn, NY and married Nelson Davis who was a veteran of the Union Army. Harriet devoted herself to the plight of the black people and she founded the Harriet Tubman Home for indigent aged blacks. She lobbied for educational opportunities for her people. Harriet received a military burial. A monument was placed on her in her honor and she was named one of Auburn's and America's, greatest citizens. She died on March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York. Her home in Cambridge and Auburn are places that preserve her legacy as the Moses of her people. People believe that the spirit of Harriet Tubman can be felt in her home in Cambridge and along the marsh lands of the eastern shore where she lead the slave out of the south to the north. Harriett used the Blackwater and Little Blackwater, the Transquake and Chicamacomic Rivers to help the slaves escape and people believe that her spirit still visit these area.

Location: (Canning House)
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Description: On the eastern shore, people used to bury their loved ones on their properties and farm land. Then the property would get sold to developers. Developers did not always move the grave yards like they were supposed to do. Sometime they bulldozed over the headstones and just built on top of the graves. One Canning House in Dorchester is known to be sitting on top of graves. The slaves were buried in this graveyard. People believe that the Canning House is haunted by the spirits of the slaves who where buried there. You can also find homes that were built on graveyards if you do a little research. People buying these homes find that they are living with ghostly spirits in their homes.

Frederick County

Location: Roddy Covered Bridge
Ghost Name(s): Civil War Soldiers
Description: The Confederate cavalry was headed toward Old Emmitsburg Road heading towards Mechanicstown. Mechanicstown is now known as Thurmont. The soldiers were tired and decided to rest by Owens Creek by the Roddy Covered Bridge. The Confederate army spent the night at Roddy Bridge and they raided the farms surrounding the area to get fresh horses to replace the ones that were exhausted. They killed farmers who tried to protect their horses. The Confederate soldiers had a skirmish with pro Union men and a small battle took place near the covered bridge. The next night General JEB Stuart moved the troops out of Thurmont and headed them towards Rocky Ridge and eventually marching through Wooodsboro, Libertytown, and Mount Airy. By the time General Stuart reached Hyattstown on October 12th, Cole's cavalry caught up with the Confederate cavalry and a battle developed and seven Confederate troopers were captured. The area around Roddy Bridge is reportedly haunted by the soldiers who died there. The bridge was built c. 1850 and is located on Roddy Road, on the north end of Thurmont.

Location: Urbana (Landon House)
Ghost Name(s): Ghost Dog
Description: The Landon House is located at 3401 Urbana Pike in Urbana. The House is located off exit 26 on Route 270 at the intersections of Route 80 and Route 355. The Landon House was built in 1745 and it was used as a silk mill. The house was moved to Urbana in 1840, the house travel down river on a barge. The house was later used as the Shirley Female Academy. And then at a later date it was used as the Landon Military Academy and Institute. The house served as the headquarters for J.E.B Stuart during the Civil War. Colonel Luke Brien was his chief of staff. Twenty years after the war he purchased the house. People believe that Brien still haunts the mansion. During the civil war, J.E.B. Stuart held a ball in the house for the Confederate troops on September 8, 1862. The dance was called the Sabers and Roses Ball. The Antietam battle took place shortly after the dance. The house was used as a hospital for the Union and Confederate troops. Inside the house you can see original signed sketches draw by Union and Confederate troops. There is a sketch of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis on the walls. There is also a sketch of General Robert E. Lee on the wall. The house is on the list of National Register of Historic Places. The house is reportedly haunted by the civil war soldiers who died in the house. Bob Parker and Rick Imboden stop off at Landon House, in Urbania to look around. Both men are civil war actors and wanted to look over a location that had a civil war history. The men were dressed in civil war period costumes. They took pictures of the house and when they got their film back they were surprised to see ghostly apparition looking out of the windows watching them as they looked at the house. They capture a ghostly woman and a ghostly dog in one picture. Other picture has ghostly soldiers in the pictures. Dogs were used during the Civil War as messengers, guards and as mascots. When the men went marching off to war during the Civil War they often took their dogs with them. One of the dogs went to battle with the soldiers and march from the house to Antietam. The dog was wounded and brought back to the Landon House. The dog died and dog's ghost now haunts the last house that the dog visited before he died. There is a legend about a woman who had a baby and the baby died at birth. The woman was so upset that she sat in a rocker and rock the baby for three days hoping it would come back to live. This ghostly woman is one of the ghosts that haunt the Landon House The legend about the ghostly woman apparition reports that she has been seen entering through the balcony entrance at night. At one time a little boy lived in the house and he reported to his mother that he was tucked in by a woman. Ghostly lights have been seen moving through the house late at night. The rockers on the porch have been seen rocking by themselves. People have reported seeing the ghostly apparition of an old man the house. The house is now used for Wedding, receptions, and meetings. For more information call 301-874-3914.

