The early-1900s opera house is rumored to be haunted by ghosts whose footsteps are heard around the theater. Shadow figures also have been seen, and a band has been playing ragtime and other music every fall for more than 80 years.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- 127 West Main Street
Albemarle, NC
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 35.35008, -80.19879600000002
- County:
- Stanly County, North Carolina
- Nearest Towns:
- Albemarle, NC (0.1 mi.)
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Misenheimer, NC (10.6 mi.)
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A friend and I went to the Opera House during one of the rare times it was open to the public. The auditorium and stage were on the second floor and there was a run-down balcony and an old dentist’s office, as I recall. I snapped three or four pictures inside the balcony area. This may not really constitute a ghostly sighting, but when I got the photos developed (this was before digital photography), there were many orbs in the pictures. The photos I took before the Opera House ones, and after, had no orbs. Yes, it was dusty, but…….