Haunted Places: Theater

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    Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré

    Le Petit Théâtre has been at 616 St. Peter Street, just off Jackson Square, since 1922. Technical director John Grimsley once saw a man in a captain's hat sitting alone in the balcony, and when Grimsley looked again, the man had vanished.

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    Paramount Theatre

    The Paramount opened in 1915 as the Majestic. House manager Cheryl Wood says projectionists still leave a Snickers bar in the booth for Walter Norris, who died in 2000 while showing Casablanca.

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    Curran Theatre

    Theater impresario Homer Curran built this Geary Street playhouse in 1922, and its ghost is said to still remind patrons to silence their phones.

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    Biograph Theater

    FBI agents gunned down John Dillinger outside this Lincoln Avenue movie house in 1934, and ghost guides say a blue figure still runs for the alley beside it, stumbles, and vanishes.

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    Nederlander Theatre

    The Broadway house on Randolph Street stands where 602 people died in the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, and locals still call the alley behind it Death Alley.

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    Moore Theatre

    Built over part of the settlers' first burying ground, where not every grave was found.