Evening star., 1937-04-18
4 Haunted Houses
Will Be on View
At MARYLAND Tour

SO1S Adultcu HOUSES are lCluQeQ
in the Maryland garden pilgrim
age this year-ghosts, however, not
guaranteed to appear.
Washingtonians making the tour,
which begins April 80 and continues
through May 8, do not have to 60 far
afield to visit three of the houses SUBJ
Ject to ghostly visitors; Dover house,
home of Mrs. Eleanor Patterson in
Prince Georges County, which has
two ghosts; beautiful Rose Hill, home
OF Capt. and Mrs. c. E. Grevenberg
in Charles County, which is haunted
by blue dog; Sotterley, in St. Mary
County, where Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
L. Satterlee of New York make their
Summer home, at which the ghost
OF former owner, Gov Platter of
Maryland, roams restlessly about.
Across Chesapeake Bay in Talbot
County. at Fairview, home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas v. Ranck, four super
natural visitors have been seen.
The ghosts Of Dover House have
been investigated by members of the
London Society for Physica. Research.
One is the ghost of Elizabeth Briscoe
Calvert, who seeks eternally for the
treasure OF the Calverts buried in
some secret underground vault during
the War Of 1912. The tap, tap of her
high heels is heard up and down the
stairs as she roams night after night.
The other weird visitor at Dover
House, more infrequently seen, is that
OF horseman in armor who appears
at the front door, gives the occupants
naughty stare and rides silently
away into the shadows.
Buried treasure concerns the phan-
tom OF Rose Hill also, but this time
In more unhappy fashion. A peddlar,
so the story goes. wandered into Port
Tobacco, imbibed freely at the tavern
and boastfully displayed a bag of gold,
rousing the greed Of one of the by
ISLANDERS, who crept after him and
murdered him in lonely lane lead
ing to Rose Hill. The body was found
but no trace Of the gold, which is
supposed to have been buried some-
where in the woods, but never re-
covered. The peddlar's dog, a strange
shade Of blue, guards the treasure,
and its mournful barks can be heard
at midnight when the moon is full
Sotterley's ghost is heard, but never
seen-the sound of the wheels of Gov
Plater's ghostly chariot and four and
the hoofbeats Of his outriders' horses
as he drives up from the MARYLAND
state Capitol. Sometimes it is the
splash OF oars of the Governors fu-
neral cortege as it makes its way over
South River, across the ferry, to Sot-
terley. 1t was Gov. Plater's grandson
George who lost the estate throwing
dice
Fairview has the most remarkable
collection OF ghosts-four in all. The
more-than-head-high boxwood gar
dens which screen any one walking
therein may account for some of the
ghostly voices heard at night, but
hardly for the mirage of little old
lady, quantity gowned, who appears at
gay house parties, or the lovely young
girl who beckons visitors to the box
wood garden when the moon is full.
This ghost, SO the story goes, is the
one-time belle Of Talbot County, Alicia
Lloyd. The other two ghosts-a head
less sailor wandering eternally along
the beach searching for his head and
= cavalier astride a dancing horse
are part Of the legend Of this Talbot
County house.
The 130 houses and gardens on ex-
hibition this year may be seen as
follows: Prince Georges and Calvert
Counties. April 80, May l.; Charles and
st. Marys Counties, May l and 2;
Annapolis and Anne Arundel County,
May and 4; Baltimore City and
County and Hartford County. May
and S: Howard County, May and 6,
and the Eastern Shore, May and 8.