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What were the chilling revelations of the seances conducted by Mary Todd Lincoln, Martha Washington, and Eleanor Roosevelt? What secrets did John F. Kennedy reveal after his death? Why was Hillary Clinton compelled to channel the spirits of past First Ladies? Which presidents admitted in private to having UFO encounters? What's the source of the strange light emanating from the Rose Room? Who-or-what is playing the haunted strains of phantom music in the private halls of the White House?

The answers to these and even more tantalizing questions can be found in this unique history of the never-before-revealed phenomenon of the White House. And this isn't hearsay -- it's based on declassified, substantiated records dating back to George Washington through the Clinton Administration.

Featuring: Actual transcripts of channeling sessions and seances; a tour guide to the Presidential Haunted Places; eyewitness accounts from Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others!

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Haunted White House

Chapter 2

The Skeptics and Believers

Chapter 3

George Washington at Valley Forge and Gettysburg

Chapter 4

Presidential Prophecies, Predictions, and Curses

Chapter 5

FDR, Jeane Dixon, and the Kennedy Curse

Chapter 6

Ghosts of Presidents Past

Chapter 7

Abraham Lincoln: The Most Psychic President

Chapter 8

The President and the Seance Table

Chapter 9

The Ghosts and the First Ladies

Chapter 10

Recent Hauntings

Chapter 11

The Reagans

Chapter 12

The Clintons

Chapter 13

The Haunted Capital

Chapter 14

The Channeling of the Presidents

Introduction

To the Special Electronic Edition

 It was no secret in the Reagan White House that President Reagan's comings and goings were many times scheduled for very odd, but precise moments. Air Force One would sometimes leave for an event at 2:01 AM on the dot or would be scheduled to arrive at a foreign country at a similarly odd time. No one knew why, except to say that President Reagan wanted that way and no one was going to say no. It was certainly a mystery until former Chief of Staff Donald Regan revealed the secret. In his book on his days in the Reagan White House, Regan told the story about the time Vice President George H. W. Bush, seemingly as perplexed as anyone over the strange hours the president kept, asked him the reasons for the strange schedules and the arbitrary schedule changes. Don Regan explained that the changes were based on the president's astrological charts as divined by Joan Quigley, Nancy Reagan's "friend" from San Francisco. It was White House aide Mike Deaver's job to integrate Quigley's schedules with the president's. Reportedly, Vice President Bush exclaimed, "Good God. I had no idea."

What a paradox this was. President Ronald Reagan was the champion of America's fundamentalists, the standard-bearer of the radical right, who swept into office on a platform of moral values, family values, conservative ideology, and budgetary restraint. And yet, the great events of his presidency -- later admitted to by both Joan Quigley and Nancy Reagan in their books -- were largely dictated by the movements of the planets and the stars. Was this a paradox because somehow this smacked of the Anti-Christ, incipient Satanism, pagan influences inside the family quarters of the most powerful residence on the face of the planet? Not at all. It was a paradox, but not a unique paradox because American presidents from the George Washington through the Clintons and possibly even George W. Bush, we may someday learn, have relied on aspects of mysticism and the paranormal for spiritual guidance.

In fact, America itself has led a dualistic existence from the founding settlers, who burned those accused as witches in Salem, to New York Senator Hillary Clinton's channeling of Eleanor Roosevelt during Hillary's years as first lady. And former President Bill Clinton recently revealed that during his open heart bypass surgery, he experienced what can only be called an out-of-body event when he said he was able to perceive the operating room and the goings on around him while he floated above his body. President Clinton was not at all unique in this. President Lincoln had dreams that foretold his impending assassination at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. President Washington reportedly saw an angelic vision at Valley Forge that kept up his spirits during the terrible winter when the British occupied Philadelphia. President Franklin Pierce regularly held seances in the White House. And President Truman claimed that it was the ghost of President Lincoln who pointed him toward a structural defect in the White House foundation that could have brought the whole place down around his ears had he not ordered it immediately fixed.

When you add all of this up, you come to the unmistakable conclusion that the White House is America's haunted house and that the American presidency has been haunted, in one way or another, from the days of the Washington to the present.

No one has ever told the history of the American presidency through the lens of the paranormal, a ghostly history of the White House and the men and women who occupied it. This, then, is that history. And for those readers who enjoy ghost stories, get ready for a side of American history you've never before experienced.

Joel Martin and William Birnes

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