Haunted Delmarva: Marion Station

MARION STATION, Md. – At night, when all is quiet in Marion Station, you can hear a sound in the distance.

Mindie Burgoyne, author of Haunted Eastern Shore said, “If you listen carefully, you can hear that sound of a cry.”

It’s the cry of a young child.

“The legends of child spirits in this area is really pretty prevalent,” Burgoyne said.

Long ago, Burgoyne says a bridge in Marion Station was the site of a great tragedy.

Burgoyne said, “There was a woman named Eliza Conner and she lived just down here. She was coming by horse and cart with her four year old daughter Annie. She was trying to make it home before a storm struck.”

Legend has it, a thunder clap spooked the Conner’s horse causing it and the carriage to crash into the river below.

Burgoyne said, “So Eliza and Annie both went over with the cart and Eliza lost her grip and they didn’t find Annie for days. She was found way down the river.”

Annie’s final resting place lies beside the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, not far from where she drowned. It’s there that the proof of her existence is carved in stone.

Burgoyne said, “So the Conner family, Annie’s mother her father, brothers and sisters and their descendants are all buried back there against the fence.”

At night, Burgoyne says fishermen who go to the bridge can still hear Annie’s screams.

Burgoyne said, “Especially at night for nighttime fishing. They would hear what sounded like a baby crying.”

Fishermen aren’t the only ones who hear shrieks in the night.

“You can see there’s one house there and most of these are all summer homes so nobody lives in these houses much except in the summer, and so they hear this shriek of a cry and then it would stop all at once,” Burgoyne said.

But that’s not the only haunting in Marion Station. Not too far away is Burgoyne’s house.

Burgoyne said, “I was a writer, and I probably wouldn’t have written a haunted anything about anything if this house hadn’t scared me to absolute death.”

When Burgoyne first moved in, she says strange things started to happen.

Burgoyne said, “The normal things… hearing people walking the door opening and closing, but then things really started to get much more serious.”

Burgoyne described decorative items flying off the shelves, mirrors falling off the walls and even her own children shoved down the stairs by some unknown force.

“It terrified us so badly, it terrified me that we put the house up for sale nine months after buying it,” she said.

But after Burgoyne listed her house, everything just seemed to calm down.

“It never got that bad again,” she said.

That left Burgoyne to believe that whatever resides in her home wants her to stay, but she says she still experiences things every now and then. If it wasn’t for this haunting though, Burgoyne would have never looked into the story of Annie Conner, or any other hauntings across the Eastern Shore.

Burgoyne said, “It all started here.”

If you’re interested in learning more about the haunting of Marion Station, you can visit ChesapeakeGhosts.com or buy Burgoyne’s Haunted Eastern Shore book.