Haunted Hotels in Baltimore: 5 Haunted Places to Stay In and Near the City
A Jazz Age tower with a little girl and her red ball, a sailors’ boarding house on the Fells Point waterfront, and the colonial inns of Annapolis just down the road.
Baltimore has two famous haunted hotels. Downtown, the 1928 Lord Baltimore Hotel is known for Molly, the little girl with the red ball on the 19th floor, and runs its own ghost tours. In Fells Point, The William Fell, the former Admiral Fell Inn, has phantom sailors and the much-requested Room 413. To make a weekend of it, Annapolis is about 40 minutes south, where the Maryland Inn, the Governor Calvert House and the tiny Reynolds Tavern sit within a few hundred yards of each other around the State House. We have checked every hotel against current sources and been clear where a story is legend. For the rest of the state, see our guide to haunted hotels in Maryland.
$$ · $150 to $300Ghost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghostsPet friendlyHaunted Rooms ghost hunts
Address 20 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Where to look The 19th floor, the elevators, the ballroom, the lobby mezzanine and the LB Tavern
Reported ghosts Molly, a little girl with a red ball; a dancing couple in the ballroom; a quarreling trio on the mezzanine
Booking the haunted room The 19th floor is not a regular guest floor, so ask for a high floor when you book and use the hotel ghost tour to visit the hot spots.
The Lord Baltimore Hotel opened on December 30, 1928, a 22-story French Renaissance tower by architect William Lee Stoddart, topped with a copper mansard roof that has long since turned green. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, belongs to Historic Hotels of America, and has been independently run by the Rubell family since a full restoration in 2014.
Its best-known ghost is Molly, a little girl in a pale dress who bounces a red ball through the corridors, most often on the 19th floor. Staff also describe a couple dancing beneath the ballroom chandeliers, voices quarreling on the mezzanine and an elevator that heads to the 19th floor on its own. The hotel leans in: Poe’s Magic Theatre runs ghost tours inside the building most Friday and Saturday nights.
Haunted Rooms tip: Join the in-house ghost tour (Friday and Saturday nights) and ask for a room on a high floor; the 19th floor itself is terrace and event space.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghostsPet friendly
Address 16 Church Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401
Where to look The fourth floor and Room 405, the basement taproom, the main staircase
Reported ghosts The Bride, Captain Charles Campbell, a woman in black, singing soldiers
Booking the haunted room Book the Maryland Inn through the Historic Inns of Annapolis and request Room 405 or a fourth-floor room. Requests are not guaranteed.
The wedge-shaped Maryland Inn fills the point between Main Street and Duke of Gloucester Street on Church Circle. Merchant Thomas Hyde leased the lot in 1772 and built the front of the house, and by 1784 Sarah Ball was running it as a tavern, the year Annapolis served as the nation’s capital. Today it is one of the three Historic Inns of Annapolis, with 44 rooms above the Drummer’s Lot Pub.
Its best-known ghost is the Bride. Local legend says her fiance, a Navy captain, was killed by a carriage outside the inn as he came back to marry her, and she threw herself from a fourth-floor window. Guests on that floor, and in Room 405 in particular, describe pacing footsteps and a cold presence at the foot of the bed, while the captain is said to appear in uniform in the basement taproom.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 405 or anything on the fourth floor when you book, and join one of the evening Annapolis ghost tours that start on the inn’s front steps.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookablePet friendly
Address 888 South Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231
Where to look Room 413, the upper floors, the basement tavern and the old fire escape landings
Reported ghosts Phantom sailors, a lady in white, a ghostly party heard in an empty hotel, a presence in Room 413
Booking the haunted room Request Room 413 at booking or by calling the hotel. It is a standard room, so it is subject to availability, and room numbering may have shifted in the 2025 renovation.
For 40 years this cluster of 18th-century brick buildings on the Fells Point waterfront was the Admiral Fell Inn. Before that it was the Anchorage, a Christian boarding house for sailors, then a Seamen’s YMCA that lodged around 50,000 sailors a year, then a vinegar bottling works. After a full renovation it reopened in April 2025 as The William Fell, part of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection, with 80 rooms.
The ghost stories came with it. Guests and staff have long described sailors in old seafaring clothes in the corridors, a lady in white at the windows, elevator buttons pressed by no one, and the sound of a lively party on an upper floor when the hotel was empty during Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Room 413, where a guest was killed in 1999, is the room ghost hunters ask for.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 413 when you book, then go down to the Anchor Bar, the basement tavern where the bar staff have their own stories.
