About us
Our tours take place in Washington, D.C.--Lafayette Square, Capitol Hill, Georgetown, et al.--Alexandria, Virginia, and other historic sites such as Civil War battlefields in Antietam, Maryland. The tours last about 2 hours, and typically cost about $20 per person.
Washington, D.C. and nearby towns like Alexandria, Virginia drip with history and political intrigue--from colonial times to the present day. This is a group aimed at those eager to explore the often-violent and scandalous past of the nation's capital and its surroundings--its wars, espionage rings, assassination attempts, mayhem and misbehaviors, as well as more uplifting events--against its backdrop of architectural splendor and breathtaking vistas.
Detailed itineraries!:
Lafayette Square--White House, Andrew Jackson statue, Stephen Decatur House, slave annex, Dolley Madison House, St. John's Church, Frederick Douglass bank, Lafayette statue, Blair-Lee House, Renwick Gallery, Treasury Dept., Eisenhower Executive Office Building...Learn about: The assassination attempt on a President-one block from the White House!…The war-hero congressman who murdered his wife’s lover…The tragic suicide of the wife of America’s most esteemed author…The brutal stabbing of a Secretary of State…The ruthless spy who lost the U.S. Army a major battle…The scandal that caused the entire presidential Cabinet to resign!..And much more! And it all happened in Lafayette Square, across from the White House in Washington, D.C.
This tour starts and ends at the Andrew Jackson statue.
Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--the Torpedo Factory, the John Carlisle mansion, the Stabler-Ledbetter pharmacy museum, Lawrence Washington's House, George Washington's town house, Founder's Park, the City Hall, the John Wise tavern, Gadsby's Museum and restaurant, Christ Church, Robert E. Lee's boyhood home, the Lee-Fendall House, the old cotton mill, the Presbyterian Meeting House.
This tour typically starts at the Torpedo Factory and ends at Christ Church.
Capitol Hill--the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Library of Congress, the 9/11 memorial, the Anne Frank memorial, the Peace Memorial, the President Garfield statue, the Inauguration steps, the Ulysses S. Grant memorial, the Frederick Law Olmstead grotto, the Sullivan Brothers memorial, the hidden cornerstone of the Capitol.
This tour starts at the Supreme Court Building and ends at the Ulysses S. Grant memorial.
What We Do--"Walking history seminars": walking group tours of the most historic venues in Washington, D.C., Alexandria, Virginia, and other towns.
Where We Go--We tour historic, atmospheric neighborhoods and sites such as Lafayette Square, the Capitol Building grounds, Georgetown, Old Town Alexandria, the Navy Yard area, and the Antietam Civil War battlefield.
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The Halloween GHOST Tour of Old Town, Alexandria VA, Sat, October 31, 4 pm!
Wilkes Street Tunnel, 398 Wilkes St, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA, Alexandria, VA, USThe Horrifying Halloween History GHOST Tour of Old Town, Alexandria Virginia, Saturday, October 31!
Ye Olde Town Alexandria--filled with scores of centuries-old houses and the scene of wars, murders, and fatal accidents--is one of the most haunted places in America. And one of the most historic, being the hometown of George Washington, Robert E. Lee, civil rights leaders, Admiral "Bull" Halsey, and more.
On Halloween Night, take a horrifying stroll to visit the city’s many terrifying real-world sites of the supernatural!
When: October 31, 4 pm!
Where: MEET at the haunted tunnel, 398 Wilkes St, Alexandria, VA 22314. Corner of South Royal St.Pre-Register and Pre-Pay at—
Eventbrite: Horrifying Halloween GHOST History Tour, Old Town, Alexandria VA, Oct 31! Tickets, Saturday, October 31 • 4 PM - 6 PM | Eventbrite
PayPal, sending $28: paypal.me/EMoser460
Or, pay $27 in cash at the start of the tour.
