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Ghosts Of The White House · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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Speaker 3: close and personal with him yet, you know. And where
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Speaker 3: drifting off the other way, and he left his sloan.
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Speaker 3: We left him alone, but we thought we might have
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Speaker 3: saw him a few times. But we thought we ended
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Speaker 3: up traveling around the Atlantic and around the East coast,
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Speaker 3: and we thought we might be able to drift on
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Speaker 3: into a place called Washington, d C. You know, it's
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Speaker 3: that time of year where we try to vote who
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Speaker 3: I want for president and send in all that. I
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Speaker 3: thought it'd be pretty good time to everyone's not busy
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Speaker 3: enough and everyone's sort of out of the White House.
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Speaker 3: We would sneak in and not seeing papers or anything,
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Speaker 3: but those things reguard like four knots, check out the
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Speaker 3: see what's in the closet. As far as getting ghosts
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Speaker 3: or in any bedrooms and sea bear, if we don't
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Speaker 3: catch anyone napping in there or the ghosts that we
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Speaker 3: could see. I end up finding some spots where I
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Speaker 3: believe we could we sort of solved on who is
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Speaker 3: haunting the good old sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, known as
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Speaker 3: the White House, the most famous address in America sixteen
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Speaker 3: hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. It's also perhaps the country's most famous
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Speaker 3: haunted house. Residents, first ladies, white House staff members, and
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Speaker 3: extinct guests have reported feeling ghostly presences, hearing unexplained noises,
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Speaker 3: even running too actual apparitions even on the way out
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Speaker 3: of the bathtub. In one particular famous case, Anna bo
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Speaker 3: Adams and her husband John, the second President of the
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Speaker 3: United States seventeen ninety seven eighteen oh one, moved into
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Speaker 3: sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue from the former US capital in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 3: At the time, Washington, d c. Was just still a
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Speaker 3: little town built mostly on sweet swampy land and on
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Speaker 3: the banks of the Potomac River. Because the east room
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Speaker 3: of the new White House was the warmest and dry,
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Speaker 3: Abigail used it to hang wash her ghosts had in
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Speaker 3: a cap and lay Shall or Shaw has reportedly been
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Speaker 3: seeing heading towards the east room arms stretched out as
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Speaker 3: of carrying laundry. Known fact, did you know Lincoln was
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Speaker 3: believed to have attended only two seances in his wife's
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Speaker 3: that she held in the White House, actually foresaw his
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Speaker 3: own death more than once, and including in a dream
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Speaker 3: that he had shortly right before he was killed. A
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Speaker 3: lesser known early White House personality who has been said
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Speaker 3: to haunt its halls was David Byrnes, who sold the
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Speaker 3: government most of the land on which the city of Washington,
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Speaker 3: including the Presidential residence, was built. Lillian Rogers Parks, a
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Speaker 3: seamstress who chronicled her thirty working in the White House,
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Speaker 3: in a memoir in nineteen sixty one, told the story
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Speaker 3: a valet of President Franklin Delan Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt whore
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Speaker 3: a poorly heard and disembodied voice coming from the distant
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Speaker 3: yellow Oval room, saying during Henry S. Truman's administration, a
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Speaker 3: guard hear in a familiar voice. Thinking it was the
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Speaker 3: Secretary of State, James Byrd, he went looking for him,
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Speaker 3: only to learn that the Secretary had not been at
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Speaker 3: the White House that day. In eighteen twenty four, Andrew
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Speaker 3: Old Hickory Jackson was defeated by John Quincy Adams and
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Speaker 3: one of the most continuous presidential elections in history. Elected
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Speaker 3: president four years later, surely, Jackson continued to hold grudges
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Speaker 3: against those who had suparted his opponent. In the early
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Speaker 3: eighteen sixties, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who believed strongly
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Speaker 3: in the accault, had reportedly held seances in the White
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Speaker 3: House commune with the spirits of her dead sons. Told
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Speaker 3: friends she had her Jackson's stomping and swearing through the
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Speaker 3: halls of the presidential residents. The Rose Room, Jackson's bedchamber
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Speaker 3: while he was president, is believed by something to be
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Speaker 3: one of the most haunted rooms in the White House.
