I visited that opera house two years ago to watch the owner perform. “It’s as if that opera house were a kind of vestibule between our world and hell somewhere where you have to wait it out while all the paperwork upstairs gets sorted out in the wake of your passing. “They’re trapped in there,” Jack says, and he shudders a little as he says it. “The thing that creeped me out, as my granddaughter would say, was that almost everyone I talked to who had experienced something to do with that building, told the exact same story.” The Ghosts in the Opera House Cannot Escape

“I had moved away to college when the first of the rumors about the place started to circulate – that it was haunted, you know – and by the time I came back, there was a whole crop of stories by people who had seen or heard spirits around and inside it. “Of course, the hall didn’t look as good, either. “In those days,” Jack says, referring to the 1950s before the current owner bought the place, “you didn’t have those weird creepy murals of people looking down.

I meet with Jack P., an elderly man who remembers the opera house from back in the days when it was still a social hall.

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