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0Cost Plus World Market
Dulles Town Center, Virginia
I use to work at this store years ago and can tell you (and I'm sure you can ask other people who have worked there) that this place is truly haunted. When I worked over night here or worked a closing shift there were many strange happenings. There was always ...
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0Ball's Bluff Battlefield
Leesburg, Virginia
8.9 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park and National Cemetery is a 223-acre park that contains a Civil War battlefield and the third-smallest U.S. National Cemetery. The 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff took place here, and 54 soldiers are buried in the cemetery. The park, which offers tours and over 7 miles ...
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Marwood Mansion
Potomac, Maryland
9.7 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Witnesses in this former house of the Gore family say they have seen the bathroom window open by itself, the toilet flushing, and steam coming from the tub, as well as eerie sounds from the basement. An apparition of the family's butler has been seen on the steps and around ...
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Oatlands Plantation
Leesburg, Virginia
10.8 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Oatlands Plantation was once a 3,500-acre wheat and wool producer with over seven dozen slaves. Now a historic site of only 260 acres, the 1804 manor house museum is rumored to be home to a few spirits. Doors are said to randomly lock on their own, and witnesses and paranormalists ...
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Beall-Dawson House
Rockville, Maryland
14.3 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
This restored 1815 home and museum site is haunted by an apparition. Speculators say it may be original builder Upton Beall, his wife Jane, or one of their daughters: Jane, Mathilda or Margaret. Some suppose it also could be a household slaves. Ghost tours are offered around Halloween.
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Hickory Grove Chapel
Haymarket, Virginia
14.7 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
There are a lot of stories about this little white building that has been left to rot for the past 4-5 decades on Logmill Road in Haymarket, Virginia. Some call it the "Old White Chapel," others the "Hickory Grove Chapel". At least one person says it was never ...
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Piero's Corner Italian - Carlos O'Kelley's
Fairfax, Virginia
15 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
This location was once a "Carlos O'Kelley's" restaurant. Now it is an Italian place called "Piero's Corner." Back when it was Carlos O'Kelley's, it was said that a dishwasher who worked there hanged himself in the building and haunted the premises from then on. Numerous waitstaff reported ...
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George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
15.3 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The crew team at George Mason University has reported seeing the ghost of an old man near the docks or dam. Legend has it that he's Old Man Johnson, a deceased area rower who, in the 1970s, found his wife having an affair. The distraught man went out rowing and ...
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Clara Barton National Historic Site
Glen Echo, Maryland
15.6 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Clara Barton National Historic Site, home of the famous wartime nurse for the last 15 years of her life, is said to be haunted. Folks have reported apparitions and it is believed that Clara herself still lingers here in spirit.
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0Manassas National Battlefield
Manassas, Virginia
16.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Historic Manassas National Battlefield Park contains an unfinished railroad ordered by Robert E. Lee. The Civil War-era railroad site is said to be popular with the spirit set, as several accounts of paranormal activity surrounding the area have been reported.
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0Olde Towne Inn
Manassas, Virginia
20 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
A ghost called Miss Lucy is said to haunt rooms 51 through 54. She is rumored to levitate guests and frequent the tavern.
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Landon House
Frederick, Maryland
20.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Built in 1754, this home was used as a Civil War makeshift hospital after a deadly battle nearby. Witnesses have heard phantom screams, cries, and prayers, or the sounds of soldiers begging for help. In the basement, where slaves once were kept and abused, folks have reported cold spots, taps ...
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Halcyon House
Washington, District of Columbia
20.8 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Built by first Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1787, Halcyon House was sold in 1900 to Albert Clemens, a nephew of Mark Twain. Clemens, who died in 1938, believed that perpetually altering the house would extend his life, so it changed quite a bit over the decades in ...
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Central Park Aquatics Center
Manassas, Virginia
20.9 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Having worked at Central Park Aquatics for almost a year now, I and any of the other employees can tell you, hands down, this place is haunted. We hear voices when the building is empty, things move around, and we hear our diving blocks being adjusted. I've worked here ...
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0Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, District of Columbia
21 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
This mammoth upscale 1930 hotel is home to its fair share of haunts. In 1930, a rich family, one of the hotel's finiancial backers, moved into Room 864. Reports say that one night their nanny awoke feeling ill, suddenly collapsed, and died. A few days later their adopted daughter Helen ...
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Old Post Chapel
Arlington, Virginia
21.1 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Many Arlington National Cemetery burials started in this old military chapel, in use since the 1930s. Witnesses have reported unexplained voices and footsteps, locked doors have been known to open by themselves, and at least once, a soldier went into a room to find all the cabinets wide open. A ...
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Old Stone House
Washington, District of Columbia
21.2 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The 18th-century home is reported to be one of the oldest buildings in D.C. It's believed to be home to at least four spirits, who knock things off shelves and perform other mischievous tricks. One spirit is said to be an "unfriendly male" who has scared many a visitor.
