Haunted Taylor

Raising the curtain on ghostly encounters at the Howard Theatre

The storied Howard Theatre downtown, with a planned reopening next year, comes with its share of ghostly tales, locals say.

Halloween is just around the corner, which only adds to the theater’s air of mystery. Here is one such spooky account: “In 2006, a solitary manager stalks down the aisles to make sure there are no teens stowing away in the seats of his movie theater before he locks the doors and heads home for the night. He passes his flashlight from side to side until he gets to the front row, then wheels around and trudges back towards the entrance. To his surprise, he sees a figure sitting in the corner seat of the nextto- last row.