Patapsco Female Institute (PFI) is a former girls' boarding school, now a rebuilt historical site, sitting at the top of the hill in Ellicott City, Maryland

Ellicott City, Maryland

Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The population was 65,834 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Howard County...

, United States

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. The grounds are home to many community events throughout the year including Halloween

Halloween

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 tours, popular outdoor performances of Shakespeare by The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company was founded in 2002 and quickly received a great deal of attention for its high-energy approach to the works of Shakespeare and other classics...

, archeological digs, weddings and summer camps.

The Patapsco Female Institute is rumored to be haunted

Haunted house

A haunted house is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property...

 by the ghost of a young woman named Annie Van Derlot who died of pneumonia while attending school there.http://www.prairieghosts.com/pfi.html

External links

• Patapsco Female Institute, EllicottCity.net
• Patapsco Female Institute
• Ghostly images, spirited debate, Baltimore Sun, Oct. 31, 2001
• The Ghost Of The PFI
• WUSA Channel 9
• Whispers of the Night (a "picture" of Annie)
• Patapsco Female Institute (PFI), 19 Aug 2006, Eastghost.com
• Haunted Ruins