Ford's Theatre ghost and haunting anecdotes

Ford's Theatre, the site of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, has been the subject of numerous ghost stories and anecdotal reports of unexplained sounds and sightings by visitors and staff. The theatre and the adjacent Petersen House are commonly included in local ghost-tour routes and popular storytelling about Washington's Civil War-era history. Such reports form part of the site's folklore and are treated as anecdotal, while the assassination and the theatre's historical role are thoroughly documented.