It is not well known that Abraham Lincoln was very interested in parapsychology and seances in his later years.Another person in the white house was fond of seances as well, Eleanor Roosevelt.She has reported to have become friends with Lincoln through her many seances over the years.
Harry truman once wrote about the maids in the White House were very disrupted at seeing what they thought was Lincoln's Ghost.On one occasion Truman was trying to work, but was repeatedly disrupted by a constant knocking at his office door.
He commented to a friend it must have been Lincoln's Ghost walking down the hall.When a reporter asked Roslyn Carter about the Lincoln Ghost, she refused to comment.But, when Jacqueline Kennedy was asked she stated she had felt Lincolns presence many times, and took great comfort in it.
Lincoln's son Willie has also been seen in the Grant and Taft administrations.He died in the White House when Lincoln was president.Many speculate that Lincoln's spirit is in the White House because of the trauma he indured while in office.Others feel Lincoln appears in times of crisis in America.