The cinema at Salem

Massachusetts · United States · Execution site

Cigarette smoke is smelled by the projector and nowhere else in the building. Someone was reflected in the window standing beside it.

Staff at the cinema in Salem, Massachusetts report a set of things confined almost entirely to one part of the building.

Cigarette smoke is smelled near the projector. It is not smelled anywhere else, which rules out the usual explanations involving ventilation or a customer outside.

A room at the end of the corridor is described as very cold.

Shadows are seen moving quickly at the edge of vision.

On one occasion a person was reflected in the window, standing next to the projector. There was nobody there.

Another account involves a set of keys clipped at hip level on somebody's pocket.

Projection booths were smoking rooms for most of the twentieth century, when a projectionist spent whole shifts alone up there with the machine. The smell is the detail that makes this one worth recording.

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Where is The cinema at Salem located?

The cinema at Salem is in Massachusetts, United States.

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