Haunted Georgetown

4. The Old Stone House

Washington, DC

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The Old Stone House is Washington DC's oldest standing building. Built in 1765 by Christopher and Rachel Layman, it was sold soon after completion to Cassandra Chew, a wealthy Georgetown widow. She expanded the original structure over the decades leading up to the American Revolution. It was a private home for nearly two hundred years, in which time it has gathered a truly exceptional number of reports of sightings of different spirits. They include: a woman wearing a brown dress standing near the mantelpiece, a large woman standing sometimes on the stairs and other times in the kitchen, a blond man in a blue jacket, a man wearing short pants and stockings, a woman rocking in a chair on the third floor, a small boy running in the third floor hallway, a man in Colonial-era clothing in the upstairs bedroom, a young girl with curly hair running up and down the staircase, and an African American boy. The most malevolent of the hauntings of this structure is nicknamed, "George" and has reportedly choked and pushed visitors, and caused intense feelings of cold temperature and overwhelming dread.