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Speaker 3: Jackson's ghostly presidence also showed up at the White House
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Speaker 3: a correspondence to Henry S. Truman, America's thirty third president.
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Speaker 3: In June nineteen forty five, just two months into his
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Speaker 3: first term, Truman wrote to his wife best of the
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Speaker 3: spooky quality of his new residents. Quote, I sit here
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Speaker 3: in this old house and the work on foreign affairs,
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Speaker 3: read reports, and work on speeches, and all the while
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Speaker 3: listening to the ghosts walk up and down the hallway.
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Speaker 3: Even right there in the study, the floors pop, and
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Speaker 3: the drakes moved back and forth. I could just imagine
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Speaker 3: old Andy Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt having an argument over
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Speaker 3: Franklin Roosevelt. By the far the most frequently reported sighting
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Speaker 3: in the White House over the years have been the
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Speaker 3: ghost or at least the presence of the celebrated sixteenth
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Speaker 3: President Abraham Lincoln, whose life was cut tragically short by
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Speaker 3: an assassin's bullet in April eighteen sixty five. Race Coolidge,
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Speaker 3: wife of President Calvin Coolidge nineteen twenty three nineteen twenty nine,
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Speaker 3: was the first person to say she had actually seen
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Speaker 3: Lincoln's ghosts. According to her, the linky former president was
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Speaker 3: standing looking out the window of the Oval Office across
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Speaker 3: the Potomac to the former Civil War battlefields beyond. Lady
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Speaker 3: Bird Johnson, wife of President Lynnon Johnson nineteen sixty three
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Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty nine, portly filled Lincoln's presence one night
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Speaker 3: while watching a television program about his death. Most nobly
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Speaker 3: sightings of Lincoln's ghos were frequently reported during the long
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Speaker 3: administration of Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt nineteen thirty three nineteen forty five,
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Speaker 3: who was also presided over this country during the time
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Speaker 3: of Great upheopal first lay Eleanor Roosevelt used the Lincoln
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Speaker 3: bedroom as her study and said she would fill his
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Speaker 3: presence and worked there at night. During her visit the
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Speaker 3: White House, Queen Waillalema of the Netherlands heard a knock
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Speaker 3: in her bedroom door and with the When she answered it,
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Speaker 3: she reportedly saw Lincoln's ghosts wearing his top hat and
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Speaker 3: fainted dead away. Winston Churchill, who was visiting a President
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Speaker 3: Franklin Donor Roosevelt and staying in the Lincoln bedroom, after
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Speaker 3: a hot bath, oh her staying in the Lincoln bedroom,
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Speaker 3: he took a hot bath. Churchill emerged from his bathroom
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Speaker 3: wearing only his cigar and was startled to see Lincoln
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Speaker 3: leaning on the mantelpiece by the fireplace. Churchill said, well,
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Speaker 3: did you mean, mister President, I see you see me?
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Speaker 3: You have you seem to have a disadvantage of me.
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Speaker 3: Lincoln smiled and disappeared. Churchill was embarrassed and spent the
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Speaker 3: rest of the night in a bedroom across the hall.
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Speaker 3: You didn't like sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom. Churchill's daughter,
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Speaker 3: Lady Sormis, said he wasn't easily spooked and didn't really
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Speaker 3: believe in apparitions. When Lilian Rogers Parks, the seamstress once
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Speaker 3: investigated sound of someone pacing the upper level the White House.
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Speaker 3: Another staff member told her the room when question was unoccupied,
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Speaker 3: that the old abe that was old ad pace in
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Speaker 3: the floor. Perhaps have speculated that Lincoln's spirit remains at
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Speaker 3: the White House to be on hand in times of
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Speaker 3: crisis and as well as to complete difficult work that
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Speaker 3: is untimely death left unfinished. Mary Toddling Lincoln Brieven over
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Speaker 3: son Willie's death in February, began to appreciate in the
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Speaker 3: spirit circles or seances in the Red Room at the
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Speaker 3: White House and in the Presidential Cottage at the Soldier's
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Speaker 3: own Spiritism was wildly popular during the height of the
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Speaker 3: Civil War. Was the family's sought comfort and a loss
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Speaker 3: of loved ones from eighteen sixty two to eighteen sixty three.
