Thursday, October 27, 2022
Political Mayhem Thursday: Haunted!
The Washington Post just ran a list of the 11 Scariest Places You Can Visit, which is a very questionable list. It includes the Fairmont Hotel in Banff, pictured above, which seems to be on the list because it might remind you of the hotel in a truly scary movie, "The Shining."
None of the most haunted places I've been were on the list. My own most haunted places would include the homes I lived in both in Grosse Pointe and Waco, the Landmark Inn in Marquette, Michigan, the Penobscot Building in Detroit, and IPLawGuy's Mazda CX-9, all of which are truly haunted by some ghosts who mean business-- probably of people who died in those respective places.
However, have you ever noticed how almost any government building seems haunted? You can start with state capitols from pretty much any state (except North Dakota, where the Capitol is a mid-sized office building in Bismarck with a DMV on the first floor) and immediately get a creeped-out vibe.
However, I would argue that the most haunted building I have ever been to is the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington DC, which is sometimes still referred to as the Old Executive Office Building or the "Creep Museum." It is next to the White House and holds offices for many entities within the Executive Office of the President, such as the Domestic Policy Council. It was built on the site of the White House stables from 1871 and 1888 and... well, let's stop right there. I mean, it took 17 years to build this thing, and in the middle of a pretty dark period of US history just after the Civil War and at the start of the Jim Crow era.
I've been there several times, including to the Vice President's Ceremonial Office, which is kind of the piece de resistance in terms of grandeur and haunted-ness. The has wide marble stairways, which seem perfect for ghosts to glide up and down. It has housed lonely vice-presidents, erratic secretaries of the Army and Navy, countless despondent bureaucrats, and thousands of beaten-down interns. How could it not be haunted? And it looks like this:
Case closed!
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All of my cars have been haunted. But other than Christine, the Green Monster, most have been benign
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