Location: Utica Mills (Utica Covered Bridge)
Ghost Name(s): Young Drowned Boy
Description: There is a covered bridge near Thurmont; The river beneath the bridge is a spot that local kids used as a swimming hole. A young boy drowned in the deep water a long time ago. People reported that his ghost haunts the bridge. The bridge was restored by the State of Maryland so it has changed a bit. The unhappy ghost of the drowned boy lingers on. People have reported seeing a glowing apparition crawling out of the water and up the side of the bank. Sometimes people have heard ghostly cries for help that echo up and down the stream and through the picnic grove. But the most chilling events occur on the bridge itself. The bridge is small and only one car at a time can pass. Even on the bright sunny days, the interior is the bridge is covered in shadows. At night the bridge is very spooky. One evening a couple was returning home from Frederick. When their car approached the bridge, they noticed a thick fog rising from the river. The driver turned on his headlights to dim so that he could see well. About halfway over the bridge the car's headlights caught the figure of a young boy and his hair and clothes were dripping wet. The driver slammed on his brakes and the car slid to a stop on the wet planking, after apparently striking the boy. The driver jumped from his vehicle and fell to his knees and looked under the car. No one was there. The driver got the eerie feeling that he was being watched and he turned to look toward the rear of the car. The boy that he had just hit was standing there, watching him with blank and staring eyes. The man started to speak, and the boy slowly faded away into the darkness. The bridge was built 1850 and it was moved to its present location in 1889, after a flood. It is located on Utica Road which is off MD 806, southeast of Lewistown.

Location: Emmitsburg (Saint Joseph's College)
Ghost Name(s): Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Description: Saint Joseph's College is a Catholic college that was founded by nun Mother Seton. Elizabeth Ann Bayley, from New York City, was the daughter of a physician and was married to William Seton who was a merchant. Her husband died in 1803 in Italy. Elizabeth Seton was left with five young children to raise them on her own. She became a Roman Catholic in 1805. He relatives were not happy that she changed her religion and this caused a break in the family. She started a school in New York City to support her children. Bishop Carroll invited her to open a school in Baltimore in 1808. She moved Emmitsburg in 1809. She was invited by Father John Dubois to establish a religious sisterhood and to open a school. Emmitsburg had a Catholic school for boys called Mt. St. Mary's. She opened the first Catholic free school for women called St. Joseph. This was the beginning of American parochial education. She moved into a small Stone House with sixteen other people on July 31, 1809. The house was a small two room structure located on the Fleming Farm. Fleming Farm dates back to 1750, it was one of the very their first houses in the valley. Seton established a community of women, and they adopted the rule of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul which was a sisterhood centered in Paris. She established The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. This was American's first congregation of Daughters of Charity known as Sisters of Charity. Mother Seton was superior of her community. The community expanded and grew into 20 communities before her death. By the end of 1809 a large house called the White House was built. The Sister opened a free school for the children of the neighborhood. This is how the Catholic Parochial School System started in the United States, a system that continues today as the Mother Seton School. The original charter of began in 1809. Mother Seton sent her Sisters of Charity to other location such as Philadelphia and New York City to establish orphanages and schools. Mother Seton died on January 4, 1821 in the White House. She's buried in the woods under the great oak tree by the graves of her two young daughters and dozen of the young Sisters of Charity. Seton's remain were moved in 1846 and she was buried at the in the Basilica. Pope Paul VI proclaimed Elizabeth Ann Seton "a Saint," on September 14, 1975. Seton was the first American born citizen to be given this honor by the Catholic Church. A National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is located in Emmitsburg. Pope John Paul II gave the Shrine the title of Minor Basilica, in February of 1991. Pope John Paul II wrote that Mother Seton, "She is rightfully honored everywhere, but especially in Emmitsburg, where a splendid church is dedicated to her." St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's ghostly vision has been seen on numerous occasions at the college. Mother Seton was one of the first ghosts to appear at Emmitsburg. Rooms that are closed off will be filled with strange noises inside that no one can account for. People have seen her ghost gliding along the hallways dressed in her nun's habit. She is escorted by a man carrying a doctor's bag. Her ghostly presence looks hazy to the viewer, but looks real. The apparition disappears when they round the corner to enter another corridor. The ghostly apparitions have been seen by students and staff members. The wounded soldiers were taken to the school to be care for during the Civil War and this is why people believe that the ghostly apparitions are appearing. People believe that it is the energy that was left by the many deaths that happened there Elizabeth Bayley Seton lived from 1774 1821.

