Haunted Maryland: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Old Line State

by Ed Okonowicz

Overview

Vengeful ghosts, sea monsters, and America's most haunted lighthouse figure prominently in this collection of eerie in tales from the Old Line State. From the rugged Appalachian Mountains, to the metropolitan center of Baltimore, to the Atlantic Coast come a variety of stories and legends, including Dorchester County’s Suicide Bridge, Fort McHenry’s gruesome hanging ghosts, and a sea captain’s widow whose sad wailing can still be heard coming from her final resting place in the family graveyard.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493045747
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/10/2020
Series:	Haunted Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	998,509
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ed Okonowicz is a storyteller and a regional author of more than twenty books on Mid-Atlantic culture, oral history, folklore, and ghost stories. He is retired from the University of Delaware (UD), where he worked as an editor and writer. He resides at the northern edge of the Delmarva Peninsula, in Fair Hill, Maryland, with his wife, Kathleen, a prominent watercolor artist and award-winning graphic designer.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Eastern Shore 1

Bleeding Stone of White House Farm 5

J.J. of the Old Snow Hill Inn 7

The Hebron Light 9

The Heavy Bible 10

Soldiers Sighted in the Sky 11

Serial Killer and Ghost 13

Haunted Horses 16

Outstanding Halloween Custom 18

Bigg Lizz 19

Indian Ghosts Under the Jail 23

Hand Nailed to a Tree 25

Inn and a Barrel of Rum 28

"Show Me the Way!" 31

Screaming Polly 32

Hole in the Wall 33

Suicide Bridge 35

Central Maryland 37

Black Aggie 41

John Wilkes Booth 44

Ghost of Peddler's Run 47

Suspended Sailor 48

Haunted Covered Bridge 49

Patapsco Female Institute 50

Ellicott City Mansions 51

The Red Light 54

Gold in the Ground 56

Opera House Ghost 57

Baltimore 59

"Oh Say Can You See!" 63

USS Constellation 65

Phantom of the Heights 68

Master of Horror 70

What's Under the Ground? 73

Secretive Spirits at Fells Point 75

Medical Grave Robbers 78

Sentry Sighting 82

Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay 85

Last Dance 89

Ghostly Procession 90

John Paul Jones, Home at Last 90

Navy Bombs Island Ghost 93

Floating Coffin of Hooper island 94

Chessie 95

Sea Superstitions Can't Hurt 98

Hammond-Harwood House 101

Southern Maryland 105

"His Name Is Mudd!" 109

Graveyard Treasure 109

Moll Dyer 110

Devil's Ball Yard 112

Goatman of Prince George's County 113

Blue Dog Ghost 115

America's Most Haunted Lighthouse 117

Weeping Widow of Sorry House 120

Governor's Bridge 121

Western Maryland 123

Phantom Flutist 127

Gravity Hill and Spook Hill 128

Washington County Folk Medicine and Superstitions 129

Garrett County's Ghost Towns 131

Old Braddock Treasure 133

General Braddock's Gold 133

Ghosts of Wise's Well 135

Snallygaster 136

Mount's Troubled Spirits 140

Witches and Witchcraft 141

Acknowledgments 145

Recommended Reading 147

About the Author 153