Where to look The glass floor over the hypocaust in the lobby, the attic and the upstairs guest rooms
Reported ghosts Faces in the glass floor, a man in 18th-century dress, a spirit called Dominic
Booking the haunted room Book a Governor Calvert Historic King room, which the inn says occupy the original rooms of the governor's house.
Facing the Maryland State House across State Circle, the Governor Calvert House grew from a brick home built around 1728 for Governor Charles Calvert, a cousin of the fifth Lord Baltimore. Fire, lightning and two centuries of use as barracks, a printer’s home, a mayor’s residence and apartments followed before it reopened as an inn in the 1980s. It is now one of the three Historic Inns of Annapolis.
Under a glass panel in the lobby you can see a colonial hypocaust, a Roman-style heating system found by archaeologists in the 1980s. Guests say they have seen faces looking back from that glass. Other stories tell of a man in 18th-century clothes in the lobby, noises from the sealed attic, and a mischievous spirit known as Dominic who is said to linger in the bedrooms.
Haunted Rooms tip: Stand over the glass floor in the lobby late in the evening, and ask for one of the Historic King rooms in the original house rather than the newer wing.
Where to look The upstairs bedrooms, the kitchen and the 1747 Pub in the cellar
Reported ghosts Mary Reynolds, the tavern keeper's widow, and others
Booking the haunted room There are only three rooms. Book the Mary Reynolds Room (or either suite) by name on the tavern's website or by calling (410) 295-9555.
Reynolds Tavern has stood on Church Circle since about 1747, when hatter William Reynolds opened the Beaver and Lac’d Hat here. It later served as a bank, a cashier’s home and the city library, was saved from demolition for a gas station, and since its restoration has been a restaurant, tea room and cellar pub with just three rooms upstairs: the Washington and Jefferson Suites and the Mary Reynolds Room.
The ghost is said to be Mary Reynolds, who ran the tavern after William’s death. Owners and staff have described human-shaped dents in a made-up bed upstairs, objects moving and a woman’s voice singing Christmas carols. A 2004 overnight investigation by a local ghost society claimed five spirits, and a dish broke in the kitchen while it was under way.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book the Mary Reynolds Room, named for the ghost herself, and have a drink in the 1747 Pub in the old cellar before bed.
About this guide: Baltimore city has only two hotels with well-documented ghost stories, so we have added the three haunted inns of Annapolis, the nearest good alternative. The Wayside Inn in Ellicott City, about 20 minutes from downtown, is closed after a July 2026 fire; see the Wayside Inn guide for its status. If you know a Baltimore hotel ghost story we missed, tell us below.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the most haunted hotel in Baltimore?
The Lord Baltimore Hotel. Staff and guests describe Molly, a little girl with a red ball seen around the 19th floor, a couple dancing in the ballroom and voices on the mezzanine, and the hotel hosts ghost tours most Friday and Saturday nights.
Is the Admiral Fell Inn still open?
Yes, under a new name. After a full renovation it reopened in April 2025 as The William Fell, part of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection. The ghost stories, including Room 413, came with it.
Can you stay on the 19th floor of the Lord Baltimore Hotel?
Not as a regular guest. The 19th floor is terrace and event space, so ask for a high floor and join the hotel’s ghost tour to see the hot spots.
Which haunted rooms can you request near Baltimore?
Room 413 at The William Fell in Fells Point and Room 405 at the Maryland Inn in Annapolis. At Reynolds Tavern you can book the Mary Reynolds Room by name. Requests elsewhere are not guaranteed.
Are there haunted hotels between Baltimore and Annapolis?
Annapolis, about 40 minutes south of Baltimore, has three: the Maryland Inn, the Governor Calvert House and Reynolds Tavern, all within a short walk of the Maryland State House.
Does Haunted Rooms run ghost hunts near Baltimore?
Yes. We run ghost hunts and sleepovers at the 1852 Linville Manor in Upper Marlboro, under an hour from Baltimore, with more events in Gettysburg and Cashtown, Pennsylvania.
Sources and how we research
Every hotel in this guide is checked against the hotel’s own website, historic register listings and news coverage. Ghost stories are reported as the hotels, guests and local historians tell them; we note where a story can’t be confirmed. Read how we rate haunted hotels.
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The Haunted Rooms Team runs public ghost hunts and overnight investigations at historic venues across the United States. We research every hotel in our guides using hotel histories, local archives, news coverage and the accounts of guests and staff, and we review each guide regularly so you are not booking a hotel that has closed or changed its name. Spotted something out of date? Let us know.
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