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2 cops quit after DEMON encounter The Capitol Theater haunting · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: For a ghost story to be scary, it needs to
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Speaker 1: be believable. For it to be believable, you need to
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Speaker 1: have credible witnesses that independently can corroborate each other's stories.
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Speaker 1: And in today's ghost story, we have three police officers
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Speaker 1: that do just that. But before we get into that story,
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Speaker 1: into today's story. In two thousand and six, Dave Murphy
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Speaker 1: had just become a police officer in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Speaker 1: His first role was as a protective service officer, which
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Speaker 1: meant he'd be in charge of physical security and a
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Speaker 1: number of the county facilities. Dave's first facility was the
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Speaker 1: Capital City Theater, which is a landmark inside of Salt
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Speaker 1: Lake City. It's been around since the early nineteen hundreds.
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Speaker 1: It's this beautiful, grand theater. So in early August, Dave
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Speaker 1: reports to the Capital City Theater first first day on
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Speaker 1: the job, and he meets his partner, an officer by
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Speaker 1: the name of Morgan Matthews. He gets there on this
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Speaker 1: first day and right away Dave would say that Morgan
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Speaker 1: was just strictly business. The first place that Morgan takes
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Speaker 1: Dave is the control room, which sits on the first
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Speaker 1: floor of the theater. The theater had three floors and
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Speaker 1: then it also had a basement as well, so the
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Speaker 1: control room was on that first floor. Inside of the
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Speaker 1: control room where all of the security monitors because there
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Speaker 1: was all these cameras set up inside of the theater.
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Speaker 1: The cameras weren't great though. You pretty much could only
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Speaker 1: tell what was in frame if there was a light on,
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Speaker 1: and most of the time at night especially, lights were off.
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Speaker 1: Once they were done looking at the control room, Morgan
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Speaker 1: says to Dave, now we're going to go do our rounds.
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Speaker 1: This is something we do every time you get to
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Speaker 1: the theater. You do a security round and make sure
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Speaker 1: everything's locked, all the lights are off before you come
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Speaker 1: back to the control Room'll do that at the beginning
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Speaker 1: of your shift, and at the end of your shift,
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Speaker 1: Morgan brings Dave downstairs, and it's the first time Dave
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Speaker 1: is seeing the basement, and he's shocked by how big
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Speaker 1: it is. It is this massive hallway that stretches way down.
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Speaker 1: In the middle of the hall is a piano that's
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Speaker 1: just sitting out in the middle, and the lighting's not
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Speaker 1: good down there. This is a very old theater, you know,
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Speaker 1: everything in the building was pretty old. And Dave remembers
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Speaker 1: thinking that he was immediately creeped out by this scene,
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Speaker 1: this long hallway with all these doors in this piano
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of the hallway, and he's thinking
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Speaker 1: to himself, I don't want to spend much time down here.
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Speaker 1: This is so creepy. But they go down the hall,
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Speaker 1: they check all the doors, they make the way up
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Speaker 1: to the main floor, of the second floor, the third floor.
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Speaker 1: Everything gets checked and so after they do this security round,
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Speaker 1: Dave and Morgan go back to the control room and
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Speaker 1: Dave is anticipating getting to know Morgan a little bit.
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Speaker 1: This is their first night. They're going to be working
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Speaker 1: together a lot, and Dave would say that Morgan just
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Speaker 1: seems really cold and just did not want to talk
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Speaker 1: to Dave very much, and as soon as their shift
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Speaker 1: was almost over, more was very eager to just knock
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Speaker 1: out the security rounds and just get out of that building.
