Abraham Lincoln's personality . to greatness. — - Lincoln and the Paranormal; Investigative Files (Skeptical Inquirer May 1999) Page 1 of 7 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal Home » Contact CSICOP » Search: |CSICOP On-line _J Go | You can help by making atax-deductible donation! Skeptical Inquirer Subscribe to the magazine for science andreason - for the Internetprice of $ Index of Articles List of Online Articles Skeptical Briefs Join CSICOP as an associate member toreceive the newsletter CSICOP About CSICOPEvents Join the Mailing ListGiftshop Special
Abraham Lincoln's personality . to greatness. — - Lincoln and the Paranormal; Investigative Files (Skeptical Inquirer May 1999) Page 1 of 7 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal Home » Contact CSICOP » Search: |CSICOP On-line _J Go | You can help by making atax-deductible donation! Skeptical Inquirer Subscribe to the magazine for science andreason - for the Internetprice of $ Index of Articles List of Online Articles Skeptical Briefs Join CSICOP as an associate member toreceive the newsletter CSICOP About CSICOPEvents Join the Mailing ListGiftshop Special Features Chain Letters AnonymousCouncil for Media IntegrityIntelligent Design WatchInquiring MindsKlass Files Skeptics ToolboxSkeptiseumSuperstition Bash Web Columns Special ArticlesDoubt and About Resources 4 Home : Skeptical Inquirer magazine : May/June 1999 : Buy thisback issue Pensar MagazineSKEPTIC Bibliography Generation sXepticScience and the Media Center for Inquiry Center for InquiryCFI LibrariesEmployment Listings. Investigative Files Paranormal Lincoln Joe Nickell His guiding of the United States through itsgreatest crisis and his subsequent martyrdom have caused theshadow of the tall, sixteenth president to loom still larger. Calledthe most mythic of all American presidents (Cohen 1989, 7),Abraham Lincoln has long been credited by paranormalists withsupernatural powers. These include an early mirror-vision,prophetic dreams, and spiritualistic phenomena. His ghost, somesay, even haunts the White In the Looking Glass Many people have portrayed Lincoln as a man given to belief inomens-particularly those relating to his assassination. An incidentoften cited in this regard occurred at his home in Springfield,Illinois. Lincoln related it to a few friends and associates, includingNoah Brooks in 1864. Brooks shared it with the readers of HarpersNew Monthly Magazine the following July-three months afterLincolns death-recounting the presidents story as nearly aspo
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