About chesapeake ghosts

Chesapeake Ghost Tours is the largest cluster of related heritage walks in America. All of the ghost tours are on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And the tours build on each other, although they stand alone equally as well.

Towns featured in the walking tours in the Chesapeake Ghost Tour series are Cambridge, Easton, Crisfield, Denton, Snow Hill, Pocomoke City, Ocean City, Berlin, Princess Anne, St. Michaels, and Salisbury. The company also has 5 bus tour products, paranormal investigations, and Storytelling sessions. Over 200 ghost stories, tales of the dead, and paranormal experiences comprise the content of the stories on our tours.

Guests get a rich commentary on the First Nations people, Colonial and Civil War eras, and early 20th-century history of these amazing historic towns, plus a large dose of “mystery” that clings to each site on every tour. Sites featured include commercial buildings, hotels, private homes, parks, rivers, swamps, graveyards, and the Chesapeake Bay – and Atlantic Ocean.

Towns featured include Cambridge, Easton, Crisfield, Denton, Snow Hill, Pocomoke City, Ocean City, Berlin, Princess Anne, St. Michaels, and Salisbury – all in Maryland. The company also offers 5 bus tour products, paranormal investigations, and Storytelling sessions.

“When I craft a tour, I try to do so in a way that tells the story of the whole town so that the characters I talk about are placed in a related setting” Burgoyne states. “All haunted stories begin to sound alike after a while. What differentiates one story from the next are the ghostly characters, the setting, and how people are experiencing the presence of those ghosts in this world.”

WE DON’T GO INSIDE

PLEASE NOTE: GUESTS AND GUIDES DO NOT GO INSIDE THE PROPERTIES ON GHOST WALKS. Stories of hauntings and unexplained events are shared while standing outside the property on ghost walks. Some properties are entered on bus tours and paranormal investigations.

GHOST WALKS RUN FROM MARCH THROUGH DECEMBER

There are walks nearly every weekend from March through December. During the winter months from the end of December, January, and February our weekly ghost tours are suspended and we do private tours and Storytelling sessions.

HOW THE GHOST STORIES ARE COLLECTED

Mindie Burgoyne collected her ghostly tales from various sources including local libraries, regional books, newspaper articles, the folklore collection at the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University, and personal interviews. After collecting the tales she researches the town’s history, then crafts a tour that tells a larger story than just the individual sites. All the tours include an evening walk through a graveyard – except for Ocean City. That town has no graveyards.

THE STORYTELLERS: Chesapeake Ghost Tours has a thorough training process for the storytellers who lead the tours. Each storyteller is trained and tested in Eastern Shore history as well as the folklore of that particular town. Five of the tour guides have attained certification as interpretive guides (CIG) through the National Association of Interpretation.

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