Where is the capitol theater
2 cops quit after DEMON encounter | The Capitol Theater haunting
for a ghost story to be scary it needs
to be believable
for it to be believable you need to have
credible witnesses
that independently can corroborate each
other's stories
and in today's ghost story we have three
police officers that do
just that but before we get into that
story if you're a fan of the strange
dark and mysterious delivered in story
format
then you've come to the right place
because that's all i do and i upload
three four even five times
every week so if that's of interest to
you then please put the like button's
feet into cement and then
throw it into the ocean also subscribe
to this channel and turn on all
notifications so you don't miss any of
my weekly uploads
alright let's get into today's story
in 2006 dave murphy had just become a
police officer in salt lake city utah
his first role was as a protective
service officer which meant he'd be in
charge of
physical security at a number of the
county facilities
dave's first facility was the capital
city theater
which is a landmark inside of salt lake
city it's been around since the early
1900s
it's this beautiful grand theater so in
early august
dave reports to the capitol city theater
for his first day on the job and he
meets his partner
an officer by the name of morgan
matthews he gets there on this first day
and
right away dave would say that morgan
was just strictly business
the first place that morgan takes dave
is the control room which sits on the
first floor of the theater the theater
had three floors
and then it also had a basement as well
so the control room was on that first
floor
inside of the control room were all of
these security monitors because there
was all these cameras set up inside of
the theater
the cameras weren't great though you
pretty much could only tell what was
in frame if there was a light on and
most of the time at night especially
lights were off once they were done
looking at the control room morgan says
to dave now we're gonna go do
our rounds this is something we do every
time you get to the theater you do a
security round and make sure
everything's locked all the lights are
off
before you come back to the control room
you'll do that at the beginning of your
shift and at the end of your shift
morgan brings dave downstairs and it's
the first time dave is
seeing the basement and he's shocked by
how big it is it is this
massive hallway that stretches way down
in the middle of the hall it's a piano
that's just sitting out in the middle
and the lighting's not good down there
this is a very old theater you know
everything in the building was pretty
old
and dave remembers thinking that he was
immediately creeped out by this scene
this
long hallway with all these doors in
this piano right in the middle of the
hallway
and he's thinking to himself i don't
want to spend much time down here this
is so creepy
but they go down the hall they check all
the doors they make the way up to the
main floor the second floor the third
floor everything gets checked
and so after they do this security round
dave and morgan go back to the control
room and
dave is anticipating getting to know
morgan a little bit this is their first
night
they're going to be working together a
lot and dave would say that morgan just
seemed really cold and just did not want
to talk to dave very much
and as soon as their shift was almost
over morgan was very eager
to just knock at the security rounds and
just get out of that building at the end
of that night dave remembers thinking
that there's just something off about
morgan's behavior it seemed like morgan
really didn't like
being in the theater it would turn out
that he was onto something because
morgan didn't like being in that
building but it would take him a while
to share with dave why over the next
couple of days
morgan and dave would do their security
rounds together because dave's in
training
morgan's teaching him but on august 9th
which is two days after dave's first day
on the job morgan was confident that
dave
knew how to secure the whole building
and so at the end of the night he tells
dave why don't you do the security
rounds yourself dave feels very
confident that he knows how to do it he
goes down into the basement make sure
all the doors are shut and locked
the lights are off finishes the basement
goes up to the first floor where the
control room is
and checks all the rooms on that floor
he goes into the main auditorium space
he's checking all the different nooks
and crannies to make sure there's nobody
hiding in there
he goes up to the second floor he checks
to all the different rooms up there and
the balcony
makes his way up to the third floor
where there's all the offices of staff
that work at the theater
at the end of the search the last room
he would check was the rehearsal room
and it was the only room where there was
no door to it so you'd poke your head in
kind of look around
make sure no one was in there and then
you would leave and that's the end of
your check so dave gets to the rehearsal
room he flips the light on and he looks
inside
doesn't see anybody is satisfied that no
one's in there turns the light off and
as he's about to turn
back into the hallway he hears a door
slam with tremendous force right across
the hallway from where he was and it was
the bathroom door
his first reaction is someone just ran
out of the bathroom someone who had
snuck into the building
must have run out of the bathroom and
they're making a break for it to get out
of the theater before i catch them
and so he instinctively picks up his
