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Map of Paranormal Experiences at the Guild

The reader may notice that most of the sightings reported here are anonymous. Sometimes, this is at the request of those who reported the sightings to me. In other cases, this is simply because I haven’t asked yet for permission to use a name. In the remainder of the cases, the sightings are anonymous because I heard about them second-hand, not from the person who made the actual report.  -- Don Love --

Updated March 9, 2007
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1. ‘‘The Creepy Triangle’’
  Numerous actors and actresses report experiencing a sense of unease here.
  Area is roughly triangular in shape, beginning near the mail slots in the Green Room, extending into the men's dressing room near the light switch, and ending just inside the doorway to the steps leading from men's dressing room to backstage.
1a. ‘‘The Creepy Corner’’
  Carrie Brotcke reports that often when entering the Green Room from the kitchen, "I get about three or four steps in, and I feel eyes on [i.e., looking at] the back my head. So then I’ll turn around, and look [in the vicinity of the room’s southeast window], but there’s nobody there."
2. Vestibule window
  Actress/director reports that after locking up the empty building, the curtain on the window fell back into place, as if someone had released it after looking through the window from the inside.
3. Main Stairway
  Don Love reports seeing a dark, female silhouette descending and making the turn at the landing.
  Evelyn Baumann reports that while she was in the lobby, someone ran down the steps. But when she went to investigate, no one was there.
4. Door Connecting Lobby to Women’s Dressing Room
  Don Love reports seeing a mist on numerous occasions, even in daylight, drifting back and forth through the doorway.
4a. Sense of Being Watched
  Don Love reports that on numerous daylight occasions, while seated in the empty lobby, he experienced a feeling of being watched (from the direction of the door connecting the lobby to the women’s dressing room)
4b. Flying Trash Can Lid
  Linda Spall reports that the lid on a plastic trash can in the lobby flew sideways and crashed into a wall.
5. Steps Leading from Women’s Dressing Room to Backstage
  Actor reports hearing the rustle of a dress of an unseen woman ascending steps while play was in progress upstairs.
6. Bud/Gus
  On the night of December 17, 2005, Team Ghost Catcher interviews a partially visible, middle-aged prankster leaning against a set wall in upper stage right.
  Numerous actors and actresses report being touched on the shoulder, having their hair played with, or being whispered to while waiting in the upper-stage-right wings during performances. But when they turn to see who it is, no one is there.
7. Dan
  Team Ghost Catcher encounters a laconic teenage male near the thermostat on the night of December 17, 2005.
8. Mist at the Top of the Steps
  Don Love reports seeing a mist in this area on numerous occasions, including daylight hours.
  After the Board conducts an interview with Dr. Gary Hawkins of Team Ghost Catcher approximately one month prior to TGC’s first investigation, Dr. Hawkins points out the mist to Carrie Brotcke and Don Love.
9. Mrs. H.
  Team Ghost Catcher encounters a stuck-up woman seated in the audience area.
  Light bulbs in the fixture in the area have a tendency to come unscrewed.
10. Dark Shadow
  Debbie Love reports that on the night of December 17, 2005, she saw a dark silhouette seated in the portion of the audience area a few rows in front of the booth.
11. Disappearing/Reappearing Pencils
  Don Love reports that, while working on lighting for a show, he set his pencil down, placing it in a well-marked location for ease of later retrieval. But when he went to look for it, the pencil was no longer there. Later, he found the pencil, sitting once again in the well-marked location.
  Shortly after this page was first posted, we received an email telling of someone else (name withheld upon request) who ‘‘was working on building a set for [a TGWG show] and he had a similar set-his-pencil-down-and-it-was-gone experience. He set another carpenter pencil down and that disappeared too. And it was on the empty stage and he was the only one in the theater. Well... the only living person ...’’
12. Floating Silver Ball
  During TGC’s second investigation in July, 2006, Don Love glimpses a ‘‘floating silver ball, about six inches in diameter, like a foil helium ballon, but without the seams’’ above the seats in the auditorium.
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