Maryland Room Gallery

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Mysterious Maryland - A Hauntingly Good Exhibit

A shadow darts across the wall of your office on a cloudless day.or the objects in your fraternity house kitchen are rearranged when no one is home. Perhaps you feel a chill run down your spine as you walk by our campus cemetery, or sense a ghostly female presence inside the Rossborough Inn. Since the university's founding in 1856, dozens of stories of haunted buildings and unexplained phenomena have been recorded, many linked to earlier events in campus history. It seems that everyone, from sorority sisters to professors to university presidents, knows of a place on campus where strange things happen. If the tales of mysterious deaths, otherworldly entities, and the supernatural we've discovered are true, ghosts are everywhere at the University of Maryland!

Oh dear, have we scared you off campus? Don't be so sure that you're safe outside the entrance gates! Prince George 's County has more than enough weird tales to keep you up at night. Marylanders have been accused of witchcraft in the Prince George's County area since the seventeenth century, and a shocking twentieth century double murder in College Park remains unsolved to this day. Historical sites such as the Surratt House, home to an alleged conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, are rife with supernatural activity, while creepy abandoned buildings like the Glenn Dale hospital attract mysterious cults and thrill seekers alike. With fearsome creatures such as the Goatman sighted throughout Prince George 's County, you'll have to travel far to escape frightening local phenomena.