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Speaker 1: At the end of that night, Dave remembers thinking that
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Speaker 1: there's just something off about Morgan's behavior. It seemed like
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Speaker 1: Morgan really didn't like being in the theater. It would
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Speaker 1: turn out that he was onto something because Morgan didn't
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Speaker 1: like being in that building, but it would take him
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Speaker 1: a while to share with Dave why. Over the next
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Speaker 1: couple of days, Morgan and Dave would do their security
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Speaker 1: rounds together because Dave's in training, Morgan's teaching him. But
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Speaker 1: on August ninth, which is two days after Dave's first
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Speaker 1: day on the job, Morgan was confident that Dave knew
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Speaker 1: how to secure the whole building, and so at the
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Speaker 1: end of the night, he tells Dave, why don't you
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Speaker 1: do the security rounds yourself. Dave feels very confident that
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Speaker 1: he knows how to do it. He goes down into
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Speaker 1: the basement, make sure all the doors are shut and locked,
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Speaker 1: that the lights are off, finishes the basement, goes up
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Speaker 1: to the first floor, where the control room is and
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Speaker 1: checks all the rooms on that floor. He goes into
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Speaker 1: the main auditorium space. He's checking all the different nooks
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Speaker 1: and crannies to make sure there's nobody hiding in there.
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Speaker 1: He goes up to the set floor, he checks all
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Speaker 1: the different rooms up there and the balcony. Makes his
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Speaker 1: way up to the third floor, where there's all the
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Speaker 1: offices of staff that work at the theater. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the search, the last room he would check
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Speaker 1: was the rehearsal room, and it was the only room
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Speaker 1: where there was no door to it, so he'd poke
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Speaker 1: your head in, kind of look around, make sure no
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Speaker 1: one was in there, and then you would leave and
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Speaker 1: that's the end of your check. So Dave gets to
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Speaker 1: the rehearsal room, he flips the light on and he
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Speaker 1: looks inside, doesn't see anybody, is satisfied that no one's
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Speaker 1: in there, turns the light off, and as he's about
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Speaker 1: to turn back into the hallway, he hears a door
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Speaker 1: slam with tremendous force right across the hallway from where
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Speaker 1: he was, and it was the bathroom door. And his
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Speaker 1: first reaction is someone just ran out of the bathroom,
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Speaker 1: someone who had stuck into the building. Must have run
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Speaker 1: out of the bathroom and they're making a break for
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Speaker 1: it to get out of the theater before I catch them.
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Speaker 1: And so he instinctively picks up his radio when he
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Speaker 1: calls to Morgan and says someone's on the third floor.
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Speaker 1: But when Morgan looks at the camera, he doesn't see anybody.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Dave's drawn his weapon, you know, when
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Speaker 1: he's looking down the hall, he doesn't see anybody, and
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Speaker 1: as he's waiting for Morgan to come upstairs to back
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Speaker 1: him up, So then go look for this person that's
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Speaker 1: just ran down the hall. He realizes two things. One,
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Speaker 1: just because he heard the door slam doesn't mean they
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Speaker 1: left and slammed it. They could be in the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: And so he's thinking to himself, someone could be in
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Speaker 1: the bathroom right now. Maybe that's why we didn't see
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Speaker 1: him on the camera. And then the second thing he
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Speaker 1: thought of is that door. The bathroom door can't slam.
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Speaker 1: It's got this huge hydraulic hinge to it. It can't slam.
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Speaker 1: So his gun is drawn and he's aiming it at
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Speaker 1: the bathroom door. Right as Morgan comes up on his right.
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Speaker 1: Morgan draws his pistol he's got it on the door
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Speaker 1: as well, and they make entry into the bathroom. They
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Speaker 1: clear all the different spaces in the bathroom and no
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Speaker 1: one's in there and there's no way to get out
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Speaker 1: of there. Morgan and Dave are like, Okay, well, they
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Speaker 1: must not have come in here. They must have run
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Speaker 1: out of the bathroom. They're somewhere in the theater. And
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Speaker 1: so they decide they're going to search the entire building
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Speaker 1: and find this person that clearly was just in the
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Speaker 1: bathroom and that's how they slammed the door. We're not
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Speaker 1: gonna worry about how they slammed the door with a
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Speaker 1: hydraulic hinge. We just know slammed somehow. So they leave
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Speaker 1: the bathroom, guns still drawn, and they start making their
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Speaker 1: way down the hall. They're checking all the doors. Everything
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Speaker 1: is locked. When they start making their way downstairs to
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Speaker 1: the second floor, Dave recognizes through the door because there's
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Speaker 1: a door leading onto the second floor, he can see
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Speaker 1: that the lights are on and he had turned them off.
