In time for Halloween: Morning Open Thread: Haunted White House

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The White House is certainly large enough and old enough to qualify as a haunted location and I suppose if it were photographed in just the right conditions then it could even look haunted. However, when you consider the amount of intense energy that was expended within the confines of those wall and you believe the claims of paranormal investigators that that energy can produce a residual haunting, then if any place could be haunted the White House surely would.

Abigail Adams, the first first lady to live in the White House moved into the White House from the former capital in Philadelphia while the house was still under considerable construction. Built so close to the Potomac River on still swampy ground, the first lady found the East Room of the White House to be the warmest and driest and it was there she chose to hang her laundry to dry.

Abagail's ghost has been spotted walking out of the East Room with arms outstretched as if carrying laundry.

David Burns, who sold the government most of the land on which the city of Washington--including the presidential residence--was built, has been reportedly heard but not seen.

FDr's valet, Cesar Carrera heard a voice calling his name as he stood in the Yellow Oval Room. When he turned to see who it was, the voice said, "I am Mr. Burns." A guard from the Truman administration heard the same thing in the same spot.

Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson is another case of being heard, but not seen. Mary Todd Lincoln reportedly told friends she had heard Jackson stomping and swearing through the halls of the presidential residence. The Rose Room, Jackson's bedchamber while he was president, is believed by some to be one of the most haunted rooms in the White House. One of Lyndon Johnson's aides heard the same cursing coming from the Rose Bedroom in 1964 and a White House seamstress once felt Jackson lean over her as she was hemming the bedspread on his bed.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/14/1141783/-Morning-Open-Thread-Haunted-White-House