Gaslight House (Gaslight Gallery)

According to the Frederick News-Post's 'still haunted and historic' feature on the property and Eastern Entities' Gaslight House blog entry, the building's most persistent lore centers on the Bopst family, who occupied the rowhome during the nineteenth century. The story holds that the Bopsts took in an unwed pregnant woman; the subsequent events ended tragically for both the woman and her child, and lore frames the resulting presence as that of an anguished mother — described as a strong residual rather than an intelligent or interactive haunting.

The lore is documented across multiple Frederick ghost-tour operators and the local newspaper feature. Both the Frederick News-Post and Eastern Entities frame the lore in carefully attributed language ('reportedly,' 'is said to have'), which mirrors our own treatment here: the underlying historical events involving the Bopst family have not been independently verified in primary documentation that we surfaced, and the paranormal claim should be understood as oral tradition perpetuated through tour narration.

The Gaslight House appears as a regular stop on Ghost Tours of Historic Frederick and on Eastern Entities' Frederick haunting route. The current gallery operators have continued to live with the lore rather than suppress it; the gallery's presence in the building has, if anything, increased public exposure to the story.

Independent corroboration: US Ghost Adventures' Frederick Ghost Tour, Eastern Entities, and Let's Roam's Frederick Ghost Hunt each independently profile the Gaslight House's anguished-mother residual presence tied to the 19th-century Bopst family's reportedly tragic involvement with an unwed pregnant woman. Three independent paranormal-source aggregators beyond the prior Frederick News-Post real-estate feature.