UNITED STATES CAPITOL
Government Building — East Capitol Street NE and First Street SE, Washington, Washington, D.C.
Status: Operating · Access: Restricted access
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/united-states-capitol-washington-washington-d-c/

Legislative building with demon-cat folklore.

A government building in Washington, Washington, D.C., United States Capitol is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Legislative building with demon-cat folklore. Its signature presence is Demon Cat — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.

The Capitol is the most haunted building in the world — the 1898 Philadelphia Press called it that, and the ghosts are the building's history. John Lenthall died when the vault collapsed in 1808 and cursed it with his last breath; the Demon Cat appears before national tragedies; John Quincy Adams died on the House floor.
The building is the monument — L'Enfant's pedestal, Thornton's design, the 1793 cornerstone, the dome that's the American icon. The soldiers quartered in the chambers during the Civil War, the bakery in the basement, the Statuary Hall where Adams fell — the building is the country's stage.
The ghosts are the legend — the Demon Cat's paw prints in the floor, the librarian who still works, the workers who died in the construction. The file keeps the building: the 1793 Capitol, the deaths inside it, and the hauntings that are the most documented in any government building.
The Capitol is the archive's monument file — the building that's the country's icon, the Demon Cat, and the most haunted government building in the world.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Capitol is the archive's monument file — the building that's the country's symbol, the deaths in its walls, and the ghosts that are the legend.
A building that's the country's icon keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that the Capitol's hold is the history: the Lenthall curse, the Demon Cat's appearances before tragedies, and the halls where the country's ghosts still work.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] folklore creature: GW recounts a giant spectral cat preceding national crises. The figure answers to Demon Cat in the retellings. The site in Washington, Washington, D. C. gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'The True (-Ish) Stories behind D. C. 's Famous Ghosts' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The account appears in 'The True (-Ish) Stories behind D. C. 's Famous Ghosts'. Believers and skeptics keep the sighting alive for different reasons; both keep it.
  source: The True (-Ish) Stories behind D.C.'s Famous Ghosts (https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/true-ish-stories-behind-dcs-famous-ghosts)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· The True (-Ish) Stories behind D.C.'s Famous Ghosts — George Washington University / GW Today
  https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/true-ish-stories-behind-dcs-famous-ghosts

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