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Ready for a walk on the spooky side? Take a look at Part 2 of some of the creepiest spots in Western New York with photographs by Mark Mulville. Watch Part 1 and see more spooky sites.
Allendale Theatre (Theatre of Youth), 203 Allen St.
The Allendale Theatre showcased silent films and photoplays after being built in 1913. Its ghostly history includes the tech crew reporting extra performers in the venue and phantom audiences during closed rehearsals. It’s also been said strange noises echo throughout the empty theater, especially around midnight.
Ken Shaw, who was resident head of design at the theater for more than 20 years, recalls seeing the “Lady in Red,” who would typically face the stage, then walk up the aisle and disappear.
At first Shaw was the only one seeing her, but then others did, too. “The running joke was that the woman’s dress was in fact red, and not green, because I’m colorblind,” Shaw said.
Paranormal investigator and researcher Amanda R. Woomer leads ghost tours in the Starry Night Theatre in North Tonawanda.
Starry Night Theatre/Ghostlight Theatre, 170 Schenck St., North Tonawanda
Ghostlight Theatre, now known as the Starry Night Theatre, was originally built as the Evangelical Friedens Church of North Tonawanda in 1889. In 2001, it was renamed Ghostlight Theatre by L. Don Swartz who continues to run community theater in it.
Woomer, who helps run the theater’s ghost tour, has had a few experiences with the afterlife in the venue. “It started out as really simple things like hearing things when no one else is in the building and seeing things move,” she said.
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