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Idaho Falls, Idaho
The Rio Theatre, on Broadway in Idaho Falls, opened in 1924 as the Broadway Theatre and took the Rio name in the mid-1930s; it closed in…
Boise, Idaho
The Egyptian Theatre opened in downtown Boise in 1927, built in the ornate Egyptian Revival style popularized after the discovery of King…
DeKalb, Illinois
Built in 1928-29 during a wave of national fascination with ancient Egypt following the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, the Egyptian…
Manteca, California
Staff and visitors at the former El Rey Theatre describe unexplained hot spots in parts of the building and figures moving through the…
Prescott, Arizona
Staff and visitors at the Elks Opera House report unexplained voices, footsteps in empty hallways, lights turning on when no one is inside…
Rapid City, South Dakota
The Elks Theatre in downtown Rapid City began as an opera house in 1912 and has been showing films and live performances for more than a…
Salem, Oregon
The Elsinore Theatre, which opened in 1926 with a Tudor Gothic design, is a downtown Salem landmark that still shows films and live acts.…
Titusville, Florida
Built in 1905 as a saloon and hotel, this building was refurbished within the decade as the Magnolia Hotel and Theater, screening silent…
Maitland, Florida
Tina Tiedtke and her family founded this nonprofit arthouse cinema in 1985; it now hosts the Florida Film Festival. Its odd, decades-old…
Tampa, Florida
Built in 1928 as the Park Theatre, this 1,000-seat venue was taken over by the University of Tampa in 1962 and renamed the Falk Theatre…
Rocklin, California
A band that rehearsed on the second floor of Finn Hall in the early hours reported knocking on the doors and walls, running footsteps in…
Boca Raton, Florida
Night-shift staff at Florida Atlantic University's Humanities Building have reported seeing a woman crying at the top of the amphitheater…
Washington, Washington DC
Ford's Theatre opened in 1863 and is where President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865; he died the next morning in the Petersen…
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Opened by Universal Pictures on January 1, 1927, as the Strand Theatre — for more than 40 years the largest movie house in the Jonesboro…
Spokane, Washington
The Fox Theater in downtown Spokane, an Art Deco movie palace opened in 1931 and now the home of the Spokane Symphony, is said to be…
Atlanta, Georgia
The Fox Theatre opened in 1929, built as a Shriners' temple before the Great Depression forced its conversion into an ornate movie palace;…
North Platte, Nebraska
The Fox Theatre in North Platte opened in 1929 and is now the Neville Center for the Performing Arts, home of the North Platte Community…
Tucson, Arizona
The Fox opened in April 1930 as a vaudeville house and cinema, closed in 1974 as downtown Tucson emptied, stood derelict for more than two…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Fulton Theatre in downtown Lancaster, built in 1852 and billed as the oldest continuously operating theater in America, stands on the…
New London, Connecticut
The Garde Theatre opened in 1926 as a vaudeville and movie house and is now a performing arts center. Staff tell of a lighting engineer who…
Granbury, Texas
The Granbury Opera House, built in 1886 on the courthouse square, is a working theater in one of Texas's best-preserved small-town squares.…
Dubuque, Iowa
Designed by Chicago architect Willoughby J. Edbrooke and opened in 1890, the Grand Opera House is the last surviving opera house in…
Meridian, Mississippi
The Grand Opera House in downtown Meridian opened in 1890, closed in 1927 and stood vacant for decades before a restoration reopened it in…
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The Grand Opera House in Oshkosh opened in 1883 and still hosts performances. Its resident ghost is Percy Keene, a stage manager who worked…