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
Ghost Name(s):
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. NOTE: THE CURRENT HOMEOWNERS OF OVER 30 YEARS DO NOT BELIEVE THE HOUSE TO BE HAUNTED NOR HAVE THEY WITNESSED STRANGE ACTIVITY OF ANY KIND.

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 there. Many mental hospitals were closed down in the eighties. Another mental hospital in Maryland that was closed was Rosewood off Reistertown Road. Everything was left in this hospital just like it was at Glendale. Part of Rosewood is still being used for office. People like to sneak into these condemned hospitals to look around. People who sneak into Glendale park on Electric Avenue and walk over to the buildings. There is a nice hiking travel located next to the hospital. Some people like to walk on the hiking trails and then cross over to the hospital. Glendale has underground tunnels that run between the buildings. People bring flashlights to go into the tunnel to search for ghost. The buildings are reportedly haunted. A group of my members went to the Glendale Hospital and saw a ghostly woman looking out of one of the windows. When they tried to take her picture she step behind the window frame and all they got in their picture was white glowing image. Remember you should not trespass; this is a good way to get arrested. A group of my members went hiking in the area and walked on to the grounds of Glendale and when they looked up into a window they saw a ghostly women looking down at them. When they tried to take her picture she moved away from the window. Their picture showed a white glowing apparition. The hospital has guards that watch over the hospital. The guards have a station in a trailer on one side of the road. One group of my members asked the guard if they could take pictures and the guards told them no. There are many websites that you can find stories about the Glendale Hospital. I believe even the government has a site. You might want to check out: http://web.archive.org/web/20050107002316/http://www.ghosttown.com/state/md/glendalehospital.html.

Location: (Beatty-Cramer House)
Ghost Name(s): Beatty and Cramer families
Description: This is the oldest house in Frederick County. The first part of the house was built in 1732 through 1742 by the Beatty family. A log wing was added in 1850 by Jeremiah Cramer. Susanne Beatty moved from Ulster County, New York to Frederick County in the early 1700's. She purchased 1000 acres of land along the Monocacy River. In 1739 she divided the land into lots for her children of which she had ten. The house is reportedly haunted. The spirits of the Cramer family seem to haunt one side of the house and the other side is haunted by the Beatty family.

Location: Frederick
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Description: The armies of the South marched across Frederick County toward Antietam Creek and Sharpsburg on September 10. They were being lead by Generals Lee, Jackson and Longstreet. The soldiers were forced to retreat from South Mountain after a very costly battle where many soldiers died. These battlefields are believed to be haunted by the dead soldiers. People report seeing eerie campfires on the mountains and in the open fields and seeing ghostly soldiers warming themselves near the fires. And when people try to approach the scene it vanishes in front of their faces.

Location: Thurmont
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Description: There is a covered bridge near Thurmont; beneath the bridge is a deep spot in the river which is as local kids as a swimming hole. A long time ago, a young boy drowned in the deep water. It is 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 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 of the bridge is covered in shadows. At night the bridge is very spooky. One evening a couple was returning home from Frederick. When heir 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.

Location: Rose Hill Manor
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Description: This house is located at 1611 North Market Street. The house was built in 1790 by Major John Colin Graham. The house was once owned by the first Governor of Maryland, Thomas Johnson. The house is reportedly haunted by many ghosts. A wealthy man and his dog lived in the house at one time. The man and his dog's spirit are still at the house. The man buried his money in the ground close to an oak tree. He gave directions in his will but no one could find his money. People believe that if you follow the ghostly dog you will find the man's treasure. The house is now a museum and provides tours and programs to help children understand life two hundred years ago.

Location: Lisbon, Haunted House on Frederick Road
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Description: There is a house on Frederick Road that is haunted by three ghosts. One is an older man with two young boys. The people living in the house have seen the apparitions. The family is constantly brother by strange noises. The kitchen cabinets will open and close by themselves. The water will turn on in the kitchen. When they come running down stair to check out the noise they find a wet sink but not body around. After they went to bed one night and tuck all their children into bed, the parents were in their room when they heard the child tambourine playing. They got up and found the tambourine on the floor with the child fast asleep. They ran back to the room and found the child asleep and the tambourine lying in the floor. After this happened a number of times the father became mad and threw the tambourine out the window. The parents have been in their rooms laying in bed when they see on of the ghostly boy peeping into their room. They call the Maryland Ghost and Spirit Association to check out their house. The group capture picture of orbs in the living room and family room. When they went to the baby room and tried to take picture all the pictures came out bright but one that had a very dark shadow like someone standing in the door.

Garrett County

Location: Deep Creek Lake
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Description: Deep Creek Lake is one of Maryland's winter resorts that is located in the mountains, where the temperature are often very cold. The lake is usually covered with ice from December to the middle of March. People like to take their snowmobiles out on the surface of the lake. The ice on Deep Creek Lake can be uneven in thickness. One Christmas Eve a man and his family had rented a cabin at the lake for the holidays. One of the Christmas presents was a brand new snowmobile. The husband went to try it out on the lake. He called some of his friends to take a spin on the ice. The man and his friend were riding double on the snowmobiles. Then one of the snowmobile fronts broke through the ice, and then two other snowmobiles crashed into the water. Three of the people managed to come to the surface and get out of the water, but three of the people drowned. His wife and his two daughters were decorating the Christmas tree and enjoying the warm fire that burned in the fireplace. The wife began to worry that because her husband had been gone for a long time and she wanted him home. Then there was a knock at the door and she answered it. When she opened the door she saw that her husband was drenched from head to toe. She immediately grabbed his arm to get him to come to the fire but her hand went right through his arm. Then her husband disappeared right in front of her face. Then the sheriff's deputy knocks on the door to let her know that her husband had drowned in an accident.

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Description: There is an area in Garrett County that people say is haunted by ghosts and demons who live within the ground. People say that they have heard "mysterious cries" coming from beneath the earth. When people go to investigate they have never found anyone or anything to explain what is happening here.

Harford County

Location: Bel Air (Liriodendron Mansion)
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Description: This mansion is located at 502 West Gordon Street. The mansion sits on 196 acres of land at the edge of town. The land was purchased in 1897 by Dr. Howard Kelly and he hired Wyatt Company to build him this Georgian Mansion. The mansion is reportedly haunted. Guests and visitors have heard ghostly footsteps when no one is there. The mansion is now the property of Harford County Parks and Recreation and the Liriodendron Foundation. The mansion is now used for weddings and parties for details call 410-838-3942.

Location: (Jerusalem Mill)
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Description: The mill is 228 years old. It is located on the banks of the Little Gunpowder Falls River in Harford County. It was a Quaker settlement of Jerusalem area in the 18th and 19th centuries. The mill was in operation for two centuries. Isaiah Linton and David Lee became partners in 1769 and built a mill. Jerusalem Mill was only one of the 18 mills that they owned. They built their mill along the Little Falls of the Gunpowder in an area called Jerusalem. The mill produced flour under the name "White Silk" which was a Baltimore label. They shipped their flour to locations around the world. The mill was called Lee's Merchant Mill up until the 1870's. The Quakers were peace-loving folk and helped rescue slaves. Sometimes the owners would raid the mill and find the slaves and take them down to the Jerusalem Bridge to hang them. The mill is reportedly haunted by some of the slaves that were killed.

Location: Perryman
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Description: It is an area where many slaves were killed before and during the Civil War. It is said that many are still haunting the area. An old graveyard in the area is very active with ghostly hauntings. Many people have seen apparitions. There is an old mansion which is owned by BGE now that is reportedly haunted!

Location: (Hess House)
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Description: This house is located on Hess Road in Harford County and the house is run down. No one knows the history of this house but it definitely haunted and you will not want to enter it alone.

Location: (Jerusalem Covered Bridge)
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Description: This bridge is known as the Jerusalem Covered Bridge, the Joppa Old Wooden Bridge and the Jerrico Covered Bridge. The Bridge crosses the Gunpowder Falls. The directions to get to the bridge are take RT 1 north to Kingsville, turn right on Jerusalem Road and then cross Gunpowder Falls and then turn right onto Jericho Road. The bridge was built between 1850 and 1860. The bridge had to be rebuilt in 1970 because it was in bad condition. This bridge has a history of being haunted and a rich history from our past. The bridge is haunted by a number of different ghosts. Run away slaves used to be hung from the rafters of this bridge and their ghostly spirits still haunt the area. People driving up to the bridge have seen bodies hanging from the rafters. There is an old woman who also haunts this bridge. People report seeing a ghostly apparition of an old lady, who is carrying a basket walking on this bridge around midnight. People reported that when they start approaches the old lady they get a warm feeling and they have the need to talk to the old lady. People like the feeling that they get when they see the old woman. When they try to approach the lady to talk with her she just disappears right in front of their faces. There is another story about a young girl who haunts this bridge and this story goes back a hundred years. A man was going to market with his wares and he had his young daughter traveling with him. They were traveling in a covered wagon. It was night time and the young girl was asleep in back of the wagon. The father left a lantern burning for the young girl so that she would not be afraid When the wagon when over the wooded covered bridge, the lantern fell over. The little girl's clothes caught on fire and she burned to death. This story is very old and no one can trace the history. The legend says that people etched the little girl=s face on the bridge to remember her. The proof of this story was taken down with the old bridge. The bridge had to be rebuilt and the little girl's picture was taken down with the old bridge. The little girl ghostly apparition has been seen on the bridge ever since.

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Description: A long time ago in the last century a peddler come through on foot carrying a pack with all his wares for sale. The man's was murdered and his body was found buried under some rock without his head. People say that the Peddler's Ghost still haunts the area. The ghost is seen walking around the area pushing a stick. People believe the ghost is stilling looking for his lost head.

Location: (Rocks State Park)
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Description: This park is reportedly haunted. People have seen many ghostly spirits seen in the area late at night while driving through the park.

Location: (Rocks State Park)
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Description: Located in the park is a cliff that has lots of rocks that are very dangerous. On the top of this cliff are two flat rocks that form a throne. People say that the King and Queen of the Susquehannock Indians used them as throne to look down on the valley. Lone Wolf was a chieftain of a small tribe and went back to visit the Iroquois Indians and was he was there he fell in love with Fern Shaken By the Wind, and brought her back to his tribe. While he was meeting with another tribe a young brave named Bird That Flies High gave Fern a trinket. Wolf grabbed the trinket and jumped up and down on it. Bird challenged Lone Wolf to an archery contest. Lone Wolf won the contest. When Fern placed the crown on Lone Wolf's head, Bird pushed Lone Wolf off the cliff. People say that Bird is still haunting the area. His presence is sometimes seen by people. On certain fall nights of a waning moon his spirit can be seen among the ripping waters of Deer Creek.

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Description: Harford County: has an abandoned house seating near the Harford County line. This house is very old and it is run down. The history of the home is unknown but people have had experience with ghost in this house. People have heard footsteps and doors opening when no one is there.

