A Ghost Story in the Nation's Capitol

Halloween in Washington comes with its own folklore, and this week Fox News's Chad Pergram added a new chapter to it.

Pergram, who has covered the Capitol for decades, recalled a mishap from his own reporting career: slipping on the Capitol steps directly in front of then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It's the kind of story that could only happen on Capitol Hill, and it comes paired with a tour through the building's genuinely long history of reported ghost sightings — apparitions tied to the Capitol's use as a Civil War-era hospital, and generations of staffers who swear the place gets stranger after dark.

It's the kind of story that doesn't fit neatly into a politics section, and that's exactly the point. Not everything happening under that dome this week was a subpoena.