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Oyster Mill Playhouse

Two Seats at the Oyster Mill Playhouse

Oyster Mill Playhouse and its parking area beside the wooded road in East Pennsboro Township.

History & local legend

At Oyster Mill Playhouse near Camp Hill, theater lore reserves the two end seats in the top row for a ghostly couple. Kathie Spacht described an experience in one of those seats to The Patriot-News for an October 2012 article.

She said someone tapped her on the head, then tapped again more forcefully. The third tap was hard enough to persuade her to move. Nobody was sitting near her. Several rows below, Dave Rowland was laughing; the theater’s story about the couple gave him an explanation for why she had apparently been nudged out of the seat.

Spacht also recalled seeing the little girl said to play upstairs among the costumes. The child had blond hair with a bow in it. When she noticed Spacht, she ran away and disappeared.

Sources

  1. Julia Hatmaker, The Patriot-News, interviews with Kathie Spacht and Dave Rowland, October 2012
  2. Oyster Mill Playhouse, playbill with theater and building history
  3. MillPictures, the Eyster Grist Mill building and road location
  4. Esri, registered theater address
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Visiting

Community theater.

Image credit

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program, 2022 · License