Though many ghost sightings have been reported at the White House in Washington, D.C.,
over the years, perhaps no political figure has made so frequent an appearance in the
afterlife as Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, who was killed by an assassin’s
bullet in April 1865. Lincoln, formerly a lawyer and congresseman from Illinois, is said to
have been seen wandering near the old Springfield capitol building, as well as his nearby law
offices. At the White House, everyone from first ladies to queens to prime ministers have
reported seeing the ghost or feeling the presence of Honest Abe–particularly during the
administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, another president who guided the country through
a time of great upheaval and war.