In honour of Valentine’s Day, have a picture of Mary Todd Lincoln with the ‘ghost’ of her late husband. Deeply invested in the occult for most of her life, Mary became consumed with contacting Abraham Lincoln after his untimely assassination in 1965. She was constantly holding seances in an attempt to find her husband and in 1969- or thereabouts, as the date is not entirely known- she met William H. Mumler, a well-known ‘spirit photographer’. Mumler agreed to take a picture of Mary and ...