SUMMARY: Young Emma Clabugh, only 22 months old, wondered away from her father in the mountains near Emmitsburg, MD and met an untimely death. Was foul play involved, an investigation said no, but then why does the ghost of this little innocent still haunt the area?

SUMMARY: The town of Bladensburg was begun by a indentured servant who came to the colonies in the middle 1600's. Ninian Beall owned the land known as Garrison's Landing, which became Bladensburg.

SUMMARY: West Virginia was a favorite route along the Underground Railroad, and it was used extensively prior to the Civil War. The rough bumpy mountainanous trails were used as paths to freedom by many slaves who were escaping from the south. The routes through the West Virginian hills were favorites among guides because it offered ample many hiding places. The mountains were often treacherous and sometimes led to death instead of freedom, though death might have been a desirable second-best in some cases of heavy-handed and cruel masters.

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: This bridge near Turnpike Road it is said to have been haunted by a young boy who was killed there by a train one night. Some nights expose a purple light along with a phantom train approaching. This is said to be his spirit.

SUMMARY: On July 3, 1863, Arzy West was shot in the head and killed defending the skirmish line of the 136th New York State Volunteer Infantry Regiment during Pickett's Charge. Arzy is now buried in nearby Gettysburg National Military Park's Soldiers' National Cemetery. He was felled on the site of the McDonald's restaurant located at 517 Steinwehr Avenue in Gettysburg. That restaurant rests on what was the scene of bloody conflict.

SUMMARY: One story holds that a previous owner was found hanging in the basement. Rumor holds that viewing a hanging ghost is an ill omen for self or family. It's said that at least one person told a friend about the ghost and died the following day in a car accident.

SUMMARY: It's said that Stevensville Cemetery is haunted by ghostly figures, orbs and energy vortices.

SUMMARY: Captain Kidd buried one of his many treasures on Gibson Island. He did not get to collect his treasures before he died. The treasure is still on the island and no one knows where it is located. People still believe that Captain Kidd's ghost is watching over his lost loot.

SUMMARY: According to local tradition, light flicker on and off on the third floor an older woman in white appears occasionally on the second and third floors. There is an old graveyard on the property that no longer has any headstones.

SUMMARY: On Delancy Road, just off Rt. 40 at the Delaware/Maryland line, is a neighborhood called Turnquist. On December 8, 1963, a plane (Pan American Boeing 707 - Flight 214 - Baltimore to Philadelphia) with 81 passengers was flying over the Maryland/Delaware border when lightning struck the wing and ignited the plane. The plane crashed and the 81 people all died. Their bodies were scattered all over a field on Delancy Road. Turnquist was built on that field, and residents report many strange happenings, noises and sightings. All that remains of the ground where those bodies fell is a remembrance plaque, right next to the sign for the neighborhood.

SUMMARY: Ferry boat service from Kent Island (across the thin part of the bay that is now traversed skyward by the CBB) was treacherous.

SUMMARY: The Westminster Opera House is more than 100 years old. Plans for the building were drawn up in 1850 by the International Order of Odd Fellows and construction was completed in 1854. It has been used for town meetings and for entertainment. It also was reportedly used by Union Troops during the Civil War. A comedian, Marshall Buehl from Alabama, was entertaining the audience in the Opera House by telling political jokes. The audience was pro-North and they became irate over his jokes. When he was packing up to leave the town he was attacked by a group of people who stabbed him and left him to die.

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

SUMMARY: The founder's young daughter died suddenly at the College when she was only 16. Her ghostly spirit has been seen in the attic of the dormitory. The girl's mother has been seen in the quad on the grounds near the old plantation house. The ghostly apparition of Indiana Fletcher Jones haunts the campus. She has been seen in her old home, Mount San Angelo. She has been seen standing near the upstairs fireplaces and walking in the dining room. The college is located two miles south of Amherst. For more information call 804-381-6142.

SUMMARY: People say that the old Glen Echo Trolley Park is haunted, right along with its nearby neighbor, the famous Clara Barton House.

SUMMARY: Famous people frequented this center of attention at the center of town, which is now haunted by at least one ghost.

SUMMARY: An apparition of a woman in a white dress has been reported walking through the cemetery at night. She pauses at various tombstones and gazes off into the distance.

SUMMARY: The Inn is known to be haunted. People have seen things move on tables. Things will fall off shelves by themselves. A paranormal investigator saw a napkin rise from a table and drop to the floor here.

SUMMARY: Some presence attracts wandering lost souls and moves objects.