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This account comes from one news report and has not been corroborated elsewhere. In 2024 theater employee Kate Cherry told KXLF she has experienced "weird noises at night, some things that move that I could never really explain." Source: KXLF, 2024.
Facts below are drawn from the linked sources.
Real history
The Masons built a six-story Masonic Temple and the adjoining 1,200-seat Temple Theatre in 1923, and the theater opened on September 6, 1924. It later became a movie house leased to 20th Century Fox as the Fox Theatre, and after more than $3 million was raised it reopened as the Mother Lode by 1996 (Butte Center for the Performing Arts).
KXLF included the Mother Lode in a 2024 story on Butte buildings some believe are haunted, noting the city's history of mining deaths (KXLF, 2024).
Ghost stories
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Then and now
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Public access
Open to the public The theater's official site lists upcoming ticketed shows at 316 W. Park St., checked October 31, 2026 (Mother Lode Theatre). Last checked: Oct 31, 2026.
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