The snappily named ‘Demon Cat’, or ‘D.C.’ for short, is one of several reported ghosts that haunt the sprawling government buildings in Washington D. C
D.C. The Demon Cat
Author: Kate Cherrell
I'm Kate, writer, editor, and creator of Burials and Beyond. By trade, I'm a writer, copyeditor and spooky lecturer-for-hire, but can usually be found lurking in cemeteries, archives, haunted houses, darkened rooms, or antiques shops, getting up to no good.
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