AZ Trip #17: Bird Cage Theatre Ghost Tour: Audience of Ghosts

The Bird Cage stage- we sat behind it. The ghosts were in front of the curtain

In the last couple of blogs we've been taking you with us on the ghost tour through the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona. In today's blog you'll learn about a dead audience.

Rob and Dan in the Bird Cage Theatre basement

About 24 people in our Ghost Tour group were seated around a giant table (actually several tables pushed together) behind the stage curtain (we were backstage). Two groups of about 12 were on two sides. The docent then  turned the lights out for 30 minutes and we could communicate with any ghosts. It didn't take long before we experienced them!  After about 10 minutes I heard something...

Playing Faro in the 1880s. Credit: gamblingguides.net

GHOSTLY AUDIENCE - I said out loud (while sitting in the dark) that I could hear about 4 to 6 men talking as if playing cards over a table. The sound was coming from the front of the stage, where the audience would sit. It was very clear that these men were gambling and drinking. Several other people on the tour also heard them!  

WHAT IT WAS- Those sounds were a residual haunt. When people have a good time, or a traumatic time, their energy makes an impression in the structure they are in at the time. Those 4 to 6 men were enjoying their poker or faro game and impressed that energy in the walls of the Bird Cage. When the living people on the tour were sitting there, they provided emotional energy (of anxiety while sitting in the dark) that enabled the energy impressed upon the walls to get strong enough to be heard! 

NEXT: Rob Sees the Woman in White!