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Ouija Board Experience

Fox Theater, Fullerton California, JoJo Wright Show KIIS FM October 2014

Fox Theater, Fullerton California, October 24, 2014 (Audio)

11/9/2014

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This is the sister piece to the Ouija Board story at the Fox Theater.  All involve the same investigation which took place October 24, 2014 as part of  a live broadcast on KIIS FM 102.7 in Los Angeles for the JoJo Wright show.   Each year JoJo picks a haunted location in Southern California to do a live show from.  Last year it was the Glenn Tavern Inn.  This year the Fox Theater, a notoriously haunted location in the city of Fullerton, county of Orange in Southern California.  See the Ouija board story for information on how you can learn more about the history of the Fox Theater and the hauntings in Fullerton California.
I will say that if you like Ghost Tours, the Fullerton Museum puts on a nice one each year that runs September through October  in down town Fullerton. You can contact the Fullerton Museum for more information on that.  What follows now is my report on the investigation which took part as part of this previously mentioned radio broadcast.
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Photo by Gerald S. Reynolds, this is the main auditorium inside the Fox Theater. If you find a dime in the 3rd row from the front, do not pick it up. Its haunted!

I do not know every ghost story involving the Fox Theater  but, the couple I did read about we confirmed  on this night.  Sara is one of the better known spirits who haunts the Fox.  The story is she is believed to be the young daughter of a Vaudevillian stage actor / performer from the time the theater first opened in 1925 when it was a Vaudeville and Silent Movie house.

During the Ouija board session of which you can read about and view the videos of the session here on this website, we received answers through the Ouija board confirming a couple things about Sara.  When asked if she indeed was the daughter of a Vaudevillian performer the answer given was yes.   Sara indicated she was at the theater in 1925.  According to what I read on the history of the theater, 1925 was the year it opened and as I said previously, vaudeville acts performed there.  The original name was "Alician Court" named for C. Stanley Chapman's wife Alice Ellen.  So, when it was indicated on the Ouija board that 1925 was the year Sara was there, it rang true and made perfect sense in accordance with what I had previously learned.   When asked how old she was, Sara indicated she was a mere girl of 14 years.  However we also learned that Sara may have had a boyfriend named Tim.   Tim was actually the first spirit we made contact with via the Ouija board this night.  Tim indicated he was last there at the Fox in 1934 and unfortunately Tim hanged himself according to what he indicated.  Rob Wlodarski relayed to our group that there is a story of a young man who hanged himself in the women's restroom which was told to Rob by a person connected with the Fox at this time.  So, a very productive Ouija session as we have confirmed two known spirits.  As for Tim being Sara's boyfriend it is not totally out of the question because 1925 and 1934 are only nine years apart.  Tim very well could have known her when she was there.  His friendship / romance with Sara and his unfortunate demise coming years later all being relative.

There is also a legend that goes along with the Fox about not picking up any dimes you find in the third row from the front in the main auditorium.   The story goes that  a hobo seeking shelter was able to sneak into the theater basement and apparently passed away there.  It is said that remains of this hobo may have been discovered at one time down in a forgotten room of the basement.  All here say you understand.  Just the same the story is if you find a dime in the third row from the front in the main auditorium and you pick it up and take it with you, you may have a visit from a guest you were not expecting that evening.

How the hobo story relates to our investigation on this particular night is this.  I had the pleasure of talking to two sound technicians from the radio station.  As we talked, one of them brought up the story of the hobo and the dime.  We all ended up laughing at the prospect of the technician finding a dime and taking home a new guest.  As we finished our laugh there is a interesting EVP of which you can play here. See below.
Rob and I arrived at the theater that Friday about 4:30 PM and the radio crew was already inside setting up.  There is a McDonalds adjacent to the theater and we had a bite to eat prior to going in and getting ready for the investigation.   This is not the first theater  I have investigated.   Previously, on several occasions it was my pleasure to investigate the Warner Grand in San Pedro California.  Of course, although being a historic landmark, the Warner Grand is still an active theater of which stage productions are still taking place and movies are being shown.   The Fox has been essentially closed down since the late 1980s.  I hope that when the Fox is restored it is able to emulate the charm and history of the original time period in which it was first opened.   The Warner Grand I will say, while in great shape gives you that feel of an old fashioned movie palace as they were referred to in the 1930s.  Both theaters certainly give you a since of stepping back in time.  There is a feeling within the Fox of time standing still and the only times I have experienced that are at the Warner Grand, or places such as the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas  and of course the Whaley House in Old Towne San Diego.  Not to mention a few others.  I would say the Fox and the RMS Queen Mary are similar in the feel they have to them and I think you could definitely put the Warner Grand in that category as well.

