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Name: Decatur House, Washington, Washington DC
Location Type: Other
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Coordinates: 38.889840, -77.040269
Description:
The ghost of war hero Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., is said to peer out the second-story window of his 1819 house or walk out its back door. Decatur was killed just 14 months after moving here, in a duel between himself and former friend James Barron. Ghostly weeping also can be heard here, which...