The Empire Theatre is claimed to be home to several apparitions. Amongst them a young girl who materialises as a solid form in the area of the circle from where she fell to her death, an old man who haunts the snug area of the bar beneath the stalls, and perhaps most menacing of all the dark malevolent and sinister shape that is said to materialise on the stage. Apparitions are claimed as supernatural manifestations of the souls of the departed.
One of the most famous documented cases of this phenomenon is The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall seen many times through the years but seemingly captured on film in 1936. A professional photographer, Captain Provand, with his assistant Indre Shira, working for 'Country Life’, were taking photographs of the Hall, on the 19th September, at around 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Having taken one exposure, they were preparing for a second, when Shira saw a shadowy shape apparently descending the stairs. He shouted to the captain, asking if he were ready, he replied "yes" and exposed the film as Shira set off the flash. When the negative was developed it showed the famous image. There were three witnesses to the development of the negative, Shira, Provand and a chemist, Benjamin Jones. A full account of the strange event was published in Country Life magazine in December 1936.
Will the continuing efforts of the Most Haunted team persuade the apparitions of the Empire Theatre to manifest bringing these illusive phantoms to the light?
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