Downtown Frederick Historic District · Operated by US Ghost Adventures under the Frederick Ghosts brand
US Ghost Adventures is a national operator of city ghost-walking tours; its Frederick program markets under the Frederick Ghosts name. The tour meets nightly at a historic courtyard at 106 W Patrick St. and covers roughly a mile of downtown Frederick sidewalks in about an hour, staying entirely outdoors and never entering privately-owned buildings.
The route draws on documented Frederick history tied to the Civil War, including the city's role as a field-hospital hub after battles including Antietam and Monocacy, and to 19th-century local figures such as Barbara Fritchie and John Tyler, builder of the Tyler Spite House.
A separate, unaffiliated operator, Ghost Tours of Historic Frederick, also runs walking tours in downtown Frederick; independent listings on TripAdvisor and Wanderlog corroborate that both operate, and this entry covers only the US Ghost Adventures / Frederick Ghosts program.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/frederick-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60903-d2356382-Reviews-Ghost_Tours_of_Historic_Frederick-Frederick_Maryland.html
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The core route covers three stops: the Gaslight House, where the operator ties a residual haunting to the Bopst family and an unwed mother taken in there; Winchester Hall, framed by the operator as Frederick's most haunted building due to its Civil War use as a field hospital after having briefly been a women's college; and the Tyler Spite House, where the operator's material centers on the spiteful reputation of 19th-century builder John Tyler.
The operator's extended-tour material covers the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the nearby Carty Building, tied to Civil War-era embalmer Richard Burr; Frederick City Hall, where the operator recounts a story of condemned British loyalists reportedly executed on the site; the Weinberg Center for the Arts (formerly the Tivoli Theatre), tied to a resident spirit the operator calls 'Jimmy the Projectionist'; and the Barbara Fritchie House, tied to local Civil War-era figure Barbara Fritchie.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
Notable Entities
Barbara Fritchie (documented 19th-century Frederick resident; folklore figure, per the operator's material)
