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0Cashtown Inn
Orrtanna, Pennsylvania
This 1797 inn was named because the original innkeeper, Peter Marck, would only accept cash as payment. It has been seen on TV's Ghost Hunters, and as a setting in the movie Gettysburg. Actor Sam Elliott reportedly stayed here during its filming. The ghosts here, possibly lingering from the nearby ...
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0Fairfield Inn - The Mansion House
Fairfield, Pennsylvania
4 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Reported to be haunted by the ghosts of Civil War era soldiers who were treated and died in the Inn when it served as a hospital after the battle.
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0Sachs Covered Bridge
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
5.6 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Locals tell a harrowing story of something that may happen near here: A strange fog gathers quickly, and from out of the mysterious fog comes a ghostly battle.
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0Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
6.5 miles from Orrtanna, PA
It is reported that two administrators had an experience with an elevator to another dimension. Instead of stopping at their desired floor, the elevator continued to the basement. When the door opened, they saw a thriving hospital scene, only without sound. Frightened, the two desperately finally managed to close the ...
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0The Gettysburg Hotel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This old hotel, established in 1797, is haunted by Rachel, among other spirits. Rachel is believed to be the spirit of a Civil War nurse who seems to be looking for soldiers to help. Guests say she opens their drawers and removes the clothing from them. Other ghosts who reside ...
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0Tillie Pierce House Inn
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7 miles from Orrtanna, PA
You can't swing a dead cat in Gettysburg without hitting something haunted and the Tillie Pierce house is no exception. Tille Pierce is well known as she wrote a book in the aftermath of Gettysburg about her experiences during the battle. A teenager during the time of the battle, she ...
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0Farnsworth House Inn
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Reportedly haunted by over a dozen ghosts, including the most ubiquitous, a former nurse named Mary who is said to still attempt to comfort the ill and a young boy who was killed in an accident.
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0Jennie Wade House
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7.1 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Jennie Wade was a seamstress and the only civilian to be directly killed in the Battle of Gettysburg when a stray bullet entered this house, where she was visiting her sister. At the house, now a tourist attraction, visitors can see a bullet hole in the door. Legend has it ...
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0Soldiers National Museum
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7.1 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Rosa Carmichael is said to be the spirit who haunts this museum. According to locals, she operated an orphanage located at this very site during the Civil War era.
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0Triangular Field
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7.2 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Visitors to this site have reported hearing the harrowing sounds of battle, although nothing appears to be happening on the quiet field. It is also said that cameras will always fail to work at this site.
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0Devil's Den
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7.3 miles from Orrtanna, PA
At this historic site, a boulder-ridden hill and Gettysburg Battlefield location, ghostly soldiers are reported to be seen. It is said that these soldiers are from the battle's second day. One soldier who frequents the site has been described as having long gray hair and dirty, torn clothing of buckskin. ...
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Slaughter Pen
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7.3 miles from Orrtanna, PA
According to those in the know, this area is haunted by the ghost of a young girl who wears a white dress.
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0Little Round Top
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7.6 miles from Orrtanna, PA
According to reports, soldiers are still active at this site. Per one story, some Civil War re-enactors working on the film Gettysburg at this site were approached here by a Union soldier. They assumed he, like them, was an extra working on the film. He handed them some ammunition for ...
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Penn State Mont Alto
Mont Alto, Pennsylvania
9.7 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The land used to belong to Col. George Wiestling, a veteran of the Civil War who died in 1891. In 1903, the university was founded, but Wiestling is said to remain. A famous photograph taken in 1907 (one of the earliest ghost photos thought to be legitimate) shows a figure ...
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0The Lightner Farmhouse
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
9.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This farmhouse, built during the Civil War, was once even used as a war hospital. Around its grounds, ghosts have been spotted reliving the war.
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National Emergency Training Center - St. Joseph's College
Emmitsburg, Maryland
10.6 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The National Emergency Training Center was once St. Joseph's College, which until 1973 was a Catholic girls' school established in 1809. Witnesses at the former college claim to have seen the ghosts of Civil War nurses who were carrying buckets of amputated human limbs and heard the sounds of soldiers ...
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Miller's Church
Hagerstown, Maryland
16.3 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Legend has it that the 1930s Catholic Miller’s Church was taken over by devil worshippers, and practitioners sacrificed young girls inside its walls. And then, the church suddenly burned down. All that's left is a parking lot and a big oak. And so the story goes, a couple was parked ...
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0Bechtel Mansion Inn
East Berlin, Pennsylvania
21 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This inn, housed in a 1897 building, has been visited by strange noises, residual smells, and a ghost named Flossie who is said to have died in the house in the 1920s. She has been seen on the turret's balcony. She also may be the one who makes objects mysteriously ...
