Ghost Light: Spirits of The King Opera House, Part Two | Guest Gavin Webb

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The King Opera House in Van Buren, Arkansas, isn’t just a beautiful relic of the past—it’s a living, breathing theater with a haunted history unlike any other. Today, Gavin Webb joins us to talk about his paranormal documentary that dives deep into the legends and lore of this 133-year-old opera house. From ghostly apparitions in 1920s clothing to a lady in white wandering the men’s restroom, the spirits said to haunt this historic space are as numerous as they are mysterious. But perhaps the most tragic spirit of all is an actor, reportedly killed by a furious father who suspected him of bad intentions with his daughter. Gavin shares behind-the-scenes stories, eerie encounters, and what they uncovered while investigating one of Arkansas’s most haunted buildings. Is the King Opera House truly haunted—or does it just know how to put on a hell of a show? This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0	Today on the Grave Talks, part two of Ghost Light, Spirits of the King Opera House, a conversation with filmmaker Gavin Webb.
0:10.6	Doing this film about King's Opera House, did you already have ideas that you want to continue doing paranormal things?
0:20.6	Yeah, well, right after, I kind of was like, okay, I did the paranormal documentary.
0:25.9	I think it's time to move on to do like another feature film that isn't a documentary.
0:31.3	Since I, you know, got a paycheck from Amazon and the King Opera, I was like, I'm going to try
0:36.9	to make a low budget feature
0:38.2	film. And that's kind of what I did all of 2024 was I wrote a horror film. I asked my friend
0:44.7	Lily to be in it. And when we started, it was like the first day of filming the, the film.
0:52.5	We just like we started filming and it just didn't fill right.
0:56.6	Like something was off. So we canceled the whole production after like putting all this money into it.
1:02.3	We canceled it. I returned everything. And instead of me like kind of like being sad and dreading that, you know, I just failed.
1:10.3	I was like, let's go back
1:12.0	into the the paranormal scene because i've my sister's wedding was in september of last year and
1:19.3	a lot of people came up and was like hey i watched the documentary that was so cool are you
1:23.2	going to do more i was like i plan on it but not right now because I was working on the feature
1:28.2	film. It kind of just snowballed from there. I was like, you know, I really miss it. You know,
1:33.3	maybe, maybe this is my calling to jump back into the documentary, uh, segments and the paranormal.
1:40.1	So that's kind of where it like snowballed. I I was like, okay, let's work on another project.
1:46.0	And originally it was just going to be another like one location documentary,
1:49.9	but we kind of got ahead of ourselves and made the next project, which is a series.
1:57.1	How did that come about then to do The Haunted Arkansas?
2:01.2	It came about because I remember my mom mentioning this location that we live by,
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