PRINCESS THEATRE
Theater — 217 Fifth Street South, Columbus, Mississippi
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/princess-theatre-columbus-mississippi/

Theater in Columbus; research record.

A theater in Columbus, Mississippi, Princess Theatre is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Theater in Columbus; research record. Its signature presence is Mr. Kirkendall — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The Princess opened on Fifth Street South in 1924 as a vaudeville house and made the era's standard conversion to cinema as the variety trade waned. It remains a working performance space — the documented facts of the file are a building, a year, and a continuous life on stage.
The reported layer attaches to the man who started it. According to Adelle Elliott of the Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau, the apparition attributed to original owner Mr. Kirkendall has been seen throughout the theater.

THE BALCONY FIGURE
The strongest claim in the file is photographic: a paranormal team reportedly captured a figure standing in the balcony — offered in the retelling as possibly one of several ghosts in the building.
Both accounts are filed as documented legend — reported by named sources, verified nowhere. The theater keeps its owner the way old houses keep their founders: in the seats.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: The guide recounts an apparition attributed to an original owner. The figure answers to Mr. Kirkendall in the retellings. Princess 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. The report is preserved in sources like 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi — Southern Spirit Guide
  https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/

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