The Granbury Opera House was constructed in 1886 and shared its early days with a saloon, and performed various kinds of entertainment which we shall leave to your imagination. This caused its closure in 1911, until it reopened in 1975. A recent renovation has reinvigorated the building... and its ghosts.

According to local legend, none other than John Wilkes Booth (the man responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln) escaped to Granbury and assumed a new identity of John St. Helen.

It was under this guise that he allegedly performed at the theater before his eventual capture. Some believe that he still treads the boards of this grand building. The apparition of a man in "white shirt, dark pants and high boots" has been sighted, although how they can identify this as Booth is not known.

Other phenomena include phantom footsteps, the movement of objects, lights turning off and on, and doors opening and closing of their own volition.

Pictured left is the Granbury Opera House courtesy of Kairos14.