Princess Theatre
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.
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Is Princess Theatre haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
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.
The record of claims
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.
The guide recounts an apparition attributed to an original owner. The theatre's reports favor the booth, the balcony, and the stage — the building's own logic of where a ghost would linger. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.
Alleged entities
The guide recounts an apparition attributed to an original owner. The presence goes by Mr. Kirkendall. Theatres collect ghosts the way they collect curtain calls, and Princess Theatre in Columbus, Mississippi has taken its bows. The report is preserved in sources like 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi'. The lore has a face now: Mr. Kirkendall.
Sources on file
- 01The haunting of Columbus, MississippiSouthern Spirit Guide · blog · A4
Field notes & open questions
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