Most Haunted - Season 8, Episode 05: Royal Exchange Theatre

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The Most Haunted Team visit the Royal Exchange Theatre in the city centre of Manchester. The original construction was of Victorian age which was reconstructed to the current version in 1874, for the next 94 years the only trading there was of cotton merchants. In 1940 a world war 2 bomb destroyed half of the building 3 days before christmas. Trading ceased by the end of the 60's and a Theatre company took it over around 1976. In the 1996 the shows did stop at 11-15am on Saturday 15th June, a three thousand three hundred pound bomb ripped the heart out of these evacuated city streets, it was two and a half years untill the Theatre opened the doors to the public again. There is paranormal activity galore in the Theatre, ghostly footsteps, feeling like people are being followed etc. 2 suicides have happened in the Theatre, one a man, and another a girl, both have been seen in the Theatre. An old lady and women in Victorian clothes has been seen in the makeup room, there is also a poltergeist there, and a figure is known to follow people home, there is ghosts and activity galore. One of the ghosts picked up to haunt the Theatre is a man called James Maxwell who worked in the Theatre and died about 10 years ago. Ian Shillito is the guest Psychic. Steve Parsons in the Paranormal Investigator.

Genre: Horror, Reality-TV