As one of the premiere scientific research institutions in the United States, if not the world, there are a number of mummies and skeletons inside the halls of the Smithsonian. And with mummies and skeletons come ghosts, of course. Apparitions matching the description of early Smithsonian researchers have been spotted, including its first curator Spencer Baird, paleontologist Fielding Meek, and most importantly of all, founder James Smithson.
While he died before the Washington D.C. museum was built, Smithson's ashes were interred on its grounds in 1904. His ghost had been sighted so many times, the Smithsonian—a scientific place staffed by some of the world's most logical, rational, and scientific people—temporarily moved his body off the premises in 1973. (Just to inventory the contents of the casket, they said.)
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