The Temple Theater

The Temple Theater

 By Matthew Slozer

Last night had a very interesting investigation at the Temple Theater in Sanford. Generally you hear stories of most theaters being haunted but you see very little evidence coming from theaters. I believe that the nature of theater buildings lend themselves to a lot of light and acoustic phenomenon which can be mistaken for paranormal activity. That was certainly part of the case here where we noticed sound traveled particularly well and there was a high degree of light play on the ceiling due to cars passing by.  That being said, we had some interesting experiences here. One person saw a man sitting in the balcony (there was no one there) and another person saw a figure standing in the lobby, at first he thought it was a member of our group but no one was in the area at the time. The only experience that I had was I was sitting alone on the lower level of the theater and heard a rather creepy voice behind me whipser "hey". No one was talking at the time. There were also many sounds of footsteps in the building but sound traveled so well in the building it is hard to tell if it was settling. We had recorders so it will be interesting to see what we get from our audio. 

 We experimented with a ghost box, the theory is that entities can pull words from radio transmissions to communicate. I am very skeptical about this and believe that it is the same effect as horoscopes, words are so general that it is easy to apply significance to them. That being said, we did get some interesting results, when we were on the stage we consistently got the word "basement" and when asking "do you want us to go to the basement" we consistently got the answer "yes". Then while in the basement we consistently got the word "crawlspace, monster and help". Now for all we know we could have been getting words from a home improvement radio show (and something else for the "monster" word). We then learned that there was a crawlspace in the building but we did not have the opportunity to enter that evening. 

On the evidence review it was interesting that as we were leaving the basement and heading towards the entrance to the crawlspace I got an EVP of an irritated male voice. Then as we were sitting in the main part of the theater I recorded multiple voices of a little girl. One interesting EVP was when Sarah spoke there was a little gilrs voice saying "Mommy?" Also out of the pictures that I took there was one that had a strange anomaly to it that I need to investigate furhter. Overall this was a great location and there was definitely indications of activity present. We look forward to the opportunity to return to this location.