The most haunted places around the globe will freak you out

An unexpected figure might take up residence in the White House soon. He is tall, lanky, transparent and has been dead for over 150 years.

The ghost of Abraham Lincoln has been spotted within the White House during the nation's most tumultuous times. He was first reported by Grace Coolidge, the wife of Calvin Coolidge, who claims she saw the assassinated president staring out of the window of the Oval Office towards former Civil War battlegrounds. Since then, generations of visitors to the White House have claimed to see the Great Emancipator walking the halls.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill allegedly strolled into the Lincoln Bedroom, naked with a cigar after a bath in the Lincoln Bedroom when he locked eyes with the former president, who then smiled and faded into the walls.

President Reagan reportedly told a group of White House dinner guests that his daughter and her husband were staying in the Lincoln Bedroom, and on two separate occasions, they saw a transparent figure standing at the bedroom window looking out.

And Lincoln isn't the only otherworldly spirit in the White House -- Dolley Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams and Andrew Jackson have all been spotted in their former residence.

While the White House could certainly be considered the United States' most famous haunted house, it is hardly the only building with famous otherworldly guests.

Despite cultural and language barriers, nations across the world are connected by their belief in the supernatural –- specifically spirits trapped on Earth.

From the Italian island where thousand succumbed to the plague, to a Jamaican colonial home stalked by a murderous former mistress of the mansion, here are the most infamous 'haunted' places around the world.

By Morgan Giordano, AOL.com