The President laughed and said, 'I might as well tell you the rest. A member of our family [he meant his daughter Maureen] and her husband always stay in the Lincoln Bedroom when they visit the White House. Some time ago the husband woke up and saw a transparent figure standing at the bedroom window looking out. Then it turned and disappeared. His wife teased him mercilessly about it for a month. Then, when they were here recently, she woke up one morning and saw the same figure standing at the window looking out. She could see the trees right through it. Again it turned and disappeared.'
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Writer Joan Gage attended a dinner at the White House in 1986, at which President Reagan told his guests about his belief that the White House was haunted.
Gage later wrote an account of the dinner for Ladies Home Journal, which is excerpted here.