Lafayette Square - Washington, D.C.
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N 38° 53.967 W 077° 02.193
18S E 323394 N 4307589
Lafayette Square, an Olmsted-designed park near the White House in Washington, D.C., is said to be haunted by the son of Francis Scott Key (who is best known for writing the lyrics to the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner").
Waymark Code: WMBWRZ
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 06/28/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GEO*Trailblazer 1
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"President's Park, better known as Lafayette Square, may have its own spectral resident. Philip Barton Key II was the son of Francis Scott Key and the nephew of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. In the spring of 1858, Key began having an affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles, the wife of his friend Daniel Sickles. On February 26, 1859, Sickles learned of the affair. The following day, he saw Key in Lafayette Square signalling to his wife. Sickles rushed out into the park, drew a pistol, and shot the unarmed Key three times while the other man pleaded for his life. Key was taken into the nearby Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House and died moments later. Key's spirit, eyewitnesses and authors claim, now haunts Lafayette Square and can be seen on dark nights near the spot where he was shot."

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