Sources from Episode 110

  1. “The Myth That Washington Was a Swamp Will Never Go Away,” Smithsonian.com, March 2017, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/draining-swamp-guide-outsiders-and-career-politicians-180962448.

  2. “The Reality of the Slaves Who Built the White House: Enslaved Workers Were Employed During Construction of the White House,” Thoughtco., 8 May 2017, www.thoughtco.com/slaves-who-built-the-white-house-3972335.

  3. Jeff Dickey, Empire of Mud: the Secret History of Washington, DC (Lyons Press, an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

  4. “Exploring the Haunts of a Georgetown Past,” The Hoya, 3 Nov. 2015, www.thehoya.com/exploring-the-haunts-of-a-georgetown-past.

  5. Tom Ogden, Haunted Washington, DC: Federal Phantoms, Government Ghosts, and Beltway Banshees (Globe Pequot, 2016), p. 88–93.

  6. Martin, Joel and William J. Birnes, The Haunting of the Presidents: a Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency (Signet, 2003), p. 353.

  7. “Haunted Halcyon House,” Seeks Ghosts, January 2013, seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2013/01/haunted-halcyon-house.html.

  8. “The History and Hauntings of Illinois: The Haunted President,” American Hauntings, 2002, www.prairieghosts.com/lincoln2.html.

  9. “Is the White House Haunted? A History of Spooked Presidents, Prime Ministers and Pets,” The Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/30/is-the-white-house-haunted-a-history-of-spooked-presidents-prime-ministers-and-pets/?utm_term=.7584f10b3141.

  10. “Natalie Dykstra's Biography of Clover Adams,” The New York Times, 2 March 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/natalie-dykstras-biography-of-clover-adams.html.

  11. “The Secret & Disturbing History of Washington D.C.” | The Takeaway, WYNC Studios, November 2014, www.wnycstudios.org/story/how-washington-dc-emerged-mud.

  12. “The Spiritualist Who Warned Lincoln Was Also Booth's Drinking Buddy.” Smithsonian.com, 1 March 2015, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-spiritualist-who-warned-lincoln-was-also-booths-drinking-buddy-180954317/?page=1.