Their duel in July, 1804 is undoubtedly the most famous duel in American history. Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, chief of staff to General Washington, and then Secretary of the Treasury. Aaron Burr, having lost the presidential election to Thomas Jefferson, became his vice-president, as was the custom in those days. Hamilton and Burr disliked each other intensely, which led to the duel in which Hamilton was killed.

There are a number of ghost reports connected to these two gentlemen:

• The house in Greenwich Village, New York City, where Hamilton died, has been plagued by poltergeist activity.
• When Burr’s daughter boarded a ship to meet her returning exiled father, the ship sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Some have claimed to see her ghost wandering along the shoreline.
• When Burr resettled in New York at age 77, he married Eliza Jumel, a widow who, it was rumored, had murdered her previous husband, Stephen Jumel. It is said his ghost haunted the mansion where they lived.
• Eliza herself might be a ghost. She died in the Jumel mansion in New York City at the age of 93, and the ghost of an old woman has been reported on the balcony of the stately house.