SUMMARY: The legend of el chupacabra began in about 1992, when Puerto Rican newspapers El Vocero and El Nuevo Dia began reporting the killings of many different types of animals, such as birds, horses, and as its name implies, goats. However, it is predated by El Vampiro de Moca (The Vampire of Moca), a creature blamed for similar killings that occurred in the small town of Moca in the 1970s.

SUMMARY: Genealogy and coincidence can be a curiously creepy mix. Add in this kind of history, and who knows what might be lurking in the shadows?

SUMMARY: The Observatory Hill near the Kennedy Center is where the former U.S. Naval Medical School and Naval Hospital were located. Today the complex of buildings is the headquarters of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy, and is closed to the public. The domed building visible from the corner of E and 23rd Streets was the original Naval Observatory (1844-1893). After the Observatory moved to its current location on Massachusetts Avenue, the building became the home of the Naval Museum of Hygiene (1894-1902) and then the Naval Medical School.

SUMMARY: The Irish Moon Coffee House in Taneytown, MD is a great place to get a Double Latte and maybe a pinch of the paranormal. The owners of the coffee house have reported poltergeist activity and the spirit of a little girl who is heard crying. Most of this activity occurs in the hours before the shop opens.

SUMMARY: Lights turn on and off on the east side of the building. Doors slam by themselves. Presence felt throughout the building. Cause unknown.

SUMMARY: ..even the regulars at Starbucks know about this one...

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

SUMMARY: This house was built in 1859-1861 for Edward M. Spilman, a judge of the Fauquier County Circuit Court. The Spilman family sold the house in the early 1870s to James Keith, president of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and John Singleton, Mosby's law partner in Warrenton. The history twists soon thereafter.

SUMMARY: Dating from the 1700's, several families have occupied this house. It is now a museum of sorts, open to the public and open as Haunted Hager House during the Halloween season.

SUMMARY: Highway 12 is haunted by a large dog that has red-glowing eyes. The dog is called the Fence-Rail Dog. The dog has seen along highway 12 for the last hundred years.

SUMMARY: Calvert County resident Mr. John Fowler's beautiful wife Rebecca stood trial in St. Mary's County in 1685. She was found guilty of practicing witchcraft and was hung in Charles County. Everyone in the area came to her execution.

SUMMARY: The Winchester Mystery House is a famous California mansion that was under construction continuously for 38 years and is reputed to be haunted. Construction of the San Jose, California mansion began in 1884, financed by owner Sarah L. Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester. Construction continued 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, until her death 38 years later on September 5, 1922. The cost for such constant building has been estimated at about US $5.5 million.

SUMMARY: The Old Depot was built by the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1891 as a passenger and freight station. Two passenger trains ran daily from Cumberland to Piedmont via Frostburg ending service in 1942. In 1973, the abandoned building was renovated in 1989 as a restaurant and shops to accommodate the public and passengers of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad steam passenger train; the restaurant is currently closed. The site also houses the Thrasher Museum, which boast a variety of rail carriages on display. Some claim that sounds of trains long gone can still be hear in this area.

SUMMARY: On the 5th floor of Lawrence Towers A, it is rumored that a college student (music major) who lived in room 517 hung herself. It is said she was depressed. Rumor has it that the floor was closed down for a few years during "renovations."