History & local legend
Curwensville Area High School's auditorium has a phantom tradition remembered by performer Bridget Bellmore and her father, who worked on sets and lighting. In a 2011 essay, Bellmore described two encounters from her years in school productions.
During rehearsals for Man of La Mancha in 2006, she watched a windmill's shadow turn on the auditorium wall. While playing keyboard for Fiddler on the Roof in 2007, she saw a face inside a stage light; it was gone when she looked again.
Her father told her that, while working alone at night, he sometimes heard singing in the voices of past casts and turned up his radio to cover it. Some longtime theater participants understood the phantom as something shared by former performers, rather than the ghost of one named person.
Sources
- Bridget Bellmore, “The Inheritance I Have Neglected,” written in 2011 and published in Lycoming College’s Schemata in 2013, pp. 4–5
- Pennsylvania Bulletin, 2007 public-hearing notice specifically naming the Curwensville High School auditorium at 650 Beech Street
- Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Curwensville Area Senior High School address
- OpenStreetMap, junior/senior high school point, distinct from the adjacent elementary school