Haunted Theaters
87 haunted locations across America
Stages where ghostly performers still take their bows
All Haunted Theaters
1894 Grand Opera House
When the cast and crew of "The Phantom of the Opera" arrived in 1990, they started hearing footsteps backstage.
Akron Civic Theatre
Fred gets angry when people make a mess in the bathrooms. That's the kind of ghost story you get at the Akron Civic…
Apollo Civic Theatre
A board member was taking a curtain call in the early 1980s when he looked into the audience and saw an old man in a…
Avon Theatre
Troy Taylor has spent decades investigating haunted places across Illinois.
Belasco Theatre
During the run of Passing Strange in 2008, actor Daniel Breaker looked into his dressing room mirror and saw an old man…
Bijou Theatre
At three in the morning on October 19, 1872, a man named Thomas Atkins walked into the bar inside what is now the…
Biograph Theater
FBI agent Melvin Purvis lit a cigar. That was the signal. John Dillinger walked out of the Biograph Theater at 10:30…
Boulder Theater
George Paper isn't a menacing ghost. He's a prankster in a suit, and the bar next door to the Boulder Theater was…
Byrd Theatre
Robert Coulter had one tic everyone remembered: he walked through the Byrd Theatre flicking off any light he thought…
Calumet Theatre
In 1958, a young actress named Adysse Lane froze on stage at the Calumet Theatre. She'd forgotten her line.
Capitol Plaza Theater
When an actor or actress takes the stage at the Capitol Plaza Theater, a small girl sometimes appears in the front row…
Capitol Theater
Staff closing the Capitol Theater late at night sometimes see a figure silhouetted in the projection booth window…
Capitol Theatre
The Capitol Theatre, Clearwater's most notable haunted location, opened March 21…
Capitol Theatre
Musicians who play the Capitol Theatre in Flint have one running complaint: their gear stops working.
Carnegie Hall
There are four Carnegie Halls left in the world that still host performances.
Central City Opera House
The smell comes first. Whiskey, strong enough that actors and stagehands stop mid-rehearsal and look around…
Cincinnati Music Hall
"They are definitely in this building, some sort of spirits," the late Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel once…
City Opera House
The ghost legend at the City Opera House in Traverse City begins with a child falling from the balcony.
Colonial Theatre
"One of the handsomest play-houses to be found in New England," is how the Laconia press described the Colonial Theatre…
Concrete Theatre
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles broadcast his War of the Worlds radio drama from a New York studio.
Crump Theatre
Colonel John A. Keith's only child registered at a New York hotel as "Mrs.
Curran Theatre
Hewlett G. Tarr was two days out from Thanksgiving and a few days out from his wedding when the Curran Theatre's box…
Cutler Majestic Theatre
The Cutler Majestic Theatre was built on Tremont Street in Boston in 1903…
Dock Street Theatre
During the 1930s restoration of the Planters' Hotel, workers raised the second floor by exactly one foot.
Elkhart Civic Theatre
The Elkhart Civic Theatre doesn't perform in Elkhart. It performs in Bristol, ten miles east, at 210 E.
Elsinore Theatre
The Elsinore Theatre was named for the Danish castle in Hamlet, which is the play that opens with a dead father walking…
Embassy Theatre
Bud Berger doesn't haunt the Embassy Theatre. He keeps checking on it. When the pipes were about to burst in a…
Folly Theater
Staff at the Folly Theater have watched a piano on stage play with nobody sitting at the keyboard.
Fox Theatre
Two men loved this building so much that their ashes are stored inside its pipe organ. Bob Van Camp served as the Fox…
Fulton Theatre
Fourteen Conestoga people were murdered in the basement of what is now the Fulton Theatre. Lancaster ghost tours tend…
Garde Arts Center
Vera Leeper painted the Garde Theatre's interior in 1926 wearing knickers and a painter's frock…
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
Janet Wainwright walked into the Harvard Exit Theatre lobby on one of her first days as manager and found a woman…
Historic Everett Theatre
An employee in the projection room felt someone standing behind them.
Hollywood Pantages Theatre
Karla Rubin used to work as an executive assistant in the Pantages Theatre's second-floor conference room…
Indiana Repertory Theatre
Tom Haas went out jogging in thick fog on January 28, 1991, and never came back.
Keith-Albee Theatre
Christina Bragg was on a 9th-grade school trip when she saw the Lady in Red in the mirror.
King Opera House
Dr. William Parchman grabbed his .44-caliber revolver and ran four blocks to the Van Buren train station on October 4…
Landers Theatre
Someone used a Ouija board in the Landers Theatre and got the name "Ned." That's how the ghost legend started.
Landmark Theatre
"I fell off." That's what ghost hunters captured on an audio recorder inside the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse.
Lexington Opera House
A little girl has been playing with strangers' hair in the Lexington Opera House balcony since at least the 1960s.
Liberty Theatre
At the Liberty Theatre, the ghost named Handsome Paul earned his nickname for his wardrobe.
