Spooky Maryland

The Banner has compiled a detailed, searchable database of the 60 Maryland horror movies to help you find your next spooky watch.

Here are the Maryland children obsessed with all things scary and creepy.

It started with just a few Halloween animatronics, but now the Catalina Haunt has become a destination for neighborhood residents and Halloween fanatics across the county.

Lani Moore’s horror dolls wouldn’t play well with Barbie.

Found-footage horror films exploded in popularity after the release of Maryland-made “The Blair Witch Project,” according to a Banner analysis of over 4,000 horror movies.

Witches are everywhere in Maryland. Here is a look at what they believe, what they do and how they fit into our modern world.

UMBC has one of the world’s largest parapsychology collections, including ghostly items such as seance photos and notes supposedly scrawled by spirits.

Warren was once a bustling mill town, but it was flooded more than a century ago to enlarge the Loch Raven Reservoir. Now just a few remnants of the town haunt the surrounding woods.

Supporters are hopeful that any living descendants of Maryland’s witches will reach out.

If you dare to explore the Patapsco Female Institute, one thing is certain: you won’t be alone. Three familiar ghosts will be at your side. They’re known as Annie, The Shadow and The Gentleman. They all have their own stories and they are all locked in time at the Institute.

A famous old pet cemetery hides in the shadows of Howard County’s new apartments. And someone’s moving the graves.

The basement in The Castle in Hampden is a grim remnant of another era: a duo of dark, dank solitary confinement cells.

The exact roots of the Dwayyo story — and even the creature’s name — are sparse, according to Susan Fair, an author and retired librarian who has written about local cryptids.

Witch Board Museum Baltimore takes you on a strange trip into the history of one of the city’s oddest inventions — the Ouija board.

The way the US Ghost Adventures markets itself in some cities is so similar to longer-running local ghost tours that customers become confused, owners say.

The Fort Howard Haunted Dungeons are spooky, scary fun.

The ghost ship has become another way the crew can sustain itself in the face of high maintenance costs.

Women who possessed special knowledge, such as midwives or herbalists, were more likely to be accused of witchcraft, as were women in need, including widows and beggars.

The strange and improbable story of how a storied filmmaker happened upon a historic discovery.

The Snallygaster appears to have been invented by the staff of a small newspaper to terrorize and control Black people in the early 1900s.