LIVE from the Exorcist Steps on Halloween

It's Halloween tonight, and besides trick or treat, there will be some people out at the famous Exorcist Steps Washington, D.C. Let's take a look and see what spooky things are afoot in Georgetown.

[@joquintero4995]

Wow! You did it. I could not have made that climb. Really cool. Thank you.

[@loosilu]

The Exorcist stairs (75 steps!) were a huge part of college lore when I was at Georgetown. Thanks Andrew for this fun video!

[@user-ov8st1zv9v]

Greetings I don’t watch scary movies such as,The Exorcist. Creepy things tend to stick with me so I avoid them. I need my sleep😵‍💫 However, I adore those steps! I love tonight’s vibe. The vloggers are all doing Halloween in their own uniquely fun, haunting spooktactular way👏❤️💀🎃🧛🏻‍♀️👻🫣 Thank you

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

That was some great work out tonight, Penguin 🐧 6. Thank you for sharing, Friend. 👍😊🇺🇸

[@dannyboy160]

Nice workout Andrew. Those stairs are nuts.

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

@@dannyboy160…. Excellent work out, Penguin 6 🐧. Those steps will bust your nuts, Friend. 😊

[@dannyboy160]

ECHO Echo echo

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

@@dannyboy160… Ditto, Ditto, MAGA DITTO, Friend 👍🇺🇸😊.

[@robertladue7647]

My brother was in “the Exorcist” and was filmed walking up those stairs.

[@loosilu]

Do you remember which scene in the movie?

[@Wren9]

Thank you for all you do for followers :) love your films 💤 time for me to sleep night

[@patriotlady8496]

Ok WOW P6! You should definitely be able to pass a cardiac treadmill test! Good job on keeping physically strong 💪

[@bttr2brnout792]

The exercise steps.

[@loosilu]

nice!

[@dustinrupert3679]

I bet those stairs get crazy busy with the Instagram and TikTok crowd closer to the midnight hour ? Thank you for doing this video P6, have a great night 🍻

[@loosilu]

They are alwasy busy at halloween at al lhours!

[@dustinrupert3679]

Would be especially cool with some fog for effect.

[@loosilu]

@@dustinrupert3679 I feel like this would be great for a branding event.

[@dannyboy160]

@@dustinrupert3679 it’d be cool to put a ton of dry ice on the top landing and watch it cascade down the stairs.

[@loosilu]

@@dannyboy160 Day or evening? There is only really basic lighting, as you can see from this video.

[@ctsnider88]

I used to run those steps in the 80's. I took my son there a couple weeks ago. That gas station was a popular hang out as well as the liquor store next door.

[@loosilu]

DIXIE LIQUOR! I was a Georgetown student in the 80s. All of the kegs came from Dixie's. Sometime in the 80s, I'm guessing 87? That gas station had a massive explosion and fire that killed someone who was working on the gas vats.

[@loosilu]

I think the story was that he was using a blowtorch to clean the tanks. I'm probably completely wrong, but it was something involving the gas tanks, and a flame, and a worker.

[@SlayerReignInBlood]

Try to climbing up Potemkin Stairs (exactly 192 stairs) at Odessa, Ukraine.

[@joelfrombethlehem]

@7:54 we see the shadow of the spooky Penguinsix. BOO!

[@jburnett8152]

Don't do that anymore. Burger, fries and a staircase. 😳

[@loosilu]

I'm pretty sure Andrew burns off those fries every day!

[@juliepoppe6294]

Scary stuff! Northern Indiana here 1/4 inch snow🤬

[@catholicfaithofmine2664]

Oooooo too darn early and it's Halloween

[@wz812]

Wow! I am in SE Indiana and we had bands of blowing snow move through off and on with 30 mph wind gusts. It is wickedly cold.

[@loosilu]

@@catholicfaithofmine2664 This is how it used to be! At least when I was a kid.

[@mamalinhager]

Yikes

[@sarahj.8372]

I watched this in the student gather cafeteria at my University n Movie night with my boyfriend my Freshman year not at theater, but a couple years or whenever it came out later...this would have been 1977 fall...old school projection film rental of University...oh I love your vids..earlier one was absolutely not a failure..gorgeous footage..just gorgeous on Potomac and kids and dogs and behind THE House..lol..this and one more way later Exorcist truth one and I am finished with those movies..much love to our Penguin 6. Happy all Saints Day now I think? Day after Halloween? Anyway wee hrs in the First of Nov.

