{"id":2301,"slug":"fox-theatre-st-louis-st-louis-missouri","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Fabulous Fox is St. Louis's movie palace — the 1929 Siamese-Byzantine theatre that William Fox built as his Midwest flagship, the $5 million temple that closed in 1978 and was restored by the Strausses' flashlight inspection in 1981. It's still the city's Broadway house.","The theatre was the excess — the 4,500 seats, the twin organs, the 'largest and most magnificent temple of amusement' that sold tickets to theatres, not movies. It played 'Street Angel' opening night; it played kung-fu movies in the seventies; it reopened with 'Barnum' in 1982.","The theatre is still there — the Grand Center anchor, the Wurlitzer that still works, the stage that added 20 feet for the Broadway shows. The file keeps the Fox: the 1929 opening, the 1981 rescue, and the palace that's still fabulous.","The Fox is the archive's palace file — the Siamese-Byzantine flagship, the Strauss restoration, and the theatre that's still the city's."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Fox is the archive's palace file — the 1929 movie temple, the one-year restoration, and the theatre that anchors Grand Center.","A palace that was restored keeps its marquee — the file's suggestion being that the Fox's hold is the rescue: the flashlight inspection, the $3 million restoration, and the theatre that's still the 'Fabulous Fox.'"]}],"name":"Fox Theatre (St. Louis)","aliases":[],"type":"THEATER","type_label":"Theater","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_THEATER"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"The Fabulous Fox of St. Louis—1929 Siamese-Byzantine palace.","full_desc":"A theater in St. Louis, Missouri, built in 1929, Fox Theatre (St. Louis) is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Fabulous Fox of St. Louis—1929 Siamese-Byzantine palace. The archive files it under haunted places and historic theaters. The dossier holds 2 reported claims and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still runs shows.","address":null,"city":"St. Louis","county":null,"state":"Missouri","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.635699,"lon":-90.244582,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1929,"year_opened":1929,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Theater","research_notes":"Haunted theater batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":49.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1714,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a figure in the upper balcony and a man in the mezzanine. Fox Theatre (St. Louis)'s lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Fox Theatre (St. Louis)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":1715,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Reported backstage voices after hours. Fox Theatre (St. Louis)'s lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'Fox Theatre (St. Louis)' keep the claim in circulation. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Fox Theatre (St. Louis)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported a figure in the upper balcony and a man in the mezzanine. Theatres collect ghosts the way they collect curtain calls, and Fox Theatre (St. Louis) in St. Louis, Missouri has taken its bows. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 'Fox Theatre (St. Louis)' carries the account. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Fox Theatre (St. Louis)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"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":"Fox Theatre (St. Louis)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Fox Theatre (St. Louis)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_%28St._Louis%29","desc":"Theater in St. Louis, Missouri, United States","extract":"The Fox Theatre, a former movie palace, is a performing arts center located at 527 N. Grand Blvd. in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Also known as \"The Fabulous Fox\", it is situated in the arts district of the Grand Center area in Midtown St. Louis, one block north of Saint Louis University. It opened in 1929 and was completely restored in 1982.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Fox_Theatre_%28St._Louis%29.jpg/960px-Fox_Theatre_%28St._Louis%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":104,"lat":38.63861111,"lon":-90.23166667},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}