4. Mary Todd Lincoln
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After the US Civil War, America’s obsession with the occult exploded. It was no different for Mary Todd Lincoln, the former president’s wife. In fact, she had been delving into spiritualism for quite some time.
Mrs. Lincoln had lived a tragic life. In 1862, she lost her son Willie to typhoid fever, causing her to sink into emotional despondency. She attended a seance to try to contact her lost son, hoping to find closure in the process. She claimed the seance was so successful that she could see the apparition of Willie. “He comes to me every night and stands at the foot of my bed with the same, sweet adorable smile he has always had,” she wrote to her sister Emilie. “He does not always come alone. Little Eddie [her other child who died] is sometimes with him.”
The spirits even offered her advice on who was loyal to her husband in his administration. After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, she increasingly turned to spiritualism for relief. She attended more seances and even posed for spirit photographer William Mumler. She believed in the occult and mediums for the rest of her life.
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