SUMMARY: This is a long, narrow, and winding road with lots of hills and bridges. It is often so shaded that in the bright light of day, not much more than faint sunlight penetrates to the road surface.

SUMMARY: The Belair Estate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It sat on 10,000 acres deeded to Lord Calvert in 1658.

SUMMARY: Mother and child are said to aunt the wreck site

SUMMARY: John Wilkes Booth crossed the Potomac River at Pope's Creek during his escape after assassinating President Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth's ghost is spotted at locations around Maryland. He has been spotted at Pope's Creek by fishermen who have seen it sneaking along the water's edge. Apparently, Maryland being a "swing state" in the Civil War with split allegiances, the southern counties (such as Charles County) tended to, perhaps not "harbor" fugitives but at least look the other way. Such was the case, reportedly, with JWB after he shot Lincoln.

SUMMARY: The school is known to be haunted. Teachers have had strange experiences in the school. The sound of knocking on the walls has been heard by students and teachers alike, sometimes en masse.

SUMMARY: The 1865 Seneca School House was a one-room building used in schooling the local farming community. It's located on Berryville Road. Girls were required to sit on one side of the room and boys on the other. The school was heated by an old potbellied stove. The school got its water from a mineral spring. One teacher instructed all the classes to all the grades, aged six to sixteen years.

SUMMARY: The Mt. Olivet Methodist Church is Arlington's oldest church that has been in continuous use. You know what that means.

SUMMARY: Local myth says that if a person walks around the cemetery three times they will hear children as a thick mist rolls across the cemetery.

SUMMARY: Numerous witnesses have reported being almost literally in the middle of a battle, reliving it.

SUMMARY: People have seen ghostly orbs moving through the old mansion. The ghostly image of a woman and a small boy has been seen walking in the house.

SUMMARY: MY CURRENT HUSBAND WORKED WITH THE SISTER WHO OWNS OR OWNED THE HOTEL IN 2001

SUMMARY: The John Wentz house, which stood at this site in 1863, was a small log and weatherboard structure with an accompanying barn and other small outbuildings associated with a small farm. The Wentz property was a corner lot surrounded by the famous peach orchard.

SUMMARY: This is a private school located on McDough Road in Owings Mills. The school has a number of haunted locations. The Tagart Chapel is a beautiful little chapel, and people have been buried in its floor, walls and basement. Subsequently, people have heard voices talking in the chapel when no one was in the building.

SUMMARY: This is the tavern where John Wilkes Booth plotted the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt was the only female conspirator convicted in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and there has surfaced some dispute about her involvement in the plot. Mary's ghost is said to haunt several places in Maryland and Washington today.

SUMMARY: There is a covered bridge near Lewistown that spanned the Fishing Creek. The river beneath the bridge is a spot that local kids used as a swimming hole. A young boy drowned in the river in 1872 when he was 17 years old. People reported that his ghost haunts the bridge.

SUMMARY: This church is known to be haunted. People have had strange and eerie experiences in the church. People claim that a "cold presence" can be felt in the churh.

SUMMARY: Three seperate legends tell stories about this road and its surrounding, dating back to Indian lore, witchcraft, and a missing person.

SUMMARY: Pickens Hall is haunted by a dark shadowy apparition that has been seen walking in the building and in the lobby. People have heard strange noises, the sound of furniture being moved, the sound of balls being dropped, and the sound of marbles rolling in the dorm rooms. These noises are apparently not due to pranks or normal activities.

SUMMARY: During a fire in the early 1900's, a young bride named Elizabeth was killed while trying to escape from room 321 on the third floor. Her ghost has been seen walking down a narrow hallway on that same floor. Ironically enough, the fire escape is located at the end of the hallway.

SUMMARY: A Revolutionary War hero slowly drives wife mad... and her ghost remains.

SUMMARY: The Latin word salubria means "healthful". The house named Salubria 0is located seven miles east of the town of Culpeper. It is the oldest brick house in Culpeper County. The Reverend John Thompson built the house in the mid-1700. His first wife had been widowed by Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood.

SUMMARY: In Georgetown, "Tudor Place" is another Peter family house. With money bequeathed by George Washington to his step-granddaughter, Martha Peter, the Peter family purchased an entire eight-acre city block in 1805.

SUMMARY: John Wilkes Booth's ghost has been reportedly seen in the swamps of southern Maryland.