IT IS WIDELY KNOWN PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN DREAMED OF HIS ASSASINATION WEEKS BEFORE IT HAPPENED.
Does his ghost continue to haunt the White House? Reminds me of the hit movies 'National Treasure' and 'Natural Treasure 2'!
Abraham Lincoln, who is said to haunt the White
House
There have been several stories about ghosts of former Presidents revisiting the White
House. However, the most common and popular is that of Abraham
Lincoln. Lincoln's Ghost, or to others as The White House Ghost,
is said to have haunted the White House since his death. It is widely
believed that when he was president, Lincoln might have known of his
assassination before he died.[1]The dreamLincoln had a dream in April 1865, the month that he was assassinated. As he recounted to friends the day he died:"About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. I saw light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.' Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which woke me from my dream. I slept no more that night; and although it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever since." Lincoln Bedroom
The Lincoln Bedroom in 2007,
looking southeast (Newsweek
- Gary Fabiano)
More Images
The Lincoln Bedroom in 2009, from
inside the closet (Christopher Morris)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 2007,
looking southwest (Newsweek
- Gary Fabiano)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 2007,
looking northwest (Newsweek
- Gary Fabiano)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 2007 (Joshua
Feltman)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 2007 (Joshua
Feltman)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 2005 (White House Historical Association)
The Lincoln Bedroom, circa 2001 (White House)
The Lincoln Bedroom, circa 1999 (White House Historical Association)
The Lincoln Bedroom, circa 1999 (White House Historical Association)
The Lincoln Bedroom, circa 1996 (Howard Tullman)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1992 (HABS)
Another view of the Lincoln Bedroom
in 1992 (HABS)
The Lincoln Bedroom's closet, 1992 (HABS)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1963, after
renovation (Kennedy Library)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1960 (Kennedy Library)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1952, after
the Truman
reconstruction, looking southeast (Truman
Library)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1952, after
the Truman reconstruction, looking southeast (Truman
Library)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1952, after
the Truman reconstruction, looking southwest (Truman
Library)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1947, before
the Truman reconstruction (Truman Library)
The Lincoln Bedroom in 1947, before
the Truman reconstruction (Truman
Library)
The room as a study around 1930;
note the Washington Monument through the window (NARA)
Hoover with French Premier Pierre
Laval in the Lincoln Study in 1931 (Time
| Erich Salomon)
The room as a study around 1930,
looking northeast (NARA)
The room as a study around 1930,
looking west (NARA)
The room as the president's study
in 1930, after the Hoover refurbishing (White
House Historical Association - Hoover Library)
The Jackson bed (now in the Queens'
Bedroom) in the room when it was first turned into a bedroom by the first
Roosevelts, circa 1904
The room as the president's study
just before being turned into a bedroom by the first Roosevelts, circa 1903
McKinley's office, around 1900
Secretary of State John Hay with
Spanish diplomats at the Resolute desk
in President McKinley's office in 1899 (Library of Congress - Frances Benjamin Johnston)
President McKinley's office, circa
1898 (Library of Congress)
President McKinley at the Resolute
desk, around 1897 (The Presidents)
The Lincoln Bedroom as Grover
Cleveland's office, around 1896 (The
Presidents)
The room, around 1893 (Corbis)
The room as Harrison's office,
after electrifications (with bare fixture hanging over the desk), around 1892
(The Presidents)
The Lincoln Bedroom as Benjamin
Harrison's office in 1889 (White
House Historical Association [Library of Congress])
Newspaper etching of Andrew Johnson
being served his impeachment summons in his office in 1868 (New York Public Library)
Etching of the room after being
redecorated by Mrs. Patterson during the Johnson administration, circa 1867
Abraham Lincoln in his office in
1864
Abraham Lincoln in his office,
circa 1863
Etching of the Lincoln Bedroom as
the Lincoln "Council Room," circa 1862 (Library of Congress)
An etching of the first reading of
the Emancipation Proclamation with the Cabinet in 1862 (Library
of Congress)
An etching of the room as
president's office around 1856
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