Victoria Gross a well known medium who is very familiar with the hauntings in Orange County and Fullerton  and the Fox, joined us  and then Marcus and Clare Lindsey  of  Paranormal EXP arrived after Victoria.  Rob and Victoria made their way to the dressing room area under the stage.  Marcus and Clare went to get their equipment and get ready for the evening and I began exploring with video and my Echovox App on my phone and my digital recorder.

I walked around the auditorium and then the stage, asking just very simple questions such as who is there, or what is the name of this building or what is the name of the city etc.  Just to see if there was an awareness about the energies in this place.  If spirits can tell you the name of the location after you ask them directly it is a good indication of two things.  1. You are dealing with intelligent and aware entities and not residuals.  2. You're going to get some interesting responses.

From my first audio of this initial walk through of the auditorium and stage the following was captured

8:48 sounds like we have male voice saying Fox Theater

9:24 Weird response:  Female voice says "I thought some day, I'd be with you"

15:27 Two females do not like a guy named Arthur.  One says "Arthur, leave us alone" and

when I asked  Arthur did what?  Another female says " He did hit me!"

21:10 While talkng to the two sound technicians who were from KIIS FM we laugh about the story of  the dime in the 3rd row of the auditorium and the ghost of the Hobo attached to it.  Just as we laugh about not wanting the Hobo to go home with them that night there is an EVP of a male voice saying "I love them".

The hobo EVP you have already heard but here are other captures mentioned herein.
Rob Wlodarski and Victoria Gross and I did a short EVP/ Echovox session on the stage.  At one point we get a female voice say "Robert" and Rob believes it may be his mother who passed away in 2011.  There is precedence for this as in February 2011 while on the RMS Queen Mary, just a week or so after Rob's mother passed, a very simiar capture was made of a similar female sounding voice saying "Robert".
Here is that capture from the stage.
A little over a minute into this session and we are doing Echovox as we are talking there is a unknown voice which does not sound like echovox and sounds in fact like its in a tunnel.  Sounds like it reverberates throughout the area.   It says "Gerald let me prove to you".   Gerald by the way is me.  LOL

The area under the main stage, where the orchestra pit still is and the empty area next to that is where the dressing rooms and what was known as the green room use to be.  A Green Room is kind of a get away for the actors where they can be just before or after they go on stage.  The area is completely devoid of walls, partitions or any semblance of being a dressing room area now.  Just a big empty void on the stage.  I set up in the middle of this void to do an Echovox session and found myself greeting three spirits.  Jim, Frank and a young sounding female who did not give her name.  Take a listen if you will.
Still under the stage, I began hearing many foot steps on the stage above me.

4:05 Either someone is running around on stage or there is a group of people because I can hear their feet pounding the stage above me.  
When I went back up stairs to the stage I found Rob, Clare, Marcus and Victoria all by the table in the corner.  The table was away from the area which was over me while I was under the stage.   They told me they had made contact with a dancer who they told to dance but they did not hear her.  I told them it sounded like a bunch of people walking on the stage above me  and they all said they had been in the corner at the table and that none of them had been walking on stage.


 6:40 more noise from above. It continues for a couple minutes and there is a female voice on the Echovox which sounds like it says "Dancing with her".

 7:40:  Dancing with her  may have been cut off.  Under further review it says "Dancing with her mother and me".

Here are those captures.

Much of what comes after this has been covered in the post on the Ouija Board session so, no sense in repeating that.  There was other captures which I may post later but I am still deciding on whether or not to post them.  Hope you enjoyed this look into the paranormal world of the Fox Theater in Fullerton.
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Ouija Board Experience, Fox Theater, Fullerton California, JoJo Wright show KIIS FM October 2014

