Lincoln's ghost

[citation needed] First Lady Grace Coolidge, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and President Theodore Roosevelt are among those claimed to have stated they saw Lincoln's ghost in the White House.

[2] Perhaps the most famous incident was in 1942 when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands allegedly heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in frock coat and top hat standing in front of her (she promptly fainted).

[3] British Prime Minister Winston Churchill loved to retire late, take a long, hot bath while drinking a Scotch, and smoke a cigar and relax.

[7] On one occasion Roosevelt's personal valet ran screaming from the White House claiming he had seen Lincoln's ghost.

[2] Lillian Rogers Parks stated in her 1961 autobiography My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House that she had heard them.

[2] The most famous eyewitness to the latter was Mary Eben, Eleanor Roosevelt's secretary, who saw Lincoln pulling on his boots (after which she ran screaming from the room).

The ghost of Abraham Lincoln is said to haunt the White House .
Willie Lincoln died in the White House during his father's presidency.