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Speaker 3: From nineteen oh one to nineteen oh four, Jeremiah Jeremy
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Speaker 3: Smith started working at the White House during the uses S.
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Speaker 3: Grant administration in the late eighteen sixties. Was a footman
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Speaker 3: and served as a footman, a butler, a cook, a doorman,
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Speaker 3: and official duster until his retirement approximately thirty five years later.
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Speaker 3: A popular character and storyteller, reporters that always count on
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Speaker 3: Smith on a slow day. On a slow news day,
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Speaker 3: he claimed to have seen the ghosts of Lincoln, Grant McKinley,
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Speaker 3: and several first ladies. Nineteen eleven, a little known spirit
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Speaker 3: is unidentified as a fifteen year old boy, but sadly
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Speaker 3: they call him the thing that gradually frightened the tap
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Speaker 3: Domestic staff. In nineteen eleven President Taf's military aside, Major
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Speaker 3: Oswald But wrote to his sister Farah quote the ghost,
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Speaker 3: it seems, is a young boy, about fourteen or fifteen
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Speaker 3: years old. They say that the first knowledge one has
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Speaker 3: of the presence of the thing is a slight pressure
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Speaker 3: on the shoulder, as someone where leaning over your shoulder
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Speaker 3: to see what you might be doing. Present tap order,
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Speaker 3: but tell the White House staff that the first member
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Speaker 3: to repeat stories about the thing would be fired. The
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Speaker 3: Lincoln Bedroom and the Yellow Oval Room. Firstly, Grace Coolidgeing
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Speaker 3: and Queen Willamia of the Northerlands claimed to have seen Lincoln.
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Speaker 3: Willie Lincoln, who died in the White House, was seen
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Speaker 3: in the White House by the Stepp members of the
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Speaker 3: Grand Administration. In eighteen seventies, Andrew Jackson was supposedly laying
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Speaker 3: on his bed in the Queen's bedroom or the Rose room.
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Speaker 3: That's owed a guttural lab that has been heard in
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Speaker 3: the White House since the sixties. Mary Lincoln claimed to
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Speaker 3: have her Jackson stopping and swear. Thomas Jefferson plays his
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Speaker 3: violin in the yellow Oval room. Dalli Madison protects the
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Speaker 3: rose garden. A good job, Dolly, I'm glad that you
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Speaker 3: picked the rose guarden. That's a Hopefully you're helping prune
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Speaker 3: the roses and they look very beautiful. Carry on the
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Speaker 3: good work. John Taylor haunts the Blue Room and he's
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Speaker 3: proposing to Juliet Gardner.
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Speaker 1: His second wife.
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Speaker 3: Good job, John. For all. William Henry Harrison, you know,
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Speaker 3: being the first president to die in the White House,
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Speaker 3: seemed like he would have a you know, a good
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Speaker 3: place to haunt. He gets bumped into the attic. That's
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Speaker 3: where his spirit hides is in the attic, you know,
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Speaker 3: of all rooms. I think he got demoted because I
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Speaker 3: think the other ghost might have say, you know what,
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Speaker 3: we got these rooms you got in the get out here.
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Speaker 3: Abigail Adams hung laundry in the East room and the
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Speaker 3: comform marriage staff. It'd smell the wet laundry and scent
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Speaker 3: of lavender. There's an unarmed, unnamed a unnamed British soldier
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Speaker 3: who perished during the War of eighteen twelve fams the
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Speaker 3: White House grounds holding a torch, and David Burns on
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Speaker 3: the land which the White House stands. He's been seen
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Speaker 3: in the yellow overal room as well. And a Sirret
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Speaker 3: bangs on the doors of the White House, pleading into
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Speaker 3: the to see President Andrew Jack Johnson. She was there
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Speaker 3: to beg for a pardon for Mother Lincoln assassination conspirator
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Speaker 3: Mary Sirrett. On a lonely night in nineteen forty six,
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Speaker 3: President Henry AS Truman went to bed at nine pm.
