OK, this isn’t really a sorority story but close enough. I largely copied it off
www.marylandghosts.com:
A Girl Scout camp is built on the Bell Plantation, which was part of the Underground Railroad, in Conowingo, Maryland. The house (Bell Manor) has a deep sub-basement and the story goes that slaves died hiding from the Southerners. Unusual events take place in the house, lights going off and on by themselves, the radio turning on and changing channels. There is also a large chimney left over from another home that was burned down by soldiers because the women occupying it was friends with the both the North and South. The women hid her children in the chimney when she heard the soldiers surrounding her home. They came into the house and took her out and set it on fire. The children all died in the house. The story goes that on moonlit nights the children can be heard crying in the chimney.
Now, keep in mind that I am one of the most down-to-earth people you will ever meet and I never believed in ghosts but there is something so creepy about this place that, when I worked at this camp over a decade ago, I hated walking by Bell Manor, let alone the chimney, by myself at night. I would always run as fast as I could, especially that one night when there was a full moon. I never heard anything, but then, I always made sure I had my ears covered.
Go ahead, call me a chicken!
I don't know if these stories are true but there certainly is something weird about the place. I have travelled quite a bit, have visited a lot of so-called haunted places (Ireland comes to mind) but this was the only place that actually ever felt weird and haunted to me! Or maybe it was because this place is not too far from where the Blair Witch supposedly lives (oh wait, this was years before that movie)
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