Full Transcript for The 1895 Washington D.C. Ghost Panic

blocks away from muddy roads, open commons, 32 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:26.039 vacant lots, and neighborhoods where darkness settled heavily after sunset. 33 00:02:27.310 --> 00:02:31.129 Electric streetlights had begun appearing throughout the city, but Much 34 00:02:31.169 --> 00:02:35.430 of northeast Washington remained dimly lit. At two o'clock in 35 00:02:35.469 --> 00:02:38.530 the morning, a police officer might walk for blocks without 36 00:02:38.590 --> 00:02:42.370 seeing another soul. Those lonely patrols could play tricks on 37 00:02:42.389 --> 00:02:47.150 the mind. Or so people believed. Because in the fall 38 00:02:47.169 --> 00:02:51.030 of 1895, rumors began spreading that something impossible was wandering 39 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:56.280 those empty streets. It wasn't a burglar. It wasn't a murderer. 40 00:02:57.710 --> 00:03:00.810 According to the whisperers, it wasn't alive, it was a ghost. 41 00:03:01.710 --> 00:03:06.050 But not just any ghost either. Witnesses described a figure 42 00:03:06.069 --> 00:03:09.689 unlike anything they'd ever seen. A tall, white apparition with 43 00:03:09.770 --> 00:03:13.289 no head at all. It drifted silently through the darkness 44 00:03:13.310 --> 00:03:16.340 before disappearing into the night without leaving so much as 45 00:03:16.379 --> 00:03:20.740 a footprint behind. Stories of ghosts were nothing new in 46 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.860 Victorian America. Spiritualism had swept across the country during the 47 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:29.159 second half of the 19th century. Seances filled drawing rooms. 48 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:34.039 Newspapers often published accounts of haunted houses, mysterious apparitions, and 49 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.270 messages from the dead. Millions believed the veil separating this 50 00:03:38.310 --> 00:03:41.210 world from the next had grown thin enough for spirits 51 00:03:41.229 --> 00:03:44.509 to cross back into the lives of the living. But 52 00:03:44.550 --> 00:03:48.800 this story would become different. Because the first people claiming 53 00:03:48.819 --> 00:03:52.699 to see the ghost weren't frightened children. They were police officers. 54 00:03:53.699 --> 00:03:57.099 One of them was Patrolman Sedgwick. Little has been written 55 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.090 about Officer Sedgwick today, but in 1895 he walked one 56 00:04:01.099 --> 00:04:04.469 of those difficult beats in Washington. He was also an 57 00:04:04.530 --> 00:04:07.509 African American police officer serving at a time when opportunities 58 00:04:07.550 --> 00:04:10.990 for black officers were limited and respect was often difficult 59 00:04:11.030 --> 00:04:16.389 to earn. Washington's police department had employed black officers since Reconstruction, 60 00:04:17.149 --> 00:04:20.170 but they often found themselves scrutinized more closely than their 61 00:04:20.230 --> 00:04:24.949 white counterparts and were expected to prove themselves every single day. Well, 62 00:04:24.990 --> 00:04:28.829 Sedgwick had done exactly that. He was said to be 63 00:04:28.850 --> 00:04:32.360 an experienced patrolman who had served on the force for years. 64 00:04:33.660 --> 00:04:36.939 Fellow officers knew him. His superiors trusted him enough to 65 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.000 sign him the lonely overnight patrol through northeast Washington. His 66 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.360 job required him to spend long hours alone, watching streets 67 00:04:44.379 --> 00:04:48.519 that most citizens avoided after dark. And those streets became 68 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:52.970 the center of one of America's strangest ghost panics. According 69 00:04:52.990 --> 00:04:55.949 to Sedgwick, the first encounter happened shortly after 2 o'clock 70 00:04:56.110 --> 00:05:00.230 one cold November morning. He was walking along Maryland Avenue 71 00:05:00.269 --> 00:05:04.750 near 14th Street when he heard something unusual. A strange 72 00:05:04.790 --> 00:05:09.370 shuffling sound. It wasn't loud. It wasn't hurried. It was 73 00:05:09.410 --> 00:05:16.000 simply wrong. Instinctively, he reached toward his revolver and stepped closer. There, 74 00:05:16.060 --> 00:05:18.939 standing near a tree, was a figure dressed completely in white. 