That's right, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. is not only home to the current President of the United States, it also is home of several former presidents who occasionally decide to make their presences known there, despite the fact that they are dead.
President Harrison is said to be heard rummaging around in the attic of the White House, looking for who knows what. President Andrew Jackson is thought to haunt his White House bedroom. And the ghost of First Lady Abigail Adams was seen floating through one of the White House hallways, as if carrying something.
The most frequently sighted presidential ghost has been that of Abraham Lincoln. Eleanor Roosevelt once stated she believed she felt the presence of Lincoln watching her as she worked in the Lincoln bedroom. Also during the Roosevelt administration, a young clerk claimed to have actually seen the ghost of Lincoln sitting on a bed pulling off his boots. On another occasion, while spending a night at the White House during the Roosevelt presidency, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was awakened by a knock on the bedroom door. Answering it, she was confronted with the ghost of Abe Lincoln staring at her from the hallway. Calvin Coolidge's wife reported seeing on several occasions the ghost of Lincoln standing with his hands clasped behind his back, at a window in the Oval Office, staring out in deep contemplation toward the bloody battlefields across the Potomac.
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The White House - Washington, D.C.
Mount Baker Hotel - Concrete,Washington
Make it known that if you are going to this hotel, and you go upstairs be prepared, you will see a little girl about 4, with red hair and blue jean shorts on, with a pink shirt on! She might try to push you down the stairs (Do Not Be Alarmed!) but it does not work. All you can feel is a sort of tingle go through your body. You can hear a little girls voice saying "The bad woman’s gonna hurt me!" Also you might hear "Turn around, the bad woman will hurt you!" People say that her mother used to beat her to death.
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Mallard Cove apt. - Everett ,Washington
In 1999, Bill Stien, a taxi driver employed by Everett Yellow Cab Co., had a heart attack in the parking lot at Mallard Cove Apartments ( Airport Road and Admiralty Way). Now he haunts the (g) building. He sometimes sneaks into people's apartments, picks up the phone and writes down a real address: In the morning residents find his mysterious notes by the phone, and find the door open. People who have seen Bill describe his ghost as a man in his late 40's and wearing a Mariner b-ball cap, sweats, and a beer in his right hand.
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Mariner High School - Everett,Washington
At around midnight, the lights are supposed to be on like a normal school. Yet, on some nights, the lights shut off and if you're close enough, you can see and sense eyes staring at you from within the school. The only thing you can see is the eye. It looks like floating eyes from a distance. It's too dark to see the body but you can see the eyes because they have a subtle glow to it. Some sources say, if you stare at them for a while, you can see a figure of a winged man.
State Street - Marysville,Washington
A dog by the name of bud got sick one day and so his owner got his gun and put him out of his misery. They say if you say his name late at night a little girl appears, and says "don't hurt him he is my dog go away." she stares at you and walks away.
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Maple Valley Highway - Renton,Washington
Maple Valley Highway is a very dangerous and dark road and there have been many accidents there. When you drive down the road late at night, you experience weird unexplained fog, and right after you pass through the fog you can see a teenage girl standing along side the road crying. She appears to be looking for something. Different people have tried to communicate with her to find out what she is looking for, and it appears to be a locket that she lost when she was in the car accident that took her life.Also, on Maple Valley Highway there is an old haunted house that has lights go off and on by themselves even though there hasn't been electricity in the house for years.
Georgetown / Central Baptist Church - Seattle,Washington
Mysterious sounds, slamming doors, and strange old man sightings haunt this Korean Baptist church. This was a former Masonic church which was once used to sacrifice animals and supposedly humans. Visit this building alone and you'll experience first hand of the level of demonic hauntings in this building.
Old slave mansion - Seattle,Washington
There is a gate that goes around this mansion and it is said that if you step one foot into the gate you have to fully enter and walk past a forest that is on a huge hill and at the top of the hill is a wishing rock that makes wishes true and if you don't you will have bad luck forever. But the mansion presuming haunted by the past slaves.
