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Rachel Kovacs
Film Handler

Posts: 22
From: Erie, PA, USA
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 09-25-2000 09:32 PM

I've been talking to some fellow booth-workers recently, and a few of us have come to the conclusion that we aren't the only ones up there (translation: we think we may have a ghost). I was just wondering if anyone had any stories from their theatres...
(I'll share some of ours if this is something of interest to anyone other than me.)

'Tis the season, and all...

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Shane Pena
Film Handler

Posts: 12
From: Show Low, AZ, USA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 09-25-2000 10:05 PM

I have had a few strange ghostly things happen to me and to others in our theatre...

One dark night, our GM was programming the registers in concession after hours, when he felt he was not alone... he looked up and saw a dark shadow-like figure walk from one side of the concession stand to the other... don't get me wrong.. The GM was a big guy and not much can scare him, but that sure did.

It seems to occur in spurts...no ghostly activity for months maybe then all of a sudden... weird shit happens.

Footsteps are clearly heard upstairs when nobody is up there; you run up there and get a cold feeling someone is behind you.

One night when I was in projection our lights in Cinema II started to get bight then dim, bight and dim...like someone was messing with the dimmer...a customer came out to complain and yelled at me to tell the projectionist to stop f***in' with the lights, after I told him that I was the projectionist, I ran upstairs and found the dimmer knob slowly turning by itself..! and then stopped after a second or 2. I ran downstairs twice as fast as I ran up there, terrified to go back.

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Rachel Kovacs
Film Handler

Posts: 22
From: Erie, PA, USA
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 09-25-2000 10:39 PM

Wow...

Well, as for me, I had some things happen that I thought was just my imagination, but it seems it may be otherwise...The first night I closed, I started getting somewhat spooked, just because everything was so quiet and motionless (it just wasn't right! ), and as I was shutting down the projector at one of the far ends of the booth, I thought I saw a shadow slide behind the platters there. Clutching my walkie-talkie, I crept over there and looked all around...nothing. But I kept feeling like I was being watched. I never said anything to anyone about that, as I figured I was just seeing things, but tonight I was working with someone who's been there since before the theatre opened in '96, and he was telling me that people see shadows over by #17 all the time, and if they're by 17, sometimes they'll see people walking around down the hall, when there's no-one there...

On one hand, I'm glad I wasn't imagining things. However, I'm now MORE creeped out, having my story confirmed...

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 09-26-2000 04:17 AM

Next time you're by #17 and see that shadow, chase it! It's probably a reflection from something and if you don't take your eyes off of it or stall, you can solve the mystery for everyone.

Of course, if it turns out to be a ghost, you didn't get this advice from me.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-26-2000 08:14 AM

While working on projectors, it's quite common for people to walk up to me and look-on. (I think everybody has that.) After a while, I get so I can talk to the person's reflection in the port glass. I see somebody walk up behind me and without turning around I say, "Hi!"

Problem is, on more than one occasion, I've said "HI" to somebody's reflection, only to find there's nobody there! It always happens in one area of the theatre.

I'm NOT a believer in ghosts and stuff but this is enough to make you think about it for a while.

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Rachel Kovacs
Film Handler

Posts: 22
From: Erie, PA, USA
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 09-26-2000 10:00 AM

Randy--Are you talking about your old place of employment, in good ol' Erie? Because that's where I work now, and it was Zach I was talking to about all this...

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Ethan Harper
E-dawggg!!!

Posts: 325
From: Plano, TX, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 09-26-2000 12:51 PM

One time when I was working at Cinemark, it was a late late changeover. all equipment was shut off. my friends and I found ourselves walking towards the back exit then that is when it happened. #16 powered on and powered off all by itself. I am pretty sure there was some logical explanation to it but that was the only time that has ever happened. Other claims is hearing footsteps. Hearing a dog bark??? A baby crying? and wierd moaning. The moaning I am pretty sure that I have heard. the cold feeling breeze by. oh yeah and the feeling like you are being watched. We were to young of a theater to have any ghosts though. But unfortunantely, as sad as it is for me to say, some people have moved on in our theater

. Oh well. Where I work now, we had a person pass out at last nights showing of The Exorcist.

