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Tombstone, Arizona · Opened 1881

Bird Cage Theatre

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Bird Cage Theatre, 2004 · Hawkeye58, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Real history

The Bird Cage Theatre opened on December 26, 1881. Wikipedia says it closed in 1892 after Tombstone's silver mines shut, and was leased as a coffee shop from 1934 (Wikipedia).

Sources differ: the same Wikipedia article also says it operated intermittently until 1894 (Wikipedia).

Ghost stories

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On television Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
Wikipedia says Ghost Hunters filmed at the theater in 2006 and Ghost Adventures in 2009 and 2015. Source: Wikipedia.
The lady in white Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
The theater's website describes a narrow corridor behind the stage tied to recurring sightings of a "lady in white", and says its nightly ghost tours center on the Black Moriah hearse. Source: Bird Cage Theatre site.

Then and now

Low adobe building with a Bird Cage Theatre sign on a boardwalk street
Now: The Bird Cage Theatre, 2004. Photo: Hawkeye58, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons

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