Location: Gunpowder Falls (Jerusalem Covered Bridge Across the Gunpowder Falls)
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Description: The bridge was built between 1850 and 1860. The bridge was rebuilt in 1970's because it had gotten in bad condition. This bridge has a history of being haunted by an old lady who has been seen walking on the bridge carrying a basket. There is a ghost story that is older than the basket lady about and it is about a little girl who was burned to death on the bridge and the young girl is supposed to haunt the bridge. The story is so old that no one can verify the facts about the little girl. The story reported that the people had etched the little girl's picture on the old bridge to remember her. The bridge is located on Jerusalem Road. Take RT 24 and turn left on Jerusalem Road to Jericho Road.

Location: Perryman
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Description: It is an area where many slaves were killed before and during the Civil War. It is said that many are still haunting the area. Many people have seen apparitions. BGE purchase the plantation and there is or was an old mansion on the land. BGE hired worker to tear down the mansion and the workers were scare by strange things happing.

Location: Havre de Grace (Currier House Bed and Breakfast)
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Description: This Bed and Breakfast Inn is haunted by a peaceful little child. One of the rooms was once the child's bedroom and the ghostly child still resides here. This house dates back to the 1860's. The owners of the Inn are Jane C. Belbot and Mr. Belbot. The house is located at 800 Market Street.

Location: Havre de Grace (The O'Neill House)
Ghost Name(s): The O'Neill Family
Description: This house is located on Washington Street. Part of the house dates back as early as 1814. The O'Neill family has owned the house for 158 years. John O'Neill was the original owner. He is famous for defending Havre de Grace when the British attacked the town in 1813. People believe that this house is haunted by members of the O'Neill family.

Location: Havre de Grace (Concord Point Lighthouse)
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Description: Concord lighthouse is the 2nd oldest lighthouse tower on Chesapeake Bay. The lighthouse was completed in 1827. It was deactivated in 1975. The lighthouse is owned by the city of Havre de Grace/Friends of Concord Point Lighthouse, Inc. People say that the lighthouse is haunted. People have seen ghostly apparitions and heard ghostly noises. The lighthouse is located at Lafayette and Concord Streets.

Location: (Spesutia Church and Graveyard)
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Description: This graveyard is haunted by a ghostly apparition that has appeared on numerous occasions. People have taken pictures in this graveyard and have gotten pictures with glowing headstones and orbs in the headstones.

Location: Joppa (Old Wooden Bridge)
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Description: This bridge has a rich history from our past. Slaves used to be hung from the rafters of this bridge and the ghostly spirits still haunt the area. The bridge is located on Jericho Rd. in Joppa. At the base of the bridge is an etched burning of a little girl.

Location: (Rocks State Park)
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Description: People have reported seeing spirits in the area late at night when they are driving through the park. Many people have had this experience and no one knows who or what is haunting the area.

Location: Chrome Hill Rock (Witches Rock):
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Description: Knopp Road, Rock State Park Back in the early 1700's in an area near Chrome Hill was used by a coven of witches; near the "Mine Old Field" this is an area full of Pyrite old fools gold. There is a legend about this area. It was well known as the "Devils Stopping Ground". A couple was always skeptical about the stories and legend that they heard about the place. That was until Oct. 31 1995. The couple took a late night Halloween drive up through Rock State Park. The husband was telling his wife stories about the: Mine Old Fields" and the "Witches Legend." The couple turned onto Chrome Hill Road and when the got the intersection of Knopp Rd. and Rush Rd. they saw a very large boulder that protrudes slightly into the road. When their headlights shown on the big rock, she was amazed to see their last names painted in blue paint on the big rock. The husband turned his car around and went back to take another look. The couple was shaken by this strange happening. The next night the couple decided to return and take another look. They were surprise to find rock was blank with no words and moss was growing thick on the rock. The couple told their friends about what happen to them. Their friends laughed at them and told them that they were pranked by Witches Rock. They were told them that some poor unsuspecting fool always gets the whammy on Halloween night. Many people have had this strange experience in the area and no one can explain them.

Howard County

Location: Ellicott City (Castle Angelo)
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Description: The castle was built in 1831 and was named at Michelangelo's and the name was shortened to Angelo. The house has been owned by many people over the years. The Reverend Moore lived in the house and after he moved in he started have strange experiences. The sounds of footsteps and thumping were heard in the house. The minister was involved in helping run away slaves. Someone killed him because of this activity and his body was hind in the tunnels below the house. The house was haunted when Moore moved in and now he seems to be one of the ghosts haunting the place. His apparition has been seen in the house. The sounds of footsteps are still heard, items disappear, and door open on their own. People tell stories about a ghost that does not brother people who are artists are who like art. But if person is not an artist the ghost like to harass them. There is a story about one poor man who was dragged down a tunnel to bottom of the castle. He was place into a drain and flushed out into the river. People believe that the man drowned. Most people consider this story a legend.

Location: Columbia (Old St Mary's College)
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Description: The group of Redemptory was looking for a location to build their new seminary. They came to Illchester which was a rural farming area looking for land to build a seminary in 1866. They met George Ellicott, Jr. who owned 110 acres near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station. On his land there was a stone house which he had planned to turn into a tavern. The B&O selected Ellicott City for the train stop and not Illchester so there was no need for his tavern. He showed his land to the Redemptory and they purchased the land on July 21, 1866 and paid only $15,000 for the land. Illchester was a perfect location since it was only a few miles by train to St.Alphonsus Church, which was the Redemptory residence. The first Mass was held in the stone house on August 28, 1866. The Redemptory starting building the seminary and it was finished in 1868. They name the seminary Mount Clement and later changed the name to St. Mary's College. The Redemptory provides services for the Catholics in the Communities of Thistle, Illchester, and Grays Mils. The Catholics attended Mass in the lower house chapel located at St. Mary's College. The people of the community received Benediction at the church and it became a place for their children to learn catechism on Sunday afternoons. Baptized were preformed at the little church and the communities children had their First Holy Communion. There was no place for the children to attend school so the Redemptorists decided to open a school. They purchased a building on Thistle Road back in September 15, 1879. The build a one room school called St. Mary's. The school had twenty four students. The school later moved to the lower house chapel. The priest installed a pictured of our Lay of Perpetual Help in the Chapel on September 14, 1879. The Redemptorists used the lower chapel up until 1882. Then they open the upper house chapel. James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore establish a parish in Illchester, on February 12, 1893. The lower chapel was reopened as a parish church on February 12, 1893. The church was dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The church became known as St. Mary's because it was located at St. Mary's College. The parish decided that a cemetery should be built in September of 1895. A piece of land was on Illchester Road was selected for St. Mary's Cemetery. Mr. Otten was the first to be buried on October 11, and a few days later, a Mrs. Cugle was buried there. The school and church were in operation up until the early 1900's. Classes were taught up until 1910. Then the school closed it door because there were not enough students. The school tried to reopen in 1914 but was not successful and closed down the next year. In 1946 the parish reopened its own school, located in the lower house, which also served as the parish church. The sisters of Notre Dame de Namur staffed the school. Student arrived at the school by two means of transportation which was bus and sleigh. (Willie) William Cugle was in charge of the transportation. Mr. Cugle drove the bus for fifty years and was one of the school employees who were there the longest time. He was very dedicated to the school. His parents moved to Illchester in 1895 and were workers at the local mill. They then took a job with the Redemptorists. The Cugles lived in the Ellicott stone house. In 1953, it was decided that a larger and safer church and school was needed. They planned to purchase the Macklin property which sat on 28 acres and was located a mile from St. Mary's. The parish held a fund-raising drive in 1955 to purchase the property. Archbishop Keough gave permission in 1957 for a one story four classroom and basement a temporary church to be build A fire destroyed the lower house and former church and school in 1968. Four years later, the Redemptorists closed St. Mary's College and put the property up for sale. This lovely property now sits in ruins. Evil vandals throw a fire bomb into a window and burned the school. The night watchman was inside and he was able to escape. The building is now falling down. The college is reportedly haunted. There are many legends and story about St. Mary's College. People who have visited the College have heard many spirit and ghostly noises. There is an urban legend about an insane priest who killed five girls by hanging them. The Priest while in a fit of insanity, hung up five young girls each facing one another around a pentacle and then he shot himself. People say that this story is true and that it happened many years ago. People believe the building is haunted by the girls. Sometimes at night you can still hear their tortured screams and there is a cold spot at the top of the huge stairs. This may be an urban legend but the story refuses to die. People also believe that the Cugle family is still haunted the college. The Cugles worked for the college for many years and love the college and some people believe that they are still around.

Location: Columbia
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Description: On College Road are seven hills located in a row and it is reported that if you hit the seventh hill right at midnight something surprising is supposed to happen.

Location: Columbia (Judge's Bench Pub)
Ghost Name(s): Mary
Description: A young woman named Mary hung herself on the 3rd floor and she still haunts the pub today.

Location: Ellicott City
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Description: The old firehouse on Main Street is said to be haunted by a few of the old firemen. It's said that doors slam and one of the ghosts has been seen. It's also been said that people hear foot steps.

Location: Ellicott City (The Patapsco Female Institute)
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Description: The Patapsco Female Institute was built in 1839 atop a high hill overlooking the little town. It was the one of the first female institutes built in the south and it became the preferred school to which Southern planters sent their daughters to be turned into young ladies. The Civil War changed the status of the school. Young Southern women were no longer required to learn the subjects that the Institute taught, French, literature, or manner. More practical curriculum became the study of the day. The institute closed its doors in the 1890s because of its inability to change with the times. School then served as a hospital, private residence, and a theater. In the 1950s the building was allowed to fall to ruin. The roof has collapsed and the wooden floors are given way and now only a cavernous shell stand where a proud school once stood. The ruins have been partially restored and the building is now a tourist attraction. Today the school is the home of a very unhappy ghost. One young lady named Annie Van Delot was not happy with the Patapsco Female Institute and she did not like the town of Ellicott City. The young woman died during her first winter at the school. People say that the young woman's unhappy ghost still roams the classroom and the dormitory. Two tourists had a startling visit at the school. They were talking a tour during the daylight hour. The tourist felt that the building had an aura of spookiness about the place. When they were about to leave one of them spotted a young woman coming down the stairs. She was dressed in white and she was not walking down the stairs she was floating. When the ghostly apparition reached the bottom of the steps she disappeared into thin air. Annie is not frightening she just presents a sorrowful image.

Location: Ellicott City (Hayden House)
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Description: This small stone house that was built in the early 1800's. The house is now surrounded by the Howard County Courthouse. People report that the coffee pot heated up on its own. There are the strange events where the phantom smells like soup and bacon and eggs would waft through the building during the day and into the night. The staff finds it disturbing that they can not find the source of the smells. At the times of the smells, there were no cooking appliances in the building and no cooking done there at all. The ghost has been dubbed the "cooking ghost" and the smells of various foods is commonplace. One staff member reported a number of events like seeing cloth napkins fold and refold themselves before his eyes and hearing a number of noises that he could not explain. He believed that he actually saw the ghost itself when he was working late one night and was on his way to the second floor when he noticed what appeared to be a "white haze" out of the corner of his eye. He looked quickly and saw the misty ball of vapor hanging in the air. It was very dense but he could see the way behind it, and then it vanished.

