Point Lookout MD - Fort Lincoln/Camp Hoffman - Ghosts and Hauntings on Waymarking.com

Not only is Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary's County, MD a popular camping and fishing spot, it is also popular with ghosts. Because of its Civil War history, past tragedies, and shipwrecks off its shores, soldiers, sailors, even a woman looking for a grave have been reported wandering around. Point Lookout was the former location of a Confederate POW camp and Union hospital and many died and were buried here. Although the graves were eventually moved, maybe one or two were forgotten or missed and the left-behind denizens are discombobulated and doomed to wander looking for their 'buddies'.

During the Civil War, the Union constructed a prison pen for Confederate prisoners of war and several forts to protect its position on this southernmost peninsula of Maryland situated between the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. The POW camp was known as Camp Hoffman and the nearby fort was Fort Lincoln. Camp Hoffman was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners, but grew to a population of 20,000 prisoners. Conditions were horrific. Prisoners were sheltered by torn tents behind wooden walls which offered little protection against the extreme weather conditions at Point Lookout. Filth, disease, and starvation abounded. Death was an escape from the horrendous human suffering.

With its history of so much human tragedy, it is small wonder that restless spirits are seen wandering around lost and the distant whispers of voices heard. For eyewitness experiences, see Who's Afraid of Ghosts?.

There is a fee to enter Point Lookout State Park which is open to sunset (more info). A reconstructed Fort Lincoln and prison pen are available anytime during park hours. Self-guided, so you are on your own as you walk across the grounds haunted by the memories and ghosts of tragedy and suffering. Was that the wind or...?

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Note: The posted coordinates take you to the guardhouse within the Fort Lincoln compound, the site of a ghostly incident experienced by Ranger Bob Crickenberger as related in Legends of Point Lookout.

Ghosts may also be lingering at the old prison pen: N 38° 02.943' W 076° 19.437'

Public access?: Self guided, open when park is open Visting hours: Sunrise to sunset Website about the location and/or story: [Web Link]

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