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Speaker 1: And so as they're walking down the stairs, he says
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Speaker 1: to Morgan, Hey, did you turn the lights on on
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Speaker 1: the second floor? And Morgan's like no, And so they
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Speaker 1: think that whoever was here, whoever was in the bathroom
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Speaker 1: is on the second floor. They must have turned the
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Speaker 1: lights on. They go into the second floor and not
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Speaker 1: only are the lights on, but all the doors on
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Speaker 1: the second floor had been opened. They searched the entire
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Speaker 1: second floor, They search every single room. No one's on
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Speaker 1: the second floor. They turn off the lights, they shut
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Speaker 1: all the doors. Everything's locked. When they went down to
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Speaker 1: the first floor, everything was the way it should have been, locked,
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Speaker 1: lights off. Nothing down there. And they go down to
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Speaker 1: the basement, and even though it was creepy being down there,
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Speaker 1: because they've now searched the whole building and they're anticipating
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Speaker 1: coming in contact with whoever is here, assuming they haven't
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Speaker 1: left the building yet and there's no one down there,
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Speaker 1: they decided to review the footage from the third floor
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Speaker 1: to see if they could pick up someone running in
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Speaker 1: the hall around the time that that door slammed. But
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Speaker 1: the camera was not trained on the bathroom door, so
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Speaker 1: you just have this view down the hall. You can't
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Speaker 1: see the bathroom specifically, not to mention, the hallway is
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Speaker 1: dark and the cameras are terrible without light, and so
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Speaker 1: all they're able to see is the light go on
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Speaker 1: in the rehearsal room while Dave is doing his last
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Speaker 1: check in there. The lights turn off because Dave's about
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Speaker 1: to turn around, and then after that you just hear
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Speaker 1: this massive slam of this door, but you can't see
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Speaker 1: what happened, so they don't know what to make of it.
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Speaker 1: They're both very much on edge that someone might still
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Speaker 1: be in the building, and so they do another sweep
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Speaker 1: of the building and no one's there, and so they
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Speaker 1: decide to just chalk it up and say, we were
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Speaker 1: hearing things and seeing things. I'm sure it's fine. Let's
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Speaker 1: just get out of here, and they leave. A couple
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Speaker 1: of days later, on August eleventh, Morgan is working alone.
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Speaker 1: Dave wasn't coming in that day, so Morgan's alone in
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Speaker 1: the theater doing a shift, and at some point in
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Speaker 1: the night, as he's sitting in the control room, he
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Speaker 1: thinks he hears whispering in the hall right behind him.
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Speaker 1: And so, after the experience he had with Dave a
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Speaker 1: couple nights ago, he's on edge. So he draws his
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Speaker 1: pistol right away, and so he goes out into the hallway,
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Speaker 1: and immediately when he steps into the hall, the whispering
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Speaker 1: seems to go farther and farther away from him down
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Speaker 1: the hall. So he gets out there, he's looking over
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Speaker 1: around and he can't see anything. He makes his way
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Speaker 1: down the hallway towards the stairs that go down into
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Speaker 1: the basement or if you want to go up to
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Speaker 1: the second floor, and when he gets to the top
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Speaker 1: of the stairwall, he's, you know, gun drawn, looking down,
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Speaker 1: looking up, he hears what sounds like coughing coming from
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Speaker 1: the basement. And at this point Morgan said that he
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Speaker 1: was actually pretty scared. I mean, imagine being alone in
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Speaker 1: this theater just a couple of days earlier. You've had
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Speaker 1: this weird experience with slamming doors and doors being opened
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Speaker 1: and light's going on that somebody else, another police officer
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Speaker 1: witnessed with you. You're alone in this theater and you're
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Speaker 1: hearing coughing coming from the basement after hearing voices behind you.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty terrifying. So he very slowly starts going down
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Speaker 1: the stairwell. He's getting ready to clear the corner, and
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Speaker 1: just as he does, the coffee stops. He turns the
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Speaker 1: lights on and he looks down the hall and there's
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Speaker 1: nothing there. He starts making his way down the hall.