Location: Ellicott City (Lilburn)
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Description: Lilburn is one of the most beautiful homes in the town of Ellicott City. Lilburn in Ellicott City remains perhaps the most famous haunted house in Maryland. The stories of ghosts haunting this house have continued for years and the house was owned by several different families. In the 1960's, it was purchased by the Balderson family who had their own share of supernatural tales about the house. The phantom footsteps continued to be heard and the family dog refused to go into a small room on the second floor hallway. On another occasion, a heavy chandelier in the dining room began swinging back and forth during a party, startling many family friends. The windows in the tower refused to stay closed and at one point, Balderson resorted to tying the windows shut with a heavy rope. By the time he had finished tying the rope and walked outside to see the windows from the exterior of the house, the ropes had already been undone and the windows opened by unseen hands. A housekeeper for the Baldersons claimed to hear a child crying in the house and also to have smelled a man's cigar in the library, even though there was no one else in the room. She also claimed to see several apparitions in the house, including the shadowy figure of a man and a girl in a chiffon dress, walking down one of the hallways. Following the Baldersons' tenure in the house, it was purchased by Dr. Eugenia King, who lived there with her son. They also reported problems with the tower windows and a repeat performance of the chandelier in the dining room. An additional occurrence took place when a vase of flowers suddenly turned upside down and emptied itself onto the floor. In 1983, the house was purchased by another family, who restored the house and made some major renovations. They claimed to have no encounters with the supernatural occupants of the house, and yet by 1988, it was on the market again.

Kent County

Location: Chestertown (White House Farm)
Ghost Name(s): Mary Stewart
Description: This house dates back to the 1800's. Young Mary Stewart lived in the house and planned to elope with her lover one night. As she was leaving the property her horse bucked and she was thrown to the ground and killed. The rock where Mary hit her head still has the blood stains after all these years. It is believed that Mary still haunts this house. When the new owner moved in and began painting one evening they heard footsteps on the second floor and no one else was home. The sound of the steps sounded like someone pacing up and down the hallway. The mystery footsteps continue to be heard in the house. One evening when the husband was home alone he heard footsteps in the dining room that sounded like they had just came in from outside to the dinning room. He went into the dining room with his dogs, when the dogs got to the doorway they stopped in their tracks and their hair stood up on their backs. The dogs start barking as though there was an intruder in the room, but no one was there. One evening the wife awakened from her sleep and saw a blue night gowned woman pass through her bedroom. The family celebrated the anniversary of Mary's death every year by inviting guests and visiting the stone where Mary hit her head.

Location: Chestertown
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Description: The Inn at Mitchell House located at 8796 Maryland Parkway: This is an 18th-century manor that set on 10 acres overlooking Stoneybrook Pond. The manor is now a Bed and Breakfast Inn. The Inn is reportedly haunted.

Location: (White House Farm)
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Description: A woman wearing a nightgown haunts this house. People have seen her in the house. People report hearing footsteps in the house when on one is there. The doors open and close on their own. People say you feel as though you are being watched. You never feel as though you are alone in this house.

Location:
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Description: There is a ghost of a man that haunts a small restaurant in Kent County. The man was killed in the upstairs of a small restaurant. The ghost has been known to speak with their customers. People report hearing footsteps when on one are in the restaurant.

Location: Millington (Cry Baby Bridge)
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Description: A women was driving down the road with her baby in the car. It was as stormy very raining night. When she was approaching the bridge she lost control of her car and it went crashing into the water below. The woman and the baby drowned in the river. People say if you come to be bridge at night you will hear a baby crying. If you go on a dark stormy night people say the crying is louder and you can hear the woman screaming for help.

Location: Rock Hall (Jersey Devil)
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Description: Children playing in the woods in Rock Hall, Maryland have reported seeing a strange creature. Many newspaper articles were written about this strange creature that was spotted by a number of residents of Rock Hall. The creature was described as a vampire devil creature that had wings and could fly. People said that the strange creature would swoop down at them. The creature made the headlines for many years it was seen in 1892, 1909 and recently as 1970. People called the creature the Jersey Devil because it looked like a creature that was seen in other area. The creature has been spotted in New Jersey and Virginia and West Virginia.

Montgomery County

Location: Bethesda (Old Georgetown Road)
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Description: People have report seeing disturbing sightings of ghostly being on the Road and several homes on the road that date back to the Civil War are reportedly haunted.

Location: Fall River (Kimwell Nursing Home)
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Description: An old man dressed in a black suit and black top hat haunts this home. He has been seen by most of the elderly living there. Lights in basement have been known to go on and off by themselves. There is also a young blond haired nurse has been seen by the residents. The nurse has been known to make them feel better then after days of seeing her they pass away.

Location: Glen Echo (Clara Barton House)
Ghost Name(s): Clara Barton
Description: People say that Clara Barton House in Glen Echo is haunted. And some believe that there is more than one ghost. Clara Barton is believed to haunt the place but people have the feeling that there is more than one ghost at this location.

Location: (Annington Manor)
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Description: This manor house is located on a battlefield. People report that Senator from Oregon and a group of soldiers are still haunting this battleground that is located around the house. Ghostly apparitions have been seen in the house. A Cemetery is located on the grounds of the Manor and is known to be haunted by dead soldiers and other ghostly apparitions.

Location: (Gold Mines)
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Description: Montgomery County was known for gold mining in the 19th Century. Gold was discovered on Samuel Ellicott's farm in 1849 near Brookeville. During the Civil War privates named Cleary and McClaren from the 71st Pennsylvania Regiment were washing their dishes in the Rock Run Stream near Great Falls when they saw glistening flakes in the water. They had discovered gold. The people in the area got gold fever. A 100-foot shaft was dug near the intersection of MacArthur Boulevard and Falls Road around 1867. This mine became the largest and most successful mine in the county. It operated under several different names over 73 years. In an area above the Great Falls Tavern people found gold in the 1880s in Ford Mine. The Great Falls Mining Company found a vein of gold east of the current parking lot entrance to Great Falls Park. Over 200-foot shafts with interconnecting tunnels were uncovered between 1900 and 1917. In 1918, the Atlantic Development Company used the most trenching equipment to search for gold. While they were digging, people in the town started rumors that the real purpose of the trenches was to prepare for a German attack on Washington. Montgomery County had over 28 gold mines during this time. The local gold mining died after World War I. The mines closed for a brief time in 1922 but during the Depression when gold prices shot up to $35 an ounce, the mines reopened. The mines continued between the years of 1936 and 1940. The suburban area started growing and houses were springing up all over. The land became more valuable than the gold so gold mining stopped. A developer had a zoning problem in 1970 when he was trying to build 16 houses close to the Landon School. The area that he wanted to build was filled with tunnels and shafts that covered the entire area. He had the entrance to the mine opened and he pumped water out of the tunnels and he discovered an ore car instead the mine. The mine was sealed back up and was allowed to fill with water and the ore car was left inside. Many people put in time and energy searching for the gold in Rock Creek trying to get wealthy and many were disappointed. People in the area still believe that the spirits of the gold miners are still haunting around the Creek searching for gold.

Location: (Harker Prep School)
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Description: A dark ghostly figure is seen haunting this school. The ghostly apparition is often seen walking through the school. People hear footsteps and find cold spots in this school.

Location: Poolesville (Black Rock Road)
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Description: The road is haunted by two teenage ghosts that were mysteriously killed in a car crash in a small lake by an old water house. Their ghostly visions have been seen at night when there are no car lights. If you honk your horn a few times the spirits are seen rising from the lake and then knock on your car door. Pair of bright headlights has been seen coming down the narrow road and then disappear.

Location: Potomac (The Potomac River)
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Description: An old man has been spotted 3 times since the early 1920's standing in the middle of the Potomac River.

Location: Silver Spring (Walter Reed Forest Glenn Army Medical Annex)
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Description: Faces seen in the windows of the facility, formerly an elite girl's academy, noises, and cold spots.

Location: Poolesville (Black Rock Road)
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Description: The spirits of two girls who were killed in a horrible car accident are known to haunt this area. There is a lake located near this road The girls drowned in the lake when their car ran off the road. There is a legend about the accident and it is said if you park your car and turn off the lights and honk your horn the girl's ghostly apparitions will rise up out of the water and float through the air and come over to your car. People have also reported that on real dark night you can see the headlights of a car mysteriously glowing underneath the water. Urban legends such as these are born when terrible accident like this happen. I was research Black Rock Road and found that you can find a road with this same name in many place area in Maryland, Burkville, Hagerstown, Baltimore County, Annapolis, and Darnestown

Prince Georges County

Location: Adelphi
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Description: This home was built in 1700's or 1800's and was used as a slave home. The staff has made numerous sightings over the years. The home is used as an assisted living home for the elderly. Ghosts are seen that are from the distant and not so distant past are often seen here.

Location: Bladensburg (Dueling Grounds)
Ghost Name(s): Stephen Decatur, Colonel John M. McCarty, Congressman Jonathan Cilley, and Daniel Key
Description: Bladensburg dueling grounds is located northeast of Washington, on Highway 202 in Prince Georges County. The former dueling ground is located near Fort Lincoln Cemetery and a historical marker is located in front of the grounds on Route 450. The dueling grounds are only a memory now; there is a historical marker along Route 450 to mark the area. The events that took place many years ago have left an indelible impression on the area. Ghosts still walk the grounds. Victims of the 50 duels that were fought on these grounds and men like Stephen Decatur have left phantoms in their place. The ghosts are doomed to walk these grounds in an endless replay of the events Death seemed to linger their long after the dying was over. A question of honor was often settled at gunpoint here in Bladensburg. Over fifty duels were fought on these grounds. Men like Stephen Decatur, Colonel John M. McCarty, Congressman Jonathan Cilley, and Daniel Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, left phantoms behind in their place, a doomed replay of events now forgotten.

Location: Bowie
Ghost Name(s): Goatman
Description: This is not a ghost haunting but is a haunting of another sort. Goatman is a strange creature who has haunted the outer limits of Prince George's County for the past few decades. This creature has haunted the lonely backcountry roads, the areas filled with dark forest. The creature likes to hang out in the area of Fletchertown Road in old Bowie and Lottsford Road in Mitchellville and Tucker Road in Clinton. Newspaper articles have been written about this creature for the last few decades. The Washington Post ran an article on the Goatman on November 30, 1971. The article detailed the mutilation of April Edwards' dog Ginger. The only remains of the dog were the head, which was found by Willie Gheen and Ray Hayden. Then John Hayden encountered the creature on Fletcher Road when he saw it in the field that is located across from the railroad track. The creature was 6 foot tall, hairy and walked on two feet. It made a high-pitched squeal. The next morning Hayden and Gheen found the head of Ginger the dog. The dog's body had been eaten. People wanting to research Goatman can look at articles written in the Washington Post, Prince George's County News, The Washington Evening Star and the Washington News. The newspapers have all carried articles about this creature for the last few decades. Some people believe that Goatman is really a Bigfoot.

Location: Clinton (Surratt Tavern)
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Description: This is the tavern where John Wilkes Booth plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Footsteps and the sounds of glasses and conversations are reported.

