A deal with the Devil; a bad ending in a mine.

Big Bill Hurley, an evil coal miner purportedly dealt with the devil for super natural powers. Now more than one hundred years after his caved-in death by entombment some say they can still hear his whistling and the rumble of his big feet down deep in the mine near Frostburg, and they still fear the ill-begotten fortunes which surrounded Big Bill.

One of the first female institutes in the South when opened in 1839

In the 1950s the building was allowed to fall to ruin. The roof has collapsed and the wooden floors are given way and now only a cavernous shell stand where a proud school once stood. The ruins have been partially restored and the building is now a tourist attraction. Today the school is the home of a very unhappy ghost. One young lady named Annie Van Delot was not happy with the Patapsco Female Institute and she did not like the town of Ellicott City. PFI is often incorrectly confused with Hell House. Hell House refers to the St. Mary's College, catholic order of Redemptorists, in nearby (to the south) Ilchester.

Several ghosts traverse this well-known concert venue

Moving objects, apparitions, and wild creepy feelings lend this performance hall its own special kind of spookiness.