radio and he calls to morgan and says
someone's on the third floor but when
morgan looks at the camera
he doesn't see anybody at this point
dave's drawn his weapon you know he's
looking down the hall he doesn't see
anybody
and as he's waiting for morgan to come
upstairs to back him up so they can go
look for this person that's just ran
down the hall
he realizes two things one just because
he heard the door slam doesn't mean they
left and slammed it
they could be in the bathroom and so
he's thinking to himself someone could
be in the bathroom right now maybe
that's why we didn't see him on the
camera
and then the second thing he thought of
is that door the bathroom door
can't slam it's got this huge hydraulic
hinge
to it it can't slam so his gun is drawn
and he's aiming it at the bathroom door
right as morgan comes up on his right
morgan draws his pistol he's got it on
the door as well and they make
entry into the bathroom they clear all
the different spaces in the bathroom
and no one's in there and there's no way
to get out of there morgan and dave are
like
okay well they must not have come in
here they must have run out of the
bathroom
they're somewhere in the theater and so
they decide they're going to
search the entire building and find this
person that clearly was just in the
bathroom and that's how they slam the
door
we're not going to worry about how they
slam the door with the hydraulic hinge
we just know it was slammed somehow so
they leave the bathroom gun's still
drawn
and they start making their way down the
hall they're checking all the doors
everything is locked when they start
making their way downstairs to the
second floor
dave recognizes through the door because
there's a door leading onto the second
floor
he can see that the lights are on and he
had turned them off and so as they're
walking down the stairs he says to
morgan hey did you turn the lights on on
the second floor and morgan's like no
and so they think that whoever was here
whoever was in the bathroom is on the
second floor they must have turned the
lights on they go
into the second floor and not only are
the lights on but all the doors on the
second floor had been opened
they search the entire second floor they
search every single room
no one's in the second floor they turn
off the lights they shut all the doors
everything's locked when they went down
to the first floor everything was the
way it should have been
locked lights off nothing down there and
they go down to the basement and even
though it was creepy being down there
because they've now searched the whole
building
and they're anticipating coming in
contact with whoever is here assuming
they haven't left the building yet
and there's no one down there they
decided to review the footage from the
third
floor to see if they could pick up
someone running in the hall around the
time that that door slammed
but the camera was not trained on the
bathroom door
so you just have this view down the hall
you can't see
the bathroom specifically not to mention
the hallway is dark and the cameras are
terrible without light and so all
they're able to see is the light go on
in the rehearsal room while dave is
doing his last check in there
the lights turn off because dave's about
to turn around and then after that you
just hear this massive
slam of this door but you can't see what
happened so they don't know what to make
of it they're both
very much on edge that someone might
still be in the building and so they do
another sweep of the building and no
one's there
and so they decide to just chalk it up
and say we were hearing things and
seeing things i'm sure it's fine
let's just get out of here and they
leave a couple of days later on august
11th
morgan is working alone dave wasn't
coming in that day so morgan's alone in
the theater doing a shift
and at some point in the night as he's
sitting in the control room
he thinks he hears whispering in the
hall right behind him and so
after the experience he had with dave a
couple nights ago
he's on edge so he draws his pistol
right away and so he goes out into the
hallway
and immediately when he steps into the
hall the whispering seems to go farther
and farther away from him
down the hall so he gets out there he's
looking around he can't see anything he
makes his way down the hallway towards
the stairs
that go down into the basement or if you
wanted to go up the second floor
when he gets to the top of the stairwell
he's you know gun drawn looking down
looking up
he hears what sounds like coughing
coming from the basement at this point
morgan said that he was actually pretty
scared i mean imagine being alone in
this theater
just a couple of days earlier you've had
this weird experience with slamming
doors and
doors being opened and lights going on
that somebody else another police
officer witnessed with you
you're alone in this theater and you're
hearing coughing coming from the
basement after hearing voices behind you
that's pretty terrifying so he very
slowly starts going down the stairwell
he's getting ready to clear the corner
and just as he does the copping stops
he turns the lights on and he looks down
the hall and there's nothing there
he starts making his way down the hall
he's checking every door making sure
it's locked
you know making sure that everything is
secure and he gets all the way down the
hall and as he's almost done checking
the basement he smells smoke and it's
coming from a door right next to him
and so he unlocks that door and he goes
in and there's no fire
but all he can smell is smokes he turns
the light on he's looking around there's
no fire
he's convinced that somewhere down in