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University of Washington / Columns Amphitheater - Seattle ,Washington
After dark, there is an entity at the Columns Amphitheater who does not like visitors. A couple sitting on a bench is a favorite target. The entity shakes the closest bush or shrub violently, and growls very low if you do not pay attention. Some people are unable to enter the amphitheater at night because of the forbidding, brooding feelings within. The Columns Amphitheater was named for the four columns from the original University of Washington building located closer to downtown.. Have no idea if the entity came from the original building or is some angry student, but he seems to be male and a young adult. Someone might consider taking a camera in there!
Maltby Cemetery - Snohomish,Washington
Night time is the best always to see paranormal activity so it is known when walking down the headstone paths reading the headstones, when you get to the end and start back an obvious headstone changes from a grave marker to a magnificent headstone. This isn’t seen right in front of the face but when you realize there’s something different that’s what it is. Also whispers had been heard in the wind and trees and only sometimes a woman is looking for her child. Reports of a ghost that guards the entrance to the den. Many claim if you go in the den, you will lose your mind or never be seen again.
Spanaway Lake High School - Spanaway,Washington
Sometimes at night the lights will turn on and off. at night at about midnight, you can see a janitor that has once been killed by another student. the legend goes on. it is told from generation to generation, the story is, one day in the spring, it was a quiet morning, a troubled boy had brought a gun to school and supposedly the janitor made him upset because the janitor told him to clean some tables at a lunch detention. The boy told the janitor No, and pulled out a gun. put the gun to the janitor's head and shot him. all the children were astonished/shocked. they ran for safety. then the boy who had shot the janitor ran with the gun somewhere in the school. nobody has ever seen the boy since. the legend has it, that the boy lives in the school, and when he gets hungry he goes to the kitchen and finds food to eat.
Gonzaga Prep High School - Spokane,Washington
The ghost of a teenage girl supposedly haunts the halls. Her story is as follows: back when Prep was an all-boys school, there was a football player who told his girlfriend to meet him after a game. He told her to wait in a small underground tunnel area that leads to the furnace. She snuck into the school and followed his directions, hunkering down in the tunnel to wait. When the boy arrived and opened the trapdoor the scent of burnt flesh wafted up. The heater had kicked on, burning the girl against the wall. Students have reported hearing a girl whispering, and doors in the downstairs hallway, where the girl supposedly died, have been known to open on their own when left unlocked. One female student even wrote a short story about a girl dying in the tunnel before she had ever heard the tale of the haunting. After hearing the tale, she claimed "This can't possibly be a coincidence!".
Riverpark Square - Spokane,Washington
In 2003 a man jumped off the top escalator to fall to his death on top the painted map of Inland Washington Lakes. Now when you ride the escalator here a man whispering into your ear but you can’t make out what he says. If you stare at the painted map long enough you can see visions of blood and skull pieces.
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Pioneer Cemetery - Stanwood,Washington
A black figure has been seen towards the back of the cemetery, towards a tree that overlooks a memorial like headstone, breaking a tree branch, about six inches thick broke, and chasing the visitors. All of the families around there have had strange happenings. Someone has said to have had seen lanterns in the graveyard held by unknown persons. Others have experienced the lanterns in their own yards, displaying a kind of light show. Once you walk out to investigate it, they stay for a moment, start coming towards you and than disappear.
Point Defiance Park / 5 Mile Drive - Tacoma,Washington
In the late 1980's a 14 year old girl named Jennifer B disappeared while riding her bike in the park. Her body was later discovered and her killer was never caught. Late at night the sound of a bicycle can be
heard around the 5 Mile Drive. Several years later a couple flagged
down a Park Police officer and admitted she had been driving on the
drive after the park was closed. She said as she was rounding the turn
by the Narrows viewpoint, she observed a young girl standing next to
the side of the road with a light colored bicycle. She pulled over and
her boyfriend got out to ask the girl if she was okay, since it was late and the park was closed. The boyfriend screamed and jumped back in the car and kept screaming at her to go. As she was leaving, in the red tail lamp glow, she saw the girl vanish. The boyfriend was shaking and later told her the girl had no eyes but was smiling at him. Several other people have said that they have seen a girl riding alone near dusk and whenever they stop or look back at her, she vanishes.
