Most Haunted Places In Frederick, Maryland To Visit
Following are the most haunted places in Frederick, Maryland, where ancient legends and dark myths are brought to life in the shadowy corners of historic landmarks. These places hold secrets that have yet to be uncovered, with each creaking floorboard and cold breeze hinting at restless souls trapped between worlds.
Ceresville Mansion
: "A young boy drowned in a bath tub in the house. The room in which he died is now walled off and you can see the empty room from outside. They say the boy is still there and you can here him at night."
Fredrick Campus
: "Barry Hall - In the nights there are ghosts seen in the girls'' dorm - Barry Hall -on the 2nd floor and 1 is reputed to be evil and was called Mary Walker and it turned out she did exist back in the 1800s as she is interred at the nearby cemetery that is up the road from the school and if the girls was in a room by herself or with another girl and they go around and around and signing "Mary Walker" 50 or 100 times, it is said that her face would appear in the mirror as you looked into the mirror and would see a face so evil and hair of snakes moving and you would get scared more by the shade being opened by itself"
Hood college
: "It is built on a old saloon from the civil war in one of the halls late at night you can hear hooting and hollering also in the 1970 a girl was murdered and her throat was cut open she crawled all the way up the stairs and just before she knocked on her dorm door she died strange knockings have been heard all over that hall since then the elevators have also been known to go up and down at odd times of the night"
Landon House
: "Built in 1754, footsteps can be heard clearly when the house is vacant, doors close without provocation, and strange noises can be heard."
Fredrick Campus
: "Maryland School for the Deaf - the school was founded in 1868. There is an old barracks that was once used during the Revolutionary War to house captured Hessian soldiers and it still is there on campus -- its an old stone built building and has been converted into a museum of sorts and is not opened to the public regularly -- anyway -- story has it that you would see the spirits of those wounded in combat in the barracks moaning and the hospital equipment from that era is still in the bldg as is the furniture and such."
Urbana
: "Landon House Mansion - doors open and close by themselves often, lights turn on, music comes from the ball room. It was a plantation home in the civil war, which was used to treat soldiers hurt at the monocracy battlefield. There is slave Quarters in the basement and a little church out back. For more information go to www.landonhouse.com"