Hello again R. L. Stein Story Club members.

I'm Ivy, your ghostly host and keeper of those strange and spooky tales from the hidden vault of R.L. Stein.

Today is another chilling tale.

These haunted places I went to in Washington, D.C., story club members

are The Haunting of Ford's Theater and the White House. So Autumn Nash and I were doing

some sightseeing around our nation's capital one spring day, and we decided to check out two

places with ghostly reputations, historical places that you might not expect at first glance.

The first one was Ford's Theater.

The Washington DC Theater will remain infamous in history.

During the performance of the play, Our American Cousin,

the night of April 14, 1865,

John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln,

one of the most admired leaders in American history. Since then,

there have been claims that Ford Theater is haunted. John Wilkes Booth was a popular actor at the

theater. On the night of April 14th, Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, planned to strike a blow

as revenge for the Southern states losing the Civil War. John Frederick Parker, an incompetent bodyguard,

left his assigned post.

Unhindered, Booth snuck into the president's box

and shot Lincoln in the back of the head at close range.

Ten days before the tragic event, on April 4th,

Lincoln had a dream about his own death,

writing about the dream in his journal.

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