{"id":275,"slug":"bristol-opera-house-bristol-indiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Bristol's is the grabbed — the 'Percival pulls' that's the actors held, the 'full name' that's the stop word. The 'basement lived' is the housed — the 'Depression evicted' that's the family's fall, the 'girls played' that's the daughters' stage. The 'Percy never' is the rule — the 'formal name' that's the respect demanded, the 'pranks quit' that's the called truce.","The 'Pinafore opened' is the '97 — the 'Mosier brothers' that's the builders made, the 'skating rink' that's the uses turned. The 'saved '61' is the kept — the 'demolition faced' that's the civic's save, the 'descendants corrected' that's the legend checked. Bristol's is the worked — the 'tools moved' that's the handyman's shift, the 'shafts light' that's the tricks kept.","The file keeps Bristol's: the grabbing Percival, the basement family, the name's rule, and the saved house.","Bristol Opera House is the archive's Indiana file — the handyman who still works the wings."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bristol Opera House is the archive's Indiana file — the ghost who answers only to his full name.","A stage keeps its handyman — the file's suggestion being that Bristol's hold is the employed: the 'Percival grabs' that's the work kept, the 'basement lived' that's the family housed, and the 'name corrects' that's the legend's check."]}],"name":"Bristol Opera House","aliases":["Elkhart Civic Theatre"],"type":"THEATER","type_label":"Theater","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Theater associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"A theater in Bristol, Indiana, Bristol Opera House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Theater associated with documented cultural history. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Percy. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still runs shows.","address":"210 E Vistula St","city":"Bristol","county":null,"state":"Indiana","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.712215,"lon":-85.830898,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://elkhartcivictheatre.org/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"State tourism labels the entry Elkhart; the operating theater explicitly gives Bristol as its street-address municipality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":56.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":211,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Local stories attribute disturbances to Percy and child apparitions. An old theatre in Bristol, Indiana keeps its dead in the dark between shows — the reports just turn the house lights up. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The report is preserved in sources like '13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th'. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Percy","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Local stories attribute disturbances to Percy and child apparitions. Theatres collect ghosts the way they collect curtain calls, and Bristol Opera House in Bristol, Indiana has taken its bows. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. '13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th' carries the account. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Percy","claimed_identity":"Percy","verified":null,"summary":"Local stories attribute disturbances to Percy and child apparitions. Bristol Opera House's lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. The account appears in '13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Local stories attribute disturbances to Percy and child apparitions.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved theater; tours or event tickets may be available—check the official site.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Elkhart Civic Theatre","url":"https://elkhartcivictheatre.org/","publisher":"Elkhart Civic Theatre","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":2}}