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Maryland Theatre
Hagerstown, Maryland
23.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The 1915 Maryland Theatre, once a vaudeville and movie house, operated until 1973. In 1974 it caught fire and was rebuilt, and to this day presents cultural offerings to the public. It is believed to be haunted. The daughter of an early manager encountered the ghost of her father here, ...
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Johnathan Hager House Museum
Hagerstown, Maryland
24.2 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The 1739 house is thought to be haunted by 2 families: The Hammonds, who lived here in the 1840s, and the Civil War-era Downins. Voices and footsteps have been heard, and the Downin children are thought to be the ones who move around a corncob doll, turn off the lights, ...
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Duncan Hallow
Frederick, Maryland
24.2 miles from Orrtanna, PA
A cabin was built by a hermit named Fred Quick on the property of a local farmer. One day his body was found dead in his cabin with his wife missing. Later in the 70's the owner of the farm found signs of satanic rituals being preformed in the ...
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Dead Mans Curve
Hagerstown, Maryland
25.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Story goes that a doctor was killed here in an accident around the middle of the 19th century. Between then and around the 1930s locals swore they would frequently see the headless apparition of the doctor around this area.
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Carlisle Barracks
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
27 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Carlisle Barracks is a military school that was attended by the likes of John J. Pershing and Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was originally a military post that began in the 1700s. Ghostly band music is said to come from the bandstand, tunes from around the turn of the century. The ...
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Cockey's Tavern
Westminster, Maryland
27.4 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This 1830's tavern is haunted by the apparition of a soldier, who has been heard marching up a flight of stairs to the second floor. The ghost has also been known to slam doors. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Inn Boonsboro
Boonsboro, Maryland
28 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The historic inn dates back to 1790, and was recently restored after a catastrophic fire swept through the building in 2008. However, the resident ghost does not appear to left, as guests still report seeing a ghostly cat in their rooms at night, while others have heard the tinkling ...
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0Old South Mountain Inn
Boonsboro, Maryland
28.5 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Legend has it that a ghost saved this 1730s historic inn from being destroyed by fire. It was the ghost of Madeline Dahlgren, owners say, who opened a door that normally remains shut, which allowed an employee to smell the smoke coming from a fire that had erupted in the ...
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Schifferstadt
Frederick, Maryland
29.3 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The 1750s German Colonial house is now a museum, said to be haunted by original owners Joseph and Elias Brunner (or Bruner, by some reports). Witnesses have heard unexplained voices, speaking in the Brunners' native German, as well as footsteps walking throughout the house.
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0Town Hall - Williamsport
Williamsport, Maryland
29.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Ghosts said to hang out here include former employee "Bus" Seymore, who is heard typing upstairs, and a little girl who sits in the conference room and has a "thing" for flashlights. Disembodied footsteps have been heard here as well. A spooky annual Halloween ghost walk concludes here.
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Lake Linganore
New Market, Maryland
29.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Orbs and unexplained sounds have been reported in the woods around this lake, where rumor has it that a child drowns every year. Bubbles also have been seen rising to the surface.
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National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Frederick, Maryland
29.9 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Here, objects have been known to move by themselves or mysteriously disappear, and strange sounds abound. Folks say the distinct sound of a cat scratching on a scratching post come from the executive director's office. It's a mystery, since the place was formerly an undertaking business, and a cat doesn't ...
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Barbara Fritchie House
Frederick, Maryland
29.9 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Barbara Fritchie, age 96, is the heroine of The Ballad of Barbara Fritchie, written by John Greenleaf Whittier in 1864. During the Civil War, she was a Union sympathizer who dared to wave her Union flag in the face of the Confederates and Stonewall Jackson. Some historians say the event ...
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Antietam National Battlefield
Sharpsburg, Maryland
32.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This historic Civil War National Park battlefield from 1862, where many lives were lost, is said to be haunted by the ghosts of soldiers and the sounds of phantom gunfire and shouts, drum beats and war songs. Some visitors have presumed to be looking at reenactors playing a part in ...
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Spook Hill
Burkittsville, Maryland
34.2 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This stretch of road near the battle site of Antietam is known for a mysterious phenomenon. Folks say that if you put your vehicle in neutral at the base of the hill, the ghosts of Confederate soldiers will push it back up the incline. Rumor has it that the ghosts ...
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Penn Common
York, Pennsylvania
34.5 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Penn Common is said to be the favorite haunting spot of several long-deceased men, soldiers who were executed upon the orders of Anthony Wayne.
