Last Friday I had the opportunity to explore the haunted Phoenix Theater in Edmonds. A friend of mine emailed me saying that she'd met some people who were part of the theater and they were interested in getting my take on what was going on metaphysically. I love exploring haunted spaces of every ilk, but this one was rather special to me because of my history with the space.
The Phoenix Theater is in Firdale Village in Edmonds, not five minutes from the house where I grew up and where my parents still live. In fact, the space that is now the theater used to be the Pioneer School, where I went to first grade. After that it became a dance studio - where I took ballet for about a year. Firdale Village is where I would walk as a child to spend my allowance. I wish I could say the place was creepy even then, but it really wasn't. However, I was quite intrigued to be able to find out what happened to the space I spent so much time in as a kid.
We got into the theater around 7:30pm and warmed frozen fingers in the lobby. My friends wanted to get my take on the space before they told me anything about what folks had been experiencing, so we went straight back into the theater area to see what I would find.
As soon as I walked in I felt an entity up in the light booth come out an hover in the upper seats. I asked if people generally felt like there was somebody following them or watching them from the area just below the light booth. Apparently this is the primary claim in the theater.
It seems there's a ghost that likes to watch what people are doing in that upper area. He seemed harmless enough and I said so. I got the impression this was a ghost who simply enjoyed the energy that buzzes around in an artistic environment.
The next thing I felt was an oddity just off the stage. I kept getting an image in my head of people tripping in a certain spot. I went over to check it out an asked if people tripped or felt vertigo in the area. According to the folks we were with, this is the only area in the entire theater where people tend to trip. Score 2 for the witch ;)
I got the impression that this was an area where energy had a tendency to pool, rather than flowing naturally. While not inherently a bad thing, stagnant energy is a lot like standing water - it has a tendency to rot the things around it and can attract nastiness. I told them they needed to either find a way to improve the energy flow or to start grounding it on a regular basis. I suggested setting a bowl of salt there every once in a while to help clean things out.
That was really all that was going on in there, but for such a small space it was enough to give the place interesting energy. We spent the rest of the evening talking about ghosts, energy, and reading tarot. It's quite nice to go blind into a space, say what you feel, and have it match what other people experience - quite validating. As a bonus I got to show off my tarot skills ;) All in all a thoroughly enjoyable evening. I can't wait to see a production there and get to know the ghost a little better.
The Phoenix Theater is in Firdale Village in Edmonds, not five minutes from the house where I grew up and where my parents still live. In fact, the space that is now the theater used to be the Pioneer School, where I went to first grade. After that it became a dance studio - where I took ballet for about a year. Firdale Village is where I would walk as a child to spend my allowance. I wish I could say the place was creepy even then, but it really wasn't. However, I was quite intrigued to be able to find out what happened to the space I spent so much time in as a kid.
We got into the theater around 7:30pm and warmed frozen fingers in the lobby. My friends wanted to get my take on the space before they told me anything about what folks had been experiencing, so we went straight back into the theater area to see what I would find.
As soon as I walked in I felt an entity up in the light booth come out an hover in the upper seats. I asked if people generally felt like there was somebody following them or watching them from the area just below the light booth. Apparently this is the primary claim in the theater.
The next thing I felt was an oddity just off the stage. I kept getting an image in my head of people tripping in a certain spot. I went over to check it out an asked if people tripped or felt vertigo in the area. According to the folks we were with, this is the only area in the entire theater where people tend to trip. Score 2 for the witch ;)
That was really all that was going on in there, but for such a small space it was enough to give the place interesting energy. We spent the rest of the evening talking about ghosts, energy, and reading tarot. It's quite nice to go blind into a space, say what you feel, and have it match what other people experience - quite validating. As a bonus I got to show off my tarot skills ;) All in all a thoroughly enjoyable evening. I can't wait to see a production there and get to know the ghost a little better.
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