The Chilling Mystery Of The Creepy Teenage Ghost That Once Haunted The White House
Night is falling upon President William Taft’s White House, and with it comes a sense of terrible foreboding. Rumors have begun to circulate here – whispers of a ghostly presence that dwells within the walls of this historic mansion. President Taft wants to suppress such talk, but still it persists. And if it’s to be believed, you’ll never see this phantom with your own eyes. Instead, it’ll announce itself with a cold, spine-tingling squeeze of your shoulder.
Even though different people reported an encounter with this ominous presence, the story always tended to be the same. A startling weight would impress itself down upon your shoulder, as if a person was bending over you from behind. But turn around, and you’d find that there was nobody to be seen.
Without any tangible evidence of this presence, details about its true nature and form are pretty vague. It’s not even clear when exactly reports of the spirit first started to emerge from inside the White House. But by 1911 even members of President Taft’s inner circle knew about it. And they even referred to it by its nickname of “The Thing.”
But the president himself really didn’t want people to talk about this ghostly presence walking through the White House. Taft would apparently fall into a rage if the subject came up, as he wanted to keep the tale from the general public. And if any of his staff were caught chatting about it, then they faced losing their jobs.
Yet behind his reluctance to speak about The Thing, it’s said that Taft privately gave a great deal of thought to spirits. In fact, there’s even a rumor that he personally encountered a ghost once inside the White House. Perhaps he merely wanted to keep a lid on the building’s paranormal activities to prevent a panic?
