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The Original Ocean City Ghost Tour Along the Boardwalk and Historic District
813 S Atlantic Ave, Ocean City, MD 21842
Research updated August 2026
Age
8-99
Cost
$$
Adult tickets $25 per person retail (per the operator's group-discount page); discounted children's tickets. Book online or by phone.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of roughly one mile along Ocean City's Boardwalk and historic district. Fully wheelchair accessible.
Equipment
Photos OK
Ocean City Boardwalk historic district, Worcester County · Ocean City Life-Saving Museum (former U.S. Life-Saving Service station) · Chesapeake Ghost Tours (founded 2014, Mindie Burgoyne)
Ocean City, Maryland is a longtime Atlantic coast resort town built up around its Boardwalk, historic hotels, and amusement piers. Chesapeake Ghost Tours, founded in 2014 by writer Mindie Burgoyne, runs its Ocean City walking tour along roughly a mile of the Boardwalk historic district, starting at the Ocean City Life-Saving Museum, itself a former lifesaving station turned local history museum.
Chesapeake Ghost Tours has been featured in the Washington Post's travel section, is listed with the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, and carries over 1,300 Tripadvisor reviews, ranking as the top-rated tour operator in its region. The company describes itself as the largest trail of year-round ghost tours in America, covering ten Eastern Shore towns.
Sources
The operator's marketing describes spirits reportedly lingering among Ocean City's old hotels, amusements, and Boardwalk buildings, including figures the tour calls 'Catherine' and 'Calvin' (the 'Ghost of Calvin Cropper'), and a spirit said to haunt an old carousel. The tour's central feature is what the operator markets as the 'Haunted Trifecta' -- a small cluster of sites where, per the operator, a murder, a suicide, and an accidental death are each reported to have occurred. The tour also references the Ocean City Life-Saving Museum as a particularly active stop and a lighthearted 'Candyland Ghost' story.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, describing what the tour covers, not an independently verified claim by HauntBound. HauntBound has not independently corroborated the identities or circumstances behind the 'Haunted Trifecta' claim and presents it here only as the operator's own framing.
Media Appearances
A roughly 1.75-hour, 1-mile storytelling walking tour along Ocean City's historic Boardwalk district, now in its 14th year, presenting what the operator calls the town's 'Haunted Trifecta.' Meets at the south end of the Boardwalk in front of the Ocean City Life-Saving Museum.
A seasonal (summer) sunset boat cruise product covering stories of pirates, beachcombers, hoteliers, and a sea captain's grave, offered as an add-on to the operator's Ocean City program.
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Meeting point at the south end of the Boardwalk; featured stop on the tour.
Roughly one-mile route along the Boardwalk and nearby hotels covering 8+ stops, including the operator's 'Haunted Trifecta' sites.
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