[@Wren9]

You shouldn’t of gone down that dark place on your own. Good job we were watching 👀

[@lynneboatright5610]

They are almost as steep as the Stairs of Death (intoxicated often slip and fall) going to Savannah, Georgia's riverfront.

[@Wren9]

Rest up that was a lotta steps

[@lindabenstead6672]

Wow! You are in such good shape, nice. Now you can eat all the candy you want! Thanks to the stairs.👍 Happy Halloween! 🎃

[@denise3885]

Remember how they used to have those huge Halloween celebrations in Georgetown? The streets were filled with Georgetown students in costumes. Why did that stop?

[@Penguinsix]

I think it got too out of control. Gangs of kids were walking around vandalizing stuff and causing problems.

[@denise3885]

Gee can't have nothing 😢

[@loosilu]

@@denise3885 Yeah, I think there were a few fights and maybe even a stabbing. An event like that is what ended it. Too bad, because people came from all over with the most amazing costumes. One of my favorites was a group of college guys dressed in vintage ww2 Marine gear, carrying a flag. Every five minutes or so, they gathered and posed in a PERFECT imitation of the Iwo Jima memorial. It was stunning.

[@denise3885]

Wow

[@robertladue7647]

Andrew, what are you trying to do ascending, descending, ascending the Devil’s stairs?

[@andrewwilks5155]

Seen the exorcist a little while ago and saw this same exact location!

[@surfingranny2011]

Going to go watch something exciting, like finding some fresh paint to watch dry.

[@trapdoorspringfieldmodel1888]

No one is forcing you to watch the video.

[@loosilu]

Spreading your miserable attitude to more people?

[@dannyboy160]

Thanks Andrew. You got your workout tonight!

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

That was a great work out tonight, Penguin 🐧 6, Thanks for sharing, Friend. 👍😊🇺🇸

[@dannyboy160]

@@heygetoffmylawn1572 AMEN to that! Good recap of my recap lil guy!

[@loosilu]

@@dannyboy160 you are RIGHT, my friend!

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

@@dannyboy160….Yep…it needed much more creative flair than whatever it was you posted, Friend. 🧐

[@dannyboy160]

@@heygetoffmylawn1572 that’s your opinion. You’re free to post you own :).

[@denise3885]

Correct me if I am wrong, but those steps used to be a barrel roll. They would roll down barrels to waiting ships. Not just a prop for a scary movie.

[@loosilu]

Wow, I never heard that. Went to Georgetown for undergrad. Honestly tht would make a ton of sense. It goes surprisingly close to the river. Thank you so much for posting this.

[@loosilu]

The stairs were definitely not made for human legs. They are too tall and the angle is too steep. That's why everyone feels SO uncomfortable on them.

[@denise3885]

It was part of the C&O Canel which was very important in the 1800's. I am hope Andrew will tell more about it. There still is a mule drawn barge on the canal, run by the Park service

[@denise3885]

​@loosilu True. I like a fool when I was in Senior High (Duke Ellington formerly Western HS) ran down those steps. Twice. The momentum is ridiculous. I was late for a bus that would take me to work in Virginia.

[@loosilu]

@@denise3885 I remember Duke Ellington, wonderful place!!!! oh man, I know I blew out both of my knees at some time or other on these steps.

[@rickyb2200]

Thanks Andrew, you got a good workout on those steps.

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

You got that RIGHT, Friend 😊

[@jfranklin9549]

Earlier today I heard a program on public radio talking about those steps and the movie. People talked about the film for years. 😮

[@loosilu]

They still are! I think it's pretty good.

[@kandi7188]

Wait those are in DC? Creepy! 😬

[@loosilu]

Yes! they are in Georgetown, just 2 blocks away from the campus.

[@loosilu]

I don't know if you remember, but the priests in the movie were Jesuit. They were priests from Georgetown university, which is right there.

