The Washington, D.C. Haunted Trail

Washington's haunted map is compact and walkable. Nearly every stop sits within a few blocks of the White House, from Lafayette Square mansions to the Capitol grounds and old federal cemeteries further out. Two centuries of presidential history and a handful of unsolved deaths have settled into buildings that still do federal work every day, giving the city's hauntings an unusually well-documented paper trail. About thirty venues make up the network. Washington doesn't have its own curated loop yet, so the national trail guide is the place to start planning a haunted stop, with venue pages carrying the deeper history behind each address.