Richmond Theatre — the box that moves by itself

London · United Kingdom · Theatre

The room where a stagehand was crushed by falling crates in the 1930s is the one place staff prefer not to enter alone.

Frank Matcham's red-and-gold theatre beside Richmond Green opened in 1899 and is counted among England's most haunted stages. What unsettles people is how physical the activity is: crates shifted between locked rooms, long scratch marks appearing on walls and doors, working lights switching on and off with nobody near the board. Staff single out one particular backstage space as the epicentre — the same room where a man was killed in the 1930s when a stack of boxes fell on him. Actors rehearsing late have described the certainty that someone is standing right behind them in the wings, only to turn and find the corridor empty. The theatre still works as a touring house, so the stories keep gaining fresh witnesses.

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Richmond Theatre — the box that moves by itself is in London, United Kingdom.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.