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Speaker 1: He's checking every door, making sure it's locked, you know,
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Speaker 1: making sure that everything is secure. And he gets all
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Speaker 1: the way down the hall and as he's almost done
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Speaker 1: checking the basement and he smells smoke and it's coming
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Speaker 1: from a door right next to him, and so he
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Speaker 1: unlocks that door and he goes in and there's no fire,
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Speaker 1: but all he can smell his smokes. He turns the
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Speaker 1: light on. He's looking around. There's no fire. He's convinced
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Speaker 1: that somewhere down in the basement there's a fire. He
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Speaker 1: goes to every single room and he keeps checking and
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Speaker 1: there's nothing. And then at some point the smoke smell dissipates.
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Speaker 1: He checks every space in the theater to look for
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Speaker 1: a fire, and there's no fire. He's wondering if he
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Speaker 1: should call the fire department, but he's thinking, what I
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Speaker 1: tell them, there's no fire, and so he ultimately, after
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Speaker 1: checking three four times and being very confident there wasn't
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Speaker 1: a fire, he just says, Okay, no fire. I guess
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Speaker 1: I was just smelling things. A few weeks later, on
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Speaker 1: September fourth, Dave has just arrived at the theater. He's
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Speaker 1: there a little bit early. Their shift started at five pm.
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Speaker 1: He was there at about four thirty and when he
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Speaker 1: walked into the building, he sees that there are three
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Speaker 1: staff members sitting at the front desk talking to each other,
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Speaker 1: and as he walks past, one of them is talking
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Speaker 1: about ghosts inside of the theater, and it immediately piques
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Speaker 1: his interest, and so he walked over to the guy
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Speaker 1: talking about ghosts, and he introduced himself, and it turned
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Speaker 1: out that this guy was a man named Blair Fuller,
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Speaker 1: who was a senior accountant at the theater. And so
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Speaker 1: Dave asked, Blair, what are you talking about with ghosts
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Speaker 1: in the theater? Because I provide physical security here and
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Speaker 1: I've seen some strange things here. I just love to
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Speaker 1: hear what you have to say about it. So they
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Speaker 1: head up to the third floor where Blair's office was
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Speaker 1: and they sit down and Blair says, okay, I got
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Speaker 1: a doozy for you. This happened to me a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago. I was actually in this office. It
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Speaker 1: was about nine ten o'clock at night. I was doing
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Speaker 1: some work and I heard the elevator kick on. Now,
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Speaker 1: the elevator was right outside of his office, and anytime
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Speaker 1: it was on. The engine was really loud. It was
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Speaker 1: really obvious if the elevator was moving around. And so
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Speaker 1: he's doing his accounting work and he hears that engine
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Speaker 1: kick on. He doesn't think much of it, but then
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Speaker 1: it clicks that he's the only one in the building
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Speaker 1: and so he kind of looks out the glass window
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Speaker 1: of his office. He had a closed door office with
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Speaker 1: two windows looking out into the foyer where there's this elevator,
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Speaker 1: and he looks out and he can see that the
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Speaker 1: little lights above the elevator showing what floor it's on,
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Speaker 1: have lit up and it's going up. So the elevator
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Speaker 1: was in the basement and now it's in the first floor,
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Speaker 1: the second floor, third floor. The door's open and there's
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Speaker 1: no one there. And at this point Blair says that
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Speaker 1: he wasn't concerned. He figured, Okay, maybe there's some maintenance,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's scheduled to do that, who knows. But after
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Speaker 1: a little while, the alarm goes off in the elevator
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Speaker 1: to signify that something is obstructing the door from shutting.
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Speaker 1: And he's looking out the window and he hears this alarm.
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Speaker 1: This's like ringing sound going off, but the door isn't shutting,
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Speaker 1: And he's like, there's nothing obstructing the door, why isn't
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Speaker 1: it shutting? And so he leaves his office and he
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Speaker 1: kind of walks over to the elevator and he walks
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Speaker 1: into the elevator and he said, immediately he felt this
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Speaker 1: massive drop in temperature inside of the elevator. And as
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Speaker 1: he's standing there, he turns around. Now he's looking back
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Speaker 1: towards his office. Inside of the elevator, the doors start
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Speaker 1: to shut and for whatever reason, he said, I didn't
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Speaker 1: get off. I just decided I'm gonna ride this elevator.
