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The White House is one of the most famous houses in the world, where American presidents lived throughout their tenure, and its walls witnessed many different historical events and political decisions, but besides that, the famous house contains many terrifying stories and tales about the presence of ghosts for those who inhabited it before. The stories we review in this report, according to the website “insider“.
The Ghost of First Lady Abigail Adams
White House staff have reported seeing the ghost of First Lady Abigail Adams hanging laundry to dry in the East Room, and staff have also reported smelling wet clothes and lavender laundry soap as well as seeing ghosts, according to the White House Historical Society.
First Lady Abigail Adams
President Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln became known as the “Ghost of the White House”, with First Ladies Grace Coolidge, Lady Bird Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands all saying they had encountered or felt the ghost of Abraham Lincoln in the White House.
The first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, stated that she felt the presence of Lincoln while working in her office, which was located in Lincoln’s bedroom, where she felt that he was standing behind her, and there is another fact that the servant of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was running once screaming from the White House after he saw a ghost Lincoln, as written by Dennis William Hooke in Haunted Places: A National Guide.
President Abraham Lincoln
President Andrew Jackson
Sitting in the Red Room of the White House, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is said to have sensed the ghost of President Andrew Jackson, and Lincoln reported hearing Jackson swear and walk into the Executive Residence.
First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln
Willie Abraham Lincoln
Willie Abraham Lincoln died at age 12 of typhoid fever in 1862, and in the 1870s President Ulysses Grant’s staff said they saw the ghost of a child in the White House.
Willie Abraham Lincoln
President Andrew Jackson
The ghost of President Andrew Jackson is said to haunt the rose room where he slept, and the ghost of Jackson was reportedly seen lying on his old bed laughing.
President Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
The ghost of William Henry Harrison, considered the first president to have died in the White House, is said to haunt the third floor.
William Henry Harrison
Harrison was president for only 31 days before his death in 1841, and his ghost is said to move around the top floor of the White House.