the basement there's a fire
he goes to every single room and he
keeps checking and there's nothing and
then at some point the smoke smell
dissipates he checks
every space in the theater to look for a
fire and there's no fire he's wondering
if he should call the fire department
but he's thinking what would i tell them
there's no fire
and so he ultimately after checking
three four times
and being very confident there wasn't a
fire he just says okay
no fire i guess i was just smelling
things a few weeks later on september
4th
dave has just arrived at the theater
he's there a little bit early their
shift started at 5 00 p.m he was there
at about 4 30
and when he walked into the building he
sees that there are three staff members
sitting at the front desk talking to
each other
and as he walks past one of them is
talking about ghosts
inside of the theater and it immediately
piques his interest and so he walked
over to the guy talking about ghosts and
he introduced himself
and it turned out that this guy was a
man named blair fuller who was a senior
accountant
at the theater and so dave asked blair
what are you talking about with ghosts
in the theater
because i provide physical security here
and i've seen some strange things here i
just love to hear what you have to say
about it so they head up to the third
floor where blair's office was and they
sit down and blair says okay i got a
doozy for you
this happened to me a couple years ago i
was actually in this office it was about
nine
ten o'clock at night i was doing some
work and i heard the elevator kick on
now the elevator was right outside of
his office and anytime it was
on the engine was really loud it was
really obvious if the elevator was
moving around
and so he's doing his accounting work
and he hears that that engine kick on
he doesn't think much of it but then it
clicks that he's the only one in the
building
and so he kind of looks out the glass
window of his office he had a closed
door office with two windows looking out
into the foyer where there's this
elevator and he looks out
and you can see that the little lights
above the elevator showing what floor
it's on
have lit up and it's going up so the
elevator was in the basement and now
it's in the first floor
the second floor third floor the doors
open and there's no one there
at this point blair says that he wasn't
concerned he figured okay maybe there's
some maintenance maybe it's scheduled to
do that who knows
but after a little while the alarm goes
off in the elevator
to signify that something is obstructing
the door from shutting and he's looking
out the window and he hears this alarm
this like ringing sound going off
but the door isn't shutting and he's
like there's nothing obstructing the
door why isn't it shutting
and so he leaves his office and he kind
of walks over to the elevator
and he walks into the elevator and he
said immediately he felt this
massive drop in temperature inside of
the elevator
and as he's standing there he turns
around now he's looking back towards his
office
inside of the elevator the doors start
to shut
and for whatever reason he said i didn't
get off i just decided i'm gonna ride
this elevator
the basement button lights up as if
someone had pressed basement
and they start going down and he's
sitting there thinking what in the world
is going on it was just on an alarm
because the door wasn't shutting and
then miraculously when i go inside of it
it suddenly works again and it's going
to the basement
so he goes to the basement the door
opens there's no one there
he steps out and blair says that it took
all of his courage
to yell out hey is anyone down here and
as soon as he did and he didn't hear a
response he said he didn't want to make
any more sound the elevator sat in the
middle of the hall
in the basement it's that huge hall with
that piano sitting right in the middle
the lights are off and he pokes his head
down one way there's nothing down there
he sees the piano barely from the light
of the elevator
and he looks down the other way there's
no one there and at this point he's just
so spooked
he just gets back in the elevator and he
hits four three four three four three
and he's hitting like door closed door
closed door closed the door closes and
he goes
back up to his his office he goes into
his office and he shuts the door
and he sits down and he's thinking like
what was that
why did that just happen i got to find
out they're running maintenance or
something
and as he's sitting in his chair
thinking about this strange experience
he hears what sounds like banging sounds
coming from outside of his office in
that foyer
near the elevator he just goes to his
door and he opens it up and he pokes his
head into the foyer
and he looks to the side there's this
big filing cabinet
and all of the cabinets are out they've
all been pulled out he certainly didn't
do this
and it was as if someone was one by one
pushing each of them shut these big
heavy cabinets
and he's watching us one by one these
things are slamming shut
one by one until the whole thing is shut
and so he goes over and he's like trying
to disprove what he just saw
that he can open up a drawer and that it
will shut on its own
but none of them shut on their own you
have to shut it something
has to shut it for it to shut and so he
packed up for the day and
left and did not work another night
shift at the theater later that night
dave would share blair's story with
morgan he wasn't really sure how morgan
was going to react but morgan actually
would open up
and he would say you know before you
started working here i always felt like
i was being watched when i was here