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Historic York Prison
York, Pennsylvania
34.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This historic prison is now abandoned, but was built in 1906 and decommissioned in 1979. Visitors have reported being followed around the building by the apparitions of criminals, and have seen and smelt someone lighting a cigarette when there is no one around. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Landon House
Frederick, Maryland
35.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Built in 1754, this home was used as a Civil War makeshift hospital after a deadly battle nearby. Witnesses have heard phantom screams, cries, and prayers, or the sounds of soldiers begging for help. In the basement, where slaves once were kept and abused, folks have reported cold spots, taps ...
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Fort Frederick Maryland
Big Pool, Maryland
37.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
A stone star fort in the Maryland Panhandle, Fort Frederick Maryland was built in the 1750s to defend Maryland from French and Indian raiders. During the American Revolution it was used as a prisoner of war camp for soldiers surrendered at Yorktown. It was a Federal outpost during the ...
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Bureau of State Library
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
38.5 miles from Orrtanna, PA
We have had several reports at the State Library of lights turning on and off after closing time, the lids to the copiers open and close with no one around, and there is a tale of people seeing "The White Woman" in the library. We have offered a "spooky ...
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Brunswick Heritage Museum
Brunswick, Maryland
39.4 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This 1904 building now houses a railroad museum, and is allegedly haunted. Staff and paranormal investigators have reportedly encountered the apparition of a woman in a white dress, a ghostly curator who modifies exhibits and a spook who likes to tamper with a model railway. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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0Harrisburg State Hospital
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
39.7 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The Harrisburg State Hospital was known as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital from 1851 to 1937. It's rumored to be the site of some violent poltergeist activity. The hospital was closed in 2006 and the building currently is used for office space. The movie "Girl, Interrupted" starring Winona Ryder and Angelina ...
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Haldeman Mansion
Bainbridge, Pennsylvania
40.5 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Haldeman Mansion was built in the 1740s, and was purchased and enlarged by John Haldeman in 1812. John's son, Samuel Steman Haldeman, was a renowned scientist honored by Charles Darwin for his contribution to the famous book "The Origin of the Species" and by Daniel Webster for his help on ...
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Historic Hilltop House
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
41 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Folks must have been shocked to witness apparitions of soldiers marching through the rooms at this 1888 hotel. Reports say it is now closed, and its renovation is currently on hold.
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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
41.1 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The heritage listed church is believed to be haunted by a ghostly reverend, who has been seen praying at the church altar late at night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
41.2 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Known for its battles during the Civil War, the national historic park is believed to be haunted by ghosts of its past. Many apparitions have been seen here, including a well-dressed man in a brocade vest who glares in a hostile way. A woman and child believed to be the ...
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Harpers Ferry Guest House
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
41.2 miles from Orrtanna, PA
There are believed to be at least five apparitions that haunt this historic bed and breakfast. Guests have reported seeing the apparition of a hostile man in a brocade vest, who has been known to push guests around. Other apparitions seen include a woman in a grey dress, often accompanied ...
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Apollo Theatre
Martinsburg, West Virginia
41.7 miles from Orrtanna, PA
The vaudeville venue built in 1913 is the home of a ghostly former manager. He has been seen standing outside the building smoking a cigar. His cigar smoke has been smelled by witnesses as well.
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Haunted Cottage - Booth House
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
42.3 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Paranormal researcher Vince Wilson operates this cottage and attraction that offers ghost tours, paranormal research training, and seances. The school is said to educate pupils on the history of ghosts starting with the first known hauntings in ancient Babylonia. It is called the Booth House because John Wilkes Booth is ...
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Amity Hall
Duncannon, Pennsylvania
44.3 miles from Orrtanna, PA
Although the Amity Hall burned to the ground in the late 2000s, it was alleged to be extremely active with the haunts. A man was said to have killed his wife by stabbing her on the porch sofa, then killed his children and himself upstairs. Apparitions, black figures and flashes ...
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0The Accomac Inn
York, Pennsylvania
44.5 miles from Orrtanna, PA
At this restaurant, unexplained sights and sounds abound. It was the Colye family home in the 1800s, and according to legend, young Johnny Colye fell in love with his family's hired girl. When she didn't return the feelings, he killed her in the barn, and was eventually arrested and hanged ...
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0The Railroad House Inn
Marietta, Pennsylvania
44.8 miles from Orrtanna, PA
This inn, originally from the 1820s, is said to be haunted by the men who worked nearby as well as many other spirits. The ghost of a young girl with blonde hair has been seen, dressed in Victorian clothing, and the staff says she likes to play games. Kitchen employees ...
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