{"id":2291,"slug":"palace-theatre-new-york-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Palace is the made — the 'played the Palace' that's the phrase's source, the 'Valhalla' that's the vaudeville's heaven. The '15,000' is the beat — the 'theaters under' that's the circuit's size, the 'Palace top' that's the peak's rank. The 'lifted whole' is the moved — the '30 feet' that's the raise's height, the 'hotel under' that's the '20s' build.","The 'movie turned' is the died — the 'vaudeville ended' that's the '32 shift, the 'B picture' that's the降级's form. The 'stars played' is the rolled — the 'Bernhardt Marx' that's the stage's names, the 'dream fulfilled' that's the acts' goal. Palace is the kept — the 'auditorium' that's the landmark's part, the 'ghosts walk' that's the dressing rooms' crowd.","The file keeps the Palace: the made phrase, the beaten field, the lifted theater, and the walking ghosts.","Palace Theatre is the archive's New York file — the stage that meant you'd arrived."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Palace Theatre is the archive's New York file — the room every vaudevillian dreamed of.","A stage keeps its dream — the file's suggestion being that the Palace's hold is the reached: the 'played it' that's the made's proof, the 'lifted 30 feet' that's the survival's way, and the 'ghosts stay' that's the acts' return."]}],"name":"Palace Theatre","aliases":[],"type":"THEATER","type_label":"Theater","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_THEATER"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"The vaudeville palace—Judy Garland’s door and a hundred phantom acts.","full_desc":"A theater in New York, New York, built in 1913, Palace Theatre is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The vaudeville palace—Judy Garland’s door and a hundred phantom acts. HauntHunt files it with haunted places and historic theaters. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Judy Garland. The dossier holds 2 reported claims and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still runs shows.","address":null,"city":"New York","county":null,"state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.662712,"lon":-73.938677,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1913,"year_opened":1913,"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":1688,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Judy Garland is reported at a mezzanine door; vaudeville-era figures are part of the house legend. Palace Theatre's lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Palace Theatre (NYC)' carries the account. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Judy Garland","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Palace Theatre (NYC)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Theatre_(New_York_City)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":1689,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Reported a presence in the mezzanine and sounds after closing. Palace Theatre'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. The report is preserved in sources like 'Palace Theatre (NYC)'. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Palace Theatre (NYC)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Theatre_(New_York_City)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Judy Garland is reported at a mezzanine door; vaudeville-era figures are part of the house legend. Palace Theatre's lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Palace Theatre (NYC)' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Palace Theatre (NYC)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Theatre_(New_York_City)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Judy Garland","claimed_identity":"Judy Garland","verified":null,"summary":"Judy Garland is reported at a mezzanine door; vaudeville-era figures are part of the house legend. Palace Theatre's lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. The account appears in 'Palace Theatre (NYC)'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Judy Garland is reported at a mezzanine door; vaudeville-era figures are part of the house legend.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Palace Theatre (NYC)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Theatre_(New_York_City)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Palace Theatre (NYC)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Theatre_(New_York_City)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}