[@denise3885]

Almost the entire movie takes place in DC

[@loosilu]

@@denise3885 yep! There are some scenes at an archeological dig somewhere in the Holy Land. Trying to remember if there wre other locatoins.

[@denise3885]

I think in a church office somewhere, when they are discussing whom the exorcist will be and a few NY street scene

[@bonniealdi3861]

Ya better step your way up to Jesus folks!!! Be heavenly minded so your no earthly good!🛐🙏👌

[@tmthsth41]

Perfect movie for Halloween

[@rosemarysthyme6087]

I’d like to see the inside of that house!

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

The smell rises in...😮

[@marshaboyd3769]

They have steps like this in Savanah ga on river street

[@annavasquez1394]

BOO IN GEORGE TOWN❤❤❤

[@scottphillips5377]

Good job. What a work out. Snow flurries in Wisconsin. Next steps Rocky.

[@allisonthornhill5632]

On Halloween every year we get to watch scary movies and give out treats to little kids and we also like to watch Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and my personal favorite is the exorcist but those steps where father Karras died on is a legend to die hard fans like Me esp the part of the exerism the head spin still haunts me forever but those steps I would visit is the house better

[@loosilu]

Hi allison! it is not possible to visit the house. The stairs are just stairs! they can be fun to take photographs, but that's it.

[@Wren9]

Too Spooky Penguin!

[@LoremIpsum1970]

I remember seeing the Exorcist as a kid in the UK before it was banned in 86. Still one of my favourite movies.

[@lila6117]

Ohhhhhhh spooky, the people there were interesting (giggle). The lady with the cat ears (her shadow) and no idea why the man with black mask was doing chin ups. Well Done Andrew, thank you.

[@loosilu]

probably trying to impress a girl!

[@sweett2185]

I never found The Exorcist to be that scary. It is what it says, an Exorcism. Climbing up and down those stairs @ nite is a freight. Thanks P6 for the visit. Everyone is getting ready for the haunt tonight. See you tomorrow. 👻Happy Haunting 🎃

[@loosilu]

It didn't used to be lit like that!! it was dark!

[@artvance8251]

Andrew I believe I first watched you live 4 years ago when you did this very thing . A busy night here in Arizona for my family. Hope you and yours are doing well . Thanks again for the memories. PS , I don’t believe you were this out of breath 4 years ago. LOL This comment coming from a 68 year old. Once again Happy Halloween.

[@loosilu]

Sir, I was a Georgetown student in the 80s, and I've walked those stairs many times in my YOUTH. That is a tough staircase!

[@lisam.6152]

Wow! The new camera? Amazing

[@christinesantel4426]

Climbed those stairs back in 1973! Couldn't do it now if my life depended on it. I seem to remember a gas station at the bottom of the stairs back then. Thanks for doing this. (I was in the Navy then.)

[@Penguinsix]

The gas station closed about 15 years ago but they haven’t redeveloped that area yet. Steps get harder for me every year.

[@andrewwilks5155]

Happy Halloween to you to P6!

[@kitkat9572]

Your not at the WH watching Joey pass out candy and coughing in his hand and even on some candy. What mother would take their child there. He was also sniffing the kids 🤢 Sorry Andrew.

[@trapdoorspringfieldmodel1888]

Why do you feel the need to lie? Andrew was indeed at the White House watching President Biden hand out candy, and there are even live-streams of the event in full that you can watch that show your claims to be false. Yet, something tells me that the fact that a court of law has determined that Donald J. Trump is an actual rapist wouldn't bother you in the least for kids to get candy from.

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

You right about that, Friend 😊

[@loosilu]

A mother who wants their child to have a lovely day at the White House. Why are MAGAs always so miserable, trying to make others miserable? Lighten up, it's good for your health. It doesn't matter who is in office. Taking a child to an event at the WH is a special American experience most parents would want for their kids. And we should be teaching our kids to respect the office, not go around constantly making nasty comments.

[@glendakirby5579]

Hello Mr P, NO! NO! anything, but not the Exorcist steps. I have vertigo,and you threw me down those steps last year. We have our own horror show here in the UK. learning what our Government and Boris and his chums thought about the value of the lives of older people during Covid. 'Let them die' was his response. I think thats enough horror for one day, but I think there will be a whole lot more,and it wont just be confined to the elderly, or to Britain.

