Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of IHeart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky.

Listener discretion is advised.

What is it about a theater? It seems just about every one of them is haunted.

Every fall I embark on a speaking tour of 20 to 30 cities,

and nine times out of 10, the staff is eager to share their ghost stories with me.

In one theater, and sadly, I can't remember which one, I'll never forget being on stage,

delivering my lecture to the audience, when suddenly I heard whispering

to my left, as though someone was trying to get my attention backstage. In front of this

audience of hundreds, I stopped talking and looked into the darkness at the side of the stage,

trying to see if one of the texts was attempting to get my attention.

I didn't see anyone. I figured if it was important, they would try again. Less than a minute later,

I heard the whisper again, except this time it was almost directly in my ear. Imagine having such

a thing happen while you're trying to keep your cool in front of a large audience.

I did tell the story to them during the Q&A after I'd gotten through the main lecture itself.

Afterward, one of the staff members came up to me and told me I was not the first who had experienced the whispering ghost on stage.

That being said, to this day, one of the most unexplainable experiences I have ever had took place in a theater,

an experience that defies all logic. Would you like to know more? Of course you do. Join me,

Haunted Roadies, as we venture to the Cincinnati Music Hall. I'm Amy Bruny, and this is Haunted

Road. In Cincinnati's over the Rhine neighborhood, a nearly 150-year-old music hall sprawls above a grassy sunlit park.

It's called, appropriately enough, the Cincinnati Music Hall.

The building is in the high Victorian Gothic revivalival style. Its three-foot-thick

red brick walls and peaked roofs tower over cobblestone streets and a streetcar stop that sits

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