Ghosts: US Revolutionary War Heroes, Presidents and a Black Cat

Author: Jill Stefko

Discover who these patriotic ghosts are and the places that are their earthly stomping grounds, in addition to the most haunted US Presidential Mansion.

Patriotic ghosts include those of Benjamin Franklin, US Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln and General Mad Anthony Wayne, Betsy Ross, DC and Aaron Burr. The US Presidential Mansion, the White House, is the most haunted site for this select group of ghosts.

Ghosts of the Revolutionary War Era

Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in building the government’s foundation when the US was first established. His specter is said to haunt the Philosophical Society’s library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Betsy Ross is credited with sewing the first US flag. Her crying specter has been sighted while she sits on the foot of the bed in her former home.

George Washington was a General during the Revolutionary War and the first US President. His wraith has been seen in the Hotel Chamberlain in Fort Monroe, the Hiawassee woods, Woodlawn Plantation and in Gettysburg. It’s said that his ghost rescued a group of Union soldiers fighting to drive Confederate troops away from Little Round Hill. He appeared, with upraised sword ablaze, astride a shining white stallion and commanded the Yankees to fix their bayonets and charge. This maneuver forced the Confederates to retreat. Gettysburg residents say that on some hot summer nights they still see Washington’s ghost astride a white horse gallop across the battlefield.

General Mad Anthony Wayne was a hero of the Revolutionary War and the Commandant of Fort Ticonderoga where his ghost has been sighted in the dining room and by a fireplace, smoking a pipe and drinking from a pewter mug. His specter has been seen at Lake Memphremagog where he searched for bald eagles to capture to train for hunting. Wayne was sent to Storm King Pass to warn troops of an impending attack. Witnesses report having seen his ghostly horse, Nab, and an equally ghostly Wayne before impending storms.

Spectral Aaron Burr

He was the third US Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, but this isn’t why he’s best remembered. He’s primarily remembered for killing Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury, in a duel. Their relationship was one of political enmity and hostility. Hamilton considered Burr an unprincipled scoundrel. The antagonism between the two came to a peak 1804 when Hamilton thwarted Burr's attempt to get re-nominated for Vice President and his attempt to be elected the governor of New York. Burr challenged his adversary to a duel....continues

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Originally published on Suite 101 and reproduced courtesy of Jill Stefko

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