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Silas T. Cobb was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 09 January 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Lincoln's premonitions

I cannot believe that a serious encyclopedia would contain a sentence quoting a "paranormal investigator" and his opinion on Lincoln's reported premonitions. That part should be deleted. 2601:41:200:5260:31D8:A73D:E952:3430 (talk) 01:09, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or perhaps we should add the opinions of astrologers and phrenologists as well. 2601:41:200:5260:31D8:A73D:E952:3430 (talk) 01:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

sounds like it should only be mentioned in passing NotQualified (talk) 14:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, let's under any and all circumstances dump all over any possibility of the paranormal really existing, let's do, it's an absolute must. Jersey Jan (talk) 17:22, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of fact, yes. E Eng 17:37, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the article says what you think it says.

The paranormal investigator the article references is Joe Nickell, who is a skeptic. He investigates the paranormal, but only to perform what he always believes is a debunking. The article states that Nickell "wrote that dreams of assassination would not be unexpected, considering the Baltimore Plot and an additional assassination attempt in which a hole was shot through Lincoln's hat." In other words, because Lincoln received assassination threats (Nickell mentions only one, but there were many) and had survived one attempt, it is only logical that the possibility of assassination would be on his mind, and this in turn would lead to dreams of assassination. Ergo, the dream was not a true premonition. I myself, who am intensely interested in and open minded regarding the paranormal, also take this view. Jersey Jan (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Licoln might be well said the most important prson in history. Bro StaRs (talk) 00:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following post was made to my personal talk page by an ip about a possible edit to this page about Lamon's account of Lincoln's premoninition dream. I'm too busy to do anything or make a detailed reply now but I'm copying the post here in case it's of interest to someone else for a more immediate reply. Libertybison (talk) 08:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC) :[reply]

Good job on correcting the Clara Harris photo. I was curious if you could be able to remove or expand on this other lore of the assassination. The Lincoln Assassination article has a section “Lincoln's premonitions” which mentions the often repeated claim of Lincoln’s dream of a “president killed by an assassin”. However, as the Lamon article itself says on the section “Lamon as Lincoln's biographer”, historians Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher have cited internal inconsistencies and external evidence regarding Lamon's account that lead them to question its veracity. 78.150.15.34 (talk) 21:40, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]