The Night in White Satin
Clara Harris wore a dress of white satin to the theater with her fiance Henry Rathbone and the President and Mrs. Lincoln. It was April 14, 1865, and at the end of the night the dress was bloody. She couldn't bear to part with the dress and put it in a closet. A year later, she heard the low laughter of Lincoln coming from the room where the dress hung, as if he were still enjoying the play. She had the closet bricked over. Her son broke in and burned the dress in 1910, believing it was cursed.
Her son had good reason to tie the family troubles to the dress, if only because his father never recovered from the events of that night, becoming increasingly unhinged until he murdered Clara in 1883 and was committed to an insane asylum.
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