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Wicomico County Courthouse
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Welcome to Chesapeake Ghost Tours.

The Largest Trail of Year-Round Ghost Tours in America  – 11 Ghost Walks in different historic towns, guaranteed to entertain, educate, and perhaps disturb your sense of solace and calm.

If you love history mixed with mystery, you’ll enjoy all of these walking tours all on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

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Book Now at the Links Above or Call the Ghost Phone – 443-735-0771.

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9 Ghost Tours on the Eastern Shore

Chesapeake Ghost Tours on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is the largest cluster of heritage walks in America. Nine night-time walks  – from St. Michaels to Denton to Berlin and Ocean City to the Great Pocomoke Forest. The walking tours are scattered over 100 linear miles on the Delmarva Peninsula and offer guests a 1.5 to 2-hour storytelling session about the history and mysteries of the Eastern Shore. All stories are based on historical research, and many of the 130 sites on these tours still have paranormal activity today.

Most of the ghost walks feature a nighttime walk through an old graveyard. The walks are all guided by a trained storyteller who is passionate not only about the stories but also enthusiastic about explaining the strange energies and events that happen in this wide-open, mostly undeveloped landscape.

Learn more about the Ghost Walks on the What to Expect page

These ghost walks are not “ghost hunts” and we do not guarantee a ghost sighting or a paranormal experience. We do, however, believe that the hauntings are real and that the highly intuitive may be able to sense beings from the eternal world.

Paranormal Investigations

For those who like a more “interactive” look at spirits and paranormal activity, Chesapeake Ghost Tours occasionally offers paranormal investigations where guests can watch actual paranormal investigators use specialized equipment to detect communications from the spirit world. Guests can bring their own equipment and also enjoy a night-time walk led by an investigator through the haunted swamps and forests as well as an “inside” experience in a historic building, mansion, or church depending on the host property.

Other Products and Services

STORYTELLING – Chesapeake Ghost Tours also offers storytelling sessions at various locations on the Eastern Shore, and we can be privately booked for your group or event.

PRODUCTS & SERVICESAsk about our Group Discounts, Students & School Groups, Private Tours, Storytelling Sessions, Bus Tours, and Special Occasions.

BOOKS AND GIFT CERTIFICATES – COMBOS – Order signed copies of Mindie Burgoyne’s Haunted series.  Order a set of 4 and receive free gift wrapping.  Gift certificates are also available as well as Book/Gift Certificate combinations.

BUS TOURS  (temporarily suspended)
 Offered mainly in the winter months – Chesapeake Ghost Tours also has six different bus tour products that go out into the beautiful countryside – focusing on stories of farmers, slaves, merchants, watermen and ghosts of the swamps forests and old plantations. Book a bus tour for your group or go on one of ours.

REFUNDS AND CANCELLATIONS: While payment must be made in advance in order to secure a place on the tour, a full refund will be given if cancellations are made at least 48 hours before the tour. Cancellations after that 48-hour window or no-shows will not receive a refund.

Voted Best New Heritage Initiative by the Beach to Bay Heritage Area

Ghost Tours in Denton Maryland - The Taylor House
The Taylor House – Denton, Maryland

Over 140 Sites across seven counties

Together this cluster of ghost tours includes over 140 haunted sites and stories and 10 graveyards.  The spirits of pirates, sea captains, merchants, governors, soldiers, slaves, orphans, farmers, witches, hoteliers, doctors, actresses and “ladies of the evening” are featured characters in these enchanting stories.  The haunted history of the old Eastern Shore is revealed in these tours in a way that is both entertaining and engaging. Our guests get a broad perspective of the Eastern Shore’s “haunted” heritage.

Featured in the Washington Post Travel Section 

Where are our Ghost Tours? (map)

Storyteller, Missy Corley leads the Ghost Tour in Easton, Maryland
Storyteller, Missy Corley leads the Ghost Tour in Easton, Maryland

Ghost Storytellers – Family Entertainment

Each tour is led by a ghost storyteller who will weave the history of the town through tales of apparitions, psychic phenomena and things no one can explain. Every tour is suitable for adults and kids, Except for Princess Anne (no children allowed). The Chesapeake Ghost Walks weave a tapestry of local lore and legend and reveal the rich heritage of the Eastern Shore and the essence of its unique character. Once you’ve gone on a ghost walk, that town will seem like an old friend.

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Why the Eastern Shore?

The Eastern Shore  – that is the land east of the Chesapeake Bay – encompasses hundreds of square miles of rolling farmland, forest, and marsh, and the Eastern Shore is the least developed contiguous piece of agricultural land between Maine and Florida.  The landscape is flat and open with big skies and a shoreline is never far away. It’s an enchanting landscape that has remained largely unchanged since the British colonization.

