columbia. direct current. detected comets or demon cat. reporter: in another stairwell you will find the blood of kentucky congressman william tolby. his ghost is said to lurk around the cam toll, periodically tripping reporters as revenge. that may be why i was tripped on a capitol stairway when i tried to get a word with justin trudeau? you are fortunate that you were scathed. it s popular history. it s a way people can remember. sometimes misremember. but they can remember figures and events from the past. any 200-year-old building will have ghost stories. the u.s. capitol is no
night. the military converted the u.s. capital into a field hospital for union soldiers during the civil war. some have reported sightings of those soldiers wandering the building even today. some of them have continued to stay. a lot of soldiers died here and they were very idealistic at that point and their spirits would be here. joe novotny retired from the house after 30 years. you ve seen him on c-span as the house reading clerk and has absurd weird things in the chambers late at night after everybody else is gone. all of a sudden in the chamber, directly in front of me i see a man walk in front of me and i look up immediately to see who it is and there was nobody there. you tell yourself, is this real? but it was vivid. towering above all capital ghost stories is the legend of the demon cat which prowls the like when they burned the
capitol in 1814, kennedy s assassination. it s put prince are visible in the senate wing but the demon cat also signed its name. in the congressional stairwell, you ll find this. does that stand for district of columbia, detective comics, or demon cat? in another stairwell you ll find the blood of congressman william taulbee, charles can cane shot and killed after a dispute in 1890. ghost is said to work around the capitol reportedly tripping reporters for revenge. is that may be why i was tripped on the capitol stairways not too far from when i tried to
Qin Yi, an actress and recipient of the national honorary title "People s Artist", passed away at age 100 in Shanghai on Monday, a huge loss to the Chinese film industry after the departure of director Huang Shuqin on April 21 at 82 and actor Liu Zifeng on May 7 at 83.