Location: Emmitsburg (Mt St. Mary's College)
Ghost Name(s): Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Description: Mother Seton was the widow of William Seton from New York City. She was the mother of five children. She traveled to Emmitsburg in the summer of 1809. She was invited by Father John Dubois. He asked her to establish a religious sisterhood and to open a school. She moved into a small Stone House with sixteen other people on July 31, 1809. The house was a small two-room structure located on the Fleming Farm. Fleming Farm dates back to 1750; it was one of the very first houses in the valley. She established The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. By the end of 1809 a large house called the White House was built. The Sister opened a free school for the children of the neighborhood. This is how the Catholic Parochial School System started in the United States, a system that continues today as the Mother Seton School. The original charter of began in 1809. Mother Seton sent her Sisters of Charity to other location such as Philadelphia and New York City to establish orphanages and schools. Mother Seton died on January 4, 1821 in the White House. She buried in the woods under the great oak tree by the graves of her two young daughters and dozen of the young Sisters of Charity. Seton's remain were moved in 1846 and she was buried at the in the Basilica. Pope Paul VI proclaimed Elizabeth Ann Seton "a Saint," on September 14, 1975. Seton was the first American-born citizen to be given this honor by the Catholic Church. Seton remains were moved to the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg. Pope John Paul II gave the Shrine the title of Minor Basilica, in February of 1991. Pope John Paul II wrote that Mother Seton, "She is rightfully honored everywhere, but especially in Emmitsburg, where a splendid church is dedicated to her. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's ghostly vision has been seen on numerous occasions at the college. Mother Seton was one of the first ghosts to appear at Emmitsburg. Rooms that are closed off will be filled with strange noises inside that no one can account for. People have seen her ghost gliding along the hallways dressed in her nun's habit. She is escorted by a man carrying a doctor's bag. Her ghostly presence looks hazy to the viewer, but looks real. The apparition disappears when they round the corner to enter another corridor. The ghostly apparitions have been seen by students and staff members. The wounded soldiers were taken to the school to be care for during the Civil War and this is why people believe that the ghostly apparitions are appearing. People believe that it is the energy that was left by the many deaths that happened there Elizabeth Bayley Seton lived from 1774-1821.

Location: Frederick
Ghost Name(s): Young Solider
Description: A group of young soldiers stopped by South Mountain Inn to have dinner in 1840. They were on their way to fight the Seminole Indians. One of the soldiers met a young woman named Sadie and he fell in love with her. Sadie was the innkeeper's daughter. The young man told Sadie that he loved her so much that he was willing to die for her. Sadie told the young man that she would rather that he lived for her. The young man deserted his duty and hid in the woods. People say the couple was so much in loved that even after they died the couple's spirits still hang around. People reported seeing the couple, walking hand in hand through the woods.

Location: Frederick (Tyler Spite House located at 112 West Church Street)
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Description: his home is located in the quaint Historic District of Frederick. The house is across the street from the old courthouse. The home was built as a private residence but now it is a bed and breakfast. Dr. Sam Tyler built the house in 1813. The house has the nickname "Spite House" because it prevented the construction of a new road that would have allowed traffic to proceed straight ahead to West Patrick Street. The house was sold to Dr. William Schnauffer a hundred years later. The new owner began to report a strange presence in the upstairs, after it was turned into apartments. Marie Theresa Fernandes, an artist, had several strange encounters. She says there is a "presence" in the house. The door to the attic, located in the hallway outside of her apartment would often slam at night. She claims that an eerie visitor came every night, at 2:30 in the morning. She would awaken from sleep in fear, feeling that someone was standing in her room. She would see a white figure moving around in the dark room. The ghost was masculine, with long, stringy hair and a loose robe. Marie claimed the figure sometimes poked at her. She would hear muffled footstep in the attic and on the attic stair during the daytime. She always had the feeling she as being watched. She went to the attic one day to find out what was causing the noise and found it empty. The house in now a bed and breakfast.