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Speaker 1: The basement button lights up as if someone had pressed
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Speaker 1: basement and they start going down, and he's sitting there thinking,
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Speaker 1: what in the world is going on? It was just
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Speaker 1: on an alarm because the door wasn't shutting. And then miraculously,
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Speaker 1: when I go inside of it, it suddenly works again
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Speaker 1: and it's going to the basement. So he goes to
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Speaker 1: the basement. The door opens, there's no one there. He
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Speaker 1: steps out, and Blair says that it took all of
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Speaker 1: his courage to yell out, hey is anyone down here?
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Speaker 1: And as soon as he did, and he didn't hear
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Speaker 1: a response, he said he didn't want to make any
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Speaker 1: more sound. The elevator sat in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: hall in the basement. It's that huge hall with that
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Speaker 1: piano sitting right in the middle. The lights are off,
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Speaker 1: and he pokes his head down one way. There's nothing
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Speaker 1: down there. He sees the piano barely from the light
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Speaker 1: of the elevator, and he looks down the other way.
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Speaker 1: There's no one there. And at this point he's just
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Speaker 1: so spooked. He just gets back in the elevator and
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Speaker 1: he hits four three, floor three, floor three, and he's
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Speaker 1: hitting like door closed door, closed, door closed. The door closes,
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Speaker 1: and he goes back up to his office. He goes
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Speaker 1: into his office and he shuts the door and he
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Speaker 1: sits down and he's thinking, like, what was that? Why
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Speaker 1: did that just happen? I gotta find out they're running
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Speaker 1: maintenance or something. And as he's sitting in his chair
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Speaker 1: thinking about this strange experience, he hears what sounds like
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Speaker 1: banging sounds coming from outside of his office in that
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Speaker 1: foyer near the elevator. He just goes to his door
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Speaker 1: and he opens it up and he pokes his head
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Speaker 1: into the floyer and he looks to the side, and
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Speaker 1: there's this big filing cabinet and all of the cabinets
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Speaker 1: are out, They've all been pulled out. He's certainly didn't
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Speaker 1: do this, and it was as if someone was one
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Speaker 1: by one pushing each of them shut, these big, heavy cabinets,
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Speaker 1: and he's watching us. One by one, these things are
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Speaker 1: slamming shut, one by one until a whole thing is shut.
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Speaker 1: And so he goes over and he's like trying to
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Speaker 1: disprove what he just saw. That he can open up
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Speaker 1: a drawer and that it will shut on its own,
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Speaker 1: but none of them shut on their own. You have
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Speaker 1: to shut it. Something has to shut it for it
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Speaker 1: too shut. And so he packed up for the day
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Speaker 1: and left and did not work another night shift at
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Speaker 1: the theater. Later that night, Dave would share Blair's story
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Speaker 1: with Morgan. He wasn't really sure how Morgan was going
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Speaker 1: to react, but Morgan actually would open up and he
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Speaker 1: would say, you know, before you started working here, I
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Speaker 1: always felt like I was being watched when I was here.
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Speaker 1: And then we had that experience obviously where the lights
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Speaker 1: are coming on and you heard that banging from that
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Speaker 1: bathroom door, and then just a few days ago I
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Speaker 1: heard voices coming from the hall, and I heard someone
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Speaker 1: coughing in the basement, and I smelled smoke, and there
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Speaker 1: was no one there. And so they start going back
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Speaker 1: and forth, exchanging stories of just how uncomfortable this place
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Speaker 1: made them feel. And so they're wondering what they should
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Speaker 1: do about this, and Dave has this idea. He's like,
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Speaker 1: my best friend, I'll invite him to come over here
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Speaker 1: one night and we'll tell him that we're giving him
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Speaker 1: a tour of the building, and we'll just see what
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Speaker 1: he says. We'll see if he reacts to anything here.
