History & local legend
The Mishler Theatre in Altoona opened in 1906 under founder Isaac Mishler. Its ghost stories commonly identify him as a presence still interested in the theater’s operation.
Accounts collected for Ghost Hunters describe the smell of cigar smoke near a seat, footsteps on a catwalk, and a figure passing into a wall where an office once stood. The last detail connects the reported apparition with an older arrangement of the building, as though it were using an entrance that later occupants could no longer see.
