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Last Updated: October 2007
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Aberdeen - Beechtree Golf Clubdown - the road from Bakersfield Elementary School. The road, the golf coarse is haunted by a black-cloaked figure who chased others at one time. This cloaked figure is evil and dangerous.
Adelphi - Paint Branch Home - This home used to be a slave home built in 1700 or 1800's. There have been numerous sightings by staff over the years.....The home is now used as an assisted living home for the elderly. You'll hear and see ghosts from the far and not so distant past.
Anne Arundel County - George Fox Middle School - It has been said that at night you can see a women walking up and down the halls of the middle school, a former principle. Sometimes she is walking by herself and sometimes she is pulling a student by his ear along with her. None of the students liked her cause she was a very mean principle. She was said to have died (year unknown) during the school year and was buried under the school because that was the only place where she liked to be. Now she still acts as the Principle while walking the school at night.
Annapolis - The barn on Howard's Grove B&B - The story is the housekeeper was mysteriously murdered. This was probably around the 1930's, and the rumors of ghosts still prevail. - Some of our readers are going to investigate the bed & breakfast and will report back to us, what they experience.
Annapolis - Bates High School - This is not to tell you about a haunting. This is to tell you that what you have listed for this location is not correct. I went to Bates in the late 1960's and it was then Bates Middle School and it was not just blacks there. I lived in Annapolis from the time I was born until 1991 when I was 38 years old and have never heard of anyone thrown from the widows of this school. I am not saying that there is not something at this school. I do have the gift, but what is reported on your site is not quite right.
Annapolis - Old Bates Middle - Has been abandoned since the 1970's a lot of strange occurrences happen he if you put your ear up to the doors you can hear moaning and scratching. Rumors that people were killed here in the 1960's. it was a segregated school where only the blacks went in before it closed down a girl was thrown to her death out the window and was never found. Reports of lights being on inside with no power at all, also 5 years ago they tried to make it into a senior center but something scared them away after 2 months.
Annapolis - Governor's Bridge Road - several reports of screams and cries being heard from the old bridge. There have been reports of cars seen hanging off of the bridge and then suddenly vanishing. Also, reports of as an old black car that suddenly appears behind your car as you are driving, quickly pulls up close to you, as if it is going to ram you, and then suddenly disappears.
Annapolis - Middleton Tavern - One of the oldest buildings in Annapolis originally built in the middle of the 1700's and purchased by Horatio Middleton, after his death it was then own and operated by his son Samuel. Many famous historical personalities have been said to of stayed at the tavern, some of which being Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and the founder of our country George Washington. It is unsure to who walks the halls of the tavern, which is currently a restaurant and bar. But, there have been many many occurrences that seem to carry on in story. Whether it is the frequent plate flying across the room, to glasses falling off the bar's wall, as though they are being knocked off one by one, happenings seem to occur very often. On one occasion a table filled with empty dinner plates is unexplainably toppled over. And, on another instance, a restaurant employee witnessed a man in period clothing staring out onto the harbor, as though he was waiting for his ship to come in, and then as fast as the man appeared he disappeared. Shadows move across the rooms, and lantern mounted on the walls are turned upside down. The witnesses love to tell their stories, and almost welcome whatever it is that is there.
Annapolis - Truxton Park-Witches Grave - This is found at Truxton park in Annapolis right across from Spa Cove apts. You go in the woods past the 3rd baseball field and you'll see a slanted tree where the witch was buried and escaped in the 1800's never to be seen again now it is rumored that on Halloween if you go deep enough into the woods you can see the bodies of the people the witch got hanging from trees.
Anteitam - Anteitam Battlefield - Haunted by the ghosts of several Civil War soldiers killed in battle.
Arnold - Rugby Hall - cold spots, during renovation... things had to be replaced over and over, windows broken, & paintings falling off walls.
Baltimore - BJs Wholesale Club - Built on what once was a trailer park, the ghost of a young girl (Beth) can be seen by the overnight workers. Beth is a friendly ghost who has been known to hold open the curtain for employees entering the dock area. Many employees have also been known to talk to her.
Baltimore - Black Woods - Is said to be haunted by a witch. When you find a house and you go down to the basement the witch kills you.
Baltimore - Cardinal Gibbons School - The school used to be St. Mary's industrial school what housed the infamous Babe Ruth as a small child. Some teachers say that his ghost haunts the school from time to time. One specific ghost story happened when the Atheletic Director was in the basement of the gym late at night. He heard a ball bouncing and when he went upstairs all the lights were on. No one could have gotten into the gym and the lights would have taken at least 10 minutes to warm up. No body to this day can explain it.
