Darlington Civic Theatre

                                  

Paranormal activity has been reported throughout the building for years and years and it’s still happening all the time on a regular basis.

According to many ghost stories and séances that have taken place at the Civic Theatre it’s said that Signor Rino Pepi haunts the building. He can’t seem to tear himself away from there. He loved the building so much. Many people have reported that Pepi appears in his left box right near the stage. He still wears his long black coat with a collar skirt and watches and enjoys watching the actors perform on the stage.

A figure of a woman is said to haunt the wings, but nobody knows who this lady is. There are also reports of another woman that nobody knows of; she haunts one of the dressing rooms where actors get ready to go on the stage.

A ghost of a dog has been sighted on many occasions. Most sighting of the dog is at the circle staircase. It’s mainly children that see the dog. In the early 1990s a bar extension was getting built through the staircase. A Dogs remains were uncovered.

Dressing room number 12- is reported to be haunted by a young girl named Arabella aged 12. People can sometimes hear crying from inside the room. She haunts the dressing room because she is somehow connected to the building that existed on the same spot before the theatre was built.

Above the stage- a man with the name ‘jimmy the flyman’ haunts this area. Many people can hear him with a pair of ladders just moving around and getting on with his work.

The stage- a ghost of a young woman is often seen watching dancers on stage practices their performance. It’s thought this spirit was once a dancer.

The old stage door keeper Gordon is now and again seen making sure all the doors are locked.

A lot of paranormal groups visit the Civic Theatre many times and have often caught a large amount of orbs on their night vision cameras.

Paranormal groups that have investigated the building have experienced table tipping.