In August 1949, a Washington newspaper reported that a priest had freed a Mount Rainier, Maryland, boy from possession by the devil. For years, the story behind The Exorcist pointed to a lot on Bunker Hill Road. The family never lived in Mount Rainier at all.

Full story, photos and sources: https://ghostsofdc.org/2026/10/29/exorcist-1949-mount-rainier-cottage-city/

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.

For decades, a sign on Georgetown's Old Stone House said George Washington had used it as his headquarters. He hadn't. That mistake may be the reason the house survived a used car lot, a congressman who wanted to sell it, and the ghost stories that came later.

Full story, photos and sources: https://ghostsofdc.org/2026/10/07/old-stone-house-georgetown-haunted/

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.

On two Saturday nights in July 1952, radar at National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base tracked targets nobody could identify, some of them over the White House and the Capitol. Pilots saw lights, jets were scrambled, and the Pentagon called its biggest press conference since World War II to blame the weather.

Full story, photos and sources: https://ghostsofdc.org/2018/02/26/flying-saucers-capitol-white-house/

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.

Just upriver from Key Bridge sit three little rocks called the Three Sisters. Since at least the 1890s, people have said they moan before someone drowns. In 1968, Congress ordered a freeway bridge built right on top of them, no matter what any court decided. Construction actually started.

This episode draws on two posts. The legend: https://ghostsofdc.org/2013/10/04/three-sisters-legend/

The bridge fight: https://ghostsofdc.org/2015/04/13/never-built-three-sisters-bridge-across-potomac/

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.

Every bit of Hains Point was river bottom or mud flat until 1882, when an Army engineer named Peter Hains started pumping the Potomac's mud into new land. The point got his name while he was still alive, and the river has been trying to take it back ever since.

Full story, photos and sources: https://ghostsofdc.org/2022/04/08/why-is-it-named-hains-point/

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.

In December 1980, U2 played its second American show at a Georgetown club tucked under the Whitehurst Freeway, as the opening act. Decades earlier, the same room had a pirate brig for argumentative dates, and a 1951 shooting with two police officers inside.

Full story, photos and sources: https://ghostsofdc.org/2026/06/06/the-bayou-dc/

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.

Just before 3 a.m. on November 10, 1984, the dancers at Benny's on 14th Street took the stage for the last time. The 1977 law written to keep Washington from ever having another red light district had spent years protecting this one.

Full story, photos and sources: https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/05/07/14th-street-red-light-district-washington-dc/

This episode discusses the history of adult businesses on 14th Street.

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.

In August 1930, the Tabard Inn near Dupont Circle went up for auction. The high bidder was the woman who had started it, three years after she sold it.

Full story, photos and sources: https://ghostsofdc.org/2026/10/21/tabard-inn-history-1739-n-street/

Narrated by an AI version of Tom's voice. AI also helps research and write the scripts; facts are checked against the original sources, and Tom reviews the episodes.