Ghosts: The most haunted downtown in America, El Dorado, AR
I know, to say an area or building is the most haunted place in the country, is a tall order to prove. I can’t tell you all the para-normal occurances in this one post, but I hope that over the next few months I can relate enough of the sighing, sounds, and smells to prove my case.
Here’s the first one and it’s in a certified haunted theater: The old 1929 Rialto Theater. There are enough ghost sighting in just this one building to fill a book…in fact I’m writing an account that I hope to publish sometime next year. For this post I’ll just give you one incident that happened in this huge theater that seems to be in an area that is the center of para-normal activities: It’s the ladies restroom! That’s right. Now for a quick stories.
Several years ago, when the theater was a first run movie house, two workers were staying late to splice films after the theater had been closed and locked up. All of a sudden they heard someone playing an old piano which is located on the upper level of the theater. The girls jumped up and one of them exclaimed, “Some kid didn’t leave the theater when we locked up. You go up one stairway and I’ll go up the other and we’ll catch that kid.” The girls split up and soon they were standing by the piano, but no one was there. They checked the men’s restroom and it was empty. The one of the girls walked into the ladies restroom. Her comment was: “I felt the hair stand up on the back of my neck when I walked in. Then I saw a blue haze and I walked toward it. It was as if someone had just puffed out cigar smoke and I have no doubt that what is was. The restroom was empty!”
My note: Mr. Rob, the theater manager from the 40s, 50s, and 60s was always in the theater…he always kept a smoldering cigar in his mouth.
That’s just a small taste of the para-normal activites. The old gallows from the 1840 were right across the street! More to come…