Baltimore - Church Home & Hospital - Noises and things being moved, doors opening and also the death place of Edger Allen Poe.
Baltimore - Dundalk - Todds farm - dates back before the war of 1812. This home has been the site of many hauntings. And is said they are turning it into a museum. A ghostly woman can sometimes be seen in the attic window with a candle waiting for her soldier to come home from the war---he never does. Late at night you can sometimes see slaves hanging from the trees. The family cemetery is located directly behind the house. It has been said that although there is no electricity in the house, now, if an intruder enters, lights will turn on. There are so many spirits not at rest here.
Baltimore - Fells Point - Robert Long House - Reports of weird feelings are felt on the first floor, which has been restored. The 2nd floor is where noises were heard. The 3rd floor, which still had smoke damage from a fire. This was a very cold place that had worse feelings.
Baltimore - Fort McHenry - The Fort was used throughout history in guarding Baltimore Maryland. Many stories of ghosts and ghostly activity include: a shadowy figure marching along the parapets, an evil spirit in the hallway leading to the bathrooms, floating or moving furniture, tour guides during the Ghost Tour being surrounded in unearthly light, and voices heard by employees 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.
Baltimore - Gardens of Faith - a lady that floats at night in the cemetery she can be seen she watches over the cemetery and will scare you off and at day time if you are quite you can see a man walk out from his grave and stays there all day just like the lady dressed in gray stays all night
Baltimore - Ghost Road - When drivers go down this long dirt path leading from a small neighborhood, their headlights seem to mysteriously go out. Cars have been also been known to stall, and then start again on their own. Pounding can even be heard on the outside of the vehicle. On the right side of the path, when the moon is just right, one can see a tombstone. The stone will sometimes have a blue tinge to it with a floating figure standing behind it. No one knows the story of the tombstone in the middle of the woods, but no one dares to get close enough to investigate.
Baltimore - Greenmont Cemetery - Black Aggie - the statue of a woman over the grave of a civil war general is said to come to life if you sit on its lap at night. It's since been moved to the Annapolis courthouse.
Baltimore - Gridiron Club - an elderly woman and slaves haunted this building.
Baltimore - Lansdowne (English Consul) - The area formerly known as "English Consul" (now Lansdowne) is a very big place for haunted activity. An old Mansion that sits atop a hill from the 1700's is the center of the activity. Lansdowne was once a plantation for an apple orchard. The mansion's garage was once a slave house, also, a tree not far from the mansion was used to tie slaves, (and as legend would have it the English consul's brother) and beat them. And to this day residents still see a glimpse of someone tied to the tree.
Baltimore - Mount de Sales Academy - Coming up on their 150 anniversary. Reports of doors open and close while locked, and there are reports of a bright blue silhouette walks by the windows.
Baltimore - Mount Wilson State Hospital - Reisterstown Road to Mount Wilson Lane, go to end of road. Now called North Oakes Retirement Community. Mount Wilson State Hospital and Sanitarium closed in 1981. The buildings sat abandoned until 1990. Many high school students would visit this place. This was as they called it "A creepy sky scraper in the woods." Secluded on about 200 acres in Baltimore County, Md. Thousands of Tuberculosis patients were treated here during the 50's, 60's, and 70's. 1988 still hear patients yelling for help.
Baltimore - Notchcliff Road - Located about a mile and a half from the Loch Raven Reservoir, Notchcliff road is a long and winding dark road. The road, due to it's sharp turns and constant hills, has been the site of many accidents. One such accident stands out though. Around 11:30 p.m. coming in from the front way, double yellow lines slowly disappear and around the next turn, off in the distance you can see headlights and a mangled car. As you drive closer it slowly disappears and there is a tree with red "paint", busted up from the car.
Baltimore - Old Hutzlers - the old department store is haunted by a "merry" spirit who would ring bells around Christmas and kept good feeling all around otherwise.
Baltimore - Perry Hall Mansion - The owners died in the house on Oct 31 in the 1700's. Since then on Halloween every year people go in and get thrown out windows, lights turn (no electricity), film never shows up on TV, voices and more.
Baltimore - Poe House - Edgar Allan Poe's house is haunted by a heavyset female spirit dressed in gray.
Baltimore - University of Maryland - Davidge Hall - Davidge Hall has been host to many people and events over the years. It is the oldest medical school building in the western hemisphere and is continuously used for teaching. One of the most interesting things about Davidge Hall is the fact that there are many escape routes. These used to provide a quick escape for medical students dissecting cadavers during police raids. This was against the law in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Many people visiting Davidge Hall have expressed a feeling of uneasiness while in building. There have also been numerous reports of people hearing unexplained sounds and voices.
