Catoctin Furnace

Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland
Part of: Catoctin Mountain Park System

18th Century Iron Furnace - Scene of Horrific Death of Soldier

Thomas Johnson was the founder of the furnace, opening it in 1776. He made kettles, pots, stoves and then cannons, weapons and ammunition for the Civil War.

Route 40 East

Devilish, with the blue dress on.

Every city has their own "hitchhiking ghost," and Baltimore has it own story. Baltimore's ghost story is unique because of the way its hitchhiking ghost is dressed: a beautiful blonde woman wearing a blue sequin cocktail dress. She is known to haunt Route 40 East and has been seen hitchhiking there by several people.

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Scrapbook Images Not Displaying

We've had three people report in the past two days that they can not see images properly on some parts of the site. Right now, we suspect problem is with Internet Explorer service pack 1 running on Windows XP. We'd like to 1 make sure this c...

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Merryman's Delight

The MERRYMAN family cemetery Directions to it are given in the paperback book The Baltimore Trail Book, pub. 1983. I used it to find my way there many years ago. The gravestone inscriptions are given in the 1908 book Historic Graves of Maryland a...

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Traces Of Terror: The Science; Scientists Create A Live Polio Virus

Traces Of Terror The Science Scientists Create A Live Polio Virus By ANDREW POLLACK July 12, 2002 Scientists reported yesterday that they had constructed a virus from scratch for the first time, synthesizing a live polio virus from chemicals...

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Haunted Places - Egypt

Alexandria It was said that there was a building, which is being hunted too, and nobody lives there, and everyone knows that, but nobody can do anything about it, it is said that this building has been built over the Holly Qura'an, and it's said th...

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Taneytown Luthern Graveyard

This investigation I did by myself out of simple curiostity at 4 00am pic 1...