Chesapeake Ghosts

10/10/2026

👻 We're a year-round ghost tour, but October is our spooky season! 🎃
Chesapeake Ghost Tours is locally owned, women-owned, and has been sharing ghost stories since 2014.

We're the OG of ghost walks around here, with 9 different trails through historic small towns on Delmarva!
Have you tried all nine? October is the perfect time to start!

Check out our website and pick your next ghost walk. 👻🖤
Ocean City, MD - Tourism

10/09/2026

Beneath its quiet surface, the Pocomoke River has stories of tragedy, unexplained drownings, mystery, and ghostly encounters.

In the 1970s, a folklore student at Salisbury University recorded the account of an elderly African American man who worked at a food-processing plant overlooking the river near Route 13. Several times, he saw a man and a boy walking along the water’s edge. The man wore an old brown coat and a ragged hat. The boy wore no coat.

One bitter winter evening, as rain and sleet pelted the ground, the pair appeared again. They walked calmly through the miserable weather. He noticed they were wearing the same clothes, and the boy had no coat? Looking closer, the witness noticed something impossible: they seemed to be walking on the water itself. Later, he took his boat to investigate. The swamp and trees extended right into the river making it impossible to walk along the river's bank. There was no solid shoreline!

Years later, a historical booklet was given to Mindie while she was doing her research for the Pocomoke Ghost walk. It revealed a tragedy that bore a chilling resemblance to his account. Captain Job Emmons and his ten-year-old son were returning from Baltimore aboard the schooner Arabella. Near the bridge at Pocomoke City, the boy fell into the water. His father plunged in after him, but neither resurfaced. When their bodies were recovered, they were clasped in each other’s arms.

Could the man and boy seen walking along the river have been the captain and his son? No one knows, but the resemblance is difficult to ignore. And the sightings continued. During nighttime ghost tours through the Pocomoke forest, guests have reported seeing a shadowy man in a ragged hat standing in a clearing. Even the tour guide has seen him, once spotting the figure standing just behind Mindie. (Which is why, Mindie prefers not to give the Pocomoke tour).

The Pocomoke keeps its secrets beneath black water and tangled roots. Perhaps these figures are only shadows and memories. Or perhaps a father and son are still searching for the shore they never reached.

Ocean City Ghost Tours Ocean City, MD - Tourism Janet Stephenson

10/09/2026

Saturday Ghost Walk in Salisbury!!

10/08/2026

Mike Dixon is a great historian and storyteller. This October 13th event in Bethany Beach would be a fun night for anyone who loves a graveyard.

How about a little Halloween spirit to welcome in October?! The Cultural and Historical Affairs Committee welcomes the return of cultural evenings next Tuesday, October 13th! We kick things off with Mike Dixon and his presentation on Tales the Tombstones Whisper: Understanding the History of Cemeteries. 🪦

This a lecture/discussion program co-sponsored by the Delaware Humanities. To find out more, visit dehumanities.org.

This event is free and takes place at Town Hall. Seating can be limited based on audience size, so please plan accordingly.
Delaware Humanities

10/08/2026

Elkton, MD, Cecil County, where rolling farmland meets tidal water, an abandoned mansion called Holly Hall has carried a dark reputation for more than a century.

Built by James Sewell, a member of the Whig party, entertained many of his prominent members. Holly Hall was once an elegant estate surrounded by gardens and towering holly trees. But beneath its polished exterior was a bitter family feud that would become the foundation of its haunting legend.

According to local accounts, Sewell disowned his son after a bitter political disagreement and swore the young man would never enter Holly Hall again—dead or alive. Years later, the son returned gravely ill. His sister brought him home, hoping their father would finally forgive him. He refused to let his dying son cross the threshold.

The young man died the next morning, reportedly cursing the house with his final breath. Not long afterward, strange things began happening.

Sewell’s grieving daughter reportedly withdrew to an upstairs room, refusing to speak to anyone. When she died, she was buried in the family vault beside her father. That night, servants heard her little dog barking and scratching desperately at the vault door. By morning, the exhausted animal lay beside it, its paws raw from digging.

When the vault was opened, the young woman’s body was reportedly found outside her coffin, her fingernails worn away as she had tried to claw her way out.

Then came the sightings. A young woman working in the attic reportedly encountered a ghostly man dressed in old-fashioned clothing. Later, a portrait discovered in the attic was said to resemble the apparition. Others claimed to see the same figure wandering the grounds. Sobs and heavy blows were reportedly heard coming from the burial vault. Families came and went. Some blamed the house for illness, tragedy and misfortune. Servants refused to stay. The stories continued.

Today, Holly Hall stands abandoned, its windows broken or boarded and its grounds overtaken by nature. But the old holly trees remain—silent witnesses to the family feud, the deaths and whatever may still linger among the ruins.

10/07/2026

Another beautiful Ocean City evening on the ghost boat tour by Chesapeake Ghosts and our partner OC Bay Hopper.  Paranormal stories, local history, and nature sightings all in one tour.

We’ll be running these ghost boat tours every Wednesday thru the end of October and on October 31.  Come on and join us! 👻

10/07/2026

EDGAR ALLEN POE - Died 177 years ago today.

Maryland claims him, though he was born in Boston and grew up in Virginia. He was the child of actors. His father abandoned the family when he was a year old, and his mother died the following year. Poe was then sent to be fostered in Richmond, where he grew up and later attended college.

But his ancestors were in Baltimore. It's also where he launched his literary career, won his first literary prize, and fell in love with his beloved wife, Virginia Clemm. It's also where he died and is buried. He was originally buried in an unmarked grave near his grandfather in Westminster Cemetery in Baltimore, and later moved to a different location, where he is now memorialized with a prominent marker, along with his wife. And where the infamous "Poe Toaster," an unidentified person who, for decades, appeared at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Westminster Burying Ground in the early hours of January 19, Poe’s birthday. At Poe’s grave, the Toaster would raise a glass of cognac, drink a toast, and then leave behind three red roses and the partially consumed bottle of cognac.

Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, The Raven, inspired the name taken by Baltimore's football team.

10/07/2026

We have to brag on this guy. Last week he got FIVE five-star reviews on Google and TripAdvisor. The reviews were for both the Cambridge and the Easton Ghost Tours. And he's still a newbie. Congrats' Domenick Grande Your peeps love you.

10/07/2026

NATIONAL CHAIN HARMFUL PRACTICES
This documentary done by a tenacious paranormal investigator shows damage done to locally owned ghost tour companies across the US… including our company. This fascinating commentary shows how being clever with technology can take out an honest local business.

Today we expose US Ghost Adventures corrupt and unethical business ...

10/07/2026

Great night for a ghost tour in Denton Maryland. This was a group tour hosted by the County Library

Denton is a scary little town and home to the most haunted property in the Eastern Shore (Denton Jail), the house of the Town Dog Killer, the happy house of Congressman and Federal Judge T. Allen Goldsboro.