Maryland

Annapolis

Middletwon Tavern

The Middletown Tavern is one of the oldest buildings in this city originally built in the mid 1700's. This tavern has been visited by some of our
founding forefathers, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. No one knows the identitiy of the ghost or ghosts, but
someone is walking the floor of the tavern. There has been a report of a sighting of a man dressed in period clothing staring out the window at the
harbor and quickly disappeared. This haunting includes numerous reports of various different activities including flying glasses off the bars wall to
mysterious shadows. One occasion a table full of empty dinner plates was flipped over. On another accasion a lantern mounted on the wall was
turned upside down.

Baltimore

Westminster Churchyard

Since 1944, a mysterious dark figure has swept down on the grave site of Edgar Allen Poe to leave behind three red roses and a bottle of cognac.
The man is dressed in a black frock with a black fedora and a scarf pulled up over his face. The nocturnal phantom has appeared every January
19 for the last fifty years. Despite crowds of people waiting at the site, the elusive presence has never been identified. In 1990, a Life magazine
photographer armed with expensive night vision photographic equipment captured the image of a man kneeling at the gravesite. The man wore a
wide brimmed hat, but the camera was unable to distinguish any facial features. Since then, cemetery officials have refused to allow anyone else
to take pictures. Whether it is the ghost of Poe or one of his ardent admirers is open to speculation.

Bladensburg

Dueling Grounds

More than fifty bloody pistol duels were fought here, and a number of corpse-like ghosts are said to walk the grounds. The ghosts appear as
"dark but not transparent" forms that disappear at the slightest sound. One specter is that of Colonel john McCarty, who killed his cousin General
Armistand Mason in February 1819. McCarty survived the twelve pace musket due but lost his mind because of it. The scene haunted him for
many years, and now he haunts the place where it happened. Stephen Decatur, who was gunned down here in 1820, also haunts the grounds,
as he eternally repeats the day he died. The ghost of one of the sons of Francis Scott Key, Daniel Key, roams here too. He was killed at the age
of twenty in a senseless duel with a fellow Annapolis student, John Sherbourne. The duel took place in June 1836. The two young men had
argued over which of two steamboats were fastest. A reluctant participant in another duel was Maine Representative Jonathan Cilley. In February
1836, he was killed by Congressman William Graves of Kentucky. Graves was a stand-in for New York newspaper editor James Webb, whom
Cilley had called corrupt. Cilley was inexperienced with guns, and Graves was allowd to use a much more powerful rifle. Cilley was hit in the
artery in his leg and bled to death in ninety seconds.

Woodsboro

Rocky Hill Cemetery

This cemetery is located on Coppermine Rd and it has a woman's grave that bleeds. This gravestone belongs to a woman who told her husband
before she died that if her husband rremarried a woman that is cruel to her children it would make her grave bleed. Because of the strange
occurence and the attention it attracts that have replaced the grave but it has not stopped bleeding. Her grave reads, "This stone is at the grave of
a mother who died leaving several small children. The husband remarried as husbands do, and tis' said that he and the stepmother were very
cruel and unkind to the children, but Death could not this mother's anguish kill, then the knarled oaks groan, and the pine trees moan, in this
graveyard at Rocky Hill, the tale oft told on many a lonely stretch, is that this stone breaks out in bloody sweats, in this graveyard at Rocky Hill."

Bibliography: Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: Ghost abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York: Penguin
Book, 1994.