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Speaker 1: Who knows, you know, maybe something strange will happen, and
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Speaker 1: then we'll have another person validated. Morgan thinks that's a
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Speaker 1: good idea, and so Dave reaches out to his best
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Speaker 1: friend Greg. Greg would say that he was a little
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Speaker 1: a little bit surprised to be getting this offer to
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Speaker 1: come take a tour of the theater, but he was interested,
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Speaker 1: and since Dave was asking, he figured he would oblige him,
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Speaker 1: and so Greg agrees to come to the theater and
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Speaker 1: take a tour. So the next day, Dave and Morgan
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Speaker 1: are at the theater and Greg shows up as they
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Speaker 1: start this tour. They go in the main auditorium. They're
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Speaker 1: looking around and they make their way into the basement.
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Speaker 1: Morgan turns on the light and Morgan and Dave instantly
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Speaker 1: see a little ways down the hall on the left,
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Speaker 1: one of the doors has been opened, and so Dave
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Speaker 1: and Morgan pushed Greg out of the way. They draw
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Speaker 1: their pistols and they're aimed at the open door, and
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Speaker 1: so Greg just stays behind them as Morgan and Dave
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Speaker 1: make their way down to this open door. And when
15:38
Speaker 1: they get right outside the door and they're about to
15:41
Speaker 1: push it open to go inside, the door slams shut
15:44
Speaker 1: right in front of Greg and Dave and Morgan, and
15:48
Speaker 1: they all are looking at each other like what's going on?
15:51
Speaker 1: But before they can do anything, the door handle starts
15:54
Speaker 1: rattling really aggressively. After the rattling stops, Dave and Morgan
15:58
Speaker 1: look at each other and they nod their head. Got
16:00
Speaker 1: to go in there. Greg is scared about being out
16:02
Speaker 1: in the hall alone, and so he just follows them in.
16:05
Speaker 1: And so the three of them go into this room.
16:07
Speaker 1: Dave and Morgan are, you know, pistols drawn. It's a
16:09
Speaker 1: small room. There's no one in there. Light switch on
16:12
Speaker 1: no one in there. Greg suddenly gasps and he points
16:15
Speaker 1: to the corner and he says, someone's sitting in the corner.
16:17
Speaker 1: And David Morgan immediately train their guns on what's in
16:20
Speaker 1: the corner, but no one's there, and Greg's like, I
16:24
Speaker 1: just saw someone sitting in the corner. It looked like
16:26
Speaker 1: he had a hood on, he had like a sweatshirt on.
16:28
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's right there. And so Dave
16:30
Speaker 1: and Morgan they're freaked out because they brought Greg here
16:33
Speaker 1: on some level to disprove the strangeness, and now the
16:37
Speaker 1: three of them have seen a door slam that shouldn't
16:39
Speaker 1: have been opened in the first place. Greg's claiming to
16:42
Speaker 1: have seen a figure sitting in the corner. This scared
16:44
Speaker 1: the crap out of all three of them. They quickly left, locked,
16:48
Speaker 1: shut off, the lights went upstairs. Greg's like, I'm out
16:50
Speaker 1: of here. Greg Leaves and David Morgan are like, now what.
16:54
Speaker 1: So at this point, all the strangeness that was happening
16:56
Speaker 1: in the theater was getting reported, but it was being
16:59
Speaker 1: reported it in a way that Dave and Morgan didn't
17:02
Speaker 1: seem like they were referencing something haunted, but rather someone
17:06
Speaker 1: was breaking in. Ultimately, the county installed new cameras inside
17:11
Speaker 1: of the theater. These updated cameras had infrared technology, which
17:14
Speaker 1: allowed them to see better when the lights were off.
