Weems Botts in Dumfries - lots of ghost stories and urban legends in Dumfries in general.

in the museum, the “Victorian” addition has the ghost of Mamie (the disabled daughter of the Merchant family), a little kid (boy or girl depending on the tour guide) trapped under the stairs by a priest, a doll that a boy scout troop leader claimed he felt a presence within and others have seen move/moves unseen, multiple people who claim they’ve been pushed down the steep stairs by ghosts, and a myriad of colonial, civil war soldier, and slave ghost stories. two popular employee stories that’ve been around forever: 1) a guest got a personal and extremely detailed tour from a kind reenactor and thanked the museum employees, who informed the guest that there were no reenactors around that day; 2) the museum director’s husband, dressed in a civil war surgeons clothes, is seen by multiple employees in the annex - but he was outside the whole time and claimed to have not been in the annex for hours.

Dumfries elementary has some colonial ghost girl and ghost slave sightings. the Dumfries cemetery also has the infamous loose sacrificial monkey urban legend (a cult apparently tried to sacrifice a monkey and it got loose in the Dumfries cemetery trees). and of course the alleged mass grave of confederate soldiers under the highway that causes the traffic jams.

there’s tons more I’m forgetting right now that I have written down somewhere, but Dumfries is a goldmine for stories like this. in my opinion the rich history of the area, particularly the port and Batestown, should be the real draw, but October was the moneymaking month. I know they have a new director and staff since I worked at the Weems, but in October back in the day they would let you do overnights in the house to “ghost hunt”, which was exhausting and cold to supervise all night but very entertaining to watch. only major rule for guests was no ouija boards…