AZ Trip #15: Bird Cage Ghost Tour; Ghost in the Mirror

The ghost with the long white hair and beard in the mirror!

In today's blog, we are still on the ghost tour of the famous

Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona, and Dan, who never had a paranormal experience took a photo of a ghost in a mirror!


QUICK BACKGROUND - As mentioned in the previous blog, the Bird Cage Theatre operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894. When the silver mines closed, the theatre was also closed in 1892. It was reopened in 1934 and has been a museum. It's also known to be quite haunted, which we proved!


SILVER MINERS - Tombstone, Arizona was first a mining camp. Silver miner Ed Schieffelin named the town. In 1877, Mr. Schieffelin was searching for silver in the Arizona territory when he struck a silver vein and the town grew up around his mine. Miners tended to wear overalls, boots, and helmets. Several of them had long beards.

Room with the mirror

THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR - As we walked through the first floor in the front of the stage, there were a lot of pieces of furniture from the 1880s. One of the interesting pieces was a Faro (card game) table where Doc Holliday had an encounter with cowboy/criminal Johnny Ringo. It is said that at that table they tossed a handkerchief in the air to try and shoot it, and both were so drunk they missed.

The ghost resembled this Prescott, AZ 1880s miner

  One of the other items was an old mirror from the 1880s. When I walked past it there was nothing in the mirror. When Dan walked over to it, he took a picture of it. He looked at the photo and was surprised to see a bearded man with long hair that wasn't in the bunch of people on the ghost tour. It was apparent to me that it was one of the miners from the 1880s! 

Seeing this ghost in the mirror where there wasn't one as Dan's first of two ghost sightings in the Bird Cage Theatre that night. You'll read about the second one in a couple of days. 

NEXT: Another Bird Cage Theatre Ghost!