THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Washington Square was once a potter's field and burial ground for poor residents, soldiers, prisoners, and victims of yellow fever. Its best-known legend concerns Leah, a Quaker woman said to have guarded the graves from body snatchers and whose spirit reportedly still watches over the square.
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