Summary:
The Lyric Theatre, home to Tupelo Community Theatre, has a storied past dating to 1912 when it opened as the Comus vaudeville house and was converted into a movie theater in 1931, gaining its art deco marquee. Its best-known legend has been “Antoine,” a benign ghost said to be either a former caretaker or a child who died amid the 1936 tornado when the theater served as a makeshift hospital and morgue. In this article, previous executive director Tom Booth – who began volunteering in 1992 – describes harmless but unexplained incidents, including a disembodied, sing-song voice and keys that inexplicably ended up inside a Plexiglass container, and he likened Antoine to “Casper.”
~Daily Journal Via AP News – Event celebrates the legends born out of the Lyric Theatre