November 7, 2019
Volume 49 - No. 45
By Friedrich Gomez
When John Adams became the first U. S. President to reside at the White House in 1800, little did he know at the time that every American president who would follow in his footsteps, would be made aware of the White House ghostly rumors. Without exception, every American president after the death of John Adams in 1826 would hear of such paranormal events at the “Executive Mansion.” However, aside from just being aware of such rumors, many U. S. Presidents – including many visiting political dignitaries such as Winston Churchill – became devout believers that the White House is, indeed, truly haunted. The startling revelation that many American presidents actually believe in such paranormal activity at the “Presidential Palace” is more than just wild speculation that might only be found in such sensational tabloids as The National Enquirer or The Globe. That many U. S. presidents believe that the White House is haunted is a well-documented fact. A truly shocking fact, one might add, which remains hugely unknown, even to this day, and even among popular gossip tabloids at supermarket newsstands.
All of which makes this exclusive cover story reflective of the adage: “Truth is often stranger than fiction.”
U. S. President Harry S. Truman, who never pulled his punches – earning him the lifelong slogan “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” -- confessed openly that the U. S. White House was strangely haunted. The no-nonsense 33rd President of the United States who ordered the world’s first atomic bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, sagged at the knees when he experienced ghostly happenings at the U. S. White House.
In a handwritten letter to his wife, Bess W. Truman, dated September 9, 1946 (and which can be viewed today at the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum at Independence, Missouri), Harry Truman admitted being frightened by unexplained supernatural pheThe Paper - 760.747.7119
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nomena at the White House.
In his own handwriting, Truman, in part, expresses to his wife: “At four o’clock I was awakened by three distinct knocks on my bedroom door. I jumped up and put on my bathrobe, opened the door, and no one was there. Went out and looked up and down the hall, looked into your room and Margie’s. Still no one.” (Note:
Bess Truman and daughter “Margie” were away at the time.)
That same eerie night was far from being over for the president -- Truman would become more spooked than ever. In the same letter he continues writing: “Went back to bed after locking the doors and there were footsteps in your room whose
door I’d left open. Jumped and looked and no one there!” Harry Truman was sufficiently bothered, baffled, and frightened enough to reach his own rock-bottom conclusion as he wrote in the same letter: “The damned place is haunted sure as shootin.’ Secret service said not even a watchman was up here at that hour.”
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