and then we had that experience
obviously where the lights are coming on
and you heard that banging from that
bathroom door and then just a few days
ago
i heard voices coming from the hall and
i heard someone coughing in the basement
and
i smelled smoke and and there was no one
there and so they start going back and
forth
exchanging stories of just how
uncomfortable this place made them feel
and so they're wondering what they
should do about this and dave has this
idea
he's like my best friend i'll invite him
to come over here one night and we'll
tell him that we're giving him a tour of
the building and we'll just see what he
says
we'll see if he reacts to anything here
who knows you know maybe something
strange will happen and then we'll have
another person validate it
morgan thinks that's a good idea and so
dave reaches out to his best friend
greg greg would say that he was a little
bit surprised to be getting this
offer to come take a tour of the theater
but he was interested and since dave was
asking he figured he would oblige him
and so greg agrees to come to the
theater and take a tour so the next day
dave and morgan are at the theater and
greg shows up and so they start this
tour they go in the main auditorium
they're looking around
and they make their way into the
basement morgan turns on the light and
morgan and dave instantly see a little
ways down the hall
on the left one of the doors has been
opened and so dave and morgan push greg
out of the way they draw their pistols
and they're aimed at the open door
and so greg just stays behind them as
morgan and dave make their way down to
this open door
and when they get right outside the door
and they're about to push it open to go
inside
the door slams shut right in front of
greg
and dave and morgan and they all are
looking at each other like
what's going on but before they can do
anything
the door handle starts rattling really
aggressively after the rally stops dave
and morgan look at each other and they
nod their head like we got to go in
there greg
is scared about being out in the hall
alone and so he just follows them in
and so the three of them go into this
room dave and morgan are you know
pistols drawn it's a small room
there's no one in there light switch on
no one in there greg
suddenly gasps and he points to the
corner and he says someone's sitting in
the corner and dave and morgan
immediately train their guns
on what's in the corner but no one's
there and greg's like
i i just saw someone sitting in the
corner it looked like he had a hood on
he had a sweatshirt on i don't know but
he was right there
and so dave and morgan they're freaked
out because they brought greg here on
some level
to disprove the strangeness and now the
three of them have seen a door slam
that shouldn't have been open in the
first place greg's claiming to have seen
a figure sitting in the corner
this scared the crap out of all three of
them they quickly left
locked shut off the lights went upstairs
greg's like i'm out of here greg leaves
and dave and morgan are like now what so
at this point all the strangeness that
was happening in the theater
was getting reported but it was being
reported in a way
that dave and morgan didn't seem like
they were referencing something haunted
but rather
someone was breaking in ultimately the
county installed new cameras
inside of the theater these updated
cameras had infrared technology which
allowed them to see better when the
lights were off they were hoping that
this would allow them to catch whoever
was breaking in
practically every time david morgan are
on ship so on the day that it was
installed september 15th
morgan is working there alone and he's
sitting in the control room looking at
the different cameras
and he's kind of playing around with the
different screens and seeing what each
of the cameras can do
and at some point something catches his
eye in one of the screen
in the main auditorium it appeared like
someone might be sitting in one of the
seats
but the camera was zoomed back enough
that he couldn't get a clear picture
and he didn't know what was normal in
any of these cameras because he's
the first time he's looking at any of
these screens and so he's looking at the
camera really closely and he thinks he
sees
someone he can't really tell that has a
hood on or a shroud on that's just
sitting in the middle of the theater
and starts turning its head like this
and you can see clear as day a set of
eyes
and before morgan has a chance to do it
it just starts raising into the ceiling
and disappears
morgan didn't even check to see what it
was he was done he literally quit
that day it was his last day at the
theater a couple of weeks after morgan
has quit
and dave is working alone at the theater
he's in the control room
and all of a sudden he hears a piano
playing
and there's only one piano in the entire
theater and it's sitting in the basement
it's his job to protect this place so he
knows he has to go down and check
because it could be some hooligan in the
building somewhere
so he leaves the control room and as he
starts walking over to the stairs with
his gun drawn the music is getting
louder and louder the piano is getting
louder and louder and louder
he makes his way down the steps and as
he's about to turn the corner
he hears that the guard that protects
the keys on the piano
slams shut and the piano stops then he
turns around the corner and he looks and
there's no one down there he flips on
the light
no one's in the hall he knows he's not
going to find anyone down here it's this
entity that's causing all this mayhem
inside of the theater
dave's seen enough he's done he's done
