Ghosts and Poltergeists If you were to go onto the internet and type in the word paranormal, what would come up? Lots of fake stories, without and legitimacy. But you might just find a story that is true, like the one about the spirit in the White House in Washington D.C. It has been scientifically proven that there is indeed ghosts in existence on this earth. The story of the ghost in the White House, is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. It has been said that Abe paces the floor of his bedroom on the second floor, they say, on the night before any threaten great calamity to the United States