SUMMARY: The entire second floor and one particular room are reportedly haunted by a girl. Students alone on the floor or in the one room have reported seeing the ghostly visitor. Identity is unknown.

SUMMARY: The library is haunted by an elderly man who likes to knock books from the shelves. Shuffling sounds of pages rapidly flipping can be heard when no one is present.

SUMMARY: Despite propinquity to the Chesapeake Bay, the winters in Maryland can be terribly dreadful. Camp Stanton created to recruit and train black Union soldiers was established here near Benedict, Maryland. Conditions and War lead many to their deaths, some of their spirits linger on.

SUMMARY: The Hummelbaugh house on the battlefield at Gettysburg was used as a field hospital by the Union army. A mortally wounded Confederate brigadier general died in the house and it is said that the man's loyal dog haunts the property to this day. The house is a private residence and not open to the public.

SUMMARY: The museum is composed of two old buildings; one dates back to the 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.

SUMMARY: It's said that one Dr. William Hatcher haunts this building. He was the founder of Fork Union Academy. Some say he never departed.

SUMMARY: This eight-room Inn, located near Williamsburg, is haunted by the ghost of Lizzie Rowland. Lizzie's lover perished in the Civil War. She died of a broken heart and continues to wait for her lover to return.

SUMMARY: The Blue Coat Inn is haunted by an old man and a young drummer boy. Their ghostly apparitions have been seen throughout the inn.

SUMMARY: An overwhelming feeling of a strange presence is reportedly often felt on the stairway to the ladies' room. Upon entering the stairway, a presence is felt. It follows to the powder room, but it does not enter the stalls. Good thing, that.

SUMMARY: One local legend has it that part of this old furnace gave way, collapsing in a half-molten fiery inferno onto one hapless Jack Lee Sommers. Unfortunately for Jack, the mishap didn't take him out all at once. The lava-like rock pile only simultaneously cremated and crushed his left leg. Time and infection did all the rest.

SUMMARY: The courthouse was built in 1708. There were a number of hangings on the front lawn of the courthouse back in those times. People believe the old courthouse is haunted by some spirits of those who were hung there. People have heard footsteps in the building and have reported strange feelings when they walk across the lawn.

SUMMARY: A headless horseman reportedly haunts this farm. Confederate Soldiers, killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, are buried under the front lawn of this house.

SUMMARY: Various family members in this old house reported, from the time period of the 1950's onward, odd noises and visual apparitions.

SUMMARY: Local legend holds that an orphanage here "burned down with all the kids still in it." The bodies were reportedly buried on the nearby hillside, their graves now a strange combination of bumps and dips in the Earth. Screaming has been reported in this area.

SUMMARY: A "wispy, faintly glowing girl" was seen in one of the rooms during the night, walking around. The reported stated that she turned and disappeared right through a wall.

SUMMARY: The present barn is a replacement, the original one having burnt down during a punk rock show in the early 1990s.

SUMMARY: The Library of Congress has its share of ghost stories. The building is haunted by a ghostly police officer who resides in the stacks. He has been seen wearing both his uniform and his casual clothes. He has even helped people exit the stacks when they have become lost in the miles and miles of books. He was a Sargent who died a number of years ago.

SUMMARY: The area of the Bermuda Hundred became a battlefield. The peninsula jutting into the James River was the starting point for a Union effort to seize control of the Confederate capital at Richmond. The Bermuda Hundred Campaigns devlolved into a bloody battle that incorporated trench warfare.