I’m fascinated by stories of the bizarre, whether it’s an old ghost story or a legend from the distant past, but most importantly I’m looking for the stories behind the story of the haunted place, so to speak - what really happened that led to the stories? How did the place come to be known as haunted?

One of the more frustrating aspects of looking for stories of this type online is the fact that so many of the sites that deal with haunted places just copy their info from another site instead of actually doing some research themselves and cleaning up the garbage that keeps getting repeated. I’d like this site to be different, so you’ll find stories here about ghosts and hauntings that you won’t find in other places.

Though I'll be covering many different haunted places as this site expands, I'll be concentrating first on those places with which I am the most familiar, in many case, because the properties are tied to my ancestral line in some way. Because of these ties, I invite interested readers in following on the stories here by taking a look at my Carroll County Maryland Genealogy site which includes my own family lines as well as many others from both Pennsylvania and Maryland. This same information is also available through the Family Files section on my Chester County Genealogy site - in either case, you do need to register on the site in order to see the link, but registration is quick and easy and free.