This guide covers 8 real haunted places across Maryland, from a Civil War prison camp on the Chesapeake to a downtown Baltimore hotel with one of the state’s most-repeated (and most disputed) ghost stories.
Every site is tied to documented history: a real death, a real historical event, or decades of consistent staff and visitor reports, not manufactured scares. You’ll find the address, what’s confirmed fact versus local legend, and where relevant, where to eat and stay along the way.
We checked hours, admission, and the historical record for every site below directly against the attractions themselves, state park services, and news archives, rather than recycling it from other lists.
Quick Answer: 8 Haunted Day Trips in Maryland
- Point Lookout State Park (Scotland, MD): a Civil War prison camp where roughly 3,000 men died, and a lighthouse called one of the most haunted in America
- Antietam National Battlefield (Sharpsburg, MD): the single bloodiest day in American military history, still marked by Bloody Lane
- Fort McHenry (Baltimore, MD): the fort that inspired the national anthem, and a soldier still seen pacing its ramparts
- USS Constellation (Baltimore, MD): a haunted warship with a ghost story that technically belongs to a different, older ship
- Lord Baltimore Hotel (Baltimore, MD): a downtown high-rise hotel with Depression-era tragedy behind its most famous, and most disputed, ghost story
- Historic Ellicott City (Ellicott City, MD): often called the most haunted town on the East Coast, with official ghost tours to prove it
- Havre de Grace (Havre de Grace, MD): a lighthouse ghost first reported in an 1889 newspaper, minutes from the Delaware line
- Chestertown (Chestertown, MD): a colonial river town where a Hollywood actress’s ghost still draws visitors to her grave
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