with this theater and he goes right
back upstairs he goes in the control
room locks it stays there till the end
of the shift and then he is out
and the next day he goes to a sergeant
and he says you can't ever put me back
inside that theater or i will quit
and so sure enough he was transferred
over the next two months they didn't
have anyone who could do full-time
security at the theater so different
random officers would be there for a
couple hours a couple of days a week
until november 26th they found another
officer a veteran police officer named
josh thomas
who was going to be working at the
theater full-time on november 26th the
first night that josh thomas was going
to be there
he didn't have anyone to turn over with
so he was just alone at the theater
and it just so happens that dave is in a
patrol car
near the theater when at some point in
the night josh comes over the radio and
says hey i need backup right now
someone has broken into the theater dave
knows that it's probably not someone
breaking in
he knows what's going on inside that
theater he was the closest to it
and even though he did not want to go he
felt like it was his responsibility to
go to that theater and be
josh's backup and if it was what dave
thought it would be
this entity in the theater that he would
be able to explain to him what he had
seen before he ultimately decided never
to go back
and when dave gets to the theater
there's this back door that they would
go into
and he sees josh as standing just
outside the theater and dave would say
that josh's eyes were you know like
saucers he looked terrified and so dave
has an inkling of what's going on and he
goes over to josh he's like what's going
on is someone still in there
he said that he'd been doing security
rounds and he had heard what sounded
like
voices when he was in the basement and
he didn't think much of it he checked
all the rooms everything was shut
and when he made his way up to the third
floor he saw that the elevator had
kicked
on it was in the basement and suddenly
the light was on and it was whirring up
to the third floor
and when the elevator opened up there
was no one there and he's standing there
looking at it and he looks inside
there's no one there and then the alarm
goes off
that's when he called in for backup dave
says look let's just go search the
building we'll do it together they clear
the whole theater
no one's there and before dave leaves
they go into the main auditorium where
the stage is and they're just standing
on the stage chatting with each other
and dave his back is to where the
audience would be
and josh is facing dave facing towards
the seats
josh just suddenly stopped mid-sentence
he's just frozen and looking just beyond
dave's shoulder
and dave goes what and josh goes there's
something behind you
dave slowly turns around and as soon as
he does he can tell immediately what
josh is looking at
standing in the very back of the theater
away from them is a man
standing in the corner with its hands by
its sides its back is to them and it's
looking down with a hood over its head
dave turns his whole body around to look
at this thing
right as this thing turns around real
quick and looks directly at them it has
these
deep dark sunken eyes and its face looks
like
it had been very badly burned like it
was black and charred
and it's looking at them before it just
turns and runs out the back of the
theater
josh believed that that was an intruder
dave was fairly certain that that was
just
another example of this entity that
haunts the theater but they would search
the building and they could never find
that cloaked figure again
and that was when dave sat josh down in
the control room and he filled him in
on why morgan had quit and why he
ultimately had quit and he also told him
the story from blair so josh is like
great i'm glad i work here now this was
the last time that dave would go to the
theater
but dave would do some additional
digging on the history of the theater
it would turn out that in the 40s there
was this horrible fire and a man had
been trapped in the basement when the
fire had erupted
and he had died inside of the theater
and so dave would share this information
with morgan and with josh and the three
of them all believe
that what they were witnessing was the
ghost of that man who died in that fire
so i'd love to get your reaction to this
was this a ghost or was this something
else
i will get back to all of the early
commenters so get your comments in there
give me your theories and i get back to
all the early commenters
if you enjoyed this story and you
haven't already done this please place
the like button's feet and cement and
then throw them into the ocean
also subscribe to this channel and turn
on all notifications so you don't miss
any of my weekly three four even five
video uploads if you have a story
suggestion for this channel it can be
your personal story or just a suggested
story
please submit it on our subreddit it's
just called mr ballin it's linked in the
description below
i read that subreddit every day so i
promise i will get to your submission if
you put it on there
and if i intentionally use your
submission i will absolutely credit you
if you want to get in touch with me you
can direct message me on instagram my
username is johnballen416. i also
recently just started using twitter and
my username over there is john ballen416
as well
i'm also very active on tick tock where
my handle is mr ballen
so whether i see you on reddit instagram
twitter tick tock
youtube or some combination i'm just
very appreciative of your support
and until next time guys that's gonna do
it see ya
