As if Hurricane Sandy wasn't scary enough news during Halloween week...
Now Forbes and home-buying site Trulia say that Baltimore ranks No. 3 on its list of top places to find a haunted home in the South.
Another Maryland city, Hagerstown, took the very top spot while New Orleans was No. 2. Huntington, West Virginia and Louisville, Ky., were No. 4 and No. 5.
So what makes these areas so spooky? Regions of the country that have a higher share of old, vacant homes are more likely to have haunted houses, writes Forbes, which takes its data from
Trulia. Roughly 3 percent of all Baltimore homes are both old and vacant.
"Regions of the country that were settled later and have had recent growth have a much lower share of old, vacant homes," Forbes writes. "That means most of the South and the West."
Baltimore is also one of the
top haunted cities, according to SmarterTravel.com.
You can read about buying a haunted Maryland home
here.