75 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.129 At first, Sedgwick assumed it was a person. Then the 76 00:05:23.149 --> 00:05:26.870 figure moved, or perhaps it didn't move at all. Even 77 00:05:26.910 --> 00:05:30.970 years later, accounts differ on exactly what happened next. Sedgwick 78 00:05:31.009 --> 00:05:33.750 would later tell reporters the apparition seemed to drift rather 79 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:37.459 than walk. He could make out its body clearly enough 80 00:05:37.500 --> 00:05:41.800 in the moonlight. Then he noticed something impossible. It had 81 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.540 no head. For a brief moment, the officer just stared 82 00:05:45.620 --> 00:05:50.899 at it. The figure remained perfectly still. Sedgwick bent down, 83 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:52.759 picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it 84 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:59.139 toward the apparition. The rock struck nearby. Nothing happened. The 85 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:07.370 figure never reacted. Then came another sound. Knocking. Somewhere nearby, 86 00:06:08.029 --> 00:06:10.610 boards rattled against a wooden fence as though someone had 87 00:06:10.670 --> 00:06:15.110 struck them several times with tremendous force. Sedgwick turned instinctively 88 00:06:15.129 --> 00:06:18.829 toward the noise. When he looked back, the figure was gone. 89 00:06:19.889 --> 00:06:24.829 He searched the area. There were no footprints, no fleeing suspect, 90 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:33.279 no prankster hiding behind a fence. Only empty streets. Most 91 00:06:33.379 --> 00:06:36.759 officers probably would have convinced themselves they'd imagined the encounter, 92 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:41.240 but Sedgwick couldn't. Over the following days, he continued walking

93 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.079 the same route, unable to shake what he had seen. 94 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:49.870 Then it happened again. This time the apparition stood beside 95 00:06:49.910 --> 00:06:52.350 a tree box, almost as if it had been waiting 96 00:06:52.389 --> 00:06:57.610 for him. Again, it appeared headless. Again, it seemed strangely 97 00:06:57.689 --> 00:07:03.170 solid and yet somehow unreal. Sedgwick later admitted that curiosity 98 00:07:03.269 --> 00:07:07.029 overcame fear. He wanted to get close enough to examine it. 99 00:07:08.189 --> 00:07:13.000 Every time he advanced, the ghost retreated. Every time he hurried, 100 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:19.769 it disappeared. The distance between them never changed. Finally convinced 101 00:07:19.810 --> 00:07:23.360 he had no other choice, Sedgwick drew his revolver. He 102 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:30.019 took careful aim. A gunshot echoed through the neighborhood. The 103 00:07:30.060 --> 00:07:34.319 white figure vanished instantly. When fellow officers arrived after hearing 104 00:07:34.339 --> 00:07:38.199 the gunshot, Sedgwick searched the area thoroughly. There was no 105 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:43.370 wounded man. No blood. No evidence that anyone had been 106 00:07:43.389 --> 00:07:47.250 there at all. The newspaper soon learned about the strange incident. 107 00:07:48.050 --> 00:07:52.610 Instead of quietly dismissing the story, reporters were fascinated. They 108 00:07:52.649 --> 00:07:56.389 interviewed the officer in detail, and what they discovered surprised them. 109 00:07:57.430 --> 00:07:59.910 He wasn't the only officer claiming to have seen the ghost. 110 00:08:00.910 --> 00:08:06.250 Before long, Patrolman Gee came forward, then Officer Burkhardt. Both 111 00:08:06.389 --> 00:08:14.480 independently described nearly the same thing. A white, headless figure. Silent. Motionless. 112 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:20.709 Appearing without warning. disappearing before anyone could reach it. The 113 00:08:20.730 --> 00:08:24.269 reports were so similar that people throughout Washington began wondering 114 00:08:24.310 --> 00:08:30.250 whether something extraordinary was haunting northeast Washington. Had three policemen 115 00:08:30.329 --> 00:08:34.590 really witnessed the same impossible apparition? Or had fear spread 116 00:08:34.629 --> 00:08:36.669 from one officer to another until they all believed they 117 00:08:36.710 --> 00:08:41.429 had seen the same thing? No one really knew. But instead, 118 00:08:42.470 --> 00:08:47.970 the legend only grew. Some civilians began reporting sightings. Some 119 00:08:48.009 --> 00:08:50.750 claimed they had watched the ghost drift silently across open fields. 120 00:08:52.289 --> 00:08:55.570 Others insisted it floated through commons before vanishing into thin air. 121 00:08:57.049 --> 00:08:59.389 One witness believed it stood perfectly still beneath the moonlight 122 00:08:59.409 --> 00:09:05.730 for several minutes before it just