Location: Upper Marlboro (Mount Airy Plantation)
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Description: This home was built in 1725 and this home has a rich history from Maryland past and is one of the most historic homes in all of Maryland. The home belongs to the fifth Lord Baltimore, and George Washington visited the home to attend a wedding and he was also a frequent guest. President Hoover, President Taft, President Coolidge and President Wilson also visited this home. It is also the home of a number of ghosts! It was the home of Maryland's Calvert family until 1903. Rumors of the house being haunted circulated for years before the Kulla restoration. In the 1930's, it was even visited by the London Society for Psychical Research, who detected the presence of Elizabeth Bresco Calvert. She walks the halls of the mansion at night in search of the family's missing jewels. There is also a ghost of a girl in white, an old woman who roams from room to room at night waking the sleeping occupants. A ghostly horseman has also been seen on the grounds in old fashioned riding attire. The haunted house has rooms where candles will not stay lit. Former occupant named Miss Eleanor Calvert who lived in the house until 1902 also haunts it. Miss Eleanor lived at Mount Airy till the age of 81 and she was regarded as a bit of an eccentric. She did not like the front parlor to be used and always kept it locked. She passed away after a fall down the stairs. Her body was laid out in the front parlor on the night before the service. The next day the doors to the parlor were locked and the key could not be found. The parlor had to be broken into and the key was discovered inside the room on a table next to Miss Eleanor's coffin! The current owners admit there are things that happen there which cannot easily be explained. Odd things sometimes happen in the restaurant. The workers involved in the restoration experienced some strange things and had stories to tell. Stories of apparitions and of doors opening by themselves are told by visitors and staff. There is also a ghost of a heartbroken young woman who mourns a lover forbidden by her family. There is one room that a candle will not stay lit in and the door constantly opens and closes on it own. The contractors refused to work on the house after dark. Mount Airy Plantation is located in Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County at the junction of Highway 301 and Highway 4. The plantation restaurant is located within the borders of the Rosaryville State Park.

Location: Clinton
Ghost Name(s): Mary Surratt
Description: Mary Surratt was the only female conspirator convicted in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Her ghost is said to haunt several places in Maryland and Washington today. Mary Surratt was born in Maryland in 1823 and married John Surratt in 1840. In 1852, they built a tavern in what is now Clinton, Maryland, although with a post office also located there, it became known as Surrattsville. John died in 1862 and left Mary deeply in debt. She moved to Washington, into a house that she and owned, and turned it into a boarding house. Among the occupants of the house were her son, John, a Confederate courier, some ladies of questionable virtue, several southern sympathizers and an actor named John Wilkes Booth. After Lincoln's assassination, the house and tavern were searched. The tavern had been leased to a man named John Lloyd and he had testified that Mary had been involved in the plot to kill the president. She was taken into custody. She was convicted by a military court and condemned to death. She denied the sentence to her dying day. She and her three fellow conspirators were hanged at the Old Capitol Prison on July 7, 1865, and she was the first woman ever executed by the Federal government. Her ghost frequent visit her home in Clinton, Maryland, located off of Brandywine Road. She is believed to be just one of the ghosts who haunt the place. John Wilkes Booth stopped at the tavern after making his escape from Washington, causing the tenant to inform the authorities of Mary's part in the assassination. Stories of odd events at the tavern began in the 1940's when a widow lived in one half of the house and rented out the other. People spoke of seeing the ghost of Mary Surratt on the stairway between the first and second floors; others heard men's voices, engaged in conversation, when no one was there. The site was taken over by the state in 1965 and as a historical landmark. Workers & visitors claimed to have seen apparitions of people in period clothing and hearing phantom cries of children and footsteps pacing through the upper floor.

Location: Laurel (Oakland Mansion)
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Description: The mansion once was set on over 1000 acres of land. The mansion was built in 1700 as a wedding gift to the daughter of Richard Snowden. This house has a reputation for being the most haunted house in Laurel. At least five ghosts live in this mansion. The Staggart family who still owns it today purchased the mansion in 1920's. Several members of the Staggart family have seen the ghost of Richard Contee, who was one of the mansion's early owners. He still walks the grounds. The family reports that between 9:00 and 10:00 each evening, you can hear the sounds of horses galloping up the driveway. Then the sounds of footsteps approaching the house and then entering the house, and then you would hear the footsteps leave and the horses would then gallop off and you hear the sound fading off. The family reported the phantom smells of flowers, and they would see the rocking chair go back and forth on its own. The family also reports seeing the apparition of a small boy in an upstairs bedroom who was dressed in an old-fashioned brown suit with shorts and a rounded collar. The boy has been seen on many occasions over the years. The family and visitors reported seeing ghosts of a large black woman and a black man dressed in work clothes from another era. The Staggart family believes the spirits are from the past since their home is over 200 years old. The Oaklands, past owners, owned over 200 slaves. A very strange story from the Staggart family involves one of the family members who witnessed a ghost of a woman in a long dress who beckoned to him from across the lawn. He began following her and she was led to an area near one of the terraces, then the woman stopped and pointed to the grass at her feet and then she vanished. At the place where spirit had pointed the man found a gold chain. He picked up the chain and later took it to a local jeweler who identified it as being from the era of the late 1700's. No one knows who the woman was but the family feels that she might be someone from the mansion's past and maybe she was associated with some sort of misdeed connected to this necklace. The spirit may have needed to show someone where the necklace was maybe to free her of past guilt.

Location: Laurel (The Old Laurel Firehouse)
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Description: Footsteps are heard, furniture is moved and up in the meeting room, the sound of tables and chairs being moved.

Location: Laurel (Cedar Knoll Detention Center)
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Description: Knoll Detention Center is located in Laurel close to Jessup. It is an abandoned detention center that is supposedly haunted. There are about 35 buildings that make up the compound. People have seen ghostly apparitions and heard strange sounds.

Location: Malden (Jimmy O'Keefe's Restaurant)
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Description: A former patron of this Irish Pub who died in a slip down the basement stairs is rumored to be seen sitting in his regular stool. The former patron was called Uncle Buck for his resemblance to John Candy's character in said movie.

Location: Laurel (Montpelier Mansion)
Ghost Name(s): Thomas Jefferson
Description: This house is haunted by a historical ghost. The ghost of Thomas Jefferson has been seen in this house. Washington and Adams are a couple of other historical ghost that like to make their present know in this house. This is just a few of the ghost that haunt this mansion.

Location: Glendale Hospital
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Description: The Government owns the hospital and it is condemned property. No trespassing is allowed. The main hospital, 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 of 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 still have things just left there. They have a small police station to scare away people from sneaking in. People like to sneak into the condemned buildings to look around; they park on Electric Avenue and walk over to the buildings. There are about 10 or so buildings that are all connected by underground tunnels. People use the underground tunnels to go between the buildings so they bring flashlights when they go on a ghost hunt. The buildings are reportedly haunted. It caught on fire a long time ago and it was closed down. A lot of people died there. People going on ghost hunts have seen and heard weird things there. Remember you should not trespass; this is a good way to get arrested. Try to get permission to enter.

Queen Annes County

Location: Middletown (Locust Grove)
Ghost Name(s): Aunt Betsy Shifler
Description: One hundred years ago Betsy Shifler was murdered. She was murdered in the middle of the night for thousands of dollars that she hid in her home. The murderer set her house on fire to cover the crime scene. In 1901 the local town's papers ran this story for months. People came from miles to sift through the ashes looking for lost treasures and for Betsy's bones. No bones or body were ever found. No one was ever charged with murder. People say that Betsy is still haunting the area looking for her lost treasures and she is angry that her murderer was never caught. Betsy lived in Locust Grove which is west of Middletown and south of Boonsboro and North of Pleasant Valley.

Location: Stevensville (Kent Manor Inn)
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Description: The home was built in 1802 and just prior to the Civil War, Alexander Thompson added a first and second floor addition and five smaller rooms on the third floor. In 1988 the home was purchased and turned into an inn. When the owners began working in the inn they were asked by the Thompson family and by employees if they had seen Alexander riding up the driveway on his white horse. They were informed that Alexander is often seen. The owners said they have never seen Alexander on his horse but have experienced many unusual occurrences. Each night the twenty four un-rented rooms are locked only to be found open and unlocked in the morning. One employee saw a man sitting on the bed in room 303, she screamed and ran out of the room and the man disappeared. People who stay in room 209 say they feel someone watching them. The ghost often turns off the TV when people are watching it. The lights turn on and off in room 209. One guest in room 209 complained about a knocking sound that went on all night.

Location: Queenstown (Queenstown Inn Bed & Breakfast)
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Description: Burgess Suite is name in the honor of the Burgess, who was the previous owners. People book this room so that they can watch for ghosts. This room is reportedly haunted.

Location: Chestertown
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Description: The Inn at Mitchell House located at 8796 Maryland Parkway. This is an 18th-century manor that set on 10 acres overlooking Stoneybrook Pond. The manor is now a Bed and Breakfast Inn. The Inn is reportedly haunted. The Innkeepers are Jim & Tracy Stone Phone: 410-778-6500 Fax: 410-778-2861 email: innatmitch@friend.ly.net

Location: Middletown (Marameade Manison)
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Description: The house dates back to Civil War days. The house is reportedly haunted. The sounds of footsteps, thuds, banging, are heard that have no explanation. Candles have risen in the air and moved across the room all by themselves. Ghostly apparitions have been seen. Ghostly soldiers dress in Civil War uniforms have appeared in the house and on the lawn.

Location: (Bloomingdale Mansion)
Ghost Name(s): William Sterret
Description: This house is haunted by William Sterret. In 1897 Mrs. Sally Harris and Mrs. Nancy DeCoursey and a servant were in their bedroom in the house when someone knocks on their door. They opened door and was greeted by the ghost of Mrs. Harris' deceased nephew William Sterrett. He walked down the hall to his old bedroom. The women followed him and enter the unused bed room, and the found the bed rumpled as though someone had sleep in it. It had been made up and now it was rumpled. William Sterret was seen often in the house and on the grounds.

Somerset County

Location: (Clifton Manison)
Ghost Name(s): Randolph Revell
Description: Randolph Revell built this house in 1700. People say that his spirit is still with the house even though he is dead. People have seen his ghostly spirit walking the halls in the house. His ghostly apparition has been seen walking by the Manokin River where he used to fish.

Location: (The Washington Hotel)
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Description: The hotel dates back to the Revolutionary War days. The Hotel is reportedly haunted by figure from it passed. People have heard strange noises and voices, and have seen ghostly apparition wearing period clothing.

Location: Princess Anne (The Somerset County Courthouse)
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Description: This house was built in 1755. This is the oldest house in Princess Anne. The house is located at 11790 Church Street. The house is known to be haunted. People have reported seeing ghostly apparitions looking out of the windows.

Location: Princess Anne (The Charles Jones House)
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Description: This house dates back to 1780. People believe the house is haunted by a protected spirit who watches over the house and the people who live there.

Location: Princess Anne (Teackle Mansion)
Ghost Name(s): Littleton Dennis Teackle
Description: The house was built 1802 and additions added in 1818. The house was built by Littleton Dennis Teackle who was a merchant He was married and his wife's name was Elizabeth Upshur Teackel. Littleton Teackle purchased nine acres of land in 1802 part of the Beckford Plantation. His estate had a number of outbuildings which included two houses for the servants, a dairy, a wash house and a smokehouse. Teackle started the Bank of Somerest in 1813. He was in the Maryland House of Delegates for several years. He died in Baltimore in 1838. The house is owned by two local historical societies and is open for tours. The house is reportedly haunted by Littleton Dennis Teackle. People think that he is watching out over his home and his town.