10/31/2014

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JoJo Wright of KIIS FM and Victoria Gross, medium, talk to the spirits of the Fox Theater during Ouija Board Session
History of The Fox Theater from foxfullerton.orgThe Fox Fullerton Theatre has a pedigree – it was built by the firm of Meyer and Holler in 1925, during the peak of their popularity. They were well known for their lavish designs, prestigious clients and clever innovations, such as the “court theatre” concept, a feature that is an integral part of the Fox. Although they built hundreds of structures, it was primarily their 1920′s Hollywood buildings that established their fame; buildings such as Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the Hollywood Athletic Club, and the Cafe’ Montmarte. Having also built many movie studios, it can be said that Meyer and Holler may have been the firm most responsible for giving architectural form to the early entertainment industry in Southern California.
The Fox was built as a vaudeville and silent movie house by prominent local businessman C. Stanley Chapman, and was originally named Chapman’s Alician Court Theatre in honor of his wife, Alice Ellen.

Through the years, the theatre changed owners and names several times. After a 62-year run, the Fox Fullerton closed in 1987. After a successful campaign to purchase the property and save it from demolition in the early 2000′s, plans took shape to rebuild, renovate and bring the Fox Theatre to life again.

for a more complete history please visit http://www.foxfullerton.org/w/about/history-of-the-fox/

Haunted Fox

Since its closing in 1987 the Fox Theater has become known as a place where spirits dwell.  There have been numerous investigations over the years and stories of apparitions,  voices, people being touched by unseen hands, cold spots and even foot steps of unseen feet on the stage.

Sara is one of the better known spirits of the Fox.  She is believed to be the young daughter of a former vaudevillian stage actor.  It is unknown as to why her spirit is believed to haunt  the theater.

 If you find a dime on a chair of the third row from the front of the auditorium, please do not pick it up.  The story is that dime is a lure to unsuspecting potential hosts who will  be housing a unwanted guest in their apartment or house for the night.  The ghost of a hobo who it is believed died in the basement of the theater.  The story is the hobo spends the night in the abode of the unwitting host and then returns to the theater in the morning to set his trap for another potential overnight friend.  It is said that skeletal remains of a man were found in a room, in the basement of the theater and they may have belonged to this hobo. This story is unconfirmed at this time.

Hanging around is the spirit of a young man named Tim.  Tim may have hanged himself in the women's bathroom.  According to our communications with Tim during our Ouija board session, he may have been in his early thirties and his untimely demise may have taken place in 1934.  This is unconfirmed as of this writing.

Many transient spirits are believed to occupy the Fox Theater from time to time. They have no real connection to the theater but wonder in.  Perhaps from the surrounding neighborhoods or city streets of Fullerton.  For more information on the hauntings in Fullerton California, get yourself a copy of  "Fullerton Ghosts"  by Rob and Anne Wlodarski.  For more of Rob and Anne's books visit  them at http://www.ghostpublishingco.com/IPRO.htm

The Experience

Friday October 24, 2014 was a week before the annual Halloween holiday.  Each year JoJo Wright of KIIS FM 102.7 on your FM dial, does a Halloween show in which a haunted site is investigated, live on the  air during the show.  This year it was the Fox Theater in Fullerton California.  JoJo and other investigators have visited the Fox in previous years.  Our team was made up of paranormal investigators Marcus Lindsey and Clare Benavides (soon to be Mrs. Lindsey) of Paranormal EXP, well known medium Victoria Gross, author, archeologist and well known paranormal researcher Rob Wlodarski and,  independent  paranormal investigator Gerald Reynolds (yours truly) and our host JoJo Wright of KIIS FM.


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Gerald Reynolds and JoJo Wright upstairs in the balcony section of the Fox Theater.
The investigators were spread through out the theater.  We covered the former dressing room area under the main stage, next to the orchestra pit, the stage itself, the lower auditorium and the upper balcony area, the basement in the front of the theater under the lobby area and the projection room.  More will be talked about of the investigation itself in another story. Here we are focusing on the Ouija board session.


I was down in the basement doing some Echovox work when  JoJo and Victoria showed up and then Rob.  I forget who had the Ouija but, they all made their way back into this void which was perhaps part of the furnace for the theater.  I was doing playback at the time and did not join them in there immediately.  As I stood in the outer basement room area I could hear them talking.  While standing there  I heard a female voice very clearly say "I am here".  I asked Victoria if she said this and she confirmed that she did not say it.  


Making my way back into the void area to join them I had to pass through a tunnel area of sheet metal with two partitions bordering the tunnel.  As I walked through I banged into one of the partitions and the sound was your typical tin can reverberating type sound you would expect.  Keep this in mind as this comes into play just as we are setting up and about to begin the Ouija session.


