8 Reasons That Delaware Is The Most Terrifying, Spookiest State

Frightland is one of the spookiest attractions in the United States! The creepy silo is enough to keep me away.

Lum's Pond is a state park where a young runaway girl was murdered in the 1870s. To this day, her screams can still be heard along the Swamp Pond trail - particularly at night. Oh, and the pond is open for camping, if you're feeling brave enough.

I enjoy writing about spooky and creepy happenings in Delaware - mostly because I have a lot of fun with it, and I'm not easily convinced that ghosts and spirits really do haunt things. Or, at least I wasn't, until I wrote about the Catman's Grave a few weeks ago. Catman is a gravekeeper said to mess with visitor's cars, trapping them in the cemetery. I had fun writing about Catman, but I must have been typing too loudly, because a week after writing about the ghost, I popped a tire, ran over a traffic cone that fell out of the trunk in front of me, and my car got pelted with one of the tire treads from an 18 wheeler. All within a week. It's still in the shop.

What I think I'm trying to say is that our ghosts really take their reputations seriously.

At leasts the Ghosts of Woodburn Mansion in Dover are known for emptying wine decanters and not, you know, murdering people.

Fort Delaware has been the site of so much paranormal activity that it is a favorite spot for the TV show "Ghost Hunters," and local ghost hunting clubs host paranormal investigations throughout October.

The Addy Sea Inn has been a ghost hotspot for years - even back when it was first established as a hotel, people reported interacting with a (mostly) friendly ghost. If you want a great place to stay in October for a getaway, why not try the most haunted lodging in Delaware?

This Northern Delaware road trip will take you to some of the state's most abandoned places. Are you brave enough to check them all out?