The Strand Movie Theater

Built in 1890 as the Spencer Opera House, the building was converted into a movie theater in 1919 and had taken the Strand name by 1924; after a 1951 remodel it continues to operate as a working theater today. The Strand is said to be haunted by one of its previous owners. A woman cleaning the theater once heard her children screaming and found them describing a man at the top of the balcony stairs; a worker later saw a man matching that description duck out of sight in the projection room, with no one to be found when he checked. He later learned a new owner's father had once owned the theater and died by suicide in the projection room years earlier. The ghost has since been spotted watching people through the projection room window, ducking immediately when seen.