My guess stop watching Scary Movies.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 09-26-2000 03:19 PM

Anyone else notice a pattern here...these instances seem to keep happening at Cinemark theaters!

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Randy Stankey
Film God

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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-26-2000 10:02 PM

Yes, Rachael, I mean at Erie! The stretch of the booth betwen #9 and #12 have this phenomenon most frequently but I have noticed it as far down as #16. I have never experienced it anywhere in the North end, from #1 to #8, however.

Zach likes to tell stories to the new people about the theatre being built on an old cemetary. I think he's full of baloney. (But then, I've neve tried to check out the story) I'm telling the honest-to-goodness, swear-on-a-stack-of-Bibles TRUTH! I have experienced this phenomenon at least a DOZEN times!

Ask Zach about the time when all the oil cans came flying off the shelf. That happened in the South end of the booth, too!

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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 09-29-2000 05:50 AM

>>Oh well. Where I work now, we had a person pass out at last nights showing of The Exorcist.<<

Nice to see the old beast hasn't lost its touch.

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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 709
From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 09-29-2000 06:54 AM

mmm...it seems that the three different booths I have worked in have had strange occurences...
The first theater I worked at, on many occasions I'd be running the booth and keeping up with cleaning the auditoriums, while someone else was tending to box office & concessions, so I'd be running around a lot, and they would be stuck behind the counter. Many times I'd be walking past theaters 4 & 10 (on opposite sides of the hallway from each other), and would here someone call out my name. I'd wheel around, and find myself to be the only person in the hallway, and quick jogs towards the front always showed that the other person occupied with helping customers, not messing with my mind. Happened to other people besides myself too.
Second theater I worked at. Booth was always frickin dark, no way to brightly illuminate the area, requiring that all operators have a well tuned sense of 'booth radar'. With such fine-tuned radar, you could hear when someone would walk up behind you. Many times you'd hear someone, and turn to find empty space, or catch a fleeting glimpse of *something*.
Theater I am at now, far end of the booth (machines #8, #9, & #10), and corresponding part of the hallway on the ground floor have had a real creepy feeling to them. No one ever seems to want to be at that end of the building alone. At that end of the booth, many times I've been threading a projector, and could have sworn I saw someone standing by the lamphouse watching me, and I would feel like I was being glared at, but when I turn to look more clearly, no one is there. It seems that all the truly weird technical issues at that end of the booth too...
I just dont know sometimes...

~Gracia *The projectionist with the purple hair* Babbidge

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Russ Kress
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 202
From: Charleston, WV, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 09-30-2000 12:27 AM

Gracia, hearing your name being called is a condition of your profession! (LOL)

I once managed a theatre built in 1928. It once hosted live, Vaud-ville stuff too.

If there was ever a theatre that needed haunting, this one would definately fit the bill! I never noticed anything though.

Maybe I'm just not sensitive enough!! (LOL)

I can give you my ex-wife's number to verify this possibility!

The theatre does have its stories though.

Russ

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Dustin Mitchell
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From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 09-30-2000 01:33 AM

I've gotten that 'creeped out' feeling when closing by oneself, but never seen anything.

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Per Hauberg
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 09-30-2000 06:44 AM

Be aware !

It will soon be FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH !!

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-30-2000 08:44 PM

I was told a story by one of the managers of one of the theatres I work in...

One of the previous managers had a stroke and died in his ofice. His brain got stuck in a 'repeating loop'. He kept repeating, over and over in the same creepy, monotone voice...

Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ...Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ...Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ...Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ...Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ... Andy! ...

Appearently, he felt the stroke comming on and tried to call for help. The guy was brain-dead because of the stroke. It was some kind of reflex action that caused him to repeat the last thing he said. They say he must have been like that all night long.

Well, Andy, the assistant who found him the next morning still has nightmares about it!

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