08/17/2026
Interesting article! The original story of the ghostly little girl in the cream colored dress bouncing a red ball at The Lord Baltimore hotel is from our 2005 book, Baltimore’s Harbor Haunts, and our original interview with Fran Carter who worked at the hotel for many years. The fact is that no one knows her name or the circumstances of her death.
The Lord Baltimore Hotel
(excerpt from our book, Baltimore’s Harbor Haunts: True Ghost Stories. Copyright 2005, Schiffer Publishing)
In 1998 a female staff worker named Fran was on the 19th floor of the building preparing a small meeting room for future use. She was working at a table facing the wall with an open door to her left. She bent over the table for a few moments, absorbed in her work. Then she looked up and to her left at the doorway. A little girl wearing a long cream colored dress and black shiny shoes ran by the open doorway, bouncing a red ball before her. Fran immediately ran outside calling after her “Little girl, are you lost?”. The hallway was completely empty.
This employee, quite shaken at this point, turned around to go back to the meeting room when she saw two people walking down the hallway toward her. The first was an older gentleman dressed in formal attire. He was accompanied by a woman in a long ball gown. Fran asked them if they were looking for their granddaughter because she had just run by. She turned to point in the direction that the child had passed. When she turned her head back toward the two people, they had just vanished right before her eyes.
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