In the fall of 2010, a local paranormal investigating group known as Haunt Analyst investigated Main Street Theatre for the first time, and have since came back and investigated it several times. They are convinced it is haunted, recording many EVPs, taking several photos, and even capturing manifestations on video. However, the people that volunteer and perform here did not need Haunt Analyst to tell them the theatre was haunted.
For years people have heard voices and footsteps where there should be none, seen shadows of things that weren't there, and witnessed movement of items that should not be moving. During the production of Grace & Gloria, several people witnessed the top of a martini shaker twist off and fall to the side. Two years ago, while setting up for the first Haunted Theatre on Hill Street, one of the volunteers saw a large shadow walk in front of him, and actually had to jump out of the way trying to avoid it, thinking it was someone else in the theatre. The only problem with this was that he was alone. These type of stories go on and on.
The location's history is just as colorful, as it used to be a Woolworth's Five and Dime, which could explain the inexplicable sound of a cash register ringing up and the smell of coffee that can sometimes be smelt in the attic. A fire engulfed much o the location before being rebuilt and transitioned into a theatre, however, some of the original timber and stonework can still be seen if you are able to visit the basement area. It still has char marks from where the fire burned.
Tunnels are underneath downtown Griffin and beyond, including under the theatre itself. Griffin is also the birthplace of Doc Holiday, who also had his dentistry office nearby before making his way west to Tombstone and the history books. Although it is disputed, it is said that he was also buried nearby, and that his ghost haunts the area. There were several civil war encampments nearby and an old confederate cemetery. One of Georgia's worst train disasters occurred nearby sending paranormal activity across two counties. It is the very same train track where President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Funeral Train Car traveled on his way back to Washington, DC, after his death in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Griffin is a very haunted Southern town. If you would like to see the evidence collected by Haunt Analyst from the Main Street Theatre, as well as other locations they have investigated, please visit their website at http://www.hauntanalyst.com.
