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Chesapeake Ghost Tours' Scariest Program, Walking the Pocomoke River and Forest
Front and Market Streets, Pocomoke City, MD 21851
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
Limited Access
An outdoor walking tour through Pocomoke City's historic district, a graveyard, and a stretch of the Pocomoke Forest that can flood after heavy rain. Not wheelchair accessible in the forest or graveyard.
Equipment
Photos OK
Pocomoke State Forest, Worcester County · Mar-Va Theater (1927 vaudeville and movie house) · Chesapeake Ghost Tours (founded 2014, Mindie Burgoyne)
Pocomoke City sits on the Pocomoke River in Worcester County, adjacent to the Pocomoke State Forest, one of the largest contiguous forests on the Eastern Shore. The town's historic Mar-Va Theater, a 1927 vaudeville and movie house, anchors its downtown alongside the Delmarva Discovery Center. Chesapeake Ghost Tours, founded in 2014 by writer Mindie Burgoyne, runs its Pocomoke walking tour through the historic district and into the adjacent forest, which it markets as its scariest program.
Chesapeake Ghost Tours has been featured in the Washington Post's travel section 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 the Pocomoke Forest as home to reported 'elementals' and 'the walking dead,' with guests reportedly experiencing strange lights, shadow figures, and physical sensations such as a touch on the shoulder or hair being pulled. The tour also references 'phantom lights' said to respond to electromagnetic charge, and stories the operator groups as 'Black Water River Tragedies' tied to the Pocomoke River. The historic Mar-Va Theater is marketed as home to many reported spirits. The route includes a walk through the local graveyard before entering the forest, weather permitting.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, describing what the tour covers, not an independently verified claim by HauntBound.
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A 1.75-hour storytelling walking tour of historic Pocomoke City covering 7+ reportedly haunted sites, a graveyard walk, and a walk into the Pocomoke Forest, which the operator markets as its scariest program. Meets under the pavilion at Front and Market Streets.
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Historic theater on the route; the operator markets it as home to 'many spirits.'
Nighttime forest walk along the Pocomoke River, weather permitting; the tour's signature stretch.
Route through the historic district and a graveyard walk, meeting at the Front and Market Streets pavilion.
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