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The White House
The tall stature of a man stands before an oval window, staring longingly towards Virginia. The deep
furrals of his brow show his concern for the actions within his nation. The
observation sounds quite normal, until it is realized the man seen is transparent.
The transparent figure, in an aura of deep pink or red, sends a servant running. Cold chills overtaking them, with fear
overpowering the ability of clear thinking. Soon the servant becomes accustomed to the tall, transparent man and even listens for his footsteps coming down the hall to bedroom that was once his.
This a common place activity, as well as common knowledge of the most famed house in the United States; the White House. The figure, of course, is none other than Abe Lincoln, 16th President of the U.S.
Such notables as Winston Churchill, Queen Wilhelmia of the Netherlands, Eleanor Roosevelt and many others have experienced the ghostly figure of Mr. Lincoln. As of late, in 1987, Maureen Reagan, daughter of former President Reagan, and her husband saw Mr. Lincoln when they stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom (the only bedroom in the White House dedicated to a a single President). When Maureen and her husband,
Revell, experienced the apparition the Wall Street Journal ran a story on the front page about
it.
Mr. Lincoln, always a gentleman, maintains the same standards in death as in life it appears. When Queen Wilhelmina stayed in the Lincoln bedroom, she heard a knock on the door, by the time she answered she saw the lean, transparent figure of Mr. Lincoln walking away from the room down the hall.
Not so with Mr. Churchill however, there was no knocking, just the door swinging open and Mr. Lincoln entering the room. A lady does, after all, require the respect of privacy from a gentleman.
Outside the oval office of the President, carefully cared for, is the Rose Garden. The garden was placed there originally by Dolley Madison, wife of President Madison. It is said that Dolley first became an active
ghost,
rather than passive, when Mrs. Woodrow Wilson began the project to dig up the roses and replace them with some other flowers considered
more
fashionable. Looks like Dolley won out in the end, since the Rose Garden has remained fully intact.
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Abigail Adams has also been seen roaming the White House. Passing through doors on her way to hang laundry. But Mr. Lincoln seems to be the most active, especially during a national crisis. Harry Truman
reportedly experienced the ghost of Lincoln, as did John Kennedy. Perhaps Mr. Lincoln's intent was to offer counseling to the two men during
critical decision making periods.
Or perhaps Mr. Lincoln roams the halls looking for his son Willie. Returning to the bed in the Lincoln bedroom, where the child died. Mr. Lincoln, after
Willie's death, fought acute depression bouts. Mrs. Lincoln did not handle
Willie's death quite as well as her husband. She screamed for hours
after the child died, then withdrew into seclusion for weeks. She never, it is
reported, got over Willie's death or Abe's, which happened two years later.
She died with sorrow still burning deeply within her in an insane asylum.
While in the White House, the Lincoln's frequently held séances in an attempt to contact their son. Mr. Lincoln's own psychic ability is well His dreams, his premonitions, his predictions helped him through the
loss of two sons, a Civil War and much unrest in a nation he loved.
Perhaps he still feels the unrest and travels the halls of the White House
hoping to be of assistance.
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