i am occasionally haunted by ghostly victims of the 1944 hartford circus fire. sometimes they wander into my dreams at night. according to international circus code, when the band plays "stars & stripes forever" during a performace, it signals distress to the circus personnel."In 1950, a Circleville, Ohio man named Robert D. Segee claimed he was responsible for setting the Hartford Circus Fire. He said he had a nightmare in which an Indian riding on a "flaming horse" told him to set fires. He further claimed that after this nightmare his mind went blank, and that he did not come out of this state until the circus fire had already been set."
