These Are The Scariest Graveyards In Maryland, Survey Says

Residents may shudder at the thought of being alone after dark at three Maryland cemeteries, according to a survey that revealed the scariest graveyards in the country.

Choice Mutual, a life insurance company that specializes in funeral and burial policies, asked just over 3,000 Americans to name the graveyards they would be least prepared to visit alone at night.

The survey found 150 graveyards around the country that people refuse to enter or even detour around at night, whether they believe or dismiss as myth the stories of ghostly figures, whispers between crypts and other unexplained occurrences.

The scariest graveyards in Maryland are:

Westminster Hall & Burying Ground, Baltimore

Wedged between city blocks, this graveyard holds the remains of Edgar Allan Poe and a reputation that fits his legacy. Tour guides say they’ve heard tapping from inside his family crypt and glimpsed a black-cloaked figure who vanishes into the church’s shadowed arches. Even the crows seem louder here.

Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore

One of the state’s largest burial grounds, Loudon Park has a strange, watchful stillness. Caretakers have reported hearing hushed conversations between rows of marble vaults and the temperature drops without warning. It’s not a place for ghost stories, it’s a place that makes you write your own.

St. Paul’s Cemetery, Chestertown

Dating back to the 1700s, this colonial churchyard carries layers of history and unrest. Soldiers from the Battle of Caulk’s Field lie here, along with Union and Confederate dead, their markers sinking slowly into the earth. Locals say that on moonless nights, Tench Tilghman’s lantern glides across the bridge beside the cemetery before vanishing into shadow.

The 10 scariest graveyards in the country are:

1. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York
2. Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles
3. Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone, Arizona
4. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
5. Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
6. Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7. Pine Hill Cemetery, also known as Blood Cemetery, Hollis, New Hampshire
8. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Cemetery, Weston, West Virginia
9. Old City Cemetery, also known as Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento, California
10. Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Massachusetts

The survey authors said the most-dreaded cemeteries tended to be Colonial-era and church graveyards in the Northeast, with New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania appearing multiple times in the top 30.

See the full ranking online.