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The Original St. Michaels Ghost Tour Through the Harborside Town's Historic District and Graveyard
125 Mulberry Street, St. Michaels, MD 21663
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 St. Michaels' historic harborside streets, alleys, and parks, including a night walk through a graveyard. Wheelchair accessible except in the graveyard.
Equipment
Photos OK
St. Michaels historic harbor district, Talbot County · Chesapeake Ghost Tours (founded 2014, Mindie Burgoyne)
St. Michaels is a historic harborside town on Maryland's Eastern Shore, long associated with the Chesapeake Bay's shipbuilding and oystering trades. Chesapeake Ghost Tours, founded in 2014 by writer Mindie Burgoyne, runs its flagship St. Michaels walking tour through the town's colonial-era streets, alleys, inns, and a local graveyard. The company describes itself as the largest trail of year-round ghost tours in America, covering ten Eastern Shore towns; St. Michaels was among its original stops.
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 St. Michaels program partners with the harborfront restaurant Foxy's Harbor Grille, which serves as the tour's meeting point.
Sources
The operator's marketing describes several recurring characters on the St. Michaels walk: 'Muskrat Mary,' a woman said to still walk the harborside streets; 'Sarah,' described as having 'a relationship with fire'; a spirit said to throw wine glasses; and other figures the tour groups together as the 'Spirits of Rowdy Women' -- ladies of the evening, a fussy former landlady, and a 'vanishing hippie.' The tour also references a stretch of the historic district nicknamed 'Hell's Corner' and unremembered dead said to linger in the town square. The route concludes with a walk through the local graveyard, where the guide tells stories of the dead buried there.
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 St. Michaels' historic harborside district, now in its 14th year, covering 8+ reportedly haunted sites including inns, parks, museums, and a graveyard walk. Meets in front of Foxy's Harbor Grille, 125 Mulberry Street.
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Meeting point for the tour; operator states guests get a dining discount for showing their ticket.
Route through the town's harborside streets, parks, and inns, concluding with a walk through the local graveyard.
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