Location: Princess Anne (Waterloo Country Inn & Restaurant) Ghost Name(s): Description: The building was built as a private home back in 1755 by Henry Waggaman. The house is a Georgian style mansion The house has been owned by prominent families of princess, such as the Teackles, Riggins, Handys and Wainwrights. Then it became the county Almshouse. The family graveyard holds the remains of the builder and his ancestors. Visit the family graveyard to meet ghostly apparition.

St Marys County

Location: Hollywood (Saint Andrew's Church Road Bridge)
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Description: There is a bridge located near Hollywood, Maryland, along St. Andrew's Church Road. The bridge crosses over a dark, swampy area. This location is home to two different ghosts. One is the spirits of a young woman whose husband had gone off to fight in World War II. She was pregnant when he left. Shortly after the war ended, she received a telephone call in the middle of the night from her husband. He told her that he was in Hollywood and that he was borrowing a car and would be coming home in a few minutes. There house lay along old St. Andrew's Church Road. The woman was so excited about seeing her husband that she bundled up the baby and started walking to meet her husband along the way. There is a bad curve in the roadway, just before the bridge, and the woman was walking around it just as her husband drove quickly around it from the other direction, there was no way that he could stop. The young woman was killed instantly and the baby flew out of her arms and over the side of the bridge. The baby's body was never found. People, who cross the bridge today, often hear the sound of a baby crying and see a young woman running frantically back and forth as though searching for it. The cries of the baby seem to come from the waters below and the creek has been dubbed Cry Baby Creek over the years. The other ghost is a black woman. She jumps out of nowhere, right in front of cars that are passing over the bridge; she has caused several minor accidents on the bridge. There is the ruin of an old slave cabin near the bridge. The cabin was the home of several slaves and among them was a beautiful girl. The Plantation owner forced himself on her dozens of times, so she planned to get even. One night she when she was to meet him in bed and she killed him with an iron pan. She hadn't planned to kill him. She wanted to injure him and run away. She gathered her belongings and ran into the woods. The man was found dead and a posse was formed to hunt her down. They caught her and killed her near the bridge. Many people believe the ghost of the black woman seen at the bridge is the ghost of the young girl. The bridge can be reached by leaving Baltimore and driving south on Route 301 for 48 miles. When 301 merges with Route 5, stay on that road for 38 miles to Highway 4, which is St. Andrew's Church Road. Travel east about 3 miles to the bridge.

Location: Point Lookout (Point Lookout Lighthouse)
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Description: A male ghost solider, dressed in Civil War attire guards the steps to the lighthouse. Photographed pictures have recorded him leaning against the frame at the door. The land was used as a union hospital and POW camp during the civil war. Several ghosts of soldiers have been seen here. Many people have seen the ghost of a sailor, who was perhaps lost at sea nearby.

Location: (Point Lookout State Park)
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Description: It was once a camp for confederate prisoners and almost 4,000 died there. There have been many sightings of some of the dead soldiers.

Location: (Point Lookout State)
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Description: This area was a former Civil War prison camp, named Camp Lincoln that was formerly called Camp Hoffman. It was once a camp for confederate prisoners and almost 4,000 died there. This camp is haunted. There have been many sightings of some of the dead soldiers. The lighthouse located at Point Look out is also haunted. A woman ghost is seen looking for a grave, and she will ask passerby's to help her find it. A general also haunts this campground. People report seeing figures on the walkway surrounding the camp and hearing faint voices. Judge Thomas A. Spence decided to buy the town. Spence and his wife were wealthy when they bought the town. The workers returned and the slaves were once leased out, including Sampson Hat. The village named Pocomoke Forest flourished, but it was too expensive. Spence lost his and his wife's fortunes after ten years. In 1847 all his money was spent so he had to close the furnaces. The workers moved to other places and abandoned their homes and businesses and slaves were moved on to other tasks. Except for Sampson Hat who simply refused to leave the town. He lived at Furnace Town by himself. He was set free after the Civil War and had not labored as a slave for more than 20 years. He died at the age of 107. Sampson made it perfectly clear hat he wanted to be buried at Furnace Town when he died, his final wish was not granted he was buried elsewhere. Many believe that is why his ghost haunts the place today. The Foster family bought the town in 1962 and gave it to the Worcester County Historic Society, which was restored and opened as a museum. The ghost of Sampson Hat still watches over Furnace Town. The ghost of a tall black man has been seen walking through the small village over the last several years. He was very active during the restoration and it appears he plans to stat. He may not be buried at Furnace Town, but Sampson Hat never left. Furnace Town is located in Worcester County, near Snow Hill, which is fifteen miles south of Salisbury on Highway 12. Furnace Town is located at Old Furnace Town RD, three miles past Snow Hill, Maryland.

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Description: In 1697, the town folk of St. Mary's County burned down Molly Dyer cabin and drove her out of town. They called her a witch and wanted her banned from the town. Molly was driven from her home on the coldest night of the year, ice covered the ground and the woman was sent out in the wilderness with out proper dress. Molly body was found a few days later in the forest. She was found with her one of hand frozen to a rock. This happen over three hundred years ago and you can still see her hand print on the rock. People say that her ghostly spirit still walks in the woods where she was so badly mistreated.

Location: Leonardtown (St. Mary's Historical Society)
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Description: An 875 lb. boulder sits in front of the Historical Society. This is the rock that Moll Dyer the witch hand was frozen too, when she was driven from her home on one of the coldest nights of the year. The people of the town burned down her cabin. Moll froze to death and she was found with her hand frozen to the rock. When they removed her body, the impressions of her knees and hands were left at the scene. This happened more than three hundred years ago and you can still see her hand print on the rock Her house was located in an area that is now known as Moll Dyer's Run. Her ghostly apparition has been seen floating over the land near the near where she lived. The large boulder was moved in 1975, to the front of the Historical Society. People report feeling uncomfortable around the rock. When people try to take pictures, their cameras malfunction. People have reported feeling aches and pains when they stand by the rock.

Location: (Point Lookout)
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Description: There have been many ghost stories and ghost sightings at Point Lookout. The Park rangers who have worked the park have told firsthand stories about their experience. The area of Point Lookout has a long interesting history. This is the area where the first colonists sailed into the Maryland on their ships the Ark and Dove. This took place more than 366 years ago when their ships sailed up the Potomac River. This area has had a turbulent history which includes Indian massacres, tragic fires and deadly shipwrecks. Lord Baltimore's brother, died tragically in his mid-30s, when he drowned in Calvert Bay. The Virginia Indians raided Point Lookout in 1648, massacring the early settlers. This area has been haunted by shipwrecks, where many sailors drowned, and the sandy beach became their grave. In 1827 Congress had a small beacon light installed to provide a guide for mariners. The first lighthouse keeper, James Davis died on duty. Two other lighthouse keepers died on watch. On November 11, 1862, the USS Tulip a Union gunboat sailed into the area of Point Lookout on their way to Washington, D.C. The ship exploded and 57 people were killed. Eight mutilated bodies washed ashore. During the Civil War, Point Lookout became the site of Camp Hoffman, the Union's largest Confederate prison camp, housing more than 52,200 Confederate prisoners. The soldiers stayed in canvas tents which provided very little shelter. Starvation and disease caused more than 4000 soldiers to die here. Many of the dead soldiers were buried in the Confederate Cemetery. There have been many sightings of some of the dead soldiers. Point Lookout became a popular vacation spot. People came to stay at the beaches and cottages. One of the Inn was called the Fenwick Inn. This was a popular place to stay in the early 19th century. The country elites like to summer there. A tragic fire burned the hotel down to the ground in 1878. That year, the steamer ship broke up off the coast during a hurricane and twenty-two people died. Many lives have been lost on this beach and the ghosts of those lost souls are still keeping vigil over this area today. Every June, the descendants of the Civil War dead come to Point Lookout to honor the almost 4000 Confederate soldiers who are buried the Confederate Cemetery. People came from 40 states in the past years. They come dressed in costumed to bring the history back to life. Women dress in black-hoop dresses and wear veils. Men with beards and wearing their Confederate uniforms come to honor the dead. They set up camp on the edge of the Potomac, and build fires to heat their coffee and meals. The lighthouse at Point Lookout is known to be haunted. One of the park rangers who lived in the lighthouse in the 1970's says he experienced strange happenings in the lighthouse. People report the feeling of being watched when they would sit in the kitchen. The park ranger says he saw a young man face looking in the window. The young man was wearing a floppy hat and a loose coat. He opened the door for the young man to welcome him in, the young man floated into the room and then he just disappeared. The young man was identified as ghostly crewman who was on the steamer Express, which broke up in a storm in 1878. The body of the young man, washed up on the beach and he was buried near where his body was found. The young man's description was printed in the newspapers at the time, and this description matched the image. The doors opened and shut by themselves. The sounds of footsteps can be heard in the empty rooms and on deserted staircases. The sounds of human voices are often heard. The sounds of objects falling to the floor are heard, but nothing can ever found. Sometimes the sound of coughing and snoring is heard. People that have lived in this lighthouse have experienced ghostly phenomena. They report the sound of someone walking wearing boots, unexplained noises and odd smells and the sound of someone walking in the hallway. The lighthouse has been researched by psychical researchers. Ghostly photographs taken have shown a headless man in a Confederate uniform leaning against the wall in the green front bedroom.

Talbot County

Location: Easton (Gross' Coate)
Ghost Name(s): Aunt Molly
Description: This is one of the oldest estates in the state of Maryland. The home is over 250 years old and is on 63 acres of land. Aunt Molly lived in the home and after the death of her husband she devoted her time to her nephew. Molly would wait up for her nephew to let him in when he returned late in the evening. It is reported that Aunt Molly Tilghman's ghost has been seen floating down the steps of her home as she goes to the door to unlock the door. Aunt Molly is still doing the task that she did in her life.

Location: Easton (Fairview House)
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Description: This home was built in 1718 and has been known for its lovely box gardens. The house, however, is known for more than the lovely gardens. Visitors often hear strange voices and works in the garden when no one is there. No one can determine where the voices are coming from, and people do not venture into the garden after dark. Another stretch of land at Fairview that slopes down the lawn and meets the shore at Miles river had a headless man ghost that haunts the area. The ghost is believed to be a British sympathizer that still stands watch on the beach to guide the British ships into the harbor. On another road not far from the beach is another ghost that rides his horse madly along the winding road. This ghost has startled quite a few visitors.

Location: Peg Alley's Point
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Description: Peg Alley's Point is situated between Main Street and Miles River and it is a long and narrow strip of land. Many years ago Baltimore oystermen camped out at this point. One of the men was named Alley. Alley deserted his wife and she followed him to camp. He spoke with his wife and then he took her into the thicket where he killed her. Alley murdered her with a club. This is how the area got it name. The wife spirit still haunts the area. Some rail-splitter was working there twelve or more years ago and they experienced very strange happening. They saw a ghostly women, heard strange noise. One day the foreman refused to go back down to the area to work. The employer Mr. Kennedy told him he was being foolish and to go back to work. A few days later Mr. Kennedy was riding through the woods looking for some lost sheep and his horse refused to go on even when he was whipped. Mr. Kennedy looked around to see what was spooking the horses and he saw a woman get up from a log then she stood by the road just looking at him. The woman clothes wore a faded calico dress a sun bonnet and she had straight jet black hair hanging to shoulders. He spoke to her and asked what she was doing there; she stared at him angrily and just disappeared.

