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Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales
Two
Haunted Tales from Somerset County,
MD
The Nabb Center
at Salisbury University has a
collection of folktales that are
transcribed oral commentary from
people all over Maryland ...
commenting about Maryland. I chose
these few excerpts from collection
about hauntings in Somerset County.
It is likely that details are
inaccurate, because this is folk
commentary. But the tales are
interesting.
HOUSE ON BLACK ROAD
Informant was Harry Hall of
Oriole. Commentary was given October
9, 1972
There's a house in Venton on Black
Road and everyone who has ever lived
there has heard noises, and one
thing that was heard all the time
was a horn that sounded like a horn
blowing through a keyhole. My
parents lived there and they had an
old colored man who lived with them
too. They were always hearing voices
in the hall that sounded like a man
with a wooden leg. The colored man
said that an old white man used to
come to the foot of the bed and
asked him what he was doing with the
white folks and then he disappeared.
My parents were always getting
scared and sometimes had to go to my
grandparents' house. My mother was
always complaining to my father in
her sleep. They'd see door knobs
turning.
There was a cemetery on the farm. It
was over-grown with trees and
everything, and there was a rumor
that there was Spanish gold hidden
in there. When my aunt was a little
girl, she and her girlfriend went
digging for the Spanish gold in the
cemetery and they dug up a little
girl and her head was in the middle
of the grave. It looked as if she
was buried alive, and her hair had
kept growing, and was all over the
grave. That night those girls got
scared and started screaming and
their bedroom was facing the
graveyard, so my parents had to
change bedrooms with them.
After my parents moved away, my aunt
and uncle moved in. One day while my
aunt was cleaning she heard
beautiful music and they didn't have
a record player or a radio or
anything. They say that other people
living there have heard strange
noises too. They took a stick of
dynamite and blew a big hole in the
cemetery and it's still there and
when the house burnt down some
people say the saw a bride and groom
running out of it.
TEACKLE MANSION
Informant was Joan Bromhall of
Salisbury. Given June 19, 1973
Red Rickets and I (Joan Bromhall)
were fixing up Teakle for the
candlelight ceremony. I said, "Boy,
it's scary in here." I then went
down to the cellar and said it was
eerie down there. And Red said,
"Don't tell Maudy but I come in here
to clean the house twice a week and
I know I'm not alone. Please don't
tell Maudy."
There's a picture of a man in the
drawing room. The man once had a
beard and mustache, now touched up
on the picture. People who see the
picture say, "Oh, he frightened me."
Then someone took it down and put it
facing the wall in the hall. I asked
Red why they did that and she said
that too many people complained
about he picture. I say the man is
Aaron Quimby, a man who once owned
Teakle, but no one knew what he
looked like.
Comment from Patricia Balazs who
collected the commentary from Ms.
Bromhall .... It was about nine in
the evening, with only the collector
and informant present on the back
porch on Valleywood Drive.
TEACKLE MANSION located in the Town of Princess
Anne in Somerset County, MD
..... more of these stories are featured in "Haunted
Eastern Shore"
- written by
Mindie Burgoyne - published by
History Press.
OTHER HAUNTED STORIES ...
Hope House |
Hanging Tree |
Patty Cannon |
Capt. Leonard Tawes |
Tales From Down Below, Lower Dorchester
| Two Haunted
Tales from Somerset |
Crisfield Tales
Haunted Eastern Shore
Ghostly Tales from East of the
Chesapeake
by Mindie Burgoyne
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They walk beside the
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tormented souls who refuse to leave
the sites of their demise. From
pitiless smugglers to reluctant
brides, the ghostly figures of the
Eastern Shore are at once terrifying
and tragic. Mindie Burgoyne takes
readers on a spine-tingling journey
as she recounts the grisly events at
the Cosden Murder Farm and the
infamous legend of Patty Cannon.
Tread the foggy lanes of Kent Manor
Inn and linger among Revolutionary
War dead to discover the
otherworldly occupants of Maryland's
most haunted shore.
Haunted sites
mentioned in the book include:
-
Cecil County -
Holly Hall, Old Bohemia,
Mitchell House
-
Kent County -
Cosden Murder Farm, White House
Farm, St. Paul's Cemetery &
Bridge, Kitty Knight House
-
Queen Anne's
County - Bloomingdale, Kent
Manor Inn
-
Caroline County
- The Tale of Wish Shepherd, The
Murder Sallie Dean, Athol - a
Child's Ghost in Henderson,
Willson's Chance
-
Talbot County -
The Lost City of Dover,
Whitemarsh Cemetery, The
Wilderness, Tunis Mills Hanging
Tree
-
Dorchester
County - Shoal Creek Manor,
Patty Cannon's Trail of Tears,
Suicide Bridge, Green Briar
Swamp & Big Lizz, Tales From
Down Below
-
Wicomico County
- The Ghost Light Road
-
Worcester County
- Cellar House, the Snow Hill
Inn
-
Somerset County
- Ananias Crockett's House,
Holland's Island, Vance Miles
House.
Tales include
narratives given to Salisbury
University Folklore students thirty
years ago, describing hauntings,
ghosts and legends of the Eastern
Shore.
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