[@loosilu]

Oh, we had a lot of that attitude, here, unfortunately.

[@FreeRoamBaltimore]

I wish they made that house a museum instead of making it a private residence.

[@Penguinsix]

I think it is owned by the University and some administrators live there.

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

Already complained to the old landlord..the building was sold..Thank God 😇🫡🩵🙏🙏🙏

[@user-jt2qr9vi8n]

Happy Halloween @PenguinSix

Where is the house actually located approximate to the stairs?

From the bottom

[@Penguinsix]

The house is next to the stairs at the top but in the movie they built a facade of the house to make it look right next to the stairs.

@@Penguinsix what was the red wall at the bottom of the stairs & what were those people doing & what were they taking pics of?

[@Penguinsix]

That building was the "Car Barn" which was a street car / trolley shed. It's now the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, but if you look closely at the doors you can still see streetcar tracks embedded in the roadway.

[@sallyphillips9175]

Hope you didn't jinx yourself! I'd be just like that old man if I were to try climbing the stairs. Stairs and I are NOT friends.

[@loosilu]

These ones are definitely bad!

[@ablewindsor1459]

Thanks P6 🐧🥂🥂🥂

[@andrewwilks5155]

The exorcist stairs here would make a good place for anyone living in DC that is health conscience to use for they could run up and down those stairs for a part of their excercise routine. There probably have been health conscience people that live in DC that have done this I am sure.

[@thomasottvideos]

Tonight, it would have been cool to have seen Michael Myers at the top of the stairs with a picket sign that said: "These stairs are UNSAFE and should be torn down." °°

[@heckno146]

surprise they dont rope up those steps, except for maybe Halloween. Or have very large signs posted on each side and both ends, use at your risk. Only one way to use those steps: very carefully.

[@loosilu]

Oh, they're fine. Good solid railings. It would be ridiculous to close them because they are a very important short cut from the campus to the bridge.

[@mamalinhager]

Cool!!!!!!!

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

Talk about weird stuff the old stomping grounds of Steven Tyler House👹the band house👺oprah maxwell and a creepy cast of friends 😂😅😅😅

[@davidmoser3535]

Lee J Cobb says hi

[@joquintero4995]

Good night

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

Not today 🫡

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

They moved out below us...

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

MICHAEL ROWE YOUR BOAT A SHORE ...

[@Wren9]

🇬🇧👀😁

[@vettnetkramer1233]

I don't watch scary movies. Real life has been enough of a fright.

[@denise3885]

True 😮

[@pipersmith9805]

MAYBE BIDEN WILL COME FLYING OUT THE WINDOW !

[@davidmoser3535]

trump doesnt need a broomstick

[@loosilu]

@@davidmoser3535 because clowns don't use them

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

@@loosilu… But YOU do…Here it is 🧹.

[@loosilu]

@@heygetoffmylawn1572 I do not! I use a vaccum. ;)

[@joelfrombethlehem]

Only because he was thrown out by Kim Jong-un.

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

Stench ungodly...

Penguin at 2:00 what were u saying the popular thing to do was what?? Couldn’t hear u good or understand what I said!!!

What you said! Oops

[@loosilu]

It's popular to go out to the stairs and take pictures. I h ave no idea what they are doing at the red wall. That's just the building at the bottom.

@@loosilu thank u Mrs Loosilu! Glad to hear from u!!

[@TeresaSierpina]

No need for gym just walk the steps and you will be fine! 😤

[@annfrost3323]

Anybody claiming to be "scared" by these steps is a fool. The steps were filmed for a movie but nothing happened there. The real story happened to a boy who lived in Maryland in the 1940s. His aunt played the Ouija Board and actually contacted a demonic spirit who took possession of the boy. He was taken to a Catholic Hospital in St. Louis, MO where the excorcisms were done. If people want to be "scared" they should visit the hospital at 3933 So. Broadway in St. Louis. It specializes in oncology and cardiac care as well as maternity. Sorry they'll not find anything there today related to what happened in 1949.

[@loosilu]

They are scary to climb up and down, I think that's what makes them so ominous in the movie.

[@Wren9]

Rest up a bit until you get your puff 💭