Here’s a fun little Halloween story that I’d not heard before. Apparently, the U.S. Capitol Building is haunted!
Halloween or not, the 200-year-old Capitol is said to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, says Jim Berard, Democratic communications director for the House Transportation Committee. Berard compiled some of the more famous ghost stories in his recently published “The Capitol Inside & Out,” a history of the nation’s legislative center.
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Berard says the most famous Capitol apparition is the “Demon Cat,” thought to date back to the early days when cats roamed the building to keep the rat population down. The cat, said to appear at times of national crisis, grows to enormous size before suddenly vanishing. Legend has it that one guard fired his gun at it, and another was so frightened he suffered a fatal heart attack.
Okay…so who’s up for an overnight field trip?
(via D)
I wonder if that cat has been seen a lot lately.:)
I remember going on a tour or two hearing those stories and
worked there for a month.. did feel kinda eerie… OOooo
I bet some on the Hill would say that this is the new demon cat.
oh me, me, me! field trip!!
This has not been a good week for Washington DC. SOme idiot snuck a toy gun into the Capitol, I believe, as part of a Halloween costume, and the whole place was shut down till they found out what it was.
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Dad