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Speaker 3: Just about six hours later, he heard the sound against
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Speaker 3: bedroom door, waking him. When he wrote to his wife
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Speaker 3: in a letter that has archived in his Presidential Library
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Speaker 3: and Museum, quo I jumped. I jumped up and put
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Speaker 3: on my bathrobe, opened the door, and no one was there,
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Speaker 3: he wrote. We went out to looked up and down
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Speaker 3: the hall, looked in your room, and Maggie's still no one.
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Speaker 3: He went back to the bed after locking the doors,
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Speaker 3: and there were footsteps in your room, whose door I
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Speaker 3: had left open. Jumped in looked, and no one was there.
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Speaker 3: Damn places haunted for sure. Shoot Secret Service said, not
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Speaker 3: even a watchman was up here at that hour. Post
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Speaker 3: quote quote, you and Maggie had better come back and
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Speaker 3: protect me before some these damn ghosts come carrying me off.
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Speaker 3: In addition to its political ghost, the White House has
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Speaker 3: long house, unsettling specters of different and more pump in
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Speaker 3: the night kind enormous fell Leaders and their staff members
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Speaker 3: are to believe whether the embraces or mocks the paranormals.
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Speaker 3: Many a counts that they have spoiled, they have spilled
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Speaker 3: out sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue over the two centuries have
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Speaker 3: an undeniable place in the country's history. They also make
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Speaker 3: address arguably the nation's most famous ponded house. The sightings,
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Speaker 3: which have been documented in early detail in scholars and newspapers,
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Speaker 3: involved the former president who appears when the nation needs
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Speaker 3: a leader the most a daughter who's pleads in vain
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Speaker 3: to help her doom mother. A first lady who's sally
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Speaker 3: promptly stuck through a laundry. Jared Bosch is the founder
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Speaker 3: of the company Knightly Spirits, which offers tours of haunted
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Speaker 3: areas several cities across the country, but when Bosh started
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Speaker 3: the tours in twenty twelve, he offered only one, the
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Speaker 3: White House. The White House quote. The White House has
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Speaker 3: the most and best ghost stories, and i'd call the
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Speaker 3: most verified post quote. Bosh said, well, honestly, he could
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Speaker 3: do a ten hour tour if really wanted to post quote.
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Speaker 3: One of his favorite stories is about David Burns, who
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Speaker 3: sold the land of the White House, whose voice has
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Speaker 3: been reportedly heard in the Oval office. And that's miss
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Speaker 3: Roch would always say during the tours. When he got
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Speaker 3: the part of this story, asked if he believes in ghosts,
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Speaker 3: Bart said for sure, and then he pointed to more
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Speaker 3: per dishous authorities. Quote. If I said no, I would
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Speaker 3: be calling about eight different presidents liars, he said, quote.
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Speaker 3: One of them would be Abraham Lincoln. He reportedly received
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Speaker 3: regular visits from the son Willie, who died in the
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Speaker 3: White House in eighteen sixty two at the age eleven.
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Speaker 3: Of that was probably typhoid fever. Mary Todd Lincoln, who
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Speaker 3: was also restricken by the loss that she remained in
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Speaker 3: a room for weeks seeing her son's ghostly want son's
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Speaker 3: ghost once at the foot of her bed. There was
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Speaker 3: also reports of her hearing Thomas Jefferson playing his violin
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Speaker 3: and Andrew Jackson's swearing. After his administration in eighteen sixty five,
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Speaker 3: Lincoln apparently joined his son in the phenom fantasmal Roman
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Speaker 3: First Lady Grace Coolidge spoke in the magazine accounts of
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Speaker 3: seeing him look out the window that had been in
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Speaker 3: his office. Many more sightings would have decades of presidential
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Speaker 3: administrations that followed. Queen Wollomina with the Netherlands was sleeping
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Speaker 3: the Lincoln bedroom in nineteen forty two when he reportedly
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Speaker 3: heard a knock on her bedroom door, opened it to
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Speaker 3: see a bearded president and painted. Two years later, British
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Speaker 3: Prime Minister of Winston Churchill poor into account just stepped
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Speaker 3: out a hot bath the same room where another them
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Speaker 3: but a cigar the counter. Lincoln at the fireplace. Good
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Speaker 3: you mean, mister President, Churchill, reports said, you seem to
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Speaker 3: catch me and at disadvantage. At his research, Bosh said
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Speaker 3: found that Lincoln seems to be most common visitor among
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Speaker 3: the White House's ghosts, and also who carries the greatest burden.
