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Para Maryland
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Maryland, one of the oldest original thirteen colonies, was literally the grey area in the American Civil War. Allegiances to the North or South sometimes split families, pitting brother against brother.
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Ghost Talks
Halloween @ Harpers Ferry
Experience the paranormal like never before.
| BRIEF: An old Army fort meant to protect Washington, D.C. SUMMARY: Fort Washington was an Army fort that overlooked the Potomac River. It was built between 1808 and 1809 as a defense to protect the coastline from the British. BRIEF: An old hotel filled with hauntings and mysteries is cast to the whims of history SUMMARY: One of many hauntings amongst illustrious history, legend holds that while two young male employees were fraternizing with women in the basement laundry room, a manager came around propelling the first man to dash out of sight into a waiting elevator. The second tried to follow but was somehow caught by the doors. Industrial types and early elevators lack the door sensors with which most people these days are familiar. The second man was crushed, by two unstoppable movements, and perished badly. The elevator area in the basement laundry is said to be haunted by this unlucky man's ghost: a faint apparition has reportedly been spotted, sometimes moving briskly toward the elevator. SUMMARY: The Wayside Inn is not in Hanover County, as reported elsewhere on MGSA. It is in Shenandoah County, VA, in the lower Shenandoah Valley. Operating as a hostelry since 1797, the two-story brick building sits on the historic Valley Turnpike (Route 11) in Middletown (the "middle" town between Winchester and Woodstock).
Around the Inn swirled the battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. Phil Sheridan galloped from Winchester to within eyesight of the Inn to save the day for the Union. A small granite marker outside the Wayside Inn commemorates Union Brigadier Charles Russell Lowell, mortally wounded nearby on 19 October 1864. Lowell, the newphew of the famous poet James Russell Lowell, died in Middletown. Most of the Inn's various supernatural phenomena date from the Civil War.
Check out Sunday brunch at The Wayside Inn! BRIEF: Runaway slaves sometimes left ghosts SUMMARY: Prince Georges County used slave labor in working tobacco. There were 851 slave holders and 11,424 slaves. The slave population was more than half of the county's population of 22,272. All the large plantation owned slaves: Bowie's Belair, Rosaryville's Mount Airy, and Riverdale's "Riversdale Solitude," "Bleak Hill" and "Mullikin's Delight" --these all used slaves. BRIEF: Big and ominous, and possibly haunted. SUMMARY: This is a an old and rather large house. It has 3 floors, and you can feel something as soon as you enter. It has many cold spots accompanied by an intense feeling of not being alone. A heavy smell of smoke and burned death hits as you enter the second floor, with noises as if someone is following up and down the stairs. At times a patch of a bluish fog becomes visible. Footsteps have been heard on the second and third floors. |        |
