The Crump Theatre

On September 26, 2009 The Phantom Tribe went to Columbus, IN to investigate the reportedly haunted Crump Theatre. Investigators present were Amy, Adam, Jason, Phil, Holly, and Nate.

Amy, Jason, and Holly arrived late in the afternoon while Adam, Phil, and Nate arrived a couple hours later. Here are some of the experiences that occurred when it was Amy, Jason, and Holly. At 7:20pm Amy and Holly were sitting in the lobby while Jason was outside getting some equipment from the car. While they were in the lobby they heard a female voice but it was not just talking rather the voice was singing that came from the theatre area. They went and grabbed the digital voice recorder and headed into the theatre. After taking a seat and listening for a bit they heard footsteps and then a door open. They went outside to find Jason and see if the footsteps or door could have been him however he was by the car the entire time. At that time the three of them went back into the theatre and they all heard footsteps and knocking around 7:40pm.

The three moved into the lobby at 7:54pm and after sitting down for a moment they heard music coming from the stage area of the theatre. They also reported hearing someone walking down the aisle as well as talking and what sounded like coughing.

A little while after Adam, Phil, and Nate arrived and took a look around the place, Amy, Adam, Jason, and Holly decided to go outside for a break while Phil and Nate were in the Theatre seats investigating. Holly had to go back inside for a moment to grab something and a second later she came running out screaming. As she was walking back towards the doors she saw a full body apparition of a man in an old brimmed hat standing by the doorway. This was around 9:20pm.

At 10:00pm we all decided to go and investigate the basement area. At one end of the hallway was our EMF meter and at the other end by where we were sitting was a K2 meter. Reports had been made that a girl had been seen walking the basement area so we were trying to communicate with her. We asked for her to come and join us and a few seconds after asking that our EMF meter went off and a couple seconds later went off again. It was almost like the girl came down the stairs to join us and passed the EMF meter making it go off and then got scared and went back up the same way passing the EMF meter again making it go off the second time.

At 11:00pm we were all in the lounge area where we all heard coughing and what sounded like a chair sliding across the floor in the women's dressing room next to the lounge.

Around 1:10am, Amy and Holly were in the balcony area while Adam, Jason, Phil, and Nate headed up to what used to be the segregation room. In the segregation room we were trying to get responses through us knocking seeing if the noise would be repeated. Phil knocked once the first time and asked "if there was anything with us, would you please make the same sound?" We then heard what was clearly one knock. Phil did this again but knocked twice however this time we only heard one knock in return. Phil tried this a third time with two knocks again and this time the two knocks back were as plain as day. It was almost like the knocks were getting closer. We then knocked again without any questions to see if it was some kind of echo and this time we didn't hear anything.

At 2:00am we were all outside getting ready to go back into the theatre and Amy heard a woman scream from inside. The scream got louder when she opened the door to the point where we all heard the scream. Five minutes later Phil, Adam, and Jason were headed back to the theatre seating and when Phil was passing the lounge he heard a creaking sound come from the chair in the lounge. He looked over and saw the chair tipped backwards as if someone was sitting in it and leaning back however no one was in the chair.

We made another trip back into the basement area at 3:00am. As we were sitting there asking questions and trying to communicate with whatever spirit might have been down there, the EMF meter went off three times.

After this investigation and the team discussing all of our personal experiences we concluded that there was no doubt the Crump Theatre is haunted and paranormal activity is taking place there.