Location: Saint Michaels (Kemp House)
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Description: This home was built in 1820 by Joseph Kemp. The home is now an inn. One employee saw a blue flash streak up the stairs. A lot of unusual activity takes place in the Blue Room on the second floor. One husband and wife were staying in the Blue Room and the wife woke up and had the feeling someone else was in the room. She saw the rocking chair rocking. A father and son stayed in the Blue Room; the father was in the double bed and the son was in the trundle bed. The father woke up when he felt someone getting into bed with him. He thought it was his son until he looked over and saw his son in his own bed. The father could feel the mattress sink like someone was lying down. In the daytime the Blue Room is quiet and relaxing, in the evening the room will give you an eerie feeling. Employees working alone in the building will hear door slamming. The employees call the ghost Joseph after the person who built the house.

Location: Saint Michaels (The Inn at Mitchell House)
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Description: The original part of the house was built in 1743 and an addition was added in 1825. The house has a history that goes back to the War of 1812. The British Warship H.M.S. Menelause under command of Sir Peter Parker came ashore through Kent County. Peter was seriously wounded and taken to the Mitchell House and he died in the kitchen. The Col Phillip Reed Room also known as room #4 has a rocking chair in the room. The employees of the inn have seen this rocking chair rocking back and forth with no one in the chair. One of the owners had a dog that liked to play in that room and he also acted like he was playing with someone. The family's cat would not enter this room. Guests who have sat in the rocking chair have felt something touch their leg. Funny noises can be heard through out the house. The basement gives you a bad feeling. This is a place where slaves were kept in chains.

Location: Saint Michaels (The Inn at Perry Cabin)
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Description: The Inn at Perry Cabin: is a 41-guest-room hotel on the Chesapeake Bay. The inn has a ghost. Melissa is one of the staff members of Inn. She had a strange thing happen to her. She said, "suddenly one day, something, I don't know what, whooshed across the floor with a flurry toward the French doors on the opposite side of this room. The doors flew open on their own and, whatever it was went through them and just disappeared. The structure has been in continuous use for 187 years, so it not surprising that it has ghost in residents.

Location: Saint Michaels (The Cannonball House)
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Description: During the War of 1812, the British wanted to wreck the fledgling shipyard and the town, they were going to blast it their warships' cannons. The resident of St Michael residents learned of their plans and they hastily climbed up the highest trees and placed lighted lanterns at the tops of the trees to fool gunners into thinking they represented houses and thus overshoot their mark. Only one house was hit during the firing of the cannons and a lot of trees got blown away. The little house that got hit became famous and was then know as The Cannonball House. This house is believed to be haunted; people have heard footsteps and sounds of walking in the house.

Location: St. Michael (John Thompson House)
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Description: The John Thompson House is located on West Chestnut Street in St. Michaels The John Thompson house was built by Mr. John Thompson in 1790. It was built in St. Michael's first black community. The house has been sold a number of times over the years. It was remodeled greatly in 1850 and, because of this, was thought to be 60 years younger than it actually was for a time. My mother's family lived in this house for most of her life, through childhood and adolescence. It was sold to a new family a few years back, but I grew up visiting there on the weekends. My mother has told me stories of what she has experienced in this house. My mother, in her teenage years or so, once woke up to feel something poking her on either side of her chest, around the ribcage, as if unseen fingers were there. No one was in the room. On another occasion, my mother woke to the sensation of someone sitting down on the side of her bed. Thinking it was one of her brothers, she opened her eyes and looked, but no one was there. I, myself, have had an experience or two in this particular house. When I was younger, in kindergarten or so, my mother was cleaning out my grandmother's house, as she did on weekends. My friend and I were in the dining room and I distinctly remember seeing a female figure dressed in dark old-fashioned clothes walking past the window, on the enclosed porch. In the past, this would have been the garden. I also remember seeing a hand come through the wall, towards my friend and me. I found out later that my aunt also had a strange dream about a hand coming through the wall, in the same house. People have reported strange feelings in the John Thompson house, mainly in the kitchen and on the kitchen stairs, which go up to my mother's old bedroom. The feeling is not foreboding or menacing....just strange and not quite right. I have dreamt of a secret doorway in the attic and, later, found out that my uncle, when he was my age, had nearly the same dream. My mother has seen a fireball in the sky, also while in this house. There once was a mysterious hole in the wall as well, which appeared one day, years ago, with no explanation. It is possible that one of the kids put it there, over my uncle's crib, but, with everything else that has happened there, no one can say for sure...at least, no one is admitting anything. My mother believes that there is something under the kitchen floor that the past owner woman wishes her to find and, if we still owned the house and were to take up the floorboards in the kitchen, she would find some old pieces of past lives in the home. Written By Cayt Baynard.

Washington County

Location: Antietam Battlefield
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Description: Two Antietam two park rangers were doing their nightly rounds and they were horrified by a blue translucent figure in the open doorway of Otto House. The ghostly figure looked like a Southern belle ghost in a hoop skirt standing in doorway of the house looking toward town. This house stands on a knoll along the Burnside Bridge Road and it overlooks the Sherrick Farm. This house was used as a hospital after the Battle of Antietam; the rangers became frightened and ran until they reached the Burnside Bridge. They stopped and spoke about what they had just seen and both describe the same thing, what they saw was identical. The ghostly Southern belle is often seen by rangers and visitors.

Location: Antietam Battlefield
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Description: This is a historical battlefield that was established by Act of Congress on August 30, 1890. Antietam marks the Civil War site that ended General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North in September 1862. The battle claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day, September 17, 1862, and led to Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Solders killed in the Civil War haunt this battlefield. Solider have been seen by people visiting the battlefield and by ghost hunters. The sounds of soldiers are heard on the fields.

Location: Antietam Battlefield
Ghost Name(s): General Israel B. Richardson
Description: Located overlooking the Antietam battlefield is the Phillip Pry House, which is a brick farmhouse. The farmhouse was commandeered by Union General George McClellan. He used it as his headquarters during the battle. General Israel B. Richardson received wounds in this battle, which he would die from 6 months later. The house is now owned by the National Park Service and closed to visitors. Strange stories have been told about the place. The Pry House caught fire in 1976 and one-third of it was gutted. During the restoration of the house many strange events were recorded. During a meeting of park personnel, the wife of one of the men attending the meeting met a woman in old-fashioned clothing coming down the staircase. She asked her husband about the lady in the long dress, but he had no idea who she was taking about. When workers arrived a short time later they observed a woman standing in an upper window, in the same room where General Richardson had died. The worker searched the house and realized that the room where the woman had been standing had no floor! People believe that it was the ghost of Richardson's wife, Frances, who cared for him on his deathbed. On another occasion when a new contracting crew had to be hired because the previous workers caught a glimpse of the ghostly figure and abandoned the project. Phantom footsteps have been heard going up and down the staircase. People believe they belonged to worried generals, pacing up and down in anticipation of battle. Others believe the steps belong to Fannie Richardson as she climbs the stairs to check on her dying husband. People who have heard them are convinced they are not the sounds of the old house settling.

Location: Antietam Battlefield
Ghost Name(s): Irish Brigade
Description: The most famous story involves a group of boys from the McDonough school in Owings Mills, Maryland. They toured the Antietam battlefield and ended the day at Bloody Lane. The boys were allowed to wander about and to think about what they had learned. They were asked to record their impressions for a history assignment and some wrote brief remarks and poems. Observations that got the most attention from the teacher were from the boys who described hearing shouts that came from Bloody Lane. Some of them said that it sounded like a chant and others described the sounds as someone singing a Christmas song, like "Deck the Halls". The boys described the words as sounded like the part of the song that goes "Fa-la-la-la-la". The singing came strongly and then faded away. The singing had not been a Christmas song at all, but the sounds of the Irish Brigade "clearing the way". This was the chant that solider where singing it was their battle cry "Faugh-a-Balaugh."

Location: Antietam Battlefield (Sherrick House)
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Description: A ghostly entity has been captured on a camera at this house. People have seen ghostly apparitions.

Location: Antietam Creek
Ghost Name(s): The Indian Maiden
Description: The Antietam Creek is a place that the American Indians used to camp back many years ago. The people of Funkstown tell a story of a young Catawa Indian girl that dates back to 1750. This young maiden girl fell madly in love with a young boy from Delaware who had moved to the area. Both youths where only fifteen years old. The young couple would meet secretly at the creek. One day the young girl waited for the young boy to arrive and he never showed up. . The young maiden later learns that the young boy had been killed in an accident. She was so upset that she drowned herself in the creek. The towns people say that on September 12, the anniversary of her drowning, you can see her ghost paddling her canoe up the creek. She calls out the young boys name searching for him. People in the town have seen her and like to tell the tale.

Location: Antietam Battlefield
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Description: When the battle was raging the Confederate Army did not have time to bury their dead. They would hire and pay innkeepers to bury their dead. One innkeeper, Mr. Wise, accepted payment for providing the proper burial of 50 soldiers. Instead of providing a decent burial he dropped the dead soldiers in an abandoned well. One of the solider was dropped face down in the well. Mr. Wise received a surprise visit from this solider who was drop face down. The solider was Sergeant Jim Tabbs of Virginia. The dead solider complained that he not comfortable with the way that he was buried. Mr. Wise was frightened and he immediately went to the well and repositioned the bodies that found face down. The Authorities heard about what Mr. Wise had done with the bodies and they made him provide the soldiers with a decent burial. He had to dig 50 graves and fill them with the soldiers' bodies.

Location: Antietam (Burnside Bridge)
Ghost Name(s): Union Soldiers
Description: Union soldiers were held off most of the day by a few hundred Georgia riflemen, many of the soldiers were killed while trying to cross the bridge.

Location: Boonsboro (Washington's Monument)
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Description: The first monument built to honor George Washington was built in Boonsboro, Maryland. The monument stands on South Mountain overlooking the valley below. In the rocks below the monument is a maze of caves. A young Civil War soldier stopped at one of the farms to get a drink of water from the well. He met the landowner's young daughter and he fell in love with the young girl. The young lady feared for his life and begged him to run away from the war and fighting. She asked him to go away with her to find a safe place to hide. The young man deserted his unit and they both went and hid in the caves. A rockslide trapped the young couple inside and they both died. The young couple was entombed in the cave. People say that late at night you can hear their distressing cries for help at the monument and the sounds ring out over the valley.

Location: Hagerstown (Maryland Theater)
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Description: The theater is said to be haunted by the daughter of one of the theater's managers who worked from the 1930 through the 1960. People also believe the theater is haunted by the girl's father who dedicated his life to the theater. Another ghost that is said to haunt the place is the ghost of a worker who was killed in a fire at the theater.

