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30 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first president to oversee the construction of the White House and when? |
George Washington, 1792 |
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Who was the first to spend the night in the White House and when? |
John Adams and his wife Abigail, November 1, 1800 |
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Who set fire to the White House resulting in it being gutted and when? |
British, War of 1812 |
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Who has been seen wandering through the White House property as a result of the War of 1812? |
A Redcoat |
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Who has been seen wandering around the White House attic looking for something? |
President Harrison |
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Who has been heard laughing in the Rose Room in the White House and has been seen in his old bedroom spooking guests? |
Andrew Jackson |
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Who has been seen carrying something through the White House hallways and also hanging laundry during the Taft administration? |
Abigail Adams |
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A gardener at the White House claims to have spoken to which ghost about not removing the rose bushes she had personally planted more than a hundred years ago? |
Dolly Madison |
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Who is the most popular ghost at the White House? |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Who said she felt the presence of Abraham Lincoln when she was working in the Lincoln bedroom? |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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A young clerk at the White House claims to have seen who sitting on a bed removing his boots? |
Honest Abe |
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Who knocked on the bedroom door of the visiting Queen of Wilhelmina of the Netherlands as well as Harry Truman at the White House? |
Lincoln |
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Calvin Coolidge's wife saw who standing with his hands clasped behind his back at the oval office window? |
Lincoln |
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What is said to be the most haunted city in Europe, perhaps even in the world? |
Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Parts of the Edinburgh castle are said to be over how many years old? |
900 |
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What famous poet is tied to the Edinburgh Vaults? |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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What were the Edinburgh Vaults supposedly used for? |
To seal in victims of the Black Death |
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In 2001 what psychologist took 240 volunteers who nothing of the Edinburgh Castle and the Edinburgh Vaults to gather paranormal data? |
Professor Richard Wiseman |
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What paranormal phenomenon did the volunteers discover at the Edinburgh Vaults? |
Sudden temperature drops, burning sensations, shadowy figures, physical touches, flashing lights, and tugging of clothing |
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What type of ghostly apparitions were discovered at the Edinburgh Vaults? |
fallen soldiers, a phantom piper, a headless drummer, spirits of French Soldiers from the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War, a dog wandering the cemetery |
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Beneath the (blank) a major Edinburgh passage was built in 1785 where rooms were used as cellars, workshops, and even homes by the people that plied their trades on the busy streets above. |
South Bridge |
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The Edinburgh Vaults consist of (blank) that were sealed in. |
19 enormous open arches |
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The (blank) of the Edinburgh Vaults were underground rooms where legal and illegal business began to thrive |
Catacombs |
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Who fled to Scotland from 1845 to 1847 seeking shelter in the Edinburgh vaults and why? |
Irish, Irish Potato Famine |
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What caused the Edinburgh Vaults to become no longer livable? |
Prostitution, gambling, whiskey stills, violence |
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For more than (blank) years the Edinburgh Vaults lay undisturbed after they were sealed off in the early 20th century? |
200 |
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When were the Edinburgh Vaults reopened to the public virtually unchanged? |
1994 |
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Many of the ghostly spirits at the Edinburgh Vaults are children including (blank) who local psychics claim date back to the bridge's construction era. |
Jack |
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Some visitors claim to have experienced what from the apparitions of children at the Edinburgh Vaults? |
Kids laughing, sensation of a hand slipping into theirs |
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The most ominous spirit at the Edinburgh Vaults is (blank) because he wears knee length boots, rough trousers, and a dirty white ruffled blouse, and is unshaven, dirty, and has hideous breath. |
Mr. Boots |
