Dark Realms: The Octagon House - Washington DC

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Welcome back, to Dark Realms,

Standing just steps from the White House, the Octagon House is one of Washington DC’s most historic—and allegedly most haunted—landmarks. Built at the dawn of the United States and once used as a temporary presidential residence after the White House burned in 1814, this six-sided mansion has long been shadowed by darker legends. In this episode, we explore chilling accounts of phantom screams where two daughters reportedly fell to their deaths, the ghost of a murdered card player who eternally seeks help, and the most disturbing tale of all—a murdered enslaved girl said to cry from within the walls themselves. This episode asks whether the Octagon’s hauntings are supernatural echoes… or the lingering weight of tragedies history never fully acknowledged.

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0:00.0	Not all of our minisodes need to be from listeners. In fact, places or lesser-known cases can sometimes take us to Dark Realms.
0:18.2	Hello everyone and welcome back once more to another installment of Dark Realms.
0:24.6	Now as you guys know we've mentioned season 23 will be like no other.
0:29.6	We're talking a complete overhaul and we did mention last week that we were going to reduce the minisodes from four a month to two a month, because
0:40.2	I genuinely believe from your feedback you're oversaturated with the amount of output we do.
0:46.2	However, and this is where being a Patreon pays off, literally.
0:50.3	Our Patreon team, both publicly and privately, have let me know they would sooner Dark
0:56.1	Rounds go to twice a month instead of the Minisodes.
1:00.1	And as this is your show from season 23, Dark Rounds goes to twice a month, biweekly, and
1:08.0	the minisodes remain weekly.
1:10.4	Of course, that means that this will be our third to
1:13.2	last minisode for this season and as such I'm going to save any sort of videoing etc.
1:19.9	For the revamp coming in 23. In addition as a podcaster looking at the change of changing
1:26.8	dark realms to twice a month it does allow me to go
1:30.4	from Dark Realm, i.e. a castle, to Dark Realm, i.e., what we started doing this season when
1:37.4	we took a look at the Ouija board, other things around us that we don't really get a chance
1:41.9	to discuss in the paranormal either.
1:46.0	Therefore, there's a great balance of doing one of those each month. So, if you have any
1:52.7	suggestions for Dark Realms for season 23, be that a place, or be that a topic, do drop me a line,
2:00.4	contact at the Dark paranormal.com.
2:03.3	And don't forget, for anyone wanting to submit their experience for the show, for any of
2:08.7	our shows, you can either click the link in the show notes, or go direct to the website,
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