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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler
Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-22-2001 09:09 AM
Hey Danny, this is your twin brother, we sure look alike....I had the same at a 6-screen theatre I service in Houston Texas, but without the cold !! The theatre (now close due to shootings), The booth had wooden floors covered with carpet, everytime you walk the floor would creek, I be the only person in the building....as I would walk to another projector to start the PM, I would hear walking behind me (the floor creeking) I check, and no one would be there, this happen several times durning different visits working all night and alone....one night the strangest thing happen, I couldn't find a screwdriver that I know I just laid down next to me, I found it next to a different projector, I never walked into that section of the booth, when I pick up the screwdriver, I heard the floor creek beside me...whooooaaa weeee the hair on my arms stood up, the strangest feeling I had, but no one was there, the time 4 am.....at that point I called it a night, pack the tools & only did PM call in the daylight with an operator.....scared, you might say at age 37 back then....you bet !! I was never service that theatre again at night...I was glad to see it closed !!! 
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Alan Plester
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 209
From: great yarmouth england
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 10-22-2001 12:14 PM
When shutting up at the end of the night, I was checking the toilets which wer`e then, situated inside the theatres,having just come out of the gent`s, I noticed someone sitting in the middle row of seats, it was smoking a pipe and wore glasses, then vanished. Rushing to the booth to tell my boss, I related what I had just seen, he told me that, that was Frank, the old chief projectionist who had died from a heart attack, and swore he would haunt the place, yes he did wear glasses, and smoke a pipe.
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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler
Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-22-2001 06:23 PM
Hey William, wow I service those theatres you mention at lease once or twice, the one I was talking about was the Northwood-6, on the east side of Houston on Hwy 59 North, the theatre was built in 1977 I believe or around that date, was sold 4-times,then closed in 1995. Had too many street gangs hanging out, shooting at each other, ran off the family business (that would do it !!) it was a Dollar house when closed....but a very spooky place to be at night...one last thing, I'm coming to Dallas to do a service call soon, I'll e-mail you when I get there, I'm in Japan now....sorry Brad, I chatted when I shouldn't...won't happen again....
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Rachel Gilardi
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From: Peabody, MA, USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 10-23-2001 02:41 AM
The theater I used to work at (and Anthony is still at now) is haunted. Too many things have happened to convince me so, the platter would star spinning on its own, there would be LOUD bangs throughout one of the autitoriums, the thermostat would randomly be turned down (after I had just turned it up), wierd feelings, cold spots, chairs will randomly go into the reclined position (right in front of my eyes), and alot more! Anthony has actually walked into the theater (he was alone) and everything was off, he walked in to turn on the circut breakers in the booth and they were on! He walked out to the theater and the lights were all on.... Me and 2 other of the old employees actually have seen an outline of a man in the front of one of the autotoriums. We believe that it is the old owner of a used car dealership that was there before the theater (same building, remodeled).
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Kyle Abel
Film Handler
Posts: 56
From: Plano, TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 10-23-2001 02:59 AM
My story is along the lines of Don's. I was working late one night (isn't that how it always starts) at an 8-plex in Lewisville. I was changing out diodes at their #2 projector, which is in it's own wing of the booth. I was sitting on the floor working with my socket wrench. I put the wrench inside the console to switch out the sockets. I did not stand up, but just turned to get the new socket, and when I turned back, the wrench was gone. I tore that projector and surrounding area apart but didn't find it. A few days later I was working on the gate with a screwdriver at the same projector in the same end of the hallway. I placed the screwdriver on top of the projector, hand-tightened a screw, reached up for the screwdriver and it was gone (about 5 seconds went by). Again, I tore apart the projector and surrounding areas, but nothing. I went around the whole booth looking everywhere, then came back to the original projector half an hour later, and the screwdriver was sitting on top of the projector where I originally placed it. I was the only one in the building, so I packed up my stuff and high-tailed it out of there. I rarely go back, and when I do, I NEVER bring my own tools...------------------
Kyle Abel
General Manager
Plano Movies 10
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