Haunted Cinemas

[Jim]

The Little Theatre in Dover Street, Leicester, is said to be haunted by the manageress wearing her 'siren suit' from WWII. There are actually gravestones on a little bit of ground at the side of the theatre, although she's not buried there.

[D Cairns]

Edinburgh Filmhouse is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman. It's a former church. When Diane Ladd attended the film festival here, she reported a "strange feeling."



Acid flashback?

[donna]

Depends on what you want to believe in, but have you any stories about ghosts of stars in film lots, hotels etc. just read this one. will have to look .







Ghost Haunts Movie Set?



By Si Dunn



Was it the smell of Thanksgiving turkey that briefly brought out a ghost? Or was it just the opportunity to haunt the actors, extras and crew of the movie The Significant Other?



Shot in Gainesville, Dallas and Plano, Texas, in 2007, the romantic comedy feature gained national attention after a ghostly image briefly appeared in a mirror and was captured on video during the shooting of a Thanksgiving dinner scene. The incident occurred at the movie’s main location, an 1896 Victorian-style mansion in Gainesville and has been recounted in The Hollywood Reporter and on CBS News, as well as other in media outlets.



“Maybe it was the aroma of the turkey that brought out the ghost,” said the movie’s director, Shalene Portman. “It freaked a lot of us out, but it never bothered us again” after the dinner scene incident.



A brief video clip of the ghostly appearance can be seen on the movie’s website, MySpace.com - The Significant Other - GAINESVILLE, Texas - www.myspace.com/thesignificantothermovie. (Disclosure: I am one of the movie's associate producers, but I was away from the set at the time and did not witness the ghost incident.) Watch the mirror closely as the image appears and disappears.



The house had no known history of being haunted until the movie's producer and director, Shalene Portman, brought in the scene's mantle and mirror and had them installed while the house was being refurbished.



The Significant Other is now in post-production and planned for release during the 2008 holiday season. For more information, contact SamiLu Production at SamiLuProduction@gmail.com. (There is no “s” after “Production.”)



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[jaycad]

the only similar incident that i can remember was a 'ghost of a little boy' appearing peeping through the curtains in a scene from 'three men and a baby' (or was it 'three men and a little lady'?) which made it onto the final cut,am a bit suspicious about this though as the story was leaked around the time of the publicity for the film!

[donna]

Ealing Studios Ghost Stories

[donna]

Marilyn Monroe's Ghost



It is claimed that Marilyn Monroe's Ghost now haunts the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. At the height of Marilyn Monroe's fame, she often stayed at the hotel where her ghostly image is seen in a full-length mirror that once hung in her poolside suite. (The mirror has been relocated to the hotel's lower level by the elevators.)



The ghost mirror now hangs in the lobby where many people clain to see her image gazing through the glass. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe has also been seen hovering near her tomb at Westwood Memorial Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. The Ghost of Marilyn Monroe is also said to haunt the house in Brentwood Brentwood where she died and hovers over the exact spot where she took the fatal dose of sleeping tablets. Some psychics have claimed that Marilyn Monroes's death was not a suicide, but an accident.





MARILYN MONROE



Celebrity PsychicsCOMMENT FROM CRAIG & JANE:



Marilyn Monroe is probably a spirit that would be porepared to make contact with this world. She was very interested in paranormal phenomena when alive so perhaps her interest continues beyond the grave. The biographer Anthony Summers of Goddess: Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, writes, “Marilyn had a lifelong interest in the occult, and she often visited astrologers and psychics.” He explains how Kenny Kingston, a psychic to Hollywood celebrities, wrote:



"…a dear friend and former client of mine, Marilyn Monroe. I became Marilyn’s psychic when she was Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. She consulted me many times through the years and we stayed in touch until just a few days before her passing.”



Marilyn Monroe was introduced to the psychic by the actor Clifton Webb. Kenny Kingston and Monroe eventually struck up a close friendship with a mutual interest in psychic phenomena and spiritual guides. Marilyn Monroe also visited many other astrologers, mediums and psychics. The psychic Kenny Kingston says: “Whenever Marilyn needed detailed psychic advice, she would see me in person, and she did this God knows how many times.”



SEE MOVIE CLIPS OF THE CELEBRITY PSYCHICS



DID PRINCESS DIANA'S GHOST RETURN? SEE CLIPS OF THIS REMARKABLE SEANCE

VIEW THE SPIRIT RETURN OF PRINCESS DIANA

DISCUSS MARILYN MONROE GHOST



(If would like to discuss Marilyn Monroe Ghost Story then please tell us you opinions on our psychic discussion forum.)



Read the stories about the psychics Craig & Jane and their meetings with celebrities.

[terrycha123]

Hello



When I was Manager of the ABC (ex Essoldo) in Newcastle, the theatre secretary used to speak about her times as a secretary at the Stoll cinema (now the Journal Tyne Theatre) next door. She said that several sightings had occured of Dan Leno, the famous Victorian music hall star.



Strangley enough, when I was an assistant manager with ABC in Yorkshire (Huddersfield in this case) there was a second projectionist who had been the Chief Projectionist at Newcastle Stoll and he told me many fascinating stories about the place (which is today billed as the oldest working Victorian Theatre in the world) including the experiences of the night watchman (yes, a night watchman - which was more than the circuit cinemas ever had!) who used to take his Alsation dog with him when he patrolled the building - apparently at one particular part of the auditorium - the Dress Circle, I seem to recall - the dog used to bare its teeth, growl ferociously and its hair would bristle!



