#theater ghost

[darrowfire15]

My Ghost Stories from my University #1

My first encounter with the Theater Ghost at my University was my first year in the Fall semester.

I was stage managing for our Fall play and I always get to the theater 30 minutes early to put up our 'set' since the actual set hadn't been built yet (this was early in rehearsals). This usually consisted of a bunch of chairs from the wings put together on stage in a certain place and dragging two chairs for the director and I to sit on. It was always quick and ended with me waiting for the director and actors to show up as I sit in the empty theater for the remaining 20 minutes.

But this one time, as I'm waiting on the stage in my chair, a loud and deep laugh echoed from the left of the theater. It was so loud that you would think it was coming from the speakers. Not wanting to be the stupid person in a horror movie, I booked it out of there and pass security doing their rounds. The brief thought of security playing a prank crossed my mind, but they were coming from the opposite direction of the laugh.

Since then, I started entering the theater with my evil eye in my pocket. I also began to say "hello" and "goodbye" to the theater ghost so that it would perceive me as a friend and not haunt me. While I did stop bringing my evil eye to the theater, I do still greet and give my farewell to the Theater Ghost whenever I have to go in there for any reason

[javamotion]

The local community theater is rumored to be haunted by three ghosts. My favorite is the little boy, who shoves cast members down the stairs backstage. He’s my favorite because he’s the only one who probably isn’t even real, actors are just too ashamed to admit they fall down stairs that frequently.

[roosteraintshit]

THEATER GHOST PART 2

*a set builder is attempting to hold up a flat, but it won’t stop wobbling and every time they try to go drill it down it starts to fall on them*

Theater Ghost: need an extra hand?

Set Builder: yes please.

Theater Ghost: gotcha *holds it steady*

Set Builder: thanks! wait, how are you holding this in place, you’re a gho-

Theater Ghost: do you think my people pleasing powers ended with my death?

[roosteraintshit]

Theater Ghost Shenanigans Part One

Theater Ghost *in a whispering mysterious voice*:the actor you cant find for notes is making out with one of the ensemble in the green room

AD: thanks theater ghost

Theatre Ghost: no problem. i can go spook them if you want, keep the couches in there safe from any unborn children.

AD: that’s be appreciated

[catwalkghost]

Me and the ASM: *cheerfully talking about our various theater ghosts*

Person we're trying to convince to join crew: excuse me there are what

[superindianslug]

Theater Ghost Day 6

Time for the last story.  This one is from two weeks ago, in the middle of the day.

We have one manager who is deathly scared of the ghost.  I don’t know why, he’s pretty mellow, and she’s never even seen him, but she refused to go into projection without someone else with her.

On this day, I was in the office eating lunch., and she was upstairs with an employee organizing posters.  The other manager was in the lobby doing whatever.

One of the ushers calls over the radio and ask if anyone is upstairs. So the manager responds, yes, and ask why.  The usher says, “oh, ok, I saw someone in the window of #13 and just wanted to make sure.”

The room that the keep all the posters in is on the other side of the building. So the employee jumps up, says “I’ll check” and runs off, leaving the manager alone, so she runs after him.

I’m downstairs eating, wondering why people are running around upstairs.

They get over there, and as we have come to expect from the ghost, there is nothing/no one there.

So now, I have employees who never eve go upstairs, who are scared of the ghost. He just wants to watch movies, let him be.  If he starts going all Poltergeist on the place, I’m blaming these jerks who leaking fear all over my projectors.

THE END

Until he decides to watch a movie with someone less chill than I am.

[superindianslug]

Theater Ghost Day 5

All of my ghost stories are done, this one is from my boss.

For some reason managers have to wear jackets and ties while working.  It’s a a theater though, and the chances of getting butter, or cheese, or whatever on your clothes is higher than most other suited activities.  Because of this, most of us don’t wear white shirts.  Mostly it’s blue, grey or black, maybe green if you want to be rebellious.  Because of the limited color choices, there are some days where all the male managers are wearing the same color shirts.

Today’s story takes place on one of these monochrome days, a little over a month ago.  Everyone wore grey shirts that day. Thankfully I worked in the morning and everyone one else worked at night, so were not forced to form a boy band, as is required when 4 or more men are hanging out in matching outfits.

At closing, my boss went up to the booth to shut down projectors. He’s at #10, and sees someone, out the corner of his eye, in grey walking down the hall towards him, and then they duck over by #9. He’s thinking one of the other managers had come upstairs to try to scare him.  He finishes shutting down #10, and goes over to #9 to try to scare them instead.

Nobody there

He calls over the radio downstairs and ask one manager where he is.  He’s in the office doing inventory stuff.

He called the other manager, and ask where he is.  He’s in the lobby with the usher, who is the only other person in the building.

He calls over the radio again and ask, “So, who’s up here with me?”

They all checked the booth, and of course did not find anyone.  It should be noted that there are only 2 doors to get into projection, and they both stay locked.

I talked to him later, and he said he wasn’t really sure if the person he saw was wearing a grey shirt.  He just remembers that they looked grey, and he assumed it was the grey shirt of one of the other managers.

[superindianslug]

Theater Ghost Day 4

I missed a day cause I’m lame, but I haven’t forgotten about this.

I think I said earlier that the ghost wasn’t a big fan of us replacing our film projectors with digital ones. This one happened on one of that last days that we had film projectors.

Projector bulbs are under pressure, so they explode if you break them. Because of this before the projectors could be taken away the bulbs had to be removed from them.  I came in around 1 am this day to remove the bulbs and any other pieces that we could still use, and generally prepare things for when the techs came in to do the actual swap.

My tech told me he’d come in around 5am. A lot of lights are on in the booth so that I can see what I’m doing.  I’m was coming back from one of the projectors, #15, that’s down a side hallway.  It’s a around 5:30, so I’m expecting my tech to be in the building somewhere.  I see a shadow moving from around, so I’m like “cool, he’s here”.  I put down the stuff I’m carrying and go around the corner to say hi... nobody is there.  The shadow is gone too.

The Tech didn’t show up for another hour. Thankfully the ghost was just wandering around over there and not sabotaging stuff.