President Harry Truman once wrote in a letter to
his wife that the White House was “haunted sure
as shootin’.” This country’s most famous
address, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, may also be
its most haunted house.


Plenty of reputable people have reported seeing
the White House’s various ghosts:


[b]Abraham Lincoln[\b]
The most well-known White House ghost is the
shade of Abraham Lincoln, who was
assassinated in 1865. He is usually seen in
what’s now called the Lincoln Bedroom but
which, at the time of his administration, was
actually a meeting room.


The first person to report seeing Lincoln’s ghost
was First Lady Grace Coolidge, who lived in the
White House in the 1920s. She reportedly saw
him standing at a window in the Oval Office,
looking across the Potomac to what had once
been Civil War battlefields.


A well-known Lincoln ghost story was reported
by 20th-century British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, who was a guest at the White House.
After a long bath, and naked except for a cigar,
he walked into the adjoining bedroom — and
there was Lincoln at the fireplace. Churchill said,
“Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have
me at a disadvantage.” He reported that Lincoln
smiled softly and then disappeared. Churchill
refused to sleep in that bedroom after that
encounter.


Another interesting Lincoln sighting was in 1942,
when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
answered a knock at the door of the White
House bedroom where she was staying, saw
Lincoln standing there in a coat and top hat, and
fainted.


Others said to have seen Lincoln within the
White House include Presidents Theodore
Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight
Eisenhower; First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and
Lady Bird Johnson; and presidential children
Susan Ford and Maureen Reagan. Both Maureen
Reagan and her husband saw Lincoln at the
fireplace in the Lincoln Bedroom, like Churchill.
Several of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
administration’s staff members claimed they saw
him, as did FDR’s personal valet, who ran
screaming from the White House.
President Truman’s daughter, Margaret Truman,
said she heard rapping at the door when she
stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom and believed it to
be Lincoln, and President Truman himself was
once awakened by mysterious raps at the door
in that room. Some who’ve stayed in that room
have seen Lincoln sit on the edge of the bed,
putting on his boots — including Eleanor
Roosevelt’s secretary Mary Eben, who ran
screaming from the room.
The most recent Lincoln sighting seems to have
been in the early 1980s, when a White House
operations foreman came into the White House
and saw Lincoln sitting in a chair at the top of a
staircase.


Willie Lincoln
People have also reported seeing Abraham
Lincoln’s 11-year-old son Willie Lincoln, who
died in the White House in 1862 of typhoid fever.
Staff members of the Grant Administration first
saw Willie’s ghost in the 1870s.
He was seen as recently as the 1960s, when
President Lyndon Johnson’s daughter Lynda Bird
Johnson Robb saw Willie’s ghost — he had died
in the room in which she was staying — and she
says she talked with him.


David Burns
David Burns owned land on which some of the
city of Washington D.C., including the White
House, was built, and in 1790 he was forced to
sell it to the government. Various people in the
White House, including one of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s valets and a Truman security guard,
have heard a disembodied voice saying, “I’m Mr.
Burns,” and “I am David Burns.” (George
Washington referred to him as “the obstinate Mr.
Burns,” as a descendant has proudly noted on
Burns’s 1790 census record on Ancestry. )


Abigail Adams
When Abigail Adams and her husband, John (the
second president, 1797-1801), moved to the
newly built White House, Washington D.C. was
just a swampy little town. Abigail used to hang
the wet laundry to dry in the East Room because
it was the warmest and driest part of the White
House.


Her ghost, still clad in a cap and a lace shawl,
has been seen, arms outstretched as though
carrying a laundry basket, heading toward the
East Room.
These are not fly-by-night accounts; it was
President William Taft who first saw the first
lady’s ghost floating through doors on the
second floor, as though taking the laundry to
hang up to dry.


There were quite a few sightings during the Taft
years, but some tourists reportedly saw her as
recently as 2002. (Lincoln has also been seen in
the East Room; it’s where his body lay in state
after he was assassinated.)


Dolley Madison
First Lady Dolley Madison planted the famous
White House rose garden in the early 1800s, and
then 100 years later, First Lady Ellen Wilson
requested the garden be dug up. But garden
workers reported that Dolley Madison’s ghost
appeared and refused to let them tear up her
garden. Since then, an unexplained smell of
roses is sometimes experienced inside the White
House and it’s attributed to the ghost of Dolley.


Andrew Jackson
The Rose Bedroom was President Andrew
Jackson’s bedroom, and many White House
employees claim to have seen or heard the
former president in this room; they say he is
either laughing heartily or swearing heavily. First
Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is among those who
heard him cursing in the room.


Random Sightings
The North Portico entrance of the White House is
noted for its ghosts, including a British solder
wielding a torch who is often seen just outside
its door. People also sometimes report seeing
dead White House doormen still on duty.
One of the eeriest ghosts is that of Anna Surratt,
whose mother, Mary, was hanged in 1865 for her
part in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Anne’s ghost has been seen pounding on the
door of the White House, begging for her
mother’s release, and it’s said that every July 7,
Anne’s ghost sits on the White House’s front
steps. That’s the anniversary of her mother’s
execution. https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/ghosts-of-presidents-past-who-haunts-the-white-house/
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