17:16
Speaker 1: They were hoping that this would allow them to catch
17:18
Speaker 1: whoever was breaking in. Practically every time David Morgan are
17:22
Speaker 1: on shift. So on the day that it was installed
17:24
Speaker 1: September fifteenth, Morgan is working there alone, and he's sitting
17:27
Speaker 1: in the control room looking at the different cameras and
17:30
Speaker 1: he's kind of playing around with the different screens and
17:32
Speaker 1: seeing what each of the cameras can do. And at
17:34
Speaker 1: some point, something catches his eye in one of the
17:36
Speaker 1: screen in the main auditorium. It appeared like someone might
17:40
Speaker 1: be sitting in one of the seats, but the camera
17:43
Speaker 1: was zoomed back enough that he couldn't get a clear picture,
17:45
Speaker 1: and he didn't know what was normal in any of
17:47
Speaker 1: these cameras because this is the first time he's looking
17:50
Speaker 1: at any of these screens, and so he's looking at
17:52
Speaker 1: the camera really closely, and he thinks he sees someone
17:55
Speaker 1: he can't really tell that has a hood on or
17:58
Speaker 1: a shroud on that's just in the middle of the theater,
18:01
Speaker 1: and it starts turning its head like this, and he
18:03
Speaker 1: can see clear his day a set of eyes, and
18:06
Speaker 1: before Morgan has a chance to do it, it just
18:08
Speaker 1: starts raising into the ceiling and disappears. Morgan didn't even
18:11
Speaker 1: check to see what it was. He was done. He
18:13
Speaker 1: literally quit that day. That was his last day at
18:16
Speaker 1: the theater. A couple of weeks after Morgan has quit
18:18
Speaker 1: and Dave is working alone at the theater. He's in
18:21
Speaker 1: the control room and all of a sudden he hears
18:24
Speaker 1: a piano playing, and there's only one piano in the
18:28
Speaker 1: entire theater and it's sitting in the basement. It's his
18:30
Speaker 1: job to protect this place, so he knows he has
18:33
Speaker 1: to go down and check because it could be some
18:35
Speaker 1: hooligan in the building somewhere. So he leaves the control
18:38
Speaker 1: room and as he starts walking over to the stairs
18:40
Speaker 1: with his gun drawn, the music is getting louder and louder.
18:43
Speaker 1: The piano is getting louder and louder and louder. He
18:46
Speaker 1: makes his way down the steps and as he's about
18:48
Speaker 1: to turn the corner, he hears that the guard that
18:51
Speaker 1: protects the keys on the piano slam shut and the
18:54
Speaker 1: piano stops. Then he turns around the corner and he
18:57
Speaker 1: looks and there's no one down there. He flips on
18:59
Speaker 1: the light in the hall. He knows he's not going
19:01
Speaker 1: to find anyone down here. It's this entity that's causing
19:04
Speaker 1: all this mayhem inside of the theater. Dave's seen enough,
19:07
Speaker 1: he's done, He's done with this theater, and he goes
19:09
Speaker 1: right back upstairs. He goes in the control room, locks
19:12
Speaker 1: it stays there till the end of the shift, and
19:14
Speaker 1: then he is out. And the next day he goes
19:16
Speaker 1: to a sergeant and he says, you can't ever put
19:18
Speaker 1: me back inside that theater or I will quit. And
19:20
Speaker 1: so sure enough, he was transferred. Over the next two months,
19:23
Speaker 1: they didn't have anyone who could do full time security
19:26
Speaker 1: at the theater, so different random officers would be there
19:29
Speaker 1: for a couple hours a couple of days a week
19:31
Speaker 1: until November twenty sixth, they found another officer, a veteran
19:36
Speaker 1: police officer named Josh Thomas, who was going to be
19:38
Speaker 1: working at the theater full time. On November twenty sixth,
19:41
Speaker 1: the first night that Josh Thomas was going to be there,
19:44
Speaker 1: he didn't have anyone to turn over with, so he
19:46
Speaker 1: was just alone at the theater, and it just so
19:48
Speaker 1: happens that Dave is in a patrol car near the
19:51
Speaker 1: theater and when at some point in the night, Josh
19:53
Speaker 1: comes over the radio and says, hey, I need back
19:55
Speaker 1: up right now. Someone has broken into the theater. Dave
19:58
Speaker 1: knows that it's probably not someone breaking in. He knows
20:01
Speaker 1: what's going on inside that theater. He was the closest
20:03
Speaker 1: to it, and even though he did not want to go,
