The tales of those that haunt the Dock St Theater - on the site of America's first theater - is much different from the serial killer, soldier and witch-type ghosts usually heard.
It was originally constructed around 1809 as Planter's Hotel by the Calder
It's said that there are two entities that continuously wander around the theater. One of them was a famous actor by the name of Junius Brutus Booth, most famously known as the father of the man who killed President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.
The other ghostly creature, a nameless prostitute locals call "Nettie" who is believed to have frequented the area also in the 1800's.
Nettie worked at the hotel and was struck by lightening standing on her porch.
She was killed instantly.
The theater recently underwent a three-year, $18 million renovation.
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