THE SALEM FARM HOUSE

 

A CIRCA 1848 HAUNTED FARM HOUSE


SORRY, THE SALEM FARM HOUSE IS NOT A BED AND BREAKFAST ANYMORE.   

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The Ghost Stories

 In January 2008 we rented the house to a young family of four that had a fire in their Jarrettsville home and moved into The Salem Farm House for three weeks while their house is being restored and cleaned....Every night for 5 weeks, after the parents had put their 4 year old daughter to sleep, they heard a loud thud and footsteps running down the hall to the bathroom.  They would run upstairs to their daughter’s room to find her sleeping peacefully...On numerus occasions, in the middle of the afternoon when the daughter was trying to take her daily nap, she would call her mother upstairs and ask her to tell the man & woman in the corner to stop talking.  She said she couldn't sleep with all their noise.  The mother aske the ghosts to be quiet & they listened...In the middle of the day, the daughter played and jumped up & down on her bed with a little boy & a little girl...In the middle of one afternoon the daughter was standing at the top of the steps.  She called her mom & told her that a man was trying to push her down the stairs.  She asked her mom to make the man stop & suggested putting him in a "time-out" for being mean.  The mother put the ghost in a "time-out" & he never bothered the little girl again...On a few occasions, the parents would hear a baby's crying coming through the baby moniter.  But it wasn't their baby who was crying.

In June 2008, we rented the house full time to a middle aged lady name Suzanne.  She has signed a 1 year lease & lived at The Salem Farm House alone with her two "pug" dogs...During the first night at her new home, Suzanne had a dream that she was being choked.  She said she felt like she was floating above the room, watching herself being choked by a woman dressed in clothing from the 1800’s.  When Suzanne woke up, she could feel the woman sitting on top of her with her hands around her throat...Suzanne also told us that her dogs were always staring at something in one corner of the Parlor.

In December 2008, Suzanne went on vacation & asked for a dog-sitter while she is gone…A 35 year old mother & her 3 year old son went over around 6pm to take care of the dogs.  The mother was writing a note to Suzanne while her son is playing in a nearby closet- he liked how the lights automatically went on & off when he opened & closed the closet door.  Suddenly, the child was leaning up against his mom’s leg, looking at the ground.  The mom asked if he was ok, he said ‘yes’.  The mom asked if something was wrong, the son said ‘no’.  Then, the child asked his mom, “Mommy, who is that lady?”  The mom asked, “What lady?”  The child said, “The lady in the closet.” When the mother opened the doors to find no one there, her son turned and ran towards the dining room looking for the lady, asking " Where did the lady go?"


The Salem Farm House had once been the home of one of the many large Agricultural and Livestock Farms that surrounded Baltimore in the 18th and 19th Centuries. An original land " patent " for the three hundred acres dates to 1749 and is on file in the Archives in Harford County.

The original Farmhouse was constructed in 1848. James Rampley, a Farmer and his family first lived in the house when it was built as only four rooms. They kept the two first floor rooms heated in the winter by small wood stoves; one for the kitchen and one in the parlor. The two bedrooms were on the second floor. The rear section of the house where the new kitchen is located was added fifteen years later.

The Salem Farm House now sits on five and a half acres as a result of the last subdivision in 1979. It's land remains agricultural and used for horses.

THE SALEM FARM HOUSE IS CURRENTLY A FULL TIME SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL.  THE HOUSE IS CURRENTLY RENTED.

Thank you, The Walker's

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