Maryland – Point Lookout State Park
Maryland is home to what is supposedly the most haunted lighthouse in America. It’s not a particularly impressive piece of architecture, as far as lighthouses go, but it was occupied by Federal Forces and used as a hospital/POW camp during the American Civil War.
Confederate soldiers can be seen running across the road somewhat regularly, and the wife of a former keeper wanders around in a pretty dress telling people that “this is my house.” Despite a lighthouse nearby, several shipwrecks have occurred near Point Lookout.
The USS Tulip sank offshore in 1964, with 47 deaths and eight corpses washing up on shore near the lighthouse, and a storm in 1978 killed 16 on The Express, a ship who’s ghostly second mate knocks on the lighthouse door right before or during a major storm.
Perhaps they should’ve spent the money and built a more impressive lighthouse?
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)