Talk:Lincoln's ghost

Kennedy also?
I'm sure I've heard the stopry about Lincoln's dream/premonition being told about Kennedy. It may be a recurring motif in these stories. Mon Vier 14:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarized!
From http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa022100a.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.21.123.155 (talk) 23:01, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * No, at least not the current version of this article, which is quite different from that link. —Lowellian (reply) 17:48, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Relevant information on the Lincoln White House
Does anyone else feel like this whole section was made up? Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 20:31, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

This is disgracefully bad article, with words misused, and painfully inelegant grammar. Why hasn't it been re-written? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.34.48.204 (talk) 06:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree, it should be deleted because I have seen many errors.


 * 1.Lincoln did have a dream about his murder, yes, but not on the morning of April 14.
 * Lincoln had the dream three days prior to his assassination.


 * 2.What is written is not what Lincoln said at all!
 * He actually said this.


 * "About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. 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 of distress met me as I passed along. I saw light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. 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 of people, 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.' Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which woke me from my dream. I slept no more that night; and although it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever since."
 * SOURCE: p. 116-117 of Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 by Ward Hill Lamon (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1994).


 * 3. Why has this not been rewritten, why is the dream the only thing on here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.15.156.12 (talk) (talk • contribs) 16 August 2012 18:37 (UTC)

Something must be wrong here. You claim that Lincoln had this dream just "three days prior to his assassination". However, in the above quote Lincoln writes himself that he had this dream "about ten days ago". So this would mean that he wrote this about seven days after his death?

There is much in this article that does not really seem to be possible, but this will hardly be believed by anyone! Paul K. (talk) 14:45, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Fixed Sources
I've fixed the sources in Reported Apparitions of Lincoln's Ghost, a section that appears to be a word-for-word copy of the Lincoln section of Reportedly haunted locations in Washington, D.C.. I would agree with those above who state that this article is pretty poor all around, and should probably be deleted, with the dream section added to the Lincoln section of the other page. Thefoolofemmaus (talk) 17:23, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Lincoln's Ghost
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Lincoln's Ghost's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "PBS": From Annie Oakley:  From Buffalo Bill:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Churchill story
It purportedly comes from this book: Garber, Marjorie B. Profiling Shakespeare. Florence, Ky.: Routledge, 2008. Shakespeare, Churchill, and Lincoln's ghost, eh?

Routledge is out of Britain and New York.

There is apparently a publishing company in Florence, Kentucky called "Cengage".

99.238.74.216 (talk) 04:44, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

True enough about Churchill. However, Churchill was not quoted as having told a fantastic story about the incident with Lincoln's ghost. The book Profiling Shakespeare only states: "Winston Churchill is said to have encountered the Great Emancipator's ghost." p.176 M^A^L (talk) 01:12, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

References not found
The book Historic Haunted America does not mention James Hagerty [ref 11(a)], Margaret Truman [Ref 11(b)], either Willie Lincoln or Lynda Bird Johnson Robb. See Ref. 11(d). In fact, it doesn't mention Lincoln's ghost at all. M^A^L (talk) 01:08, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

See http://www.ourwhitehouse.org/spooky_stories.html for the source of many of the stories related in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by M^A^L (talk • contribs) 01:16, 30 April 2015 (UTC)