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Speaker 3: They say Lincoln always comes back whenever he fills the
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Speaker 3: country is in need or in peril, Bart said. They
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Speaker 3: say he just strides up and down the second floor
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Speaker 3: hallways and wraps on doors and stands by windows. Nineteen
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Speaker 3: eighty nine, some post article White House Curiator, what's all right?
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Speaker 3: Scouting scaring, said President Ronald Reagan had commented that his
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Speaker 3: dog would go to any room except for the Lincoln bedroom.
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Speaker 3: He just stand outside the door and bark. Scarton said.
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Speaker 3: Among other spirited stories, there were other who's about these,
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Speaker 3: others about Annie Surretz. Some have sworn her ghost knocks
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Speaker 3: in the front door to release of her mother, Mary Scarlett,
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Speaker 3: who's convicted playing the role on Lincoln's assassination and later hanged.
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Speaker 3: Mary Scarlett, who was Paul David Harold and George Aswald
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Speaker 3: were hung inside a fork near in Washington on July seventh,
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Speaker 3: eighteen sixty five. There were also haunting the accounts involving
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Speaker 3: two President's wives and Miguel Adams, who first lady lived
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Speaker 3: in the White House uses the east room to dry
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Speaker 3: sheets since her death, had been reported, sayings of her
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Speaker 3: lightness in the area. She walks forward into the accounts
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Speaker 3: with her arms stretched out holding beeen. Lennen Dolly Madison
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Speaker 3: and those stories about her beloved seems to have chosen
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Speaker 3: a better internal pastime taking care of the garden. During
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Speaker 3: the Woodrow Wilson administration, staff members report seeing her goes
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Speaker 3: as they were about to move the rose garden. They
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Speaker 3: apparently decided afterward to leave it exactly where it was,
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Speaker 3: exactly where she wanted it. Now one may hate to
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Speaker 3: see that ghosts pissed be the Like the Librarian ghost
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Speaker 3: and Ghostbusters. The First Lady was also connected to another
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Speaker 3: storied Washington location. When the British burned down the home
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Speaker 3: during the War of eighteen twelve, she and President James
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Speaker 3: Madison moved the Octagon House in a court of Eighteenth
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Speaker 3: Street and New York Avenue southwest, making a temporary white house.
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Speaker 3: I explain occurrences that have been linked to the deaths
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Speaker 3: of three women between two daughters of the wealthy man
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Speaker 3: who built the house. In both instances, according to the
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Speaker 3: newspaper accounts, the women had argued with their father about
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Speaker 3: who they wanted to marry, and then fell from the
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Speaker 3: same staircase. Bells could be heard in the house when
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Speaker 3: no one was there to ring. Now and reads nineteen
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Speaker 3: sixty nine Washington Post article about the location well, a
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Speaker 3: specter of a girl and white could be seen slipping
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Speaker 3: up the stairway. Terrifying screams and morbids groans could be
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Speaker 3: heard and mandling from the house. Some incident incident that
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Speaker 3: it was possible to cross the hall at the foot
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Speaker 3: of the stairwell in certain days without unconsciously going around
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Speaker 3: some unseen obstacle on the floor. Newspapers once treated the
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Speaker 3: stories about ghosts with far less skepticism than they might today.