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Woodrow Wilson House
Washington, District of Columbia
21.3 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
At this museum, both staff members and visitors have reported seeing President Woodrow Wilson's apparition sitting in his rocking chair. Also reported have been the sound of a man with a shiffling gait walking with a cane and the sound of a man sobbing.
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M Street Bridge
Washington, District of Columbia
21.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Visitors to the bridge should keep a lookout for two ghosts. One is a phantom stagecoach, which locals saw from the early 19th century to the early 20th century; the other is a drummer boy who had been knocked off-balance by a strong breeze and drowned. Witnesses say they have ...
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Walsh Mansion - Embassy of Indonesia
Washington, District of Columbia
21.7 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Formerly the Walsh Mansion and now the Embassy of Indonesia, this 1903 mansion is believed to be haunted by Evalyn Walsh McLean, daughter of original builder Thomas J. Walsh. The mansion had 60 rooms, including a theater and a ballroom. Evalyn Walsh married publishing heir Edward Beale "Ned" McLean, whose ...
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Brunswick Heritage Museum
Brunswick, Maryland
22.2 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
This 1904 building now houses a railroad museum, and is allegedly haunted. Staff and paranormal investigators have reportedly encountered the apparition of a woman in a white dress, a ghostly curator who modifies exhibits and a spook who likes to tamper with a model railway. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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0Renaissance Mayflower Hotel
Washington, District of Columbia
22.2 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
This 1925 is known for its beautiful inlaid gold decor, and also for its resident ghost. When Calvin Coolidge won the U.S. presidency, he was expected to go to his Inaugural Ball at the Mayflower Hotel. However, his son Calvin Jr. had just died of an infection, and the devastated ...
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0The Octagon House
Washington, District of Columbia
22.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Built by Colonel John Tahoe in 1799, the historic Octagon House was used as The White House during former president Madison's term. One ghost here is the spirit of Colonel Tahoe's pregnant daughter, who died when she threw herself from the top banister. She committed suicide after finding out her ...
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Decatur House
Washington, District of Columbia
22.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The ghost of war hero Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., is said to peer out the second-story window of his 1819 house or walk out its back door. Decatur was killed just 14 months after moving here, in a duel between himself and former friend James Barron. Ghostly weeping also can ...
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0Blair House
Washington, District of Columbia
22.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Now a complex of four connected townhouses and the official state guest housing for the President of the United States, the historic Blair House was built in 1824 for Joseph Lovell, eighth Surgeon General of the United States Army. It is said that the ghost of President Woodrow Wilson has ...
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0Hay–Adams Hotel
Washington, District of Columbia
22.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Allegedly haunted by the ghost of Marian (Clover) Hooper Adams who lived in the residence that occupied this site prior to the hotel being constructed. Mrs. Adams committed suicide by ingesting potassium cyanide. People claim to see and smell distinct scents that they attribute to her, including the smell ...
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St. John's Episcopal Church
Washington, District of Columbia
22.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The 1816 church's President's Pew, reserved for the President of the United States, is where the hauntings are said to take place. So the story goes, when the old church bell tolls for the death of a notable person, six ghostly men in white robes appear at midnight in the ...
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0The White House
Washington, District of Columbia
22.6 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
A number of mysterious happenings have been reported in the White House. President Abraham Lincoln's apparition is seen in the Lincoln Bedroom and all over the White House, President Andrew Jackson is seen in the Rose Bedroom, and President William Henry Harrison is heard in the attic. Abigail Adams is ...
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Cutts-Madison House - Dolley Madison House
Washington, District of Columbia
22.6 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The spirit of former First Lady Dolley Madison is said to reside at her home, built in 1822 by Richard Cutts, Dolley's brother-in-law. After her husband James Madison died in 1836, Dolley lived here until her death in 1849. Although the house's next owner Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes changed things ...
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0Treasury Annex
Washington, District of Columbia
22.6 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
A ghostly woman in a long white dress roams the second floor, seen by several employees working late. Also experienced have been unexplained footsteps and voices, and even a toilet flushing.
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Lafayette Square - Presidents Park
Washington, District of Columbia
22.6 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
President's Park, a.k.a. Lafayette Square, is said to be haunted by Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott Key. As legend has it, in 1958 Philip Key had an affair with the wife of one of his friends, Daniel Sickles. In his rage, Sickles shot Key, who was unarmed, ...
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Willard InterContinental
Washington, District of Columbia
22.8 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The grand hotel has had many famous guests, such as Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, General John J. Pershing, and Harry Houdini. Another renowned guest, once a U.S. president, is believed to still reside here. An apparition believed to be Ulysses S. Grant has been ...
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National Theatre
Washington, District of Columbia
22.9 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Opened in 1835 originally, the theater was demolished and rebuilt in 1923. Deceased actor John McCullough's spirit has appeared here in the role of Shakespeare's Hamlet. According to local stories, the actor was murdered here in the 1880s by another actor. The ghost has been seen as far back as ...
