THE STORY
Reported Haunting
The historic Stanley Theatre is associated with reports of footsteps, disembodied laughter, electronic voice phenomena, shadow figures, and full-bodied apparitions. Staff, visitors, and paranormal investigators have reported activity throughout the auditorium, stage areas, and corridors.
Stanley Theatre, aka Stanley Center for the Arts, was built in the late 1920s as a movie palace. Witnesses say they have heard footsteps and seen shadows and apparitions onstage and in the balcony area. Legend has it that one seat, or a row of seats, remains unsold to leave room for the theater’s ghosts. Reports from people who have sat in the seats reserved for ghosts have felt something icy cold sit on them or try to push them out of the seat. There’s also a ghost in the ladies’ restroom, witnesses say.