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Spooky or kooky? River City spirits have true believers BY COURTNEY CLARK jack The latest incarnation of Ghostbusters once again takes fans on a madcap paranormal adventure throughout New York City. But what about the local lore right here in the River City? Ask almost any Jacksonville native – or even a transient – and most will be able to name at least one place with a haunting reputation. Between the Civil War, the Great Fire of 1901 and serial killers who called the city home, plenty of spooky stories are floating around. We found a couple of others to chew on. Read on and decide if we need to call the Ghostbusters crew. The Atlantic Bank Vault 4 jack | JULY 13-26, 2016
PHOTO: COURTNEY CLARK FOR JACK The Florida Theatre PHOTOS: PROVIDED FOR JACK The Florida Theatre Downtown’s historic theater on Forsyth Street was built in the 1920s on land that had housed an old jail. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the likes of Elvis Presley graced the theater’s stage back in its heyday. And according to local lore, the auditorium is home to some guests who haven’t left the building. Steve Christian’s CW17 show “Local Haunts” explores haunted places in and around Jacksonville, and he says he has seen ghosts here on two occasions. The first time, Christian says his crew caught an apparition of a man on camera. The video, which is available on the “Local Haunts” channel on YouTube, seems to indicate a man sitting in Section 500, Row E, Seat 2. When Syfy Channel’s “Fact or Faked” tried to debunk the video, the cable-channel’s crew found even more evidence to support paranormal activity, Christian says. For his second visit to the theater, Christian added Pamela Theresa to the crew. Theresa, who bills herself as a Medium in the Raw (and has a CW17 show by the same name), told the “Local Haunts” cast and crew that the spirit of a little girl was in the theater. The girl, according to Theresa, died from a fall off the STEVE CHRISTIAN balcony. “We were shooting promo footage and the stage was the backdrop,” Christian says. The crew didn’t even know the girl was there until Theresa mentioned her. “Pamela knew she was there and commented she was there.” It wasn’t until the crew reviewed the footage after the fact that they saw the girl appear on camera. What was visible to them was only the tip of the iceberg. Christian explains that Theresa can see and interact with all the spirits that occupy the theatre, a number he placed at about 50. And high school rules apparently apply in the afterlife. “There’s a hierarchy of ghosts,” Christian says. “Pamela says whoever comes to the theater had to have some sort of tie to the theater. They run out anyone who’s not tied to it.” Downtown’s Underground Not many people know about the series of tunnels that used to connect a portion of Downtown Jacksonville. Although time and progress have sealed some entrances, the tunnels were used by banks as early as the late 1800s for massive vaults that stored transport money. Gary Sass, a tour guide for Ad Lib Tours and River City Haunts, often visits one particular tunnel and vault located beneath 121 Atlantic Place. “We’ve had things move in here,” he says about the strange CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 Pamela Theresa Medium in the Raw JULY 13-26, 2016 | jack 5
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