science fact or science fiction ESP DOES A SIXTH SENSE EXIST MEGAN BORGERT-SPANIOL
1 a dream of doom In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was said to have had an upsetting dream In it Lincoln was walking through the White House Everything was quiet and still Then Lincoln found a mournful scene A crowd had gathered around a corpse laid out in the room Soldiers stood guard around the body Members of the crowd wept Lincoln turned to one of the guards Who is dead in the White House he asked And the guard responded The president He was killed by an assassin Lincoln heard a cry of grief from the crowd Then he woke from his dream Lincoln couldn’t sleep the rest of the night The dream continued to haunt him over the following days Lincoln described the dream to his wife and friends He told them how it had bothered him About ten days after having the dream Lincoln was shot and killed by an assassin 4
interested in paranormal topics These included psychics Abraham Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd Lincoln was precognition and communicating with the dead Did Lincoln predict his own death The timing of his dream could be coincidence But many people believe it was more than that Lincoln’s dream is one of countless cases that suggest the humans might have extrasensory perception 5
