Lincoln and Spirutalism

[Eva Elisabeth]

(05-25-2015 03:42 PM)loetar44 Wrote:  But Michelle L. Hamilton wrote in her thesis for MA in History on November 14, 2013 the following: “In February 1863 a group of individuals gathered at a residence in Georgetown a suburb of Washington, D.C. These people had gathered to take part in a spiritualist séance. The spirits were ready for the party and demonstrated their power by causing a piano to levitate. Amused by the incident, one of the guests’s decided to climb up on the piano to see if he could prevent it from levitating. This did not dissuade the spirits and the piano continued to rise up and down as the piano was being played. While the scene might have the aura of fantasy, the séance did occur and the person that decided to sit on the piano was none other than President Abraham Lincoln. Brought to the séance by his wife Mary, the President was intrigued by the events that he saw that night, BUT IT WAS NOT HIS FIRST SÉANCE AND IT WOULD NOT BE HIS LAST.

The source for these claims is medium Nettie Colburn (also one of the links on my first link), who later wrote this book:
https://archive.org/details/wasabraham00mayn
This "review" might interest you:
http://seekeronline.info/journals/y2007/jan07part2.htm

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As for "Lord" Colchester, A. Lincoln asked Dr. Henry of the Smithsonian to investigate him, before Brooks exposed him.