31: Haunted DC: White House Seances, Lincoln’s Ghost, and More

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We're diving into the two most haunted houses in DC, The White House and The Halcyon House. Who was the ghost that tormented Taft's staff, which first ladies are most often seen haunting the White House grounds, and who was the eccentric owner of one of DC's most haunted houses, The Halcyon House?

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

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0:00.0	Harry lay in bed in the dead of the night, and at first he doesn't hear it.
0:10.3	There's a light tapping on his bedroom door.
0:13.5	His wife and daughter are away, there's no one who would need him right now, so maybe
0:19.1	that's why it doesn't wake him up.
0:21.9	But then, louder.
0:26.5	This, he can't ignore, and it pulls him out of his sleep.
0:31.5	He slides into his slippers and stumbles out of bed.
0:35.5	Why was someone at his bedroom door?
0:37.9	It was 3 a.m.
0:40.6	Harry opens the door, prepared to give someone a piece of his mind.
0:45.2	But when the door creaks open, there's no one there.
0:50.3	Just the long, dark hallway, and family photos staring back at him.
0:57.5	Then he hears it again.
1:00.6	There's still sleep in his eyes, yet he wanders down the hall towards the noise, now coming
1:06.0	from near his daughter's room.
1:08.9	He swings the door open, but nothing.
1:13.8	Her room is in the same condition she left it in.
1:17.7	The door swings closed, and Harry shuffles back towards his room, convinced he had just
1:23.2	been hearing things.
1:25.1	But as he's halfway down the hall, footsteps, coming from inside the room where he just
1:33.7	shut the door.
1:35.6	That's it, he thinks.
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