John Wilkes Booth. Other Lincoln hauntings included his grave in Springfield, Illinois, a portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln and a phantom train on nights in April along the same path his funeral train followed from Washington, D.C. to Springfield. The last reported 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 some stairs. Abraham Lincoln is not the only Lincoln ghost witnesses claim to have seen in the White House. Willie Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's 11-year-old son, died in the White House of typhoid on February 20, 1862. Willie Lincoln's ghost was first reported to have been seen in the White House by staff members of the Grant administration in the 1870s, but reports have been made as recently as the 1960s. President Lyndon B. Johnson's college-age daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, claims to have seen the ghost and talked to him. See also Reportedly haunted locations in Washington, D.C. References External links Presidents and the Paranormal by Stephen Wagner on About.com The Paranormal Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Christopher Kiernan Coleman (Schiffer Publishing, 2012) A History & Ghosts by a Canadian Paranormal Enthusiast Abraham Lincoln White House American ghosts Assassination of Abraham Lincoln American folklore