Table of Contents
Acknowledgments x
Introduction xi
Prologue xiv
Part 1 The White House 1
Chapter 1 Executive Mansion Mysteries 2
The White House: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Part 2 Capitol Hill 19
Chapter 2 The Lawmakers 20
The Capitol Building: 1st and East Capitol Streets SE
Chapter 3 Gone, but Not Forgotten 32
Former Site of the Old Brick Capitol: 1 1st Street NE
Chapter 4 Bookworm Bogeys 36
The Library of Congress: 10 1st Street SE
Folger Shakespeare Library: 201 East Capitol Street SE
Chapter 5 Semper Fi 41
Marine Barracks: 8th and I Streets SE
Commandant House: 801 G Street SE
Old Howard House: 9th Street between G and I Streets SE
Chapter 6 The Commandant 46
Washington Navy Yard: 8th and M Streets SE
Chapter 7 Dead End 50
Congressional Cemetery: 1801 E Street SE
Eisenhower Executive Office Building: 1650 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Part 3 Lafayette Square 59
Chapter 8 Hello, Dolley! 60
Cutts-Madison House: 1520 H Street NW
Chapter 9 Ready, Aim, Phantom 65
Decatur House: 1610 H Street NW
Chapter 10 The Woebegone Wife 71
Hay-Adams Hotel: 800 16th Street NW
Rock Creek Cemetery: 201 Allison Street NW
Chapter 11 O Say, Can You See 76
Site of the Philip Barton Key Shooting: Lafayette Square
Chapter 12 The Tolling of the Bell 83
St. John's Church: 1525 H Street NW
Part 4 Georgetown 87
Chapter 13 The Halcyon Hauntings 88
Halcyon House: 3400 Prospect Street NW
Chapter 14 Cheaper by the Dozen 94
Old Stone House Museum: 3051 M Street NW
Chapter 15 Good Housekeeping 99
Foxall House: 3123 Dumbarton Street NW
Chapter 16 The Bridge Street Crossing 104
M Street Bridge: M Street NW
K Street Bridge: K Street NW
Chapter 17 The Echoes of War 109
Georgetown Bluffs on the Potomac River: 14th Street Bridge Riverbank
Chapter 18 The Maidens' Curse 115
Three Sisters Rocks: Potomac River Just North of Key Bridge
Chapter 19 The Devil's Downfall 119
The Exorcist Steps: Prospect and 36th Streets NW to M Street NW
Prospect House: 3508 Prospect Street NW
Georgetown University: 3700 O Street NW
Gallaudet University: 800 Florida Avenue NW
Part 5 The Rest of the Story 129
Chapter 20 The Lincoln Legacies 130
Ford's Theatre: 511 10th Street NW
Petersen House: 516 10th Street, NW
Mary Surratt's Former Boarding House: 604 H Street NW
Fort Lesley J. McNair: 4th and P Streets SW
1st Street NE: Capitol Hill
Chapter 21 Do Not Disturb 141
Site of the Colonel Beau Hickman Hauntings: 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Chapter 22 Dead Letter Office 145
The Old Post Office Pavilion: 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Chapter 23 Abandon All Hope 149
Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia: 2020 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Smithsonian Institution Building: 1000 Jefferson Drive SW
Independence Avenue: Between 7th and 9th Streets SW
Chapter 24 The Ghost Suites 155
Willard Intercontinental Hotel: 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Mayflower Hotel: 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Omni Shoreham Hotel: 2500 Calvert Street NW
Chapter 25 Meigs Old Red Barn 161
National Building Museum: 401 F Street NW
Chapter 26 Final Curtain 166
National Theatre: 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Chapter 27 The Octagon Oddities 171
The Octagon House: 1799 New York Avenue NW
Chapter 28 All the Pretty Horses 178
Former Site of the Van Ness Mansion: 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
The Van Ness Mausoleum at Oak Hill Cemetery: 3001 R Street NW
Chapter 29 The Shuffling Spectre 182
Woodrow Wilson House Museum: 2340 S Street NW
Blair House: 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Appendix A The National Archives 188
Appendix B Ghost Tours 195
Appendix C DC Directory 201
About the Author 219
