It turns out D.C. has its share of specters.

If you’ve got an itch to explore beyond the Demon Cat and whatever poor souls haunt the White House, get in the car and visit one of these haunted locales within a few hours’ drive of the city… if you dare.

The four bedroom, three bathroom home, located at 2320 Evergreen Street, is going for $949,900.

D.C. is a city full of history, and it’s also a city full of ghosts. This Halloween, explore some of their most famous haunts.

Quick, somebody call Craig T. Nelson!

Photo by Wikipedia user Kmf164.Located in a no-mans land near the Foggy Bottom neighborhood and close to the National Mall at 18th and New York Avenue, the Octagon House was built in 1800 as a home for wealthy plantation owner Colonel John Tayloe III. The house has a fascinating past and wonderful architectural details as it employs an octagon as its primary design feature. The house temporarily became the home to President James Madison…

Even if your Scooby sense doesn’t feel sudden cold spots at the bottom of the stairs or unseen fingers clutching at your throat, a ghost tour can be an info-taining way to take in the history — or legend — of a city. I’ve taken numerous ghost tours in my travels — the best combination of story and storyteller was a Key West tour, hosted by a man whose gravelly voice could be mistaken for Robin Williams, but far scarier. The variety of spooktacular ghost tours held in the Washington area provide the ghost-hunter and the skeptic alike an opportunity to learn more about what some say is one of the most haunted cities in America.

The idea that the Nationals might be a cursed franchise is hardly a revolutionary thesis. After all, they were birthed from the embers of a somewhat cursed team, the Montreal Expos. (The long sequence of events that began with that team’s potentially epic 1994 season being cruelly wiped away by the players strike and ended with the franchise being owned by the league and drawing crowds in the low four-digits just had to be guided by the hand of something more devious than man.) You could make the argument that there’s a young pitching curse right now at the Park, considering that 2010 is the second straight season when the team’s most promising young pitcher is set for a long-term stay on the shelf with arm surgery. Well, all you Nationals fans should feel free to blame John Wilkes Booth, apparently.

Conor McPherson loves a good ghost story. While not all of his works for the stage include literal spectres and otherworldly figures, even when his plays take place on the firm ground of reality, they still very often deal with loss, in a way that casts the ghostly shadow of memory and regret across the proceedings. In the case of his first film since 2003’s The Actors, all of these elements, conveyed in the…