faded away. Descriptions differed slightly, 123 00:09:05.789 --> 00:09:10.409 but one detail almost never changed. The ghost had no head. 124 00:09:11.570 --> 00:09:14.769 As the weeks passed, Washington's newspapers gave the mysterious apparition 125 00:09:14.809 --> 00:09:17.919 a name that would make Officer Sedgwick famous throughout the city. 126 00:09:19.059 --> 00:09:24.129 They simply called it Sedgwick's Ghost. As the reports multiplied, 127 00:09:24.250 --> 00:09:27.409 theories sprang up just as quickly. One of the most 128 00:09:27.529 --> 00:09:29.830 popular claims of the apparition was the restless spirit of 129 00:09:29.870 --> 00:09:33.669 a convicted murderer named Joe Beans, who had recently been executed. 130 00:09:34.860 --> 00:09:37.279 According to the scuttlebutt around town, Beans had died with 131 00:09:37.379 --> 00:09:39.419 hatred in his heart and now wandered the streets where 132 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:42.679 he had once lived. Others believed the ghost belonged to 133 00:09:42.700 --> 00:09:47.360 some forgotten victim buried beneath the city's expanding neighborhoods. Spiritualists 134 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:51.620 offered another explanation entirely. The 1890s marked the height of 135 00:09:51.659 --> 00:09:55.830 America's fascination with the communication with the dead. Seances filled 136 00:09:55.889 --> 00:09:59.230 parlors across the country. Mediums claimed to receive messages from 137 00:09:59.269 --> 00:10:02.279 departed loved ones. ones, and many respected citizens believed spirits 138 00:10:02.330 --> 00:10:05.450 could briefly cross into the world of the living. To 139 00:10:05.490 --> 00:10:09.509 those already convinced that ghosts existed, Sedgwick's apparitions seemed like 140 00:10:09.669 --> 00:10:12.730 one more piece of evidence that the dead sometimes refused 141 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:16.309 to remain silent. And no one embraced that possibility more 142 00:10:16.330 --> 00:10:20.419 than Officer Sedgwick himself. After finding his revolver at the apparition, 143 00:10:21.139 --> 00:10:25.320 he reached a conclusion that sounds almost unbelievable today. Ordinary bullets, 144 00:10:25.340 --> 00:10:29.700 he reasons, simply weren't capable of harming a ghost. So 145 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.659 Sedgwick arranged to have silver bullets made for his service revolver, 146 00:10:33.259 --> 00:10:36.700 convinced that if the mysterious figure ever appeared again, those 147 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:41.590 special rounds might succeed where ordinary lead had failed. The 148 00:10:41.730 --> 00:10:46.370 image of a patrolman carrying silver bullets to kill a ghost... 149 00:10:46.570 --> 00:10:50.309 Now that really captured the public's imagination. It sounded less 150 00:10:50.330 --> 00:10:52.549 like reality and more like folklore come to life, but 151 00:10:52.590 --> 00:10:57.149 Sedgwick insisted he was entirely serious. The ghost hunt quickly 152 00:10:57.190 --> 00:11:00.690 became a form

of some kind of entertainment. Curious residents 153 00:11:00.750 --> 00:11:03.519 traveled to northeast Washington after dark, hoping for a glimpse 154 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.320 of the famous apparition. There's a newspaper account describing groups 155 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.700 of bicyclists riding out to the commas at night, searching 156 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:14.179 those lonely roads where Sedgwick walked his beat. They wandered 157 00:11:14.210 --> 00:11:16.950 through the vacant fields, peered into the shadows of many trees, 158 00:11:17.610 --> 00:11:21.590 and lingered along Maryland Avenue long after midnight. Everyone wanted 159 00:11:21.629 --> 00:11:25.230 a ghost story of their own. Most returned home disappointed, 160 00:11:25.970 --> 00:11:27.929 but that didn't stop others from trying the next evening. 161 00:11:29.049 --> 00:11:30.929 The city had become caught up in this ghost craze 162 00:11:30.950 --> 00:11:34.490 unlike anything Washington had experienced before. And then came one 163 00:11:34.509 --> 00:11:37.379 of the strangest and funniest chapters of the entire affair. 164 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.820 A private watchman named Humphrey learned that a local milkman 165 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.240 had become terrified of the stories. The poor man had 166 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.159 convinced himself ghosts were responsible whenever milk disappeared from the 167 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.330 doorsteps along his route. Humphrey decided the frightened milkman deserved 168 00:11:52.350 --> 00:11:56.009 a practical joke. Before dawn one morning, he wrapped himself 169 00:11:56.049 --> 00:11:58.169 in a white bed sheet and waited beside the street. 170 00:11:59.190 --> 00:12:01.710 As the milk wagon approached, Humphrey began waving his arms 171 00:12:01.769 --> 00:12:04.350 and dancing through the darkness while letting out eerie cries. 172 00:12:05.529 --> 00:12:08.769 The prank worked better than expected. The horrified milkman nearly 173 00:12:08.909 --> 00:12:11.429 fell from his wagon, whipped his horse into a panic, 174 00:12:11.470 --> 00:12:14.450 and fled at full speed until he encountered Policeman Dodge. 