Abe Lincoln's Ghost - Some Spooky Stories for Halloween
Reports of ghosts at the White House are legion. “The damned place is haunted sure as shootin’,” a freaked-out President Harry Truman wrote to his wife in 1946. Even former First Lady, Hillary Clinton, sometimes got the creeps: “There is something about the house at night that you just feel like you are summoning up the spirits of all the people who have lived there and worked there and walked through the halls there,” she told Rosie O’Donnell in 1996. But the phantom most often encountered haunting the corridors and rooms of the White House - according to various presidents and first ladies, guests, and members of the White House staff over the years - is Abe Lincoln. The Lincoln Bedroom and the Yellow Oval Room - both spaces historically associated with the 16th President - are the rooms where most of the encounters occur. The legend of Honest Ol' Abe’s ghost may have originated with longtime White House footman and storyteller, Jeremiah “Jerry” Smith in the late 19th century,
