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Chesapeake Ghost Tours' Most Disturbing Program, Past Teackle Mansion and the Old Jail
Mansion Street, Princess Anne, MD 21853
Research updated August 2026
Age
13+
Cost
$$
Adult tickets $25 per person retail (per the operator's group-discount page); no children under 12 permitted on this tour. Book online or by phone.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of Princess Anne's historic district, including a night walk through a Colonial-era graveyard. Wheelchair accessible except in the graveyard.
Equipment
Photos OK
Teackle Mansion, Princess Anne historic district · Princess Anne's former county jail, Somerset County · Chesapeake Ghost Tours (founded 2014, Mindie Burgoyne)
Princess Anne is the seat of Somerset County, on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, and retains a compact historic district anchored by Teackle Mansion, an early-19th-century Federal-style house museum. Chesapeake Ghost Tours, founded in 2014 by writer Mindie Burgoyne, runs its Princess Anne walking tour through the historic district past Teackle Mansion, the town's former jail (now a police station), and a Colonial-era graveyard.
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 Teackle Mansion as home to reported spirits, including a doctor said to torment children and a judge said not to leave his former home. The tour references two unnamed historic murders in town, a historic tavern the operator says has a resident ghost, and a former jail (now a police station) the operator markets as still paranormally active, including photographs it describes as showing a child's face in a window. The route closes at a graveyard with graves the operator dates to Colonial times, and includes a stop at the stump of a large sycamore the operator calls 'the Healing Tree.'
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, describing what the tour covers, not an independently verified claim by HauntBound.
Media Appearances
A 1.75-hour storytelling walking tour of historic Princess Anne, marketed by the operator as its most disturbing program, covering 7+ reportedly haunted sites including Teackle Mansion, a still-active former jail, a historic tavern, and a Colonial-era graveyard. No children under 12 permitted. Meets in front of Teackle Mansion.
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Meeting point and featured stop on the tour.
Named stop the operator describes as the scariest moment of the walk.
Closing stop; graves the operator dates to Colonial times.
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