South — Anecdotal filings

Anecdotal reports in Maryland

Maryland keeps 7 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

7 dossiers3 counties covered100% open to visitorsAntietam National Battlefield — deepest file

Also filed anecdotal:Arizona58 Hawaii55 Virginia34 Michigan31 Louisiana29 Texas26 Pennsylvania24 Georgia24

Other Maryland shelves:local folklore16 documented legends6 unverified files5 internet rumors4 investigation claims3

Battlefield

High confidence

Antietam National Battlefield

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Historic House

Medium

Beatty-Cramer House

Frederick, Maryland

Early colonial house with a weakly documented haunting reputation.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fort

Medium

Fort McHenry

Baltimore, Maryland

Star-spangled fort with its own ghost-tour record.

2 claims · 1 legend→

State Park

Medium

Point Lookout State Park

Scotland, Maryland

Civil War POW camp and lighthouse peninsula called America’s most haunted park.

2 claims→

Cemetery

Medium

Westminster Hall and Burying Ground

Baltimore, Maryland

Poe’s graveyard, catacombs and famous birthday-toast tradition.

2 claims→

Historic House Museum

Medium

Surratt House Museum

Clinton, Maryland

Boarding house where John Wilkes Booth plotted—and Mary Surratt was hanged.

1 claim→

Historic House Museum

Medium

Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Baltimore, Maryland

Tiny Amity Street rowhouse where Poe wrote his first horror stories.

1 claim→

Full Maryland record → state index· Every anecdotal filing → evidence shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive