Beckwith Theatre

Michigan · United States · Church

A theatre in a former Methodist church at Dowagiac, Michigan. Actors hear a piano in the empty house, and whispering, and quiet laughter.

The Beckwith Theatre at Dowagiac, Michigan occupies what was the First United Methodist Church, and several presences are described in it.

Contact is reported as becoming less frequent over the years, which is an unusual thing for a haunted building's own people to admit.

What actors and theatre workers describe is piano music coming from the house when the house is empty, and voices without bodies: whispering, and quiet laughter.

Only one has ever been seen. She is a young girl.

A church converted into a theatre keeps the acoustics it was built with, which is why so many of these buildings make excellent venues and why sound behaves oddly in them. The piano is the report that recurs, and a church that became a theatre has almost certainly had one in it continuously for a century and a half.

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Beckwith Theatre is in Michigan, United States.

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