Baltimore - University of Maryland - Medical Center - This building used to house a morgue. Custodial and security staff have reported hearing strange noises and sensing a presence at night. People also seem to have an overall fear of the basement.
Baltimore - University of Maryland - Stamp Student Union - Lights go on and off by themselves, elevators run, doors open and close by themselves. Balloons pop, cold spots. There was a fire that burned down about a quarter of the building about 20 yrs. ago and sometimes, the smell of smoke can still be smelled.
Baltimore - USF Constitution - This ship is haunted by 3 ghosts of sailors killed aboard the ship.
Baltimore - Westminster Church - featured on "Sightings- The Ghost Report" (you can rent it at a video store near you). The graves at this church date back to the 1700's. Edgar Allen Poe is buried here. Along side his wife Virginia. Famous ghost hunters have visited this place with their ghost hunting gear such as EMF (Electronic Magnetic Field Detector) and EVP ( Electronic Voice Phenomenon). A lot of ghost hunters have heard voices, seen, and felt the ghosts here.
Baltimore - Upper Marlboro - Six Flags America - Believed to be haunted by the Hall Family (original owners of the land.) Behind The Wild One, Hall Manor house sits partially hidden. This area is off-limits. A grave that marks the only daughter of Eleanor Hall She died on her birthday. On that day in June, rides malfunction and other problems occur more than usual.
Baltimore - Hunt Valley - Hunt Valley Town Center - Several Co-workers of mine (security gaurds) have complained about wierd noises and the sense of dread over certain areas of the place. It used to be a old shopping mall but was torn down. Other incidences include..cold chills (even on warm days)abnormal Fog..and darkness and spots of light where there should be none. also there is a masonic temple on a hill. adjacent to the complex
Baltimore - The Zodiac - An old man is sometimes spotted at table 13 and in other places in this restaurant.
Baltimore County - Baltimore/Esses - Ballestone Manor - Figures seen, objects being moved, footsteps, odd things happen in the slave's quarters in the back. George Washington stayed at this house. Family graveyard on site. Give ghost tours and Christmas tour.
Baltimore County - Reisterstown - The dead woods - Reports of a little girl calling for her teddy bear.
Baltimore County - Vine House - White and green abandoned house covered with weeds and vines. Its up by Fort Howard. Its been abandoned since 1988 and it looks like there was a fire upstairs.. You have to go in through an alley like driveway and through the garage to the back door to get in. There’s a small room in one of the rooms upstairs. There is a huge hole in he wall where it looks like someone was thrown through the wall. Negative energy is felt here, believed to be from a murder of a man and a rape of a girl.
Bel Air - KB Toy Works - workers of the store claim to hear noises and toys falling from shelves for no reason, also have claimed to hear a girls voice at night crying. their names being called out to them in a soft whisper, toys being opened and played with over night and being left out in the middle of the floor.
Bel Air - Thomas Run - Man dresses in all black with a pale white face seen by many kids in this development always seen after a rain when its wet and after dark. Seen in the woods where the neighborhood urban legend died in the 1800's.
Bel Air - W. Belcrest Rd (Riggie) - When you are in the basement you hear boxes flying across the room. When one of the current owner's kids woke up one night, she screamed at the sight of a man standing near her closet then trying to hold her hand. The other sighting was a little girl singing and spinning in circles. Footsteps heard and cold spots felt.
Bel Air - Villages of Thomas Run - Reports of a man in all black with a white face has been seen by many kids. Names can be listed but, there’s many of them to this day they still think that there is a man so called the "TRACKTER MAN". There’s has also reports of things that has belonged to him. There's many complaints that people hear there door bells ringing and no one is at the door waiting these houses are near the woods that he has been seen in.
Beltsville - Ammendale Normal Institute - This is a turn of the century building used by a Catholic organization to train their priests and also as a retirement home for priests. Many strange incidents have been reported there.
Bethesda - Old Georgetown Road - Some disturbing reports of sightings on the Road and in several houses dating back to the Civil War.
Boonsboro - South Mountain Inn - There was recently a video made that was aired on TV, and included many ghost stories about the Washington County area. The video is named "Legends," and can be ordered through Antietam Cable Television, and can sometimes be found in video rental facilities.
