Very rarely are there reports from famous or powerful people dealing with paranormal situations. This isn't to say that the paranormal doesn't happen to them as it does to many other people who aren't famous or powerful, but it wouldn't behoove them to say so for fear of reputation, and in the case of someone like a president, loss of trust from the people they serve.
There is one president where the paranormal surrounds them in the form of dreams that are possibly glimpses into what will happen to them. This president had a serious of odd events and premonitions that culminated in his death. I am referring to our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
There is one president where the paranormal surrounds them in the form of dreams that are possibly glimpses into what will happen to them. This president had a serious of odd events and premonitions that culminated in his death. I am referring to our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln is by far one of the most prolific presidents in the history of America. He was responsible for getting the country through the Civil War and abolishing slavery. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
He was self-educated and eventually became a lawyer and entered into politics and was elected into the House of Representatives in 1846. He did not run for a second term in the House and was also unpopular with his Illinois voters for his opposition to the Mexican-American War. He then resumed a highly successful law practice.
He reentered politics in 1854 and became a leader in building the Republican party. In 1860, Lincoln was able to achieve the Republican party nomination for President of the United States and was elected later that year igniting opposition so strong that seven states succeeded from the nation to become the Confederate States of America.
He was self-educated and eventually became a lawyer and entered into politics and was elected into the House of Representatives in 1846. He did not run for a second term in the House and was also unpopular with his Illinois voters for his opposition to the Mexican-American War. He then resumed a highly successful law practice.
He reentered politics in 1854 and became a leader in building the Republican party. In 1860, Lincoln was able to achieve the Republican party nomination for President of the United States and was elected later that year igniting opposition so strong that seven states succeeded from the nation to become the Confederate States of America.
On April 12, 1861 there was a Confederate attack on Fort Sumter which prompted the North to rally behind the Union. At this time, Lincoln was fighting a two front war off the battlefield by facing down radical Republicans (War Democrats) that wanted harsher punishment for the Confederate States, and anti-war Democrats (Copperheads) who despised him, the states that succeeded, and they plotted to assassinate him.
He fought back utilizing his law background to orate to the American people, culminating in his most famous speech, The Gettysburg Address which was an endorsement of the principles of nationalism, being a republican, equal rights, liberty and democracy.
He fought back utilizing his law background to orate to the American people, culminating in his most famous speech, The Gettysburg Address which was an endorsement of the principles of nationalism, being a republican, equal rights, liberty and democracy.
In 1864, Lincoln ran his own re-election campaign in which he pushed through his vision of reconstruction in America. On April 14, 1865, five days after the Confederate surrender by General Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in the Ford Theatre. John Wilkes Booth was discovered to have been a Confederate sympathizer.
Here is where the creepiness begins. Abraham Lincoln had a premonition in the form of a dream and he related this to his close friend, Ward Hill Lamon. Here is the excerpt from what was written:
About ten days ago, I retired very late. 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 met me as I passed alone. I was puzzled and alarmed. Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room. 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 or people, some 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."
No living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds met me as I passed alone. I was puzzled and alarmed. Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room. 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 or people, some 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."
Lincoln had another premonition after his election in 1860 and in it he describes that he had woken up from a deep sleep on the sofa after a long day and he looked into the mirror in which he saw a double image of himself. This is what he said:
Looking in that glass, I saw myself reflected, nearly at full length; but my face, I noticed, had two separate and distinct images, the tip of the nose of one being about three inches from the tip of the other. I was a little bothered, perhaps startled, and got up and looked in the glass, but the illusion vanished.
On lying down again, I saw it a second time -- plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler, say five shades, than the other. I got up and the thing melted away, and I went off and, in the excitement of the hour, forgot all about it -- nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come up, and give me a little pang, as though something uncomfortable had happened.
After telling his wife, Lincoln said his wife was wary of the premonition and he recounted what he said:
"She thought it was 'a sign,' that I was to be elected to a second term of office, and that the paleness of one of the faces was an omen that I should not see life through the last term."
The creepiness doesn't end there. I know, exciting huh?! After Lincoln's death, there have been many reported sightings of his ghost in and around the White House, especially in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, but not many since the Truman administration.
His spirit is said to have also been roaming around his grave in Springfield, Illinois. There have also been reports of seeing the ghostly image of Lincoln's funeral train to Springfield in two forms. One is that of a train with drawn black curtains and the other is that of no drawn curtains and a casket of Lincoln.
His spirit is said to have also been roaming around his grave in Springfield, Illinois. There have also been reports of seeing the ghostly image of Lincoln's funeral train to Springfield in two forms. One is that of a train with drawn black curtains and the other is that of no drawn curtains and a casket of Lincoln.
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