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Clare and I as we discuss what we are seeing and hearing.
As we set up for the session, JoJo sitting in the corner of the area, Victoria next to him, I next to Victoria and Rob facing both  of them, Marcus and Clare came in last and joined us.  Rob and JoJo and Victoria were discussing how the Ouija board session was to be executed for the show when Rob dropped whatever was in is hand and, as he reached over to pick it up, Clare, Marcus and I heard a slight bang come from the tunnel / partition area.  As you recall from earlier in this writing, I mentioned, having bumped into the partition myself as I entered this area.  The sound which we just heard was just like the sound created when I bumped into the partition.  We all expected to see somebody walking in but, nobody came through.  Marcus called out to whomever was there but, there was no reply.  Marcus raised up and went back through the tunnel, calling out to whomever.  When he came back he said there was nobody there.
Below here is the video of this taking place.  You will hear a male voice say "Somebody took a shot at me" just as we are discussing the bang and at the end while Clare is talking you will hear someone humming as she talks.


After the incident of the banging sound things moved right along and we began our Ouija board session.  As you heard and saw, Rob said a prayer to block out any unwanted malevolent and unfriendly spirits from joining us.  Victoria began the session with herself, Marcus and Rob all touching the planchette,


from Wikipedia we learn that A planchette ( /plɑːnˈʃɛt/ or /plænˈʃɛt/), from the French for "little plank", is a small, usually heart-shaped flat piece of wood equipped with two wheeled castors and a pencil-holding aperture, used to facilitate automatic writing.

Victoria began asking for any spirits to communicate with us.  Just prior to learning the identity of our first ethereal guest on the video you will see below of the complete session a unknown male voice says "Tim" and there are three knocks.  Now, in discussing the three knocks with our medium, Ms. Victoria and our author Rob they feel the knocks are only confirming knocks.   My concern to them was we have heard that in such circumstances three knocks may be a mocking of the Holy Trinity.  Both Victoria and Rob assured me that nothing either malevolent or evil has ever been detected within the theater on previous investigations.

As we continue, a  young man named Tim makes himself known to our group by spelling his name.  After some discussion as to what to ask him, Victoria asks what year was he at the theater.  The planchette moving first  indicated a "1" and then it moved to a "9" followed by a "3" and a "4".   1934 was the year Tim was last at the theater during his life.  "How did you die Tim?"  First there was an "R".  Moving steadily the planchette or "little Plank" indicates an "E" and then a "P".  Rep?  What does that mean?  "Respiratory"  I suggested.  None of us were sure.  Rob and Victoria both asked Tim to say again how he passed away.   "R" and then  "O".  Next came "P" and as the planchette moved to "E" Rob took his finger off  and exclaimed he was chilled!   Suicide!   At this point Rob went onto tell us that a story was relayed to him by the administrator of the theater about a young man who had hung himself in the women's bathroom upstairs.  As we further communicated with Tim we learned that Tim said he knew Sara, the young girl who was the daughter of one of the vaudevillian actors which had performed at the theater.  Tim said that Sara was his girl friend. 

Our session next focused on Sara and we made contact with her.   Sara told us that she indeed was the daughter of a vaudevillian actor and that she was 14 years old and Tim was her boyfriend.  Also that she was at the Theater in 1925  which is the year the theater opened.  

Marcus and Clare said that Jim was a name they had learned earlier in the evening and that he may have had an affair with Sara's mother.   None of this is confirmed at this time.

Sara was asked if she had been dancing on the main stage earlier in the evening when the group had been doing an EVP session and they asked whomever to dance for them.  I was down below in the former dressing room area and could hear what sounded like a bunch of people walking above me on stage.  When I went upstairs to the stage, the other were in the corner by a large table and none of them had been walking on the stage.

Sara was asked during the Ouija session if she knew who was dancing on the stage and the name Diane was given to us.    Sara indicated that Diane was her mother. Then the planchette moved to the word "goodbye" and she left.

One attempt was made to contact Diane but not much came of it.  One interesting thing that happened was that the planchette moved to the "J" and then the "O" and then the "J" and then the "O" again.  JoJo!
It called out our host.  It was at this time the session came to an end.

We all look forward to investigating the theater in future days to come.  Please view the full session on video below here.   Until next time...............


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