SUMMARY: The old hotel, built in 1898 by realtor/developer George W. Albaugh, is located at the corner of Westminster Ave and East Main streets. There was a barber shop in the hotel. A man named Jim Hopes was the barber. Everyone in the town liked this friendly man who was truly a quintessential barber.

SUMMARY: Maryland's most famous haunting took place in Mount Rainer. The film titled "The Exorcist" was made about the story. The Washington Post newspaper carried articles about the possession. A 14 year-old boy was possessed by a ghost.

SUMMARY: This Inn and Restaurant is reportedly haunted. Employees and customers have heard voices and have the feeling of being watched. Employees who work late have heard dishes rattling in the kitchen when no one was there. The lights will go off and on and the doors will open and close by themselves. Dark shadows are seen moving through the building.

SUMMARY: The college was chartered 1830. It opened 1832 in Boydton, Virginia and it moved in 1868. The college was named after John Randolph and Nathaniel Macon. The school was originally for men and it became coeducational in 1971. The college is known to be haunted. The Mary Branch girl's dormitory (of course!) has had many paranormal occurrences. The doors open and close by themselves. Students have had problems with items disappearing and reappearing.

SUMMARY: Built on the old property of Legh Master. This home was owned by a very cruel angry man during the Civil War. This man was not liked by the people in his community. He was feared by all. Legh is known to haunt the house. His ghostly apparition has been seen. The home is haunted by this cruel owner and the spirits of the many slaves he murdered. The home is haunted by the ghosts of several slaves that he murdered in his basement. The skeleton of a woman and child were found behind a fireplace in the 1930's. Today the home is known by the locals as the Ghost of Furnace Hills.

SUMMARY: Layers Hill is an area where a lot of lawyers build fine homes in Elkridge. "The Lawn" is a large, two-story house 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.

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 Pratt home is known to be haunted. People believe the home is haunted by Enoch Pratt. He has been seen in the room where he died, which is now an office. They feel he is keeping a watch over his home. Employees who work for the Woodbourne Center have experienced some strangeness: Pratt's ghostly apparition has been seen in the building. People have heard ghostly footstep walking up the stairs.

SUMMARY: Chairs and silverware move on their own. Lamps ignite and extinguish. Doors slam. Pictures fly off walls.

SUMMARY: Many areas of the world have stories about sea creatures, and Maryland has one of it own. "Chessie" has been haunting the Chesapeake Bay for over twenty years. Maryland and Virginia newspapers have documented reports of a huge, snake-like animal that has been seen in the Chesapeake Bay and in its larger tributaries. Chessie is described as a serpentine that is at least twenty-five to forty feet in length, eight to ten inches in diameter, with a football-shaped head. The creature is dark color and has no fins.

SUMMARY: Reports have included screams and other strange noises emanating from within the library at night.

SUMMARY: The Exorcist was filmed using these stairs and this adjacent residence.

SUMMARY: Battleground National Cemetery, located at 6625 Georgia Avenue, NW, was established shortly after the Battle of Fort Stevens in the summer of 1864. The battle marked the defeat of General Jubal A. Early's Confederate campaign to launch an offensive action against the national capital. [wikipedia]

SUMMARY: Unfortunately, this development was built atop an old Indian burial ground. Many of the homes built in the development are reportedly haunted.

SUMMARY: Antietam Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River located in south central Pennsylvania and western Maryland in the United States. The creek became famous as a focal point of the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War. The term Antietam is thought to be a derivative of a Native American phrase meaning "swift flowing stream." 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.

SUMMARY: Some cool old stuff there, like looking into a life that someone left behind. Very interestig, maybe even moreso if you're more adventurous than I (or really really skinny) and brave enough to make the trip upstairs.

SUMMARY: The hotel has experienced some strange occurrences that appear to be linked to the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge did not attend his own inaugural ball in 1925. He was mourning the death of his 16-year-old son instead.

SUMMARY: The Crampton Gap is an area in Frederick County were many soldiers were killed in battle during the Civil War on September 14, 1862. There were so many dead and decomposing bodies that surviving soldiers could not bury them all. Women and children of the town helped bury the dead, who were most often buried right where they had fallen in rather shallow graves.

SUMMARY: Willow trees in the front of Gamble Mansion still bear the marks of where slaves were chained to them. The home itself is haunted by children. Some say the daughter of the master of the home had children several times, and slaves were their fathers.