Longstreet Theatre
On April 7, 1950, a University of South Carolina police officer found a man in a silver suit standing over two dead…
Louisville Palace Theatre
Ferdinand "Fred" Frisch died in his basement office at the Louisville Palace on October 27, 1965…
Majestic Theatre
Body fluids from the embalming ran into the alley. The neighbors started calling it Blood Alley, and the name stuck.
Majestic Theatre
The Majestic Theatre opened its doors on April 11, 1921, on the ominously named Elm Street in downtown Dallas.
McMenamins Bagdad Theater
The Bagdad Theater's headline ghost wanted to be on the stage, not behind it.
Moore Theatre
Workers building the Moore Theatre in 1907 broke ground on Seattle's first cemetery.
Mt. Baker Theatre
Floating orbs drift over the stage during performances at the Mt.
Orpheum Theater
The overnight cleaner was in the Orpheum when someone screamed directly into his ear.
Orpheum Theatre
The Memphis Orpheum Theatre has a ghost in seat C-5 and her name is Mary.
Pabst Theater
Filmmaker Michael Brown pressed record on his Zoom audio recorder and waited in the dark.
Palace and Majestic Theaters
When construction crews built the Palace and Majestic Theaters in Bridgeport in 1921…
Palace Theatre
The seats move on their own at Stamford's Palace Theatre. They fold down, then flip back up. Nobody is sitting in them.
Palace Theatre
During the 1984 fire that damaged apartments adjoining the Palace Theatre, a woman named Mary died.
PlayMakers Repertory Company Theatre
The corn and tobacco carved into the Corinthian capitals of Playmakers Theatre are the tell.
Plaza Theatre
The Plaza Theatre, El Paso's atmospheric 1930 movie palace, has accumulated ghosts as readily as its ornate Spanish…
Portsmouth Music Hall
Patrons sitting in the mezzanine of the Portsmouth Music Hall have watched the heavy stage curtain bow outward and…
Rialto Square Theatre
A four-year-old boy tugs on visitors' clothing backstage, pokes them in the ribs, and pulls their hair.
Rivoli Theatre
The women's restroom does things it shouldn't. Faucets open by themselves, lights flicker, stall doors swing…
Roseland Theater
The Roseland Theater wasn't called the Roseland yet on January 23, 1990, when 21-year-old Tim Moreau walked into his…
Ryman Auditorium
The most-seen ghost at the Ryman Auditorium isn't Hank Williams or Captain Tom Ryman.
Saenger Theatre
The balcony of the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans is where staff hear their own names whispered from the empty seats.
Sandusky State Theater
A cleaning worker mopping the floor after hours heard footsteps crossing the room toward them. Nobody was there.
Savannah Theatre
"Not now, I'm busy." That's what house manager Dru Jones would say every time she felt a small tug on the back of her…
Shepherdstown Opera House
Shepherdstown's five-person police department was getting so many calls about things that weren't crimes that the…
Shreveport Municipal Auditorium
A tour guide walking down the stairs at Shreveport Municipal Auditorium felt an unseen hand grab her wrist and place it…
Springer Opera House
Edwin Booth performed Hamlet at the Springer Opera House on February 15, 1876.
Springfield Theatre Centre
You can smell him before you see anything. Noxzema, the cold cream, thick and mentholated…
Sterling Opera House
Beneath the stage where Houdini performed, there's a row of jail cells.
Stifel Theatre
The ghost at the Stifel Theatre in St. Louis introduced herself. During a spirit communication session run by the St.
Strand Theatre
Jim Montgomery's portrait keeps jumping off the wall at the Strand Theatre. It's hung in the Founder's Room for nearly…
Tabor Opera House
A middle-aged couple took a tour of the Tabor Opera House sometime in the late 1990s…
Tampa Theatre
Tampa Theatre opened in 1926 as a lavish movie palace, designed by architect John Eberson to resemble a Mediterranean…
Tarrytown Music Hall
After everyone has gone home and the last crew member has locked up for the night, someone backstage starts warming up.
Tennessee Theatre
Touring musicians at the Tennessee Theatre tend to find the man on the third-floor balcony before anyone gets around to…
Thalian Hall
Three people sit together in the center of Thalian Hall's first balcony and refuse to leave.
The Comedy Store
Sam Kinison was onstage in the Original Room one night in the 1980s when the lights started flickering in a way that…
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
Harry Houdini played this stage. So did W.C. Fields and Will Rogers.
Thespian Hall
The wig stands in the dressing room turn themselves to face the mirrors when nobody is in the room.
Thralls Opera House
Two different utopias failed in New Harmony, Indiana. The Harmonists, a German Lutheran sect, built the town from 1814…
Tower Theatre
Seats 105 and 106 in Row M of the Tower Theatre belong to a married couple who have been dead since the 1940s.
Victoria Theatre
Sometime in the early 1900s, a touring actress walked off stage at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton…
Waco Hippodrome Theatre
The Waco Hippodrome Theatre opened in February 1914 as the town's crown jewel, welcoming patrons to vaudeville shows…
Youngstown Playhouse
A former security guard at the Youngstown Playhouse described the feeling of being watched while making rounds through…
Forum Theatre
The Strand Theatre opened on January 1, 1927, with Laura La Plante in "Butterflies in the Rain" and a Wangerin organ…