Legend says the banging is the ghost of Anna Surrat rattling the doors and gates, pleading for her mother’s life. Other ghostly noises linger along the gates and upon the doors of the White House’s North Portico. I freaked out and ran into my sister’s room.” Jenna’s sister, Barbara, believed the story to be malarkey, real rubbish! But, when Jenna dared Barbara to sleep in her room the following night, both heard an ear-splitting opera blaring from the exact same fireplace! No warm, cozy sleep for either that night! At first light, White House workers spilled the beans to the shivering, shaken sisters, stating “they heard it all the time.” There was a fireplace in my room, and all of a sudden I heard 1920s music coming out. Bush (2001-2009), awoke to music from the 1920s, describing, “I was asleep. Jenna Bush, daughter of President George W. Margaret and her father are not alone when it comes to hearing spooky noises in the White House.
But Margaret’s “ghosts” persisted, prank or no prank, prompting her father to order renovations!
President Truman (1945-1953) must have known of his daughter’s ghostly quest, for the only “ghost” to appear that particular night was a White House butler donning a top hat, a prank played by a lighthearted father. Her father President Harry Truman described the mansion as “haunted, sure as shootin’.” Margaret decided to get to the bottom of the bizarre rap-tap-tappings, and one night, on a dare, slept in the Lincoln bedroom, the room haunted most by eerie thumps and bumps. In the White House, Margaret Truman constantly heard floors popping, doors knocking, and drapes sidling back and forth. Knock, Knock! Whoooo’s There? Spooky Stories from Children of the White House
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