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Author Topic: Booth Hauntings Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-09-2003 03:30 PM                     Scott, what is on the other side of the little midget door? I like doors that lead to unknown zones...  |  IP: Logged Nathan Davidson Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 05-09-2003 06:08 PM                     One of the assistant manegers swears that he saw a floating light in the near the middle of the theater. He say there was no light in the room due to the fact that everything was turned off.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-09-2003 09:59 PM                        Paul--that door goes to the inside of the air conditioner. The compressors themselves live (lived) in a separate, adjacent room (with a separate entrance which would have been to the right of the photographer). I have more pics of this basement which I will scan if anyone cares. There's not much else of interest, except for some 1930s electrical service panels and the platforms where the old motor-generator sets used to be located. There was also a room with a scary-looking assembly of car batteries, which I wish I had bothered to photograph. In theory, it would once have been a backup system for exit lighting.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-09-2003 10:43 PM                        One of the most popular 'booth ghost stories' I have heard (in the thirty-plus theatres I've worked in)is the "Ole Man Threader" story out of the Miami Lakes 17 Theatre, in Miami Lakes, Florida. (Currently a Cobb Theatre, formerly a Regal, and a Wometco 4 plex). There is a story of an old man who threads the films when the features drop. He has been seen by over 30 different people who have worked there, I personally never saw him myself. However - this has been the most widespread and most believed ghost story I have heard - and I have worked in some damn creepy theatres.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-10-2003 12:45 AM                        Did he thread bottom-up? If not, no wonder he was dead.  |  IP: Logged

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