Phantasmal Crime 13 - The Tragic Rathbones

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary were not the only people sitting in their box at the Ford's Theater to watch the production of "Our American Cousin" on the evening that the President was assassinated. Major Henry Rathbone and his fiance, Clara Harris, were also sitting in the box and played witness to the whole horrible scene. Clara's satin dress was splattered with blood. The Major never recovered from the horrific event and it may have led him to do a horrible thing later. That event and the assassination have all left behind an energy, part of which has spawned tales of ghosts and a haunted satin dress.

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0:00.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.0	True crime can be strangely fascinating.
0:18.0	This true crime is odd, macabre and haunted.
0:22.0	I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.
0:25.0	Welcome to Fantasmo Crime.
0:31.0	President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary were not the only people sitting in their box
0:36.0	at the Ford's Theatre to watch the production of Our American Cousin
0:40.0	on the evening that the president was assassinated.
0:43.0	Major Henry Rathbone and his fiance Clara Harris were also sitting in the box
0:48.0	and played witness to the whole horrible scene.
0:51.0	Clara sat in dress with splattered with blood.
0:54.0	The major never recovered from the horrific event
0:57.0	and may have led him to do a horrible thing later.
1:00.0	That event and the assassination have all left behind an energy
1:04.0	part of which is spawned tales of ghosts and a haunted satin dress.
1:28.0	Henry Reed Rathbone was born in Albany, New York on July 1, 1837
1:33.0	to Jared and Pauline Rathbone.
1:35.0	Jared was a wealthy merchant and Albany's mayor.
1:38.0	He died shortly after Henry was born.
1:41.0	Pauline now had four children to raise on her own,
1:44.0	but Jared left her in the children with a sizeable sum of money.
1:47.0	She later met Ira Harris, who was the United States Senator
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