Ghost & Haunting Reports in District of Columbia
9 nightmarks documented
Hay-Adams Hotel — Clover Adams haunts Lafayette Square, Washington D.C.
The scent of almonds — linked to the cyanide that killed Clover Adams in 1885 — still drifts through the halls of D.C.'s most elegant hotel.
The ghost of Abraham Lincoln in the White House, Washington D.C.
Queen Wilhelmina fainted. Churchill refused to sleep there. Lincoln's ghost has haunted the White House for over a century, appearing in times of crisis.
The United States Capitol — phantom legislators in the halls of power
John Quincy Adams still speaks from the House floor, a stonemason carries his tools through the basement, and phantom soldiers guard the rotunda.
The Octagon House — Washington D.C.'s most haunted historic home
Two daughters fell to their deaths on the oval staircase — floating candles and phantom screams haunt this 1801 home where Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent.
Slave spirits of Independence Avenue — Washington D.C.'s darkest haunting
Chains drag on pavement and moaning rises from beneath Independence Avenue — enslaved people were bought and sold in the shadow of the Capitol.
Woodrow Wilson House — the former president's ghost in D.C.'s Embassy Row
President Wilson paces his study and taps his cane on Embassy Row — the elevator he needed after his stroke still runs on its own to the second floor.
Omni Shoreham Hotel — the haunted suite of Washington D.C.'s grand hotel
Suite 870's ghost pulls sheets off sleeping guests and whispers in the dark — every president since FDR has partied at D.C.'s most glamorously haunted hotel.
The White House — an overview of America's most haunted residence
Abigail Adams hangs laundry, Andrew Jackson laughs from the Rose Room, and Lincoln walks the halls — the White House hosts the most powerful ghosts in America.
D.C. Chinatown — the ghosts of 7th and H Streets, Washington D.C.
Cantonese conversations and the clatter of dishes echo from buildings where the Chinese community was displaced — D.C.'s Chinatown haunts back.