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The Ghosts of DC posts readers come back to. The Bunny Man, Murder Bay, the Iran Embassy, the Reston origin story, and the rest of the ones that keep getting shared.

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AI-colorized version of the 1960s rendering of the proposed Three Sisters Bridge over the Potomac, with the Three Sisters islands belowThree Sisters Bridge Across the Potomac Was Never BuiltUpdated Oct 25EpisodeThe Bayou exterior in 1977 with the Whitehurst Freeway overhead at 3135 K Street NW, GeorgetownThe Bayou: 45 Years Under the Whitehurst FreewayUpdated Oct 25EpisodeThe Three SistersThe Three Sisters: How a Potomac Drowning Legend Became a CurseUpdated Oct 24Episode

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A man in a long white apron stands in front of a small wooden lunch stand covered with hand-painted signsHell’s Bottom: The History of a Notorious NeighborhoodUpdated Oct 241791 L'Enfant Plan of the new cityWhy Is There No J Street in Washington, DC?Updated Oct 22EpisodeDavid Burnes cottage, the farmhouse of one of the original proprietors of Washington, with the Washington Monument behind it, photographed by Frances Benjamin JohnstonWho Owned the Land That Became Washington, DC?Updated Oct 20EpisodeA hatchet photographed in 2004 that a Wikimedia Commons contributor identified as the one thrown in the 1970 Bunny Man incidentIs the Bunny Man Real? The 1970 Story and Bunny Man BridgeUpdated Oct 17The Maryland Goatman: The Real 1970s Story Behind the LegendUpdated Oct 16White House East Wing: From 1902 to Trump’s BallroomUpdated Oct 16
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