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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The list moves roughly south to north, from Southern Maryland up through Baltimore and out to the Eastern Shore, so you can build it into a loose statewide loop if you’re chasing more than one.
Point Lookout State Park
11175 Point Lookout Rd, Scotland, MD · dnr.maryland.gov
A Civil War prison camp built for 10,000 men swelled to 20,000, and thousands never left.
Sitting at the southern tip of Maryland’s western shore, where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay, Point Lookout served as a Union hospital early in the Civil War before becoming one of the largest Confederate prisoner-of-war camps in the country. The tent-city prison pen was originally built to hold 10,000 men and swelled to 20,000 within a year; roughly 3,000 to 4,000 prisoners died there from disease, exposure, and malnutrition before the war ended. The lighthouse, built in 1830 by John Donahoo and among the oldest of its type in the country, is frequently called one of the most haunted lighthouses in America, with two centuries of park staff, lighthouse tenants, and visitors reporting a man in ragged Civil War-era clothing near the ground