I do think that old theatres and cinemas do 'record' certain events within their fabric and all I can say is that if ever a theatre could be possibly haunted it is this one...........



Terry Charnock

[teameffrt]

I worked at the Brighton Odeon Cinema in 1996 and had a strange experience during my time there. The cinema was long since known to be haunted by a builder who had died during the construction of the building. His name was George and staff would regularly call his name if anything strange happened. Usually things would stop immediately after! I took the whole thing as a joke, and never thought of the supernatural as being anything more than material to pass the time during camp fire ghost stories.

Screen one was where staff and customers would feel a presence.

The ghost was first seen in the 70s, standing at the top of the stairs by an ex-manager. The spectre stood there for a few seconds, without moving and vanished. In the 80s, new staff who were unfamiliar with the ex-managers experience, would occasionally feel someone tap them on the shoulder when they were alone in the cinema. This would normally be between performances or early in the morning.

When I started years later, I was told about the history of screen one, but didn't take it seriously. However, my colleagues sometimes noticed cold spots, in the area just after you went through the main doors which lead to the top of the stairs. No one could explain this, especially as the rest of the cinema was extremely hot. We had no air conditioning during the 90s, so it would get very humid during the summer.

In April '96 I was working with a girl called Bethan and we had just opened up the doors for the first performance, and were waiting for customers to arrive. As people came though the doors we stood there chatting for a while and then one of the phones rang. We had an internal phone line which ran throughout the building. It went from screen to screen, to the manager’s office, and to the box office. When Bethan picked up the phone she asked who it was, but there was no answer. She replaced the receiver and it rang again. This time there was heavy breathing on the other end. Bear in mind this could have only come from inside the building at one of the aforementioned locations. She replaced it again. It rang for the third time and this time I picked it up, as she was getting scared. I put my ear to the phone and didn't say anything, but I heard it myself this time. Apart from the breathing there was no sound - dead silent. You would normally be able to hear foyer noise, or music in the background.

I was thinking it was someone from another cinema playing a prank on us, so I went downstairs to check. The first two screens were currently between shows and the ushers were standing on the doors tearing tickets. There was music playing in the foyer and people standing around talking and making a noise. I spoke to the head usher and a couple of other staff and told them I thought was they were doing was very funny, but it was time to stop because Bethan was getting scared. They looked at me blankly and told me they didn't know what I was talking about. I then checked the other screens, but they were currently running films, so it couldn't have been them either, because you would've heard the film running
in the background.

I checked the box office and management were in there sorting out a problem. So the only other place it could've come from was the manager’s office...And the manager hadn't been in all day and no one else had access to his personal office, as it was locked when he was away. I know this to be true as I checked with the duty managers in the box office. To this day we never found any logical explanation as to what went on.

A few years later the cinema was divided up into more screens to meet the demand and the interior was ripped out. Security cameras were put into every cinema, foyer, and lounge area in the building. The internal phone lines were also retired. Whether of not the ghost still exists is unknown.

[jaycad]

i find it spooky that all the participants in this thread (apart from myself and mrpastrytime) have vanished without trace! wooooooooo!

[Rowdon]

i find it spooky that all the participants in this thread (apart from myself and mrpastrytime) have vanished without trace! wooooooooo!

Good point. Oo-er. Good story from teameffrt, too.
I've never had a paranormal experience at a film, but the house cat at the Scala in King's Cross in London could make you leap a mile in the air if you were watching an all-night horror bill and he suddenly ran along the back of your seat.

[jaycad]

Good point. Oo-er. Good story from teameffrt, too.
I've never had a paranormal experience at a film, but the house cat at the Scala in King's Cross in London could make you leap a mile in the air if you were watching an all-night horror bill and he suddenly ran along the back of your seat.

i had a similar experience when staying at chingle hall-one of the many reputed 'most haunted buildings in britain',i'd had a few in the nearby inn and decided i was brave enough to sit on a chair in the 'chapel' at the hall (which in reality is just a small room with a priest hole in the wall) when everyone else was upstairs,next minute i felt a sudden pressure on my knee and shot up in fright-sending the resident cat upwards-i had no idea there was a cat in the house and felt guilty about frightening the poor creature! (i wonder if the cat felt guilty about frightening me?)

[alan french]

Hi,
Just seen this thread. I noticed that an earlier submission referred to Sid James. I have also heard from someone of the fact that Les Dawson is reputed to have seen what was taken as the ghost of Sid James looking at him whilst in a dressing room.

True or false, theatricle ghosts do make good stories.

I think that most theatres have a reputaion of being haunted.

But one story which is believable, concerns an actor. Sir Donald Wolfit. I gather he was acting in Oedepus Rex. He had to, somewhere along the line, go to his dressing room and make himself look ghastly. I shall not go into detail in what way, as it may upset anyone who is squeamish. However, now looking horrible, he made his way to the stage. En route he traversed a quiet spot in the theatre. I gather some employee saw Sir Donald. Did not realise it was him in his Oedipus persona, took one look and very terrified, just ran.

Now this is the sort of thread which I think would suit Faginsgirl.

Alan French.