Cranston Laurie
Trance Medium
Spirit nominates Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States!
There was a family living in Washington, born and brought up there, by the name of Laurie, consisting of two sons and older grown-up daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Laurie claimed to be inspirational trance mediums. The daughter, a physical medium, whose particular power consisted in causing the piano to jump and dance and to keep time to the music, a performance which I can myself vouch for, and with any number of persons seated upon the instrument at the time….
Mr. Lincoln was well known to the Lauries, as was almost every other government official who was in any way approachable, who had been in Washington for the past thirty years, where they were ever ready for any political intrigue in which they might be called upon to take part. …
… it was at the Laurie house where the incident occurred that nominated Abraham Lincoln. At a spiritual seance, the party workers, spiritualists and abolitionists, were met and Mr. Laurie purported to be entrancedand controlled by the spirit of Robert Rantoul of Boston, [where] …  Abraham Lincoln was announced … to be the next President of the United States. At that time, Horace Greeley was much interested in the spiritualistic theory and I was told had the Fox sisters at his house investigating the subject.
After the spiritualistic performance [séance] at the Laurie's, Mr. Greeley was immediately informed of the result, when he became interested and went to Illinois to see Lincoln, where the arrangements were made, and Horace Greeley was the man who had Abraham Lincoln nominated as the dark horse of the Convention of 1860.[1]
Horace Greeley, the famed crusading New York newspaper publisher, was a strong advocate of abolitionism and threw his weight behind Lincoln for president; Greeley was an active enthusiast of Spiritualism.[2]
… Spiritualism was one of the chief factors in the management of our national affairs during the reign of Abraham Lincoln. I now assert that … spiritualism was the chief factor in the nomination and election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States,[3]
Jeane Dixon
Psychic to the Presidents
Jeane Dixon (1904 – 1997) was one of the best-known American psychics and astrologers of the 20th century. While she worked for several decades, her prediction about the assassination of President Kennedy put her in the national spotlight.
Dixon predicted the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the May 13, 1956, issue of Parade Magazine. In his book Signs and Wonders, Norman L. Geisler quotes Jeanne Dixon’s prediction of the Kennedy Assassination as it appeared in Parade Magazine on May 13, 1956.
Jeane Dixon wrote seven books, including her autobiography, My Life and Prophecies.
Predictions about Presidents
"Jeane Dixon had made other significant presidential prophecies, the first of which, forecast in 1928 when she was still in school, predicted Herbert Hoover would be elected."[4]
"Twenty years later, in January 1948, against virtually the opinion of everyone else, including the professional pollsters, Dixon foretold the outcome of the next November's election: "Harry Truman will be elected." The prediction flew in the face of every political prognostication, because the Republican candidate, New York governor Thomas B. Dewey, the popular former racket-busting prosecutor … was overwhelmingly favored to win. Yet, in November 1948, in one of America's greatest political upsets, Truman proved Dixon's predictions to be accurate when he beat Dewey for the presidency, It was just as Dixon had said, and her own fortunes rose."[5]
"In 1952, Dixon predicted Dwight Eisenhower would be elected president, first defeating Dewey, who entered the national convention as the front runner for the Republican nomination, and then Democrat Adlai Stevenson."[6]
"In 1955, Dixon said Ike would be reelected the next year. However, when she made that prediction, Eisenhower had not yet announced he would seek office for a second term because he was still recuperating from a severe heart attack. In fact, just prior to his coronary, Dixon predicted that Ike would become "seriously ill." Eisenhower recovered, ran for reelection in 1956, and easily won a second term."[7]
"When Lyndon Johnson was still vice president, Dixon accurately forecast that in the future he "would withdraw from the presidential race, He's going to quit. He's going to be a victim of circumstances." Although Johnson staged a landslide defeat over Arizona senator Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election, he withdrew from contention in 1968 after the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive. Johnson was indeed a victim of "circumstances," the domestic political fallout due to the widely unpopular and divisive Vietnam War."[8]
"All the way back in 1949, nearly twenty years prior to Richard Nixon's election, Dixon predicted Nixon would eventually become president. What made her later Nixon predictions controversial was that long before the Watergate scandal Dixon spoke of his "excellent vibrations." What was her reaction to Nixon's ignominious fall? She stubbornly insisted he would someday be considered "a great president." At the time he resigned in 1974, her prognostication seemed ludicrous. Dixon's prediction was viewed differently twenty years later, when many historians and political analysts, in spite of Watergate, became more generous in their praise of Nixon's contributions, especially in foreign policy."[9]
"In early 1968, Dixon also foretold the murder of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and added the warning. "Robert Kennedy will be next."" [10]
"Five years after JFK's assassination, Dixon experienced visions that Senator Robert Kennedy would suffer the same fate as his brother. She told friends that he, too, would be assassinated, but that it wasn't completely predetermined. She felt that, unlike John Kennedy, Bobby's life could be saved if he was cautioned in advance. Brian reported that Jeane L Dixon did everything humanly possible to forewarn RFK by contacting anyone who had access to him. Although she did get a personal message to Bobby Kennedy, it was apparently ignored, and history, again, proved her warnings to have been accurate."[11]
"On several earlier occasions, she'd predicted that RFK would not become president, and each time Dixon was asked, she gave virtually the same answer, "He will never become President of the United States.""[12]
"Later, [Jeane Dixon] used her psychic and astrological skills to advise First Lady Nancy Reagan."[13]
Footnotes
[1] Hall, Fayette. The Copperhead: or, The Secret Political History of our Civil War Unveiled. New Haven, CT: Fayette Hall .1902. pp. 36-37.
[2] Coleman, Christopher Kiernan. The Paranormal Presidency of Abraham Lincoln: Presentiments, Precognition, Prophetic Dreams, & Other Uncanny Encounters of the 16th President of the United States. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub., 2012. p. 93.
[3] Hall, Fayette. The Copperhead: or, The Secret Political History of our Civil War Unveiled. New Haven, CT: Fayette Hall .1902. pp. 36.
[4] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 80.
[5] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. pp. 80-81.
[6] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 81.
[7] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 81.
[8] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 81.
[9] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 82.
[10] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 85.
[11] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 84.
[12] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. pp. 84-85.
[13] Martin, Joel; Birnes, William J. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. p. 85.