It's a big, fancy, very old house. Of course people say it's haunted!
According to lore, the daughter of Mary Surratt can be heard frantically knocking on the front door of the White House, pleading for President Andrew Johnson to spare her mother’s life before she was executed for conspiring to kill Lincoln. After her mother’s conviction, Anna Surratt did petition for her mother’s life. She traveled to the White House to meet with President Johnson but was denied entrance. To no avail, a fellow condemned conspirator attested to her innocence before the execution.
However, the most common setting for ghost stories is houses. In particular, Americans have an intimate connection to the places where they live, making ghost stories situated in homes prevalent within our literary and oral tradition of storytelling. Houses are often active participants in the detailed plot of a ghost story.
“Is the White House Haunted by Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost?” Snopes.Com, https://www.snopes.com/articles/378130/white-house-abraham-lincoln-ghost/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2022. “Maybe Lincoln’s Ghost”: Jen Psaki Interrupted by Odd Noise during White House Press Briefing. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgR4PiUimxE. Accessed 25 Oct. 2022.
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