20:06
Speaker 1: he felt like it was his responsibility to go to
20:08
Speaker 1: that theater and be Josh's back up. And if it
20:11
Speaker 1: was what Dave thought it would be this entity in
20:13
Speaker 1: the theater that he would be able to explain to
20:16
Speaker 1: him what he had seen before. He ultimately decided never
20:19
Speaker 1: to go back. And when Dave gets to the theater,
20:21
Speaker 1: there's this back door that they would go into, and
20:23
Speaker 1: he sees Josh is standing just outside the theater, and
20:26
Speaker 1: Dave would say that Josh's eyes were like saucers. He
20:28
Speaker 1: looked terrified, and so Dave has an inkling of what's
20:31
Speaker 1: going on, and he goes over to Josh. He's like,
20:33
Speaker 1: what's going on? Is someone still in there? He said
20:35
Speaker 1: that he'd been doing security rounds and he had heard
20:37
Speaker 1: what sounded like voices when he was in the basement,
20:40
Speaker 1: and he didn't think much of it. He checked all
20:42
Speaker 1: the rooms, everything was shut, and when he made his
20:44
Speaker 1: way up to the third floor, he saw that the
20:47
Speaker 1: elevator had kicked on. It was in the basement, and
20:49
Speaker 1: suddenly the light was on and it was whirring up
20:51
Speaker 1: to the third floor. And when the elevator opened up,
20:53
Speaker 1: there was no one there. And he's standing there looking
20:56
Speaker 1: at it, and he looks inside. There's no one there,
20:58
Speaker 1: and then the alarm goes off. That's when he called
21:00
Speaker 1: in for backup. Dave says, look, let's just go search
21:02
Speaker 1: the building. We'll do it together. They clear the whole theater.
21:05
Speaker 1: No one's there, and before Dave leaves, they go into
21:08
Speaker 1: the main auditorium where the stages, and they're just standing
21:11
Speaker 1: on the stage chatting with each other, and Dave, his
21:14
Speaker 1: back is to where the audience would be, and Josh
21:16
Speaker 1: is facing Dave, facing towards the seats. Josh just suddenly
21:20
Speaker 1: stopped mid sentence. He's just frozen and looking just beyond
21:24
Speaker 1: Dave's shoulder, and Dave goes, what And Josh goes, there's
21:28
Speaker 1: something behind you. Dave slowly turns around, and as soon
21:31
Speaker 1: as he does, he can tell immediately what Josh is
21:34
Speaker 1: looking at. Standing in the very back of the theater,
21:37
Speaker 1: away from them, is a man standing in the corner
21:39
Speaker 1: with its hands by its sides, its back is to them,
21:42
Speaker 1: and it's looking down with a hood over its head.
21:44
Speaker 1: Dave turns his whole body round to look at this
21:47
Speaker 1: thing right as this thing turns around real quick and
21:49
Speaker 1: looks directly at them. That has these deep, dark, sunken eyes,
21:53
Speaker 1: and its face looks like it had been very badly burned,
21:57
Speaker 1: like it was black and charred, and it's looking at them.
22:00
Speaker 1: Four just turns and runs out the back of the theater.
22:03
Speaker 1: Josh believed that that was an intruder. Dave was fairly
22:06
Speaker 1: certain that that was just another example of this entity
22:09
Speaker 1: that haunts the theater. But they would search the building
22:11
Speaker 1: and they could never find that cloaked figure again. And
22:14
Speaker 1: that was when Dave sat Josh down in the control
22:17
Speaker 1: room and he filled him in on why Morgan had
22:19
Speaker 1: quit and why he ultimately had quit, and he also
22:22
Speaker 1: told him the story from Blair. So Josh is like, great,
22:24
Speaker 1: I'm glad I work here. Now. This was the last
22:26
Speaker 1: time that Dave would go to the theater, but Dave
22:28
Speaker 1: would do some additional digging on the history of the theater.
22:31
Speaker 1: It would turn out that in the forties there was
22:33
Speaker 1: this horrible fire and a man had been trapped in
22:36
Speaker 1: the basement when the fire had erupted, and he had
22:39
Speaker 1: died inside of the theater. And so Dave would share
22:41
Speaker 1: this information with Morgan and with Josh, and the three
22:44
Speaker 1: of them all believe that what they were witnessing was
22:47
Speaker 1: the ghost of that man who died in that fire.
22:49
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22:52
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22:54
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