Location: Frederick (Barbara Fritchie House)
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Description: The house is haunted by the spirit of Barbara Fritchie. Tour guides have reportedly seen the rocking chair rocking, lights on when the place is locked up, and an indentation on her bed, as if someone was sitting there.

Location: Frederick County
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Description: In 1832, a guest staying at an Inn in Frederick County near Hagan's Tavern buried a chest with $38,000 in gold coins and jewelry. He buried it halfway between Braddock and Braddock Heights on State 40. The man died before he could get his treasure. People believe the ghost is still looking for his treasure.

Location: Frederick (Frederick County Historical Society)
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Description: This house was originally constructed as a private home. Then it served as a female orphanage for many years. It is now home to the Frederick County Historical Society. The ghost of a woman in white haunts the house. The house is located on Church Street in historic Frederick, Maryland. It is the former home of Dr. William Baltzell. The house was built in 1834 with a number of grand and unusual features. It has a hanging staircase that floats all of the way to the roof as its main attraction. In 1854, the house was purchased by Colonel Alexander Baird Hanson and 20 years later he sold it to John Loats, the last private owner of the house. At the time of Loats' death, he willed the house to the Evangelical Lutheran Church and they in turned used it as an orphanage. The house existed as the Loats Female Orphanage from 1879 to 1958. Historical Society purchase the home after the orphanage closed. The diaries and letters that remain today from the girl picture it as a happy place. The girls were allowed to stay until they turned 18 where a dedicated staff to watch over them. There was a teacher on staff, named Lizzie Kreh, a seamstress, a cook, a headmistress and a singing instructor. Could any of these women be the ghost who is said to haunt the place- The historical society volunteers report that they have had a number of encounters with a woman wearing a white dress? She is described as being very pale and wears her hair pulled up into a bun on her head. She is dressed all in white and her old-fashioned clothing has a high collar and long-sleeves. She has been seen in the corridors and sitting in an old antique rocking chair. The staff claims that old trunks have been found moved to other places in the house and that music has been heard coming from a broken Grafanola. The machine has to be cranked up by hand and there has been no one around when it started to play music on its own. The identity of the ghost remains a mystery, but everyone seems happy to have her around. The Historical Society is located at 24 Church Street in Frederick, Maryland.

Location: Frederick
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Description: During the Civil War, Frederick County had at least 17 hospitals set up to care for the wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The armies confiscated many homes and used them as headquarters. The families of Frederick had sympathy towards the Confederacy. One Frederick family invited a wounded Confederate soldier into their home to get well. The Union Army troop arrived and so the family hid the Rebel soldier in their root cellar. The Union soldiers used the family's home as their headquarters and they stayed for two months. The family could not go to the cellar to help the wounded Rebel Soldier. After the Union Army left the family finally went to the cellar to check on the solider and they found his decaying rotting corpse. After discovery of his body, the family began to hear moaning and scratching sounds coming from the cellar. The cellar was under the kitchen and these sounds would come through the floorboards. The family and visitors to the home were sometimes startled to see the young Confederate soldier dressed in his uniform walking through their house. People believe the ghost of this young soldier is still haunting this house today.

Location: Frederick
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Description: Frederick has a remarkable Civil War Museum which highlights the medical difficulties faced by the doctors during the Civil War. The museum feature photos of amputation in progress and photos of pile of amputated appendages piled up outside of the hospital area. Amputation was used to save the soldiers from gangrene. The museum is known to be the home of seven ghosts or more. One ghost was the undertaker's assistant who once worked in the building. There is another ghost who was a railroad worker who job was to transport the soldier bodies to the mortuary. A number of civil war soldiers are also known to haunt this building. Some of the ghosts haunting the museum seem to be haunting objects in the museum that belong to them when they were alive. This type of haunted is called haunted objects. The ghostly spirit likes to move the object around to get recognition.

Location: Frederick (Glendale Hospital)
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Description: The hospital is owned by the Government and it is condemned property. No trespassing is allowed. The main hospital and the old recovery buildings are still standing. It is illegal to enter the hospital and it is also dangerous to enter because of the age and condition that the buildings. A lot of things were left in the building, in the chapel you will still find hymnals, and in other buildings you can find artificial limbs, all the building are filled with items and things that were left t