Location: Boonsboro (Spook Hill)
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Description: Near the battle site Antietam there is a stretch of road that leads out of Boonsboro and towards several Civil War battle sites. If you drive your vehicle to the base of the steep hill and put your vehicle in neutral the ghosts of Confederate army men will push your vehicle back up the slight incline towards Boonsboro. It is said they are pushing cannons and artillery pieces. Sometimes you can hear laughter from the woods.

Location: Boonsboro
Ghost Name(s): The Snarly Yowl
Description: There is a ghostly dog know as the Snarly Yowl that haunt the main road in Boonsboro. The ghostly dog is known to challenge travelers as they travel their way in and out of town. The ghostly dog appears out of thin air and then it grows larger and larger.

Location: Boonsboro and Funkstown (Route 40 - Death Curve)
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Description: There are some very dangerous curves on Alternate Route 40 that curves sharply left and then right at a location between Boonsboro and Funkstown. This area is called Death Curve because of all the accidents that have happened at this location. Many years ago a man and his dog were returning home late in a horse drawn carriage. The road was very icy and the man lost control of his carriage. The carriage skidded across the road and ran into an embankment. The man was thrown from the carriage. The carriage was torn into splintered wood, the horse ran away dragging the carriage and the supplies and ran right over the man's neck. His head was torn from his body. The man's body was found by other travelers. The man body was removed from the site but they could not find his head or his dog. People believe the Rte 40 Curve is haunted by the people that have been killed on this dangerous spot. One evening in 1950 a woman came out of her house and saw a man dressed in a dark suit standing on her steps. She went toward the man to speak with him to find out what he wanted. She stopped in her tracks when she saw the man was headless. The man climbed up to the second step of her porch and then he vanished into thin air. One evening in 1965 a man and woman were driving along the Alternate Route 40 heading toward their home. The man slowed down his car to go around the sharp bend and he turned on his bright headlights. They the couple saw a man walking beside the road with his back turned toward them. The car illuminated the walking so that he was visible to the couple in the car. The man slammed on brakes and stared at the man with no head. The man then vanished right in front of the frightened couple.

Location: Burkittsville
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Description: The area was settled by Joshua Harley and Henry Burkitt. The two men competed to control and eventually name the town. Burkitt owned three quarters of the land by 1810. In 1824 Harley secured the official post office. In 1836 Joshua Harley died but he had the last word, he named the town Burkittsville before died. People believe that these two competitors still haunt the town. There are other ghostly spirits that haunt the town. In 1735 Middletown was settled by German immigrants. According to the Valley Register the community was terrorized by a monster called a Schnellegeister. The word Schnellegeister is German for fast spirit or ghost. It was also called Snallygaster. The colonial people said that it was a mixed animal, half bird features of the Siren with the nightmarish features of demons. They also said it was half reptile with octopus limbs, and half bird with a metallic beak that had razor sharp teeth. It could fly and pick up its victims and carry them off. The village people said the creature sucked the blood of its victims. People believe that the Snallygaster played a major role in causing the people to hastily sell the land that was later Burkittsville. It is known that George Wine, who bought the final acreage, did not live to confirm the purchase. Snallygaster has been a joke to some people but others recall that it has been documented in the Burkittsville area as recently as 1973. Another German settlement named Zittlestown was seven miles north of Burkittsville and it was also plagued by strange events. The residents also feared a large and vicious animal spirit that was rarely seen. A widow of Admiral John A. Dahlgren named Madeleine wrote a book to document the troubles of the town.

Location: Burkittsville (Burkittsville Ravine)
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Description: Burkittsville Ravine is the location of the Battle for Crampton's Gap in 1862. The Confederate soldiers who were hurt in the battle were cared for at two churches located next to the cemetery. This area and the churches are said to be haunted by the soldiers who died. The cemetery is closed to visitors after dark.

Location: Burkittsville (Spook Hill)
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Description: Later most of Burkittsville's men lost their lives in the Civil War. Many of the soldiers were killed trying to push cannons up the hill. Near one of the battle sites there is a stretch of road that goes up a hill. If you stop at the base of the hill, your car will be pushed up rather quickly. You need to put your car in neutral and the Ghosts of Confederate army men will push your vehicle up the incline. If you put powder on the back of the car, it is said that you will find hand prints. It is said the soldiers believe they are pushing cannons up the hill. There are three locations in Maryland that have this strange phenomenon, Boonsboro, Burkittsville and Deer Park.

Location: Burkittsville (Union Cemetery)
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Description: The land for Union Cemetery was donated by Henry Burkitt, the man the town is named after. The graveyard is on top of a large hill in the middle of Burkittsville and provides a fantastic view. The soldiers who died were buried in Union Cemetery until 1868, when they were removed for re-interment in Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown. This graveyard is known to be haunted by the solider that died here in battle.

Location: Burkittsville (Gapland State Park)
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Description: People enjoy hiking near Burkittsville. The Appalachian Trail is one mile west on Route 17. Gathland State Park was once home of George Alfred Townsend, a Civil War journalist who built the only national memorial to Civil War. Townsend had named his estate Gapland. After he died in 1914 his property went through a series of owners. Then it 1949 it became Gapland State Park. Townsend's used the pen name of "Gath." People believe that this area is still haunted by the soldiers who were killed there.

Location: Burkittsville (Gapland Road)
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Description: This road played an important part in the civil war. In 1862 in the fall the Confederate soldiers marched along Gapland Road toward Burkittsville in the days leading up to the Battle for Crampton's Gap. One evening the opposing army's scouts realized that they had camped closed to one another and they were only separated large hill. The commanding officer in charge of the Confederate forces decided to have his men would climb the hill during the nights so that they could gain a better position for battle. The soldiers slowly made their way up the hill pushing heavy cannons. The Union soldiers on lookout heard them advancing toward them and they alerted their troops. The Union army using the cover of darkness attacked the Confederate Soldiers. The Confederate soldiers ran for cover and allowed their cannons rolled down the hill. This road and hill is now haunted. If you park your car at the bottom of the hill and put it into neutral, it car will move mysteriously up the hill on it on accord. People believe that the Confederate soldiers are still trying to push their cannon up the hill. They say if you put baby powder on the back of your car, you will find the soldiers handprints.

Location: Cascade (Tipuhato)
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Description: The Tipuhato House and estate is located in Cascade, Maryland. This home was owned by the daughter of a very wealthy banker around the turn of the century. The woman loved to entertain and hold parties and she also enjoyed the horse races. The woman loved this home and after she died she just stayed on at the house. A medical doctor bought the house in 1985 and she moved in. Strange things started to happen after she moved. Footsteps were heard when no one was there. Objects got moved around. She had the feeling that she was being watched. The doctor investigated the history of the house and she learned that the owner had died in the bedroom. This is a room that she heard someone pacing in.

Location: Funkstown (Chaney House)
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Description: The Chaney House was used as a hospital during the Battle of Funkstown in the Civil War. People who have worked in this home have reported strange happening. One employee a maid said that she say a woman who was dressed in Civil War nursing garb in one of the upstairs rooms. People have heard the sounds of piano playing. The house was purchased and turned into an antique shop know as Ruth's Antiques. The haunting stop shortly after Ruth's Antiques had taken over. The shop owner received a phone call from a customer who had purchased a table and the customer moved out to the Midwest. The customer claimed that the table was haunted. The customer described the events that where happening in her home. She customer said that she had seen a ghostly woman dressed like Civil War nurse! The customer did not know the history of the Chancy House and did not know the legend of Chaney.

Location: Hagerstown (Rose Hill Cemetery)
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Description: There is a cemetery called Rose Hill in Hagerstown that is said to be very active with ghosts. People have had sightings of full body apparitions. It is also said to be a great place to take ghost photos.

Location: Hagerstown (Stanford Hall)
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Description: A woman in silk and a moon shiner haunt this building.

Location: Leiterburg (Peace Chapel - Millers Church)
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Description: Miller Church was a Baptist church which was located on Millers Church Road, just off of Leiterburg Pike. It sat between two towns, Hagerstown and Smithsburg. The Church is also known as Peace Chapel. The road takes you directly to the church and then it turns you past the church's rear wall. The Baptist's congregation built a new church and abandoned the old Miller's Church. The church was left empty and the old cemetery was abandon. People say that a Satanists group came and did ritual at the old church. Teenagers also like to hang out at church and they vandalized it. They kicked over tombstone and stole them. A fire was started in the abandoned church. The building has been bulldozed to straighten the Millers Church Road. People say that the spirits of the abandoned cemetery are haunting the location. They are looking for their church. They are looking for the parishioner who abandoned them. They are also in search of the vandals and hooligans who destroy their church and resting place. People who have visited the site and taken picture have captured strange apparitions in their photos.

Wicomico County

Location: Hebron
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Description: The Hebron Ghost Lights have been seen for hundred of years. Hebron is a very, very small town. People driving down the long country road have had these ghostly lights head right at them. The people stop and watch the ghostly light pass; there is no car, no sounds. People walking out in the woods have also run into this ghostly light. People have tried to tell the local people that it is swamp gas. They do not buy this story, since they do not have any swamps.

Location: Salisbury (Salisbury Sate College)
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Description: Salisbury State's Magg's gym was built on a burial ground and is reportedly haunted. The bell tower is haunted by a student who committed suicide.

Worchester County

Location: Eastern Shore (Cellar House Plantation)
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Description: This home is located on the banks of the Pocomoke River down on the Eastern Shore. The plantation dates back to the early 1730s. This house has a very interesting history, it was built on top of an Indian burial ground and it was used to smuggle pirate loot. A tunnel extends from the house to the swamp. Back in 1700 pirates' smuggled goods up the river and used the tunnel to hide the loot. The house is now owned by the Grahams. The Grahams believe the house received its name for the Cellar that was used to hide the loot. The land dates back to a grant from the Lord of Baltimore in 1655. A French sea captain built the home for his bride. There is a story that is told around this area about the Captain coming home from one of his trips. He found his wife was pregnant and the child was one of the local men's. He was enraged and threw her out of the house. A month later she tried to return. She took a raft and went up the river but the raft overturned and the baby was lost. The wife swam to shore and went to her husband. He dragged the woman up the stairs and stabbed her to death in the master bedroom. The captain fled town. The woman's body was found a few months later. Her body left a stain on the floor. The floorboards were removed to try to rid the house of this horrible crime. People in the area say that on cold rainy nights you can hear the crying of a baby on the docks. People also believe the woman haunts this area. Click here to visit the official web site created by the owners of the plantation.

Location: Eastern Shore
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Description: reported in the Baltimore American paper May, 1886: A minister that headed the parish for forty years on the Eastern Shore had a very strange occurrence happen to him twenty-two years ago. He was sixteen miles from town traveling between these two places. He was six miles from the home of a judge who had died six weeks earlier. The minister was traveling with a friend and close to sunset when he was approaching the home of the judge who had died. A carriage drawn by a lovely white horse passed very rapidly from behind and was soon out of sight. The minister said to his friend, did you notice that the carriage and horse did not make any noise when it passed. The two they went back to their conversation and they traveled a couple of more miles, when suddenly, the same horse and carriage passed them again. They could not see the driver of the carriage only his feet. The two men could not figure out how the carriage had caught up with them again, there were no crossroad areas to turn around. The horse looked like the horse that the deceased Judge owned. A half mile from the deceased judge's gate the carriage passed them again and it turned into the judge's gate. The minister quickened his horse's speed, and reached the gate only a few yards behind the silent carriage. When they looked up the lane there was no carriage and there were no wheel tracks in the dirt.

