Haunted Georgetown

10. Georgetown Bluffs

Washington, DC

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Keep walking down the canal with the Potomac river downhill on your left as you walk on the left side of the waterway. After crossing under the freeway underpass the canal towpath heads toward a wooded area and you are overlooking the Potomac river. On these bluffs is located one of Georgetown's oldest hauntings. It was on these bluffs in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian war that British General Edward Braddock set out on a disastrous military expedition. Braddock intended to capture the French Fort Duquesne and engaged in the Battle of Monongahela. Near what is now Braddock, Pennsylvania, the British force of thirteen hundred British regular soldiers and colonial fighting men was ambushed by the enemy, and nine hundred soldiers were killed or wounded, including General Braddock, himself. One of the survivors was a young Virginia volunteer named George Washington. Reports of ghostly hauntings by General Braddock and his men go back before the Civil War including witness accounts of the sounds of military orders, hooves on the roads, and marching soldiers, on the anniversary of the departure of General Braddock'?s expedition from Georgetown.