Boonsboro - Spook Hill Inn- Near the battle site Antietham 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. - March 2004 update: There was recently a video made that was aired on TV, and included many ghost stories about the Washington County area. The video is named "Legends," and can be ordered through Antietam Cable Television, and can sometimes be found in video rental facilities.
Bowie - Daisy Lane - Believed to be haunted by girl who was abducted, killed and dumped on Daisy Lane in Bowie, Maryland. the articles about it dated from 1995 in The Washington Post. Just in case you're interested... APPARENT ABDUCTION, SLAYING END TEENAGER'S PROMISE Jon Jeter Washington Post Staff Writer March 22, 1995; Page B1 Section: METRO Word Count: 840 AND ALSO... POLICE SEEKING CAR POSSIBLY USED IN ABDUCTION-SLAYING – any info, please contact the police.
Bowie - Fletchertown Road - Fletchertown Road has long been the subject of the story of the "Goat Man". Said to have escaped from the nearby Dept. of Agriculture Research Center and been an experiment gone horribly wrong involving breeding of humans and animals. The Goat Man is said to have murdered and eaten it's victims in the 1950's and 60's. The Goat Man continues to be a favorite ghost story among campfires in this area. In the 1990's Fletchertown Road was widened and many new housing developments sprung up in the area. The original road was one lane and heavily wooded. There were reports in the 1970's of a half man/half animal being spotted on the sides of the road, with red eyes and tattered clothing stained with blood.
Bowie - Pausse Center - doors open and close and if you come 12.00pm you can see ghost dogs and a man.
Broomes Island - Church Rd. - There is a old cemetery and if you circle the cemetery three times on the third time fog will come rolling in and you will hear a little girls start to laugh.
Bucktown - The Legend of Big Liz - Legend has it that there was a Married couple living their and the Wife was caught cheating on her husband. He beheaded her and she roams the area in search of her head. The legend of Big Liz.
Cambridge - The Cator House - The Cator House is said to be haunted by the Spirit of it's original owner, Emily Cator, who built the house as an inn for travelers. It is now a restaurant and employees have claimed to have actually heard and felt her presence.
Catonsville - Asylum road - On the property there is an abandoned mansion closed to the public and at times when people pull up to it and stop in front if it there are whispers heard and mysterious tapping or banging heard from the inside. There are also people seen walking and as a person approaches the person walking disappears.
Catonsville - Mount de Sales Academy - Strange things are always happening. On the fourth floor (unused today) if you stand at one end and look straight through to the other end you could see movement. Also doors open and close and lock without anyone being there. Things are always changing up there, never is anything in the same place twice.
Charlotte Hall - Charlotte Hall Veterans Home - Residents of this nursing home, sees small children wandering and playing through the halls, it is said that floor 3-b is haunted, they are no residents that lives on that floor, it is completely EMPTY! but when nurses walking through on night shift can see call lights flicker on and noises heard. before Charlotte Hall Veterans Home was built, they was once a type of military school for boys that was there. some how the school was burnt down and some of the children were burnt and killed also. and it is said that the Veterans Home is now haunted by the children and the people who has died while living in the home. - July 2005 Update/Correction: The fire in Charlotte Hall was in the early 1900s. No one was killed. The veteran's center that is at the location has been there only 20 years. Charlotte Hall was a school from 1723 and a Military Academy since 1774. Yes there were several deaths at that school even up to the 1960's such as sports accidents & heart attacks. There was a student that drowned at a pond located behind the school just off the ground where students would go to swim. One boy did drown there in 1909; a cadet named Pierre, there was a plaque on the entrance of the school in his memory. A former student reports, to scare the younger students the upper classmen would tell the younger students about his ghost roaming the halls and still swimming back at Smoochers Pond.
Clinton - Surratt Tavern- This is the tavern where John Wilkes Booth plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Footsteps and the sounds of glasses and conversations are reported.
Cockeysville - Almes Mansion - Faces seen around house and inside house. voices of a woman, a child and a man heard. Things being thrown and moved.
Colesville - Oak Springs Neighborhood - The townhouses around this area have been reported to have noises on levels of homes where nobody is. Noises, thumps, and shadows moving from room to room have been reported by many residents in different houses. The houses are relatively new, were built in late 1980s to early 1990s and we don't know what was there before. If you have any info, please update on this paranormal mystery.
College Park - UMCP - Easton Hall - heard strange noises, many people have seen "objects" move swiftly in peripheral vision. An RA saw a person walk through a door, while another heard the ghost (not looking). Apparently 10 years ago, a student fell out of the 7th floor window and died.