Point Defiance Park / The Pagoda - Tacoma,Washington
The Pagoda used to be the trolley terminus at Point Defiance in the early part of the 20th century. The building was remodeled and is now rented out for weddings/parties. Visitors, workers, and the Police have reported hearing footsteps made with hard soled shoes walking around the building after dark. The footsteps seem to be walking down the stairs on the east side of the building, then abruptly stop. Sighing can be heard at other times and there are cold spots in the storage area below the building. A tale has been told about a young newlywed couple during the 1920's. The husband and wife would catch the trolley to Point Defiance and the husband would see his wife off for the day to visit her parents on Vashon Island. Small groups of boats would shuttle
people to the island for a fee. The husband would return in the evening
to meet his wife. As the small launch she was riding in approached the
Boathouse area, it took on water. Many people were thrown overboard in the confusion and the husband observed with his pocket spyglass his
wife flailing in the water in her heavy period clothes as she went under. Overcome with grief, he walked down the stairs to the marbled restroom, pulled out a small pocket pistol and shot himself in the head. It is said it is his ghost that haunts the Pagoda.
Puget Sound Mental Hospital - Tacoma,Washington
The Puget Sound Mental Hospital, is an enormous facility for the mentally disturbed (is also a drug and alcohol rehab). Parts of this 8-story complex are no longer in use. Half of the facility lies in darkness and is used for storage or is closed off because it is "unsafe". All of the buildings of this facility are highly haunted. Most of the staff there are willing to tell you the tales of the many ghostly personalities that reside there.The most famous is that of an old woman and her walker that can be seen and heard going up and down the hallways of the 4th floor. As you walk down the hallways and through the stairwells, you can feel that the place is very much alive with activity. This place is a real facility so you will need permission to run equipment, and or just tour the campus.
Public Library / museum - Toppenish,Washington
There is a weird woman and man on the top floor. you can see them looking out the window and you get a weird chill down your bones and at night when you walk pass the window fly Open. the curtains wave in an eerie motion while you see the shining of the blade since there is a museum on the top floor.
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Officers Row / Veterans Hospital - Vancouver,Washington
On the third floor of the building is where all the mentally disturbed patients were put. It is said that you can still hear their hysterical screams, and any paper that enters the room floats to the ceiling and sticks there. You pull them off and they float back up.
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Chateau Ste Michelle Winery Manor House - Woodinville ,Washington
This beautiful winery is set up on 150 acres previously owned by Seattle lumber and dairy baron Fredrick Stimson. Although the winery itself was constructed in the mid-1970s, Mr. Stimson's old (early 1900s) mansion still occupies the land (manor house). Legend has it that Mr. Stimson had a love affair with one of his servants (supposedly named Elizabeth) and got her pregnant. When Mrs. Stimson found out about this, the servant had an "accident" and fell down a back stairwell, which leads to the kitchen. Kept in its original state, the house is still used constantly for meetings and dinners. Staff at the winery for years has had paranormal experiences here. There have been many reports of cold spots that follow you, strange shadows, and noises. Elizabeth seems to be particular to one of the upstairs restrooms by opening the window, closing the door, and turning the light on. Late night cleaning staff has reported hearing footsteps upstairs when no one is there. Other occurrences include lights turning on, toilets flushing by themselves, and security systems going on the fritz. There always seems to be something behind you and you get the chills right down to your bones when walking through the house alone at night. There have been reports of janitor crews leaving after being scared by something and never cleaning the manor house again.
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