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Speaker 3: A Washington Post article pushed August thirteenth, nineteen o seven,
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Speaker 3: strives a police department's effort to dress paranormal activity in Georgetown,
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Speaker 3: with the headline spooks bafful police quote despite the vigilance
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Speaker 3: of Captain Snyder and his officers of the seventh Precincts,
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Speaker 3: they continue night after night with their word and ghost
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Speaker 3: like tricks. Post quote. The author wrote, quote police were
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Speaker 3: unable to stop the shower of travel and stones, which
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Speaker 3: appeared to have been a favorite means of manifestation of
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Speaker 3: these moralific ghosts, nor were they able to discover whence
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Speaker 3: they came was quotes the headline for a nineteen oh
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Speaker 3: three polls story, which ran next to the advertisement offering
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Speaker 3: the lawn swinging for three dollars and ninety five cents.
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Speaker 3: White House ghosts change is in the Madison. Our changes
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Speaker 3: in the mansion have driven them away. The article. A
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Speaker 3: long time White House servant limited how read what renotifications,
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Speaker 3: had feared that the mansions of the ghosts that kept
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Speaker 3: him company on long nights, on the lonely nights, have
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Speaker 3: described them as guiding up the public stairway and down
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Speaker 3: the private and down the private ones. It's the truth,
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Speaker 3: the gospel truth post quote, said Jerry Smith, who's described
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Speaker 3: as has been in a quarter century in the White House. Quote.
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Speaker 3: Times are not what they used to be about the
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Speaker 3: House ever since the first went into the White House.
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Speaker 3: I have seen spirits Lincoln another presidents as they die,
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Speaker 3: but you know that they don't like new places. I
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Speaker 3: never see a site of mister Lincoln or General Brant
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Speaker 3: post quote. While Lincoln, it seems, would not be scared
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Speaker 3: ways so easily. Mary Alvin, who worked for Eleanor Roosevelt,
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Speaker 3: report seeing him on his bed pulling on his boots,
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Speaker 3: where screams were poorly brought secret Service agents running missus Roosevelt,
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Speaker 3: and in nineteen thirty two talk about life in the
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Speaker 3: White House, told a group of San Antonio that she
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Speaker 3: fell another presence when she worked from a room where
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Speaker 3: many presidents are also worked. I get a distracted feeling,
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Speaker 3: or I get a distracted feeling when I was there
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Speaker 3: was someone in the room, she said. Close quote. After
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Speaker 3: Truman wrote to his wife about the knocks on his door,
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Speaker 3: as his daughter wrote him back, Margaret Truman in nineteen
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Speaker 3: eighty six for Your Mother, said she and her mother
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Speaker 3: were skeptical of the existence of ghosts, residential or otherwise.
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Speaker 3: And she said but to her father, saying, so she
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Speaker 3: has really said, quote, I'm surely there. I'm sure they're here,
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Speaker 3: while I'm not as much alarmed and meaning up with
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Speaker 3: any of them. Quote or close que quote I'm sure
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Speaker 3: old Andrew Andrew Jackson could have gave me a good advice,
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Speaker 3: probably teach me a good swear words quote he wrote
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Speaker 3: coord to the book. Well, I am sure old Rovert
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Speaker 3: Cleveland could tell me some choices remarks make some political bead.
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Speaker 3: So I wouldn't knock on any doors or bars them
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Speaker 3: either if they would. Of those old CODs and the
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Speaker 3: picture out of the hall went to come out of
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Speaker 3: the frames for friendly chat. Some of those some of
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Speaker 3: the some of the stories that we found that hope
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Speaker 3: you enjoy it, and hope you enjoy the wonderful ghosts
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Speaker 3: that might be in the White House. And you know,
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Speaker 3: I haven't you know, at the time, we weren't able
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Speaker 3: to go to the White House. I wish we would,
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Speaker 3: but be nice to go to the White House to
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Speaker 3: check it out. But then I'll just take the word
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Speaker 3: for it right now. Be nice to do a little
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Speaker 3: investigations see what we have on the paranormal there. But
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Speaker 3: for now that's our stories and hope you enjoy them.
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