to be executed in the United States.
CHAPTER 12 Mount Airy Mansion (Upper Marlboro)
This Colonial-era mansion achieved fame as a haunted site when the London-based Society for Psychical Research conducted an investigation there in the 1930s and identified a number of specific ghosts residing in it.
CHAPTER 13 St. Mary’s Cemetery (Rockville)
This eighteenth-century cemetery is the final resting place of F. Scott Fitzgerald and, in addition to being treated almost like a shrine to the great author, is believed by many to be haunted by his spirit.
CHAPTER 14 University of Maryland (College Park)
A number of sites on this sprawling campus are reputed to be haunted, including Easton Hall—from which more than one unfortunate freshman has plummeted from upper-level windows—and the Stamp Student Union.
CHAPTER 15 Waters House (Germantown)
This historic farmhouse in northern Montgomery County is believed to be haunted by a number of ghosts—including those of both slaves and horses that were once kept in the buildings behind it!
CHAPTER 16 Ghosts of the Shore (Eastern Shore)
Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the largest and most sparsely populated region in the state, is also one of the most haunted, with some sort of ghost story, macabre legend, or other weird tale being associated with just about every crossroads, bridge, or town.
CHAPTER 17 Furnace Town (Snow Hill)
This abandoned foundry town is haunted by the ghost of Sampson Hat, a slave who stayed in the town after everyone else left and lived there until the age of 106. Even death could not sever his link to the forsaken community, however, and to this day his shade has been seen guarding the remains of its blast furnace.
CHAPTER 18 Patty Cannon’s House (Finchville/Reliance)
Few people have been more loathsome than Patty Cannon, who earned a living by kidnapping free blacks and selling them to southern slave holders. Her evil presence can still be felt in her home and the tavern next door, where she kept her prisoners and tortured them in a warren of secret rooms and tunnels.
CHAPTER 19 White Marsh Church (Talbot County)
One of the best known ghost sagas in this part of the Eastern Shore involves the ruins of this seventh-century church and the graveyard surrounding it, which on at least two occasions was the target of grave robbers.
CHAPTER 20 Ghosts of the South (Southern Maryland)
Numerous ghost stories persist in this coastal Western Shore region, including that of the Blue Dog, a spectral hound that haunts the roads around Port Tobacco; Cry Baby Bridge, said to be haunted by the spirits of two women and a baby killed at the site; and Moll Dyer, an eighteenth-century witch who died in Leonardtown after her home was burned down by locals and who is still blamed for maladies that occur in the area.
CHAPTER 21 Point Lookout (St. Mary’s County)
This area contains several highly haunted sites, including Point Lookout Lighthouse, where people have reported apparitions, odd smells, and spectral footsteps. Another hotspot in the park is the site of Camp Hoffmann, one of the largest Union prisoner-of-war-camps during the Civil War.
CHAPTER 22 Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House (Waldorf)
Dr. Samuel Mudd was one of the people imprisoned by the government on suspicion of being involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. His embittered ghost is believed to still dwell within the farmhouse where he and his family lived during the Civil War, and where he died fourteen years after President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in 1869.
CHAPTER 23 The Passion of John Wilkes Booth (Southern Maryland)
The ghost of John Wilkes has Booth has, ironically, been spotted at nearly as many places as that of President Abraham Lincoln, most of them places he visited during the last few weeks of his life or those where his body lay following his death.
CHAPTER 24 Antietam National Battlefield (Sharpsburg)
Site of the single bloodiest day of America’s bloodiest conflict, during which more than twenty-two thousand casualties were inflicted, the shades of Civil War soldiers have long been seen marching across the fields where they were violently slain.
CHAPTER 25 Burkittsville (Frederick County)
Home of “Blair Witch,” Elly Kedward, who was banished in 1785 for witchcraft, this town has been the site of numerous ghost sightings over the years, particularly of Civil War soldiers killed in the nearby woods and hills.
CHAPTER 26 Church of Saint Patrick (Cumberland)
For more than 140 years, people in the local area have held that this old Catholic church has been haunted by the shade of a Civil War soldier who was executed for killing his commanding officer.
CHAPTER 27 City of Frederick (Frederick County)
Many ghosts are believed to haunt the homes and other buildings of one of Maryland’s oldest cities, including Civil War patriot Barbara Fritchie and a German pacifist who was one of the only people ever to have been drawn and quartered in the United States.
CHAPTER 28 Gabriel’s Inn (Ijamsville)
Once a mental institution, this inn now specializes in fine French cuisine. It is believed to be haunted both by former residents and by casualties of the Civil War Battle of Monocacy, some of whose spirits now reside in the wine cellar.
CHAPTER 29 Monocacy National Battlefield (Frederick County)
Spirits of Civil War soldiers slain in this brutal 1864 battle have for many years been witnessed marching across it, unaware perhaps that nearly a century and a half has elapsed since they fell in combat.