Length: About 2 hoursOur most scary itinerary will select from:
• Ghosts from a doomed Navy voyage
• The headless sailor of King Street.
• The unsolved antebellum murder, and the murdered man’s actual mysterious ghost!
• Ghosts from a doomed Army voyage
• The bizarre plan to revive George Washington from the dead!
• Scary visits to locales of our published murder mystery!
• A shocking mortuary from olden days
• The smallest park in the nation.
• The smallest house in the nation.
• The unknown tomb of the Unknown Soldier
• The untimely death of the Mysterious Woman
• Apparitions along the Underground Railroad
• The screaming ghost of the Cat Devil
• The mysteriously disappearing house
• The mysteriously disappearing spy
• The mysteriously disappearing presidential ballroom
• Confederate graves and Union surgeons
• A real-life pirate
• The house of a notorious blackmailer & seductress
• Washington's terrible final hours
• The warring ghosts of the War Between the States
• High spirits: Old Town's hard-drinking Irish of yore
• The lovely bride who was killed on her wedding day
And more!Your host is an ex-Tonight Show writer, & former White House speechwriter.
The Host's murder mystery set in Alexandria!:
[THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America's Most Historic Locale by Edward P Moser, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-old-town-horror-edward-p-moser/1143650532)His forthcoming book on the wild history of Alexandria's sister city of Georgetown!:
Georgetown on the Potomac - McFarlandOur Top-Ranked TripAdvisor Reviews!
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.htmlMeet at the ghostly tunnel. 398 Wilkes St, Alexandria, VA 22314. Corner of South Royal St.
Join us on this horrifying history tour!!
Faint of heart & courage?: Avoid this event!!8 attendees
Halloween Espionage Tour, Downtown D.C. and the White House Neighborhood Nov. 1
The Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA, Washington, DC, USHalloween Spy Tour of Downtown D.C. and the White House Neighborhood!
Starting at the historic Mayflower Hotel, and winding its way to Lafayette Square outside the White House, this unique tour will examine the many spies and espionage plots that have marked downtown Washington across two centuries. During the weekend of Halloween costumes, a look at the professionals who've made a career of trickery and masking their identities.
When: Sunday, Nov. 1
Where: Front lobby of the Mayflower Hotel, in front of the tavern inside, 1127 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036.
How:
Prepay and Pre-register through:
Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/halloween-spy-tour-of-downtown-dc-and-the-white-house-neighborhood-tickets-2003934086798?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
Or PayPal, sending $27 to:
savvyveteran@gmail.com
Or pay $26 in cash at the start of the tour.Who: Your host is Ed Moser, author of The White House's Unruly Neighborhood:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
And The Old Town Horror:
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic/dp/B0C1J1GJVR/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
And the head of America's highest-rated travel events:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.htmlWhat: This walking tour will draw on the following incidents and personalities:
o The murderous mole inside the CIA
o The ghost of a Navy hero
o The lair of the Soviet Union's KGB
o J. Edgar Hoover's mealtime meeting place
o The real-life spies who inspired the TV espionage show, "The Americans"
o Where Nazi saboteurs lodged
o Winston Churchill's faux pas
o Presidential ghosts
o The Civil War's deadliest spy
o Where Marion Barry was caught red-handed
o The real-life Indiana Jones
o The ghost of John Wilkes Booth's conspirator
o Traitors in the FBI and Navy
o Where a suspected friend of Hitler bewitched a future American President
o Where Lewis & Clark were betrayed by an Army general
o Homes of spies near the White House
o The spirits of speakeasies and bootleggers
o How a spy helped trigger Pearl Harbor
o The tradecraft of espionage
o Presidential and mayoral scandals
o The founders of the CIA and NSA
And more!Questions?: Contact 191.ep.jm.56@proton.me, or 703 203 5670.
We're on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/LafayetteSquareTourOfScandalAssassinationIntrigueThis Halloween, join us for an excursion into real-life terror of espionage!
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