Tucked into that mystical landscape are small towns that grew up with the seafood, farming, and shipbuilding trades.  They were full of crazy characters, and there is something magical about that open landscape that opens portals into the “other world” and the spirits of those characters peek through now and again. They may meet you on the stairs of your hotel or in a museum full of artifacts, on a nighttime walk through town, on your campsite, on a carousel ride, or in your guest room at a historic Inn.  You’ll be “walking with some of them” on every Chesapeake Ghost Walk.

Make a night of it – If meeting up with Chesapeake spirits wasn’t reason enough to buy a ticket for one of these walks, consider that most of the featured towns are designated Maryland Main Streets and/or Arts and Entertainment Districts and all have gorgeous historic architecture, amazing food, shops, cultural venues, and recreational opportunities.  There’s enough to do to fill a weekend.

Ghost Tour in Berlin MD Healing Tree
Healing Tree in Berlin MD

Healing Trees and Elementals

Guests on Chesapeake Ghost Walks also learn about “healing trees” and elementals located inside these towns.  Healing trees have a strong energy that can be felt when a hand is placed close to the tree for a period of time.  Healers, or people who use holistic methods of treating illness, will sometimes visit these particular trees to engage with the tree energy. Ghost Walk guides will demonstrate how to engage with that energy.

Healing trees are featured on the Easton, Cambridge, Princess Anne, and Berlin (2) Walks.  One known elemental is present in the Town of Berlin.

ADVANCED REGISTRATION AND TICKET PURCHASE THROUGH THIS SITE IS REQUIRED.

REFUNDS AND CANCELLATIONS: While payment must be made in advance in order to secure a place on the tour, a full refund will be given if cancellations are made at least 48 hours before the tour. Cancellations after that 48-hour window or no-shows will not receive a refund.

Don’t forget to check out the reviews some of our readers have left on TripAdvisor.

We hope you’ll join us for some walks this year.

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147 thoughts on “Chesapeake Ghost Tours

  1. My wife and I are looking so forward to do a ghost walk. Please recommend the best one you have enjoyed.

  2. We are looking to explore the eastern shore and of course, we want a ghost tour when we come. Two good questions for you folks – first, what are your two absolute scariest tours (combination of location and active hauntings where tour guests have had experiences) and second, out of the towns that you cover, if you were going to take friends from out of town exploring some of the eastern shore towns, which ones would you pick based on being very historic, scenic, etc. We’re actually planning on at least two visits to the area and we are putting together our itineraries. Thanks a bunch.

    1. Thanks so much for reaching out, and I hope you enjoy your exploration to the Eastern Shore. It might be a good idea for you to check out our What to Expect on a Chesapeake Ghost Walk post. We don’t dress up or include any kind of drama in our storytelling. We simply walk the town, explaining the history and details about paranormal events that are linked to the property. Our haunted information comes from folklore collections, books, old news articles and personal interviews. Each walk is very well researched, but I wouldn’t say that any are terrifying.

      The Pocomoke Walk has the largest fear factor because the guests go into a forest with a 200 year legacy of being haunted – and we have had guests see apparitions in there. The Princess Anne walk is the most disturbing – and again, we’ve had peope overcome with strange sensations, anomalies in pictures and the tour content is disturbing. Each of the walks has a description, and you may want to look at our Towns Page to see the links for each walk’s webpage. Hope you’ll join us soon.

    1. Hi Michelle.
      You can get tickets online. Find the walk you want on our calendar, click the link then scroll down to order tickets online. Call the ghost phone at 443.735.0771 if you need assistance.

  3. This was a most informative and entertaining tour with our guide Maria. We got some interesting history lessons and heard some eerie ghost stories as well. I can’t wait to attend the ghost walks in the nearby cities. Thanks Maria!

  4. I Apologize, but just seen your message. We had an Awesome time with you all as well! Also had a Great time at the Apple Butter Festival!
    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

  5. My wife and I were down for Halloween weekend 2015. We did the Ocean City walk on Friday and the Princess Anne walk on Saturday. We even hiked to the Rackcliff house on Assateague. What a great time we had. The tours and guides are very informative.

    Thanks for doing this.

  6. We just got tickets to the Ocean City Ghost Tour for this Friday October 30th; looking so forward to it.

  7. My husband and I took the Ocean City ghost walk last night and our guide was Mindie. We both had so much fun!! We are local (Ocean Pines) so we already knew most of the sites, but we learned so many new things on the walk that it gave us an entirely new perspective on this town we have loved for many years. Mindie is a treasure of knowledge and presents real historical stuff in a fascinating way. She’s a good writer, too, and I highly recommend her book, “Haunted Ocean City and Berlin”. We’re looking forward to going on more ghost walks!

  8. I was wondering about your bus tours. I have heard from several guides about them but no one knew for sure when they were starting or pricing

    Thank you!

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