SUMMARY: The mansion was built in 1862 for the Welsh Family. In 1896 Dr. Geroge H. Riggs purchased the mansion and opened a Sanitarium for the mental ill. The Sanitarium was opened for forty three years. Patients came from every state to get treatment at this hospital. The Sanitarium treated over 1,000 patients over the years. The mansion was purchased by Guy Gabriel, and he turned the beautiful mansion into a first class restaurant. Guy found that he was not alone in this beautiful mansion. The mansion came with many ghosts.

SUMMARY: An abandoned Catholic school sat next to the "Stonewall Jackson site." The school, razed in 2002, had some legends and ghost stories attributed to it: "flashing lights inside the building" and "ghostly apparitions walking the halls."

SUMMARY: William Ball built the Ballestone Mansion in the 1600s. Ball was the great-great grandfather of George Washington. The location of the house is the Rocky Point Golf Club. The Ballestone Mansion is reportedly haunted from people from the past. People have claimed to see ghostly apparitions dressed in period clothing.

SUMMARY: Adam Livingston lived in a small community called Middleway back in the late 1700's. The Adams' home was haunted by a very strange poltergeist. People in the town were fascinated and scared by the things that were happening there. Dishes would fall out of cabients and break on the floor. Fires would start and lanterns would go out and turn on by themselves. Objects would fly through the air by their own power. Money would vanish, livestock would disapperar and died strange deaths. Strange screams and bells were heard in the house. The sound of shears snipping with a metallic sound were constantly heard in the house.

SUMMARY: Tomahawk Cemetery is behing Tomahawk Presbyterian church on Presbyterian Church Road in Berkeley County, close to Hegesville WV

SUMMARY: The Calvert Mansion is also known as the Riverdale Mansion. It was built in 1801 by Henri Stier who was a rich Belgian. Henri had a daughter named Rosalie. She married George Calvert. George was a relative on the family that helped found Maryland.

SUMMARY: The land upon which this church rests was deeded to an African American setter in 1884. J.H.S. Gibbons, a white farmer, provided the deed, the land being used to begin a Methodist congregation. The original school building and the cemetery still remain today.

SUMMARY: The school is haunted by a ghostly woman dressed in blue who has been seen walking the halls. Her presence has been noted by at least three people, and it is in each case accompanied by a strong scent of lilac.

SUMMARY: Foot prints on the top of the girls bathroom, noises in the bottom floor girls bathroom and moving objects. In the 1st floor girls bathroom, there have been over one dozen reports of a man's bootprints on the high ceiling.

SUMMARY: From the late 1700s the Old Talbot Tavern has been a popular watering hole and inn for weary travelers. An old stagecoach stop during the western movement of American history, many well known persons graced its weathered floorboards, such as; General Clark, Daniel Boone, French monarch Louis Phillipe, and even a young boy by the name of Abraham Lincoln. Damaged by a fire in 1998, and reopened in 1999, during the repairs hidden tunnels and staircases were discovered. Spirits of those who once took shelter here are know to cause cold spots, move items, and produce unexplained noises in the night.

SUMMARY: A man was accidentally shot in an upstairs room of this house. A bloodstain is reportedly still on the floor in the position where he died. His ghostly spirit reportedly remains and "likes people to know that he is there."

SUMMARY: The DC-suburban town of Indian Head is located in Charles County. The town is located approximately 15 minutes from La Plata and Waldorf, 20 minutes from the Capital Beltway. [...at high speed, no traffic, good weather, maybe...] The Town of Indian Head was part of the territory of the Algonquin Indians who lived by the lower Potomac River. In 1608, the Native American groups north of the Potomac River were divided into ten chiefdoms. The chiefdoms consisted of the Piscataway, Anacostan, Mattawoman, Nanjemoy, and Portobaco tribes. The tribes were headed by the Piscataways whose chief was known as the Tayac.

SUMMARY: Old Copper railroad was a railroad between Cordova and Valdez. It was closed, covered with dirt and then used as an access road for areas along the Copper River.

SUMMARY: The Old Berkeley Cemetery is haunted by a small drummer boy. The boy is seen on the hilltop. People have heard the sounds of his drum beating. No one has spotted his apparition up close, however.

SUMMARY: Although I have never seen anything, the vibes are creeeeeepy. There is a grave of 10 year old girl who's epitaph ends with the words "prepare for death and follow me". Gives me the wiggins' but doesn't feel evil. Cool place.

SUMMARY: Sightings of apparitions as well as ghostly sounds.