Which U.S. President allegedly haunted the White House after his death and was seen as a ghost?

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1965) was the 16th U.S. President. He led the nation through the American Civil War (1861-1865) and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government and modernizing the U.S. economy. He has long been the subject of ghost sightings after his assassination, and was said to haunt the White House, the official residency of the U.S. President and his family.

From 1923 until 1929, Grace Coolidge (1879-1957) was the First Lady, wife of the 30th U.S. President, Calvin Coolidge. She was the first to claim to see Lincoln looking sadly at the Potomac River from the Oval Office.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), the American poet claimed to have “sensed” Lincoln do the same as well.

Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962) of the Netherlands is perhaps the most famous incident recorded. While staying overnight as a guest in 1942, she allegedly heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in a frock coat and top hat standing in front of her- she promptly fainted.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) never saw Lincoln’s ghost but did say that she felt his presence repeatedly throughout the White House.

The last sighting of Lincoln’s ghost was in the early 1980s, when Tony Savoy, White House operations foreman, came into the White House and saw Lincoln sitting in a chair at the top of the stairs.