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Theatre Ghosts

Swifty said:
Cromer Pavilion Theatre is supposed to be haunted, I've known loads of people who've worked in the building and not one of them ever reported any paranormal experiences. The Most Haunted crew spent the night there, not the most exciting of episodes if I'm being honest but if anyone fancies watching it, I'll link to it anyway ..

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I wonder if Derek Acorah's ghost is going to haunt any theatres?
 
blessmycottonsocks said:
After the Bodmin Gaol debacle on Most Haunted, poor old Derek was himself haunted by the ghosts of Kreed Kafer and Rik Eedles for the rest of his life.
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Yes, I was wondering if he might come and do a seance from the other side of the table, as Kreed Kafir... Just for a laugh. I would if I were him.
 
Just seen this article from yesterdays 'Daily Mail'

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Lb8535 said:
Hm I wonder how they explain this to the people who have tickets next to those seats?
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They probably dont tell them and the people sitting next to them just think they must be empty because of a 'no show'
 
The seat's empty because the "draft" makes it so cold no one wants to reserve it. :wink2:
 
titch said:
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is having ghost tours in October, i am hoping to drag my brother and niece along one evening.

https://thelane.co.uk/halloween-tours
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We will require a full report please thank you.
That's a FULL report, preferably including what you had for breakfast and possibly going back to your late adolescence, followed by a detailed minute-by-minute account with sketches and photos.
 
Found this rather curious:

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Black Mask Attacker​


Location: Portsmouth (Hampshire) - Royal Arena wrestling venue (later became New Theatre Royal)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa July 1960
Further Comments: A wrestler known as the Black Mask claimed he was attacked in the Rutley dressing room by an unseen presence. Several dancers also complained about the atmosphere in the room. The building's owner denied the site was haunted.

https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/index.php

Found this on the Theatre website:

"According to legend, the ghost of Henry Rutley, who opened New Theatre Royal in 1856, is said to wander the corridors of the Victorian theatre. Another reported phantom resident is former theatre manager, Herbert Ralph, who managed New Theatre Royal from 1917 until 1923 when he committed suicide."

https://www.newtheatreroyal.com/new...end, the ghost,1923 when he committed suicide.
 

The Ghosts of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane​


Article by Nigel Planer who’s performed there but hasn’t experienced any spookiness himself.

It has more ghosts than you can shake a stick at - Dan Leno, Joseph Grimaldi, The Man in Grey, actor Charles Macklin etc.

During renovations in the 1840s, a skeleton was found behind a wall cavity with a knife still in its chest. No-one seems to know who he was.
 
A couple of weekends ago - on a regular visit to London - I popped into Treadwells Books on Store Street (I've always liked Store Street - despite being so close to Tottenham Court Road it always seems to exude an atmosphere of leafy calmness to me.)

Treadwells - for those who don't know - is a bookshop specialising in the esoteric; similar to the possibly better known Atlantis Bookshop on Museum Street, and Watkins Books on Cecil Court.

Picked up a copy of this while I was in there:

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I bought the book almost despite myself, as a quick flick through suggested it was going to be focused on what I think of as heritage tales, which I’m mostly more than familiar with - and these days I’m really more interested in modern stories than the recycling of those already well established. However, it appeared well written, by someone who actually works in the industry, and with lots of interesting history outwith the general subject of the book. And, turns out, there are excursions into the much more recent past - some connected to those older tales, others possibly not.

I’ve not done much more than browse the stories just yet. I’ll do a catch up when I’ve read it properly.

Anyway, a nudge towards the general subject of this thread reminded me that I’d meant to flag that the Albert Hall music venue in Manchester was once the subject of an episode of Most Haunted (so, you know, some heavyweight research there). The building is an old Methodist Hall, with the Chapel Hall being the site of the music venue. Back in the day the lower floors were the tolerably awful Brannigans night club – the Chapel Hall on the upper floor was derelict, and I believe the main locus of the Most Haunted episode, which was filmed before the place was refurbished into the fabulous venue it is today.

I’m not entirely sure what the ghost stories associated with the venue were – but it would be interesting to know if they’ve survived restoration, and the presence of all those young people doing terrible things like watching great music and enjoying themselves.

I think, by coincidence, this particular episode of Most Haunted may be the only one I ever watched all the way through. My abiding memory is of Derek Acorah, presumably having just been somewhat forcefully occupied by an unquiet spirit, swivelling his eyes and squealing 'Where's me legs...where's me legs?'

It struck me at the time, and still does, that the logical response to someone being legless within the precincts of a nightclub in central Manchester is so obvious it barely needs expanding upon.
 
Spookdaddy said:
A couple of weekends ago - on a regular visit to London - I popped into Treadwells Books on Store Street (I've always liked Store Street - despite being so close to Tottenham Court Road it always seems to exude an atmosphere of leafy calmness to me.)

Treadwells - for those who don't know - is a bookshop specialising in the esoteric; similar to the possibly better known Atlantis Bookshop on Museum Street, and Watkins Books on Cecil Court.

Picked up a copy of this while I was in there:

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I bought the book almost despite myself, as a quick flick through suggested it was going to be focused on what I think of as heritage tales, which I’m mostly more than familiar with - and these days I’m really more interested in modern stories than the recycling of those already well established. However, it appeared well written, by someone who actually works in the industry, and with lots of interesting history outwith the general subject of the book. And, turns out, there are excursions into the much more recent past - some connected to those older tales, others possibly not.

I’ve not done much more than browse the stories just yet. I’ll do a catch up when I’ve read it properly.

Anyway, a nudge towards the general subject of this thread reminded me that I’d meant to flag that the Albert Hall music venue in Manchester was once the subject of an episode of Most Haunted (so, you know, some heavyweight research there). The building is an old Methodist Hall, with the Chapel Hall being the site of the music venue. Back in the day the lower floors were the tolerably awful Brannigans night club – the Chapel Hall on the upper floor was derelict, and I believe the main locus of the Most Haunted episode, which was filmed before the place was refurbished into the fabulous venue it is today.

I’m not entirely sure what the ghost stories associated with the venue were – but it would be interesting to know if they’ve survived restoration, and the presence of all those young people doing terrible things like watching great music and enjoying themselves.

I think, by coincidence, this particular episode of Most Haunted may be the only one I ever watched all the way through. My abiding memory is of Derek Acorah, presumably having just been somewhat forcefully occupied by an unquiet spirit, swivelling his eyes and squealing 'Where's me legs...where's me legs?'

It struck me at the time, and still does, that the logical response to someone being legless within the precincts of a nightclub in central Manchester is so obvious it barely needs expanding upon.
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I was lucky enough to attend a talk with this gentleman. He did have some very good stories. My only issue with this book was there was too much history to a wade through to get to the stories.
 
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