Location: Near Snow Hill (Furnace Town)
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Description: In 1832, the Maryland Iron Company began operating the Nassawango Iron Furnaces, employing hundreds of people, mining and smelting ore. Many slaves were put to work doing the hottest, most dangerous jobs. One of these slaves was a man named Sampson Hat. The Maryland Iron Company owns all the land where Furnace Town was located. Then competition opened up in other parts of the country, which forced the company into bankruptcy in 1833. They looked for a buyer for the town. The sale was to include the furnace, a gristmill, a sawmill, the mansion, homes for the ironworkers, a store and a number of other businesses as well as the land it all rested on. They could not find a buyer until until1837. Judge Thomas A. Spence decided he wanted to own his own town. Both Spence and his wife were wealthy when they bought the town. The workers returned and the slaves were once again leased out, including Sampson Hat. The village named Pocomoke Forest flourished, but it was too expensive. After 10 years, Spence lost his and his wife's fortunes. In 1847 he had spent all of his money so he had to close the furnaces. The workers of the foundry moved to other places, they abandoned their homes and businesses. Slaves were moved on to other tasks. Except for Sampson Hat, who simply refused to leave. He lived on in Furnace Town by himself, surviving by his own means. He was set free after the Civil War. He had not labored as a slave for more than 20 years. He died at the age of 107. Sampson made it perfectly clear hat he wanted to be buried at Furnace Town when he died. His final wish was not granted and his body was placed elsewhere, and many believe that is why his ghost is still haunting the place today. In 1962, the Foster family bought the town and gave it to the Worcester County Historic Society. It was restored and opened as a museum. The ghost of Sampson Hat still watches over Furnace Town. The apparition of a tall black man has been seen walking through the small village over the last several years. He was very active during the restoration. It appears that he plans to stay. He is not buried at Furnace Town, but it appears that Sampson Hat has never left. Furnace Town is located in Worcester County, near Snow Hill, Maryland, which is fifteen miles south of Salisbury on Highway 12. Furnace Town is three miles past Snow Hill on Old Furnace Town Road.

Location: Berlin (Stephen Decatur Park)
Ghost Name(s): Stephen Decatur
Description: Stephen Decatur's home was built on this land and he lived there for many years. People have seen his ghost in the park dressed in his uniform.

Location: Pocomoke Forest
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Description: The Eastern shore has a long history of haunting and ghostly tales. This area had a huge furnace where slaves had to work long hard hours. Many people believe that the ghost of slaves still haunts this area.

Location: Pocomoke Forest (The Old Tree)
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Description: There is a tree located with a legend located in the Pocomoke Forest. It is said that the area is evil and people can come there to make a pact with evil spirits.

Location: Pocomoke Forest (Hanging Hole)
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Description: In the Pocomoke Forest is a house that has a history of a man being lynched. People say that the man spirit roams the area and that he can be seen on moonlit nights.

Location: Pocomoke Forest (Haunted Church)
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Description: There is a church located in Pocomoke Forest that is reportedly haunted by eerie Werewolf ghostly creatures. This ghostly creature has been seen by several people.

Location: Pocomoke Forest (Nazarene Church)
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Description: The Nazarene Church is haunted and it is now boarded up and the entire parish has long since vanished. The story goes that there is a heavy bible seating on the pulpit. Many people have gone in and tried to remove the bible and have not been able to remove it. If a person lift the bible off the pulpit and starts walking toward the door the bible gets heaver and heaver and the person carrying it drops it. Some people have brought crowbar to no avail. The church was moved to Furnacetown where a smelting furnace operated in 1850 smelting iron. A little way down the road is the graveyard where the church once stood. Thank you to Nathan and Barbara Johnson who gave this story to me.

Location: Public Landing
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Description: A couple went to enjoy the evening and the sun setting over the water at Public Landing. It was a summer evening and violent thunderstorms came up. As the couple was gathering themselves up to leave they heard the sounds of trees creaking and the sound of choking and moaning. Then the lighting flashed and they saw ghostly bodies of 10 to 15 men just hanging from the trees that were close to the boat landing. It is believed that the couple saw ghosts from the past. The couple left in a hurry. This is an area where runaway slaves were hung. There is an old plantation mansion located less than a mile from Public Landing and the master would hang his runaway slaves. People report that the runaway slaves had a passageway to the creek to escape and this is the area that the couple saw the ghostly apparition. Local people say the area is haunted by the dead slaves.

Location: Snow Hill (The River House Inn, 201 E. Market Street)
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Description: This home was built in 1860 and was owed by one Purnell family until 1990. The home was purchased and turned it into an inn. The home required significant restoration to get it ready to become an inn. During the restoration a roll of wallpaper appeared out of nowhere. The wallpaper was brittle and had not been manufactured recently; it just stepped out of the past. It was the same pattern that was being taken off the walls. The owner asked all the construction crew if they had brought the wallpaper, they did not bring it. The owner called the past owners to see if they had brought the wallpaper. People believe that Aunt Frances Purnell was not happy that the home was being remodeled and she left the wallpaper to let them know. A cold spot can be felt on the stairwell which gives you a cold feeling.

Location: Snow Hill (Snow Hill Inn)
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Description: The original part of the house was built in 1790 and was enlarged in 1850. The Inn is haunted by a spirit known as JJ. Employees reported that they have the feeling a man is standing behind them. JJ likes to turn lights off and on and he likes to lock doors. Sometime employees report seeing a man standing crossed legged who just disappears. Workers were in the Barrister Room trying to get windows open, they tried everything and gave up and went on to another task when the window suddenly opened up by themselves. The workers were given lodging while they were working. The workers, after several unusual experiences, refuse to sleep at the Inn. One guest woke up to see a spirit crossing the room to the bathroom.

Location: Snow Hill (Furnace Town)
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Description: The Maryland Iron Company began operating the Nassawango Iron Furnaces in 1832. It employed hundreds of people to mine and smelt the ore. Many slaves were put to work doing the hottest and the most dangerous jobs. Sampson Hat was one of the slaves who worked the furnace. The Maryland Iron Company owned all the land where Furnace Town was located. Competition opened in other parts of the country and forced the company into bankruptcy in 1833. They looked for someone to buy the town and the sale was to include the furnace, a gristmill, a saw mill, the mansion, ironworker homes, a store and a number of businesses and the land. A buyer could not find found until 1837.

Washington DC

Location: Fort McNair (US Army War College)
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Description: The building is located next to where Lincoln's assassination conspirators were hung and is very haunted. They kept John Wilkes Booth's body in the basement. People have trouble with the window in this room. The window opens all by itself; even when objects are placed in front of the window it will swing open all by itself. The building has been converted to apartments for mid-level Army officers and their families. The children report seeing a ghost of woman and child.

Location: The Octagon
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Description: This was built in 1798 and designed by William Thornton who was the architect of the Capitol and Tudor Place. This building is currently a museum. This house has a history of being haunted by many ghosts. The daughter of Col. John Taylor who was a Maryland farmer haunts this building. She fell in love with a British officer during the War of 1812. Her father disapproved of their romance. The father and daughter had a fight over this. The father refused to let the man into the house to visit. The young girl would sneak out and see him. She returned one night after visiting him and had a major argument with her father. She lit a candle to climb the oval staircase to the third floor. For reasons not known she screamed and fell down the stairs to her death. After the war ended her sister ran away with a man that her father did not approve of. The couple's relationship didn't work out so she returned home to beg her father's forgiveness. He was so angry that he shoved her down the same staircase to her death. The building is now haunted by these ghostly young women. For over two centuries, people report seeing a candle going up the stairs by itself and then they hear a thump. People have reported seeing a shadowy figure appear before them and then disappear. People have heard footsteps pacing back and forth on the third floor when no one's up there. There was also a strange thumping that would come from one of the walls. A construction crew was brought in to tear out the wall and they found the body of a young servant's skeleton. The skeleton's hand was clenched into a fist like she was knocking on the wall. People believe that she was buried alive and that she is knocking demanding a proper burial. There is another ghost that people see occasionally. This ghost is a gambler who used to visit the building and he was shot to death upstairs in one of the bedrooms. People have entered the room and have seen the ghostly gambler reaching for his gun but he does not draw. Another ghost who likes to make an appearance is Dolly Madison. The Madisons stayed in the Octagon after the British burned down the White House. People have seen her and smelled her lilac perfume. The building was used to hide runaway slaves during the Civil War. The slaves have been seen and heard. The chandelier swings when there is not wind or air moving and the curtains rustle for no apparent reason. Candles will light by themselves and blow out with no apparent reason.

Location: The White House
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Description: Everyone knows the story of Lincoln bedroom. Many people have experienced strange things in this room. Abraham Lincoln is one of Washington's most famous ghosts that haunt the White House. Lincoln likes to make appearances in the White House from time to time. People believe that he had unfinished business that he had hoped to complete in his second term. He had only begun his second term when John Wilkes Booth killed him at the Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865. Grace Coolidge was the first lady to ever report seeing Lincoln's ghost; she said that he was staring out of an Oval Office window. The Queen from the Netherlands stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom one night and she heard a knocking at her door and when she answered it she found the ghost of Lincoln in front of her. Lincoln looked at her and then walked away. Lincoln was never known to have slept in the Lincoln bedroom but Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt saw him sitting on the bed putting his boots on. She was frightened and screamed and ran. President Harry Truman received a strange knock on his door one early morning at 3 a.m. He knew it was Lincoln because his daughter Margaret had said she was having experiences with Lincoln visiting. She would hear thumps in the middle of the night in the house and see shadows and she knew it was Lincoln. Lincoln also appears near the White House where he is seen walking.

Location: The White House
Ghost Name(s): Major Henry Rathbone
Description: Another ghost that appears near the White House is Major Henry Rathbone. Rathbone was also a victim of the Lincoln assassination. Henry Rathbone was watching the play with Lincoln when Booth stabbed him in his head and neck when he was trying to get away. Rathbone recovered physically but not mentally. He did not have all of his faculties because of the head wound. He shot his wife and himself eighteen years later. His wife died but he lived and spent the rest of his life in an asylum. His home is was near the White House and people report that he has been heard crying in the house.

Location: The White House
Ghost Name(s): Abigail Adams
Description: A female ghost also haunts the White House. Abigail Adams, the First Lady, liked to do her own laundry. She preferred to use the East Room of the White House because it was the driest and sunniest place in the house. People occasionally see her entering the room.

Location: The White House (Rose Garden)
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Description: The famous rose garden was planted by Dolly Madison. She was a woman who like to garden. The famous Rose Garden is still arranged the same way she that she had arranged it years ago. Woodrow Wilson, Edith Wilson's wife, decided she wanted the Rose Garden replanted. Dolly Madison's ghost made an appearance and told the gardeners not to bother her garden arrangement, to leave it alone. The poor workman became frightened and ran from the garden and refused to touch it. The garden was left alone.