by Lisa Steinmetz

Created on: January 05, 2010   Last Updated: January 06, 2010

There are many stories about Abe Lincoln's spirit around Washington DC. Abraham Lincoln and his wife were not strangers to the Paranormal and the other side of the veil. They held numerous seances in the White House and were frequent visitors to seances held at friend's homes.

 It is said that he dreamed of his own death one night as he lay sleeping in the White House. After that dream President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head and killed while at the theatre with his wife and friends.

I found this on a website "Many are familiar with a tale told about a séance held by Nettie Maynard in 1863 where a grand piano levitated. The medium was playing the instrument when it began to rise off the floor. Lincoln and Colonel Simon Kase were both present and it is said that both men climbed onto the piano, only to have it jump and shake so hard that they climbed down. It is recorded that Lincoln would later refer to the levitation as proof of an "invisible power."  [http://dcpages.com/Events/Holidays/Halloween/Abraham _Lincoln.shtml]

From what I researched, some believe he comes around when something bad happens or is going to happen. After Lincoln's death Mary Todd took refuge in spiritualism and attempted to contact her husband through various psychics and seances. She even went so far as to take on a new name so people wouldn't know it was her. She went to a photographer who took her picture and there standing behind her was her husband.

Many have claimed to see the Lincoln ghost through out the years in the White House. There is a long list of people both visitors to the White House and Presidents. Harry Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge's wife, Franklin D and Elenore Roosevelt, Queen Wilhelmina, Winston Churchill, Maureen Reagan and her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson. While some have seen him Ulysses S. Grant, Senator Joe McCarthy, John F. Kennedy are said to have felt Lincoln's presense in the room with them.

Not only has his spirit been seen at the White House, but it has also been seen at the Ford theatre with the ghost of the man who had shot him, John Wilkes Booth, on that fateful night. It is also believed that Lincoln also makes himself seen at the cemetery where he is buried.

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