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0The Grey Horse Inn
The Plains, Virginia
23 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The Grey Horse Inn is no longer in operation; the owners of the historic inn retired and sold the property to private owners in 2011. Reports say that on the property a ghostly scene replays of a Confederate soldier being killed.
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Old Long Bridge - 14th Street Bridge
Washington, District of Columbia
23.1 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
General Edward Braddock's 1755 expedition to capture Fort Duquesne was attacked, killing or wounding 900 men, in what is now known as the Battle of the Monongahela. Rumor has it that on the anniversary of Braddock's departure near the bridge or along the nearby bluffs, the ghostly sounds of military ...
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0Ford's Theatre
Washington, District of Columbia
23.1 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
At this historic theater where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, folks say John Wilkes Booth's footsteps still can be heard running up the back stairs to the Presidential Box.
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Mary Surratt's Boarding House - Wok and Roll
Washington, District of Columbia
23.3 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Notorious Lincoln conspirator Mary Surratt's former boarding house is now Wok and Roll, a Chinese restaurant, and it is said to be haunted by Mary Surratt's ghost. Witnesses have heard unintelligible murmurs, unexplained footsteps, muffled weeping and creaking floorboards.
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National Museum of Crime and Punishment
Washington, District of Columbia
23.3 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
On display is the Tennessee electric chair, used on 125 men from 1916 to 1960. It is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the men whose lives it took.
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Caldwell Hall - Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia
23.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
A ghost story told at this historic university explains some mysterious lights and an apparition that appears in Caldwell Hall's attic window. The spirit is said to belong to a priest who took a fatal fall from the window after discovering a book on exorcism.
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National Building Museum
Washington, District of Columbia
23.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The 1887 National Building Museum is said to be haunted by ghosts who appear in an unusual way. Formerly the "Pension Building," where pensions were processed for Civil War veterans, widows, and orphans, it has 15 Corinthian brick-and-plaster columns painted to resemble black onyx. Witnesses say the colors on the ...
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Independence Avenue SW
Washington, District of Columbia
23.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
This part of the avenue is believed to be haunted by the ghosts of slaves. It is the former site of two notorious slave markets: the Yellow House or Williams Slave Pen, now the FAA headquarters, and the nearby Robey Slave Pen, at the 7th Street corner. Locals have heard ...
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0Kerby Hall - Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia
23.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
This hall is rumored to be haunted by a student who died in the late 1960s. She has been seen in both the staircase and the 5th-floor lounge, as well as in some dorm rooms.
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0United States Capitol
Washington, District of Columbia
24.1 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
At the U.S. Capitol, folks say that late at night, the statues in the Statuary Hall come to life and move about the room. It is also said that a black cat appears in the basement just before a national disaster occurs. The ghost of a builder who died during ...
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Library of Congress
Washington, District of Columbia
24.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Tales are told of a ghostly police officer who haunts the stacks at the famed Library of Congress, often helping those who become lost amid the vast collection. Appearing both in uniform and in casual clothes, the officer, who often even tells people his name, is deceased sergeant. Other strange ...
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Fort McNair
Washington, District of Columbia
24.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The ghost of Mary Surrat, convicted in a plot to assassinate President Lincoln, has been seen here, presumably trying to convince fort guests of her innocence. Building 21 has an unknown spirit lingering in spirit form. Workers here have heard footsteps in the attic and have felt something behind them ...
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Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre
Bristow, Virginia
24.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre, explored on an episode of TV's Ghost Hunters, is said to be haunted. The complex includes an 1822 courthouse and jail, 1830 farmhouse, 1875 church, 1928 one-room schoolhouse and the Brentsville Tavern archeological site. Knocking sounds and apparitions have been reported in the jail, as well ...
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Gallaudet University - MSSD
Washington, District of Columbia
24.5 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
MSSD is the Model Secondary School for the Deaf. The ghost of a girl who committed suicide has been seen in the dorms, as well as another female spirit. Hoofbeats also have been felt through the campus, thought to be left over from Revolutionary War soldiers.
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Marine Barracks - 8th & I
Washington, District of Columbia
25.1 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The mysterious presence is said to linger around the lower parking garage, where a fatal accident involving a young child occurred. Some Marines have heard the child calling out early in the morning; others have seen a red ball rolling down a garage ramp.
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TWA Flight 514 Crash Site
Bluemont, Virginia
25.2 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
Paranormal investigators were called to the forested area by passer-by's who reported hearing screams and seeing glowing apparitions moving around the forest at the crash site. Visitors have reported weird activity associated with a large limestone rock located at the site, and people have reported been pushed by unseen entities. (Submitted ...
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Lee-Fendall House
Alexandria, Virginia
25.4 miles from Dulles Town Center, VA
The Lee-Fendall House museum, once used as a Revolutionary War hospital, is said to be haunted by female apparition in period clothing, a woman and child who appear on the back stairs, and the sound of an antique telephone. The site has been featured on an episode of TV’s Ghost ...
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