All Haunted Theaters
Akron Civic Theatre
The Akron Civic Theatre in Akron, Ohio, has a janitor who never clocked out.
Apollo Civic Theatre
The Apollo Civic Theatre in Martinsburg, West Virginia smells like cigar smoke before the curtain goes up.
Belasco Theatre
Actor Daniel Breaker was putting on makeup in his dressing room at the Belasco Theatre…
Bijou Theatre
The first ghost the staff will tell you about was killed over a glass of water.
Bilheimer Capitol Theatre
Look up at the balcony of the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre in Clearwater, Florida…
Biograph Theater
There's a side alley next to the Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago…
Boulder Theater
At the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado, the ghost has a name, an old suit and hat, and a habit of running.
Byrd Theatre
Robert Coulter had one tic everyone remembered: he walked through the Byrd Theatre flicking off any light he thought…
Calumet Theatre
The Calumet Theatre in Calumet, Michigan keeps a ghost who works the show rather than haunts it.
Capitol Plaza Theater
The Capitol Plaza Theater in Charleston, West Virginia has two ghosts in the balcony…
Capitol Theater
The Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington has a ghost that investigators say told them how old it was.
Capitol Theatre
The Capitol Theatre in Flint, Michigan has a problem touring bands keep running into: their gear stops working.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia books concerts and plays like any other small-town venue…
Central City Opera House
At the Central City Opera House in Colorado, the smell of whiskey arrives first.
Cincinnati Music Hall
The Cincinnati Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark in Cincinnati, Ohio…
City Opera House
At the City Opera House in Traverse City, Michigan, the ghosts are children…
Colonial Theatre
The figure people keep spotting at the Colonial Theatre in Laconia, New Hampshire stands in the upstairs projection…
Concrete Theatre
The Concrete Theatre in Concrete, Washington has a small balcony tucked into the top left corner of the auditorium…
Crump Theatre
At the Crump Theatre in Columbus, Indiana, the figure people keep meeting on the eastern staircase is a woman in deep…
Curran Theatre
At the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, people keep seeing a young man in the lobby mirror.
Cutler Majestic Theatre
At the Cutler Majestic Theatre on Tremont Street in Boston, the staff don't argue about whether the building is…
Dock Street Theatre
The staff at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina, keep seeing a woman who ends at the knees.
Elkhart Civic Theatre
The Elkhart Civic Theatre doesn't perform in Elkhart. It performs ten miles east, in the small town of Bristol…
Elsinore Theatre
Performers rehearsing on the lit stage of the Elsinore Theatre in Salem, Oregon look out into the dark…
Embassy Theatre
The Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana keeps a ghost named Bud Berger…
First Avenue
First Avenue, the black star-covered nightclub at 701 First Avenue North in Minneapolis…
Fitzgerald Theater
At the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, the crew aren't convinced an old stagehand named Ben ever clocked…
Folly Theater
A police officer once looked through a window of the Folly Theater in Kansas City, Missouri…
Fox Theatre
The Fox Theatre in Atlanta keeps a handful of ghosts on the October tour, but the one nobody put on a poster sits in…
Fulton Theatre
In 1995, a construction worker at the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania met a man on a stairwell who shouldn't…
Garde Arts Center
At the Garde Arts Center in New London, Connecticut, the staff keep seeing a little girl.
Grand Opera House
In 1976, Bob Jacobs saw a smiling, bespectacled, grey-haired man sitting in the balcony of the Grand Opera House after…
Harvard Exit Theatre
The Harvard Exit Theatre in Seattle had a ghost with a resume.
Hibbing High School Auditorium
The auditorium at Hibbing High School in Minnesota has one seat nobody wants — J-47, in the center section.
Historic Everett Theatre
In September 1993, Sherry Penoyer was carrying an armful of cleaning supplies through the front doors of the Historic…
Hollywood Pantages Theatre
At the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, a woman sings in the empty house.
Indiana Repertory Theatre
The Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis is a 1927 movie palace with every ingredient for a classic ghost…
Keith-Albee Theatre
The Keith-Albee Theatre in Huntington, West Virginia has a woman on its mezzanine.
King Opera House
At the King Opera House in Van Buren, Arkansas, the staff keep seeing a man in the seats.
Landers Theatre
During rehearsals at the Landers Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, people in the upper balcony report a baby falling.
Landmark Theatre
At the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, the ghost people talk about most is an actress named Clarissa, and she has rules.
Lexington Opera House
At the Lexington Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky, the crew keep seeing a man in the balcony.
Liberty Theatre
There's a man at the Liberty Theatre in Astoria, Oregon who is always dressed for a night out he never gets to finish.
Longstreet Theatre
A University of South Carolina police officer walked up on a man in April 1950…
Louisville Palace Theatre
The Louisville Palace, a 1928 movie palace on South Fourth Street in downtown Louisville…
Majestic Theatre
At the Majestic Theatre in Chillicothe, Ohio, the figure people report most is a soldier…
Majestic Theatre
The last thing one employee at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas did every night was lock the office door that opens into…
McMenamins Bagdad Theater
At the Bagdad Theatre in Portland, Oregon, the figure people notice doesn't keep to the wings.
McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
At the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, the dancers never quite left.
Moore Theatre
The Moore Theatre is the oldest working stage in Seattle, and the man who runs it has learned to talk back to the…
Mounds Theatre
The Mounds Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota keeps three ghosts, and the staff have given each of them a job.
Mt. Baker Theatre
The Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham, Washington has a ghost who works one hallway.
Orpheum Theater
The overnight cleaner was in the Orpheum when someone screamed directly into his ear.
Orpheum Theatre
Seat C-5 on the mezzanine at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis is taken.
Pabst Theater
Filmmaker Michael Brown pressed record on his Zoom audio recorder and waited in the dark.
Palace and Majestic Theaters
In Bridgeport, Connecticut, a retired police sergeant walked through two boarded-up theaters that had been empty for…
Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, keeps a light burning in the dark house every night…
Palace Theatre
At the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire, staff keep seeing a woman in white backstage. They call her Mary.
PlayMakers Repertory Company Theatre
PlayMakers Theatre, on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, is a Greek temple with the wrong leaves.
Plaza Theatre
The Plaza Theatre in downtown El Paso has a man in the balcony, and he announces himself by smell.
Portsmouth Music Hall
At The Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the thing people describe is the curtain.
Rialto Square Theatre
At the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, Illinois, the staff have learned to greet their ghost out loud.
Rivoli Theatre
The strangest spot in the old Rivoli Theatre in Indianapolis isn't the stage or the dark auditorium.
Roseland Theater
At the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon, the man people say walks the empty halls was strangled inside the building…
Ryman Auditorium
A security guard on his nightly rounds crossed the stage of the Ryman Auditorium, glanced up into the balcony…
Saenger Theatre
The Saenger Theatre on Canal Street in New Orleans is a working Broadway house…
Sandusky State Theater
The Sandusky State Theatre in Sandusky, Ohio, keeps its strangest ghost in the projection booth.
Savannah Theatre
At the Savannah Theatre on Chippewa Square, the people who run the spotlight keep getting tugged.
Sheldon Theatre
Most haunted theaters keep a victim — an actor shot in the street, a stagehand who fell.
Shreveport Municipal Auditorium
At the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium in Louisiana, the ghosts people report aren't the stars who passed through.
Sons of Hermann Hall
Six people inside Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas watched a couple in Victorian clothes walk past them one afternoon and…
Springer Opera House
A tall man in a top hat walks the Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia — across the third-floor balcony…
Springfield Theatre Centre
At the old Springfield Theatre Centre on East Lawrence Avenue in Springfield, Illinois, the ghost didn't appear.
Sterling Opera House
At the Sterling Opera House in Derby, Connecticut, the ghost most people talk about isn't a vaudeville actor or a…
Stifel Theatre
Work the Stifel Theatre in St. Louis alone, after the crowd has gone and the house lights are off…
Strand Theatre
The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana has one named ghost, and the people who work there aren't afraid of him.
Tabor Opera House
At the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, a quiet couple lingered after one of Evelyn Furman's tours and asked…
Tampa Theatre
The projection booth at the Tampa Theatre in Florida still feels like someone is working it.
Tarrytown Music Hall
The last crew member at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York locks the doors, shuts off the lights…
Tennessee Theatre
The crew notice the cold first. Between shows, when the last patron has gone and the house lights are down over 1,645…
Thalian Hall
Thalian Hall in Wilmington, North Carolina has staged plays since 1858, and in 2009 a renovation crew working inside…
The Comedy Store
The Comedy Store, the black signature-covered club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood…
The Grand 1894 Opera House
The Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston, Texas has a ghost story with nobody in it.
The Majestic Theatre
Two college students were studying in the balcony of the Majestic Theatre one evening in the 1980s when one of them…
The Ritz Theater
The Ritz Theater in Scranton, Pennsylvania has a ghost that sings.
Thespian Hall
A family went to the opera at Thespian Hall in Boonville, Missouri, and only afterward…
Thralls Opera House
Thrall's Opera House sits at 612 Church Street in New Harmony, Indiana, and the man it's named for is said to have…
Tower Theatre
During a 2007 run of "Mornings at Seven" at the Tower Theatre in Bend, Oregon…
Turner Hall
At Turner Hall in Galena, Illinois, the ghost is said to have opinions.
Victoria Theatre
The Victoria Theatre in Dayton, Ohio keeps a ghost the staff call Vicky.
Waco Hippodrome Theatre
The Waco Hippodrome Theatre caught its ghost on its own security system.
Youngstown Playhouse
A dark figure sits in the balcony at the Youngstown Playhouse in Youngstown, Ohio, and watches the stage.
Forum Theatre
The Forum Theatre in Jonesboro, Arkansas opened as a movie house in 1927, and it's the town's community stage today.
Mantorville Opera House
At the Mantorville Opera House in Mantorville, Minnesota, workers renovating the basement cut into a wall and found a…
NorShor Theatre
The NorShor Theatre in Duluth, Minnesota stands on a piece of ground that has burned three theaters off it.