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The Octagon House
The Octagon House is a location reputed to be haunted in District of Columbia, US. Its reputation comes from reported apparitions, unexplained phenomena and eyewitness accounts gathered over time.
Where is The Octagon House?
- Location
- District of Columbia, US
- Type
- House / mansion
- Coordinates
- 38.896, -77.042
- Testimonies
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Why is The Octagon House said to be haunted?
Built in 1799-1801 for planter John Tayloe III to a hexagonal-turned-octagonal design attributed to William Thornton, architect of the U.S. Capitol, the Octagon House briefly served as the presidential residence after the British burned the White House in August 1814; President Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent there in February 1815, ending the War of 1812. Its ghost stories reach further back: one Tayloe daughter is said to have fallen to her death down the curved staircase in a quarrel over a forbidden suitor, and another, in some versions, met the same fate years later on the same stairs. Staff at the house museum, now operated by the American Institute of Architects Foundation, have long reported candle-like lights and footsteps on the stairwell after closing. "Every generation of caretakers here has their own story about that staircase," a longtime docent has said. Dolley Madison herself is sometimes said to still be glimpsed in the garden.
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