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Baltimore Ghosts: History, Mystery, Legends and Lore

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Take a tour of Baltimore’s haunted historic sites in this book in line with more than a dozen personal interviews with park rangers, graveyard workers, saloon keepers and museum curators. The book includes more than 60 photographs of graveyards, tombstones, forts, ships, haunted restaurants and historic locations.

The book’s highlights include the city’s colorful history as explained through ghost tales and legends, featuring: unexplained activities on the Edgar Allan Poe House and Poe gravesite; 19th century grave robbing practices on the University of Maryland Medical College; spirits in the “catacombs” graveyard beneath Westminster Church; the “Gallows Ghost” and lots of other active spirits at Fort McHenry; graves and stories in Green Mount Cemetery (including the burial plot of John Wilkes Booth); sailor spirits on the united statesConstellation in the Inner Harbor tourist area; several saloon ghosts and sightings in Fells Point; the Legend of “Black Aggie,” an active tombstone statue; secret tunnels under Federal Hill; the story of the mysterious Phantom of O’Donnel Heights… and more.

In addition a special 1-to-5 “tombstone rating,” which used to be provided by the Baltimore Society for Paranormal Research, is included on the end of each and every chapter. These tombstone symbols indicate the level of hauntings at each and every of these public sites.

To lend a hand teachers use this book in the study room, a special teacher’s guide is to be had one by one. The book is entitled “Baltimore Ghosts and History Teacher’s Guide” and used to be prepared by Cassandra Cogan, a middle school special education teacher in Cecil County, Md.

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