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Podcast: Hometown Ghost Stories
Episode: EP 183 - Point Lookout and the Maryland Witch Trials | Scotland, MD
Description: Scotland, Maryland is a small historic community located in St. Mary's County. Today, people visit Point Lookout for its camping, fishing and beaches. But the grounds they walk on have a bloody and dark history. Following the battle of Gettysburg, this area became Camp Hoffman... the Union's largest Civil War prison. Over 20 thousand POWs were held here, ravaged by disease and despair, at least 4 thousand men died at the camp. Today, it's believed to be plagued by restless spirits. Long before the civil war, the people of St. Mary's County had a bit of a witch hysteria of their own...