175 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.259 Out of breath, the milkman warned Dodge that the famous 176 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:22.179 ghost was just around the corner. Unlike Sedgwick, Officer Dodge 177 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:25.139 had little patience for ghost stories. Certain he was dealing 178 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.240 with a troublemaker, he rushed toward the figure with his 179 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:32.070 revolver already drawn. Pointing the weapon directly at the white-clad apparition, 180 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:36.370 Dodge shouted for it to move. When it remained motionless, 181 00:12:36.409 --> 00:12:40.730 he began counting one, two. Before he could reach three, 182 00:12:40.789 --> 00:12:43.129 Humphrey tore the sheet from his body and screamed, Don't shoot! 183 00:12:43.149 --> 00:12:47.220 Don't shoot! Don't shoot! According to accounts, Humphrey was more 184 00:12:47.299 --> 00:12:50.340 frightened than the milkman had been only moments earlier. His 185 00:12:50.379 --> 00:12:54.139 harmless joke had almost cost him his life. Even after 186 00:12:54.179 --> 00:12:58.000 the prank, the mystery refused to disappear completely. A few 187 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:00.299 months later, a woman in Mount Pleasant came forward with 188 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:04.179 an astonishing account. She said one bright August night, while 189 00:13:04.220 --> 00:13:07.759 sitting awake beside a sick child, she looked out the 190 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:09.629 window around two in the morning and saw the same 191 00:13:09.669 --> 00:13:13.769 apparition across the street. She watched it for almost 15 minutes. 192 00:13:13.990 --> 00:13:18.299 It was tall. It wore white. And most chilling of all, 193 00:13:19.460 --> 00:13:22.779 it had no head. The figure slowly walked down the 194 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.500 street before vanishing around a bend exactly as earlier witnesses 195 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.009 had described. And whether she truly witnessed the same mysterious 196 00:13:30.070 --> 00:13:32.789 figure or simply been influenced by months of newspaper coverage, 197 00:13:33.129 --> 00:13:37.110 no one really knows. But her testimony ensured the legend 198 00:13:37.129 --> 00:13:40.730 of Sedgwick's ghost was not going to die. As winter 199 00:13:40.750 --> 00:13:44.350 gave way to spring, Officer Sedgwick himself returned to the headlines, 200 00:13:44.370 --> 00:13:47.490 but this time not because of ghosts. He accused fellow 201 00:13:47.529 --> 00:13:50.629 officers and supervisors in the 9th Precinct of misconduct during 202 00:13:50.649 --> 00:13:55.320 a major fire, alleging that policemen abandoned their posts, visited 203 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.799 nearby saloons, drank while on duty, and later attempted to 204 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:02.279 silence anyone willing to speak out about it. For a 205 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:06.690 black patrolman in 1896, publicly challenging a superior has carried 206 00:14:06.710 --> 00:14:11.720 enormous personal risk. Whether every accusation could be proven or not, 207 00:14:11.820 --> 00:14:14.559 Sedgwick demonstrated he was willing to stand by his convictions, 208 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:18.039 even when doing so placed his own job in jeopardy. 209 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:21.960 It reveals the side of a man often forgotten beneath 210 00:14:21.980 --> 00:14:25.379 the ghost stories, a determined officer unwilling to remain silent 211 00:14:25.419 --> 00:14:29.379 when he believes something was wrong. Today, more than 130 212 00:14:29.379 --> 00:14:31.940 years later, the identity of the headless apparition remains as 213 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.820 mysterious as ever. Perhaps it was nothing more than the 214 00:14:34.860 --> 00:14:39.129 moonlight playing tricks on tired eyes. Perhaps clever

pranksters were 215 00:14:39.169 --> 00:14:42.169 responsible for at least some of the sightings. Or perhaps 216 00:14:42.190 --> 00:14:44.570 the excitement of the newspapers encouraged people to see what 217 00:14:44.990 --> 00:14:49.909 they already expected to find. Yet those explanations never really satisfied. 218 00:14:50.649 --> 00:14:54.720 Multiple officers claimed to witness the same impossible figure. Respectable 219 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:58.240 citizens insisted they watched it with their own eyes. An 220 00:14:58.299 --> 00:15:01.659 officer fired at it. Another nearly shot a man pretending 221 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.679 to be it. Crowds searched for it night after night. 222 00:15:06.029 --> 00:15:07.580 For a brief moment in the closing years of the 223 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.240 19th century, one of America's greatest cities became convinced a 224 00:15:11.259 --> 00:15:15.480 headless ghost wandered its streets. 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