Columbia - Cedar Knolls/ Oak Hill Juvenile Facility - Reports of feeling a strange presence.
Crownsville - RT 32 towards Annapolis - If you stop on the side of the road about 2:30am there have been sightings of a woman in a car with head lights suddenly appearing behind you without a sound. She will get out and ask you if everything is all right. And then she will walk back to her car and suddenly disappear again without a sound.
Cumberland - Mary St. - A house that a witch lives in is said to attract many wandering souls, and is haunted. Residents have been known to hear footsteps when they are in the basement, or things moving in the attic.
Cumberland - old school - Apparition of a boy that hung himself has been seen.
Cumberland - St. Patrick's Catholic Church - Ghost of Civil War soldier who was executed for killing an officer is seen in the church rectory.
Cumberland - Washington St. - A lady ghost has been seen wandering the house. Noises of loud banging, children laughing and a girl crying has been heard. shades and blinds go up and things are always being lost. As though they were moved. The house has been blessed but he noises of children laughing and crying are still heard. Strange odors also come and go. Such as a garlic odor, smoke etc...
Drayden - Cartegena Manor - the Manor was also located there on the banks of a branch of the St. Mary's River. It is said that the manor simply slid into the mud one night.
Drayden - Cherryfield Rd - Drayden residents tell many ghost stories. One is about a large black dog who travels Cherryfield Road dragging a chain.
Dundalk - Government Center - blood stains on the walls. Unexplainable Movement. 4floors top floor hot cold on the 3rd floor 2nd a little warmer Basement see your breath cold. Unexplainable Figure Walking Around the hallways. Footsteps Heard Throughout the building.
Dundalk - Stansbury Quarry - At night there over by the playground down by the water you can see orbs and ghostly like images like dog clouds moving around even when there is nothing that is foggy around and some places are colder then others and some places you can feel things breathing on your back.
Easton - Gross' Coate - Aunt Molly Tilghman has been seen floating down the steps here.
Eldersburg - Henryton - An abandoned sanitarium which later was used for treatment of ill-minded African Americans. On Henryton Rd. off of Marriottsville Rd. During the night time many of the rooms feel cold, as well as during the day, you can see people out of the corner of your eye until you turn and look, they disappear.
Elkton - Old County Library - The old county library is haunted. Down main street, diagonally across from the court house is the old library that was used until sometime in the late eighties early nineties. Rumor is it’s the builder of the house to the left when looking at the library from the front. The man had went on a business trip only to return and find his pregnant wife dead. In his remorse, after his physical body died, he stayed on to live in the study of that building as well as the library. Many of library employees related that they would clean an area after locking up and move on to the next area only to return and have to straighten up again.
Elkridge - Belmont Conference Center - The Belmont house was built in 1738, and there is reported to be many different ghosts in the house and on the grounds, as well as in the family cemetery. Pictures come off the walls, knives move across tables, and glasses break by themselves. There is supposedly a man who regularly appears in the bar area, holding a beer. A daughter of a patron described in detail five ghosts that she saw, including a young girl, about 2 years old. She even said that one ghost had his hand on her parent’s shoulder, trying to get their attention.
Ellicott City - Hazelhurst - Lilburn - It has been called the most haunted location in Maryland. Instant creepy feelings even when just looking at the place.
Ellicott City - Heart beat bridge - Years ago, at the house across from the bridge, a man cut out a woman's heart and threw it into a stream by the bridge. To this day, if you go there, and turn off your engine ... you can still hear her heart beat. Off of Bonnie Branch Road
Ellicott City - Main Street - Historic District - There is a bar called the Judge's Bench and the third floor is haunted by a young woman who hung herself there.
Ellicott City - Main Street - The old firehouse - is said to be haunted by a few of the old firemen Its said that doors slam and one of the ghost has been seen its also been said to hear footsteps.
Ellicott City - The Patapsco Female institute - Is one of the most haunted in the area. Reports of screams and there is a cold spot at the top of the huge stairs.
Ellicott City - Seven Hills Road - College Road - right off main street, has seven hills. supposedly, if you hit the seventh hill at midnight, you will be chased by a demon car that appears out of nowhere.
Emmetsburg - Fraley's mansion - it sits alone and people have told stories on hearing noises but nothing there....that means there are ghosts!! it is located by the dough boy
Emittsburg - Mount Saint Mary's College - Father John DuBois is sometimes seen walking the campus. Several Ghosts have been seen in dorms Brute and DuBois. This school has a history of ghosts and it is the oldest independent Catholic college in the country. It was founded in 1808.