Dying Soldier Still Awaits Cemetery Rescue
Grave of Charles & Columbia Bolden. Matt Lake’s entertaining and colorful 2006 book Weird Maryland includes an elaborate Civil-War-ghost-story-turned-graveyard-ritual set in the Finzel cemetery in northeastern Garrett County, nearly at the Pennsylvania state line. As its only source, the Weird Maryland account quotes, verbatim, Baltimore County paranormal investigator Beverly Litsinger, whose MarylandGhosts.com website seems to be defunct. Here’s the story as Litsinger tells it; I have broken up the long paragraph for online readability. The town has one road with the old Finzel cemetery located at the end of it on the outskirts of town. During the Civil War two brothers took up arms on opposing sides – talk about a family feud! One brother fought for the South and the other brother fought for the North; both fought tirelessly. Nonetheless, the two brothers met often in secret inside the small, secluded graveyard to discuss the war and to catch up on stories about the family ...