Ghostly Encore at the Brown Grand, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Brown Grand Theater in Concordia, Kansas, has always been a showstopper — but the most unforgettable performances may come from those you can’t see. Built in 1907 by Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte Brown and completed by his son Earl, the theater’s century-long history is steeped in legends of spirits who never left their beloved stage.
Visitors report the lingering scent of Gertrude’s phantom perfume drifting through the aisles, while Earl is said to still “run the show” from the other side. Then there’s the mysterious man said to haunt the boiler room and the ghostly little girl in a blue dress who appears when the lights go down.
In this episode of The Grave Talks, we speak with theater director Melissa Swenson and paranormal investigator Tonya Merrill about the unexplained events, spectral sightings, and chilling stories that make the Brown Grand Theater a hotspot for paranormal activity — and a place where the curtain never truly falls. This is Part Two of our conversation.
For more information on The Brown Grand, as well as information on events and paranormal investigations, visit their website at browngrand.org
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| 1:00.7 | Today on the Grave Talks, part two of our conversation about the many spirits at the Brown Grand Theater in Concordia, Kansas. |
| 1:13.3 | Tanya, what kind of evidence have you collected throughout your investigations there? |
| 1:20.5 | predominantly what we've got are photographic anomalies, what we like to call photographic anomalies. |
| 1:26.3 | I often invite our guests to take as many pictures inside the theater as they want, because that's half the fun. I mean, for some folks, this is this huge community landmark that they've grown up with, you know, that they've seen their whole lives, but they've never actually had the opportunity to kind of prowl around, you know, go backstage, look at these things, |
| 1:45.2 | you know, take your picture. If you want to pretend your famous stand on stage and if somebody take |
| 1:49.4 | your picture and do this and make this your own experience. So we often invite our guests to go ahead |
| 1:54.2 | and, you know, take those photographs, take as many as they want. And we often on tours will get |
| 1:59.4 | some interesting photographic anomalies. Usually I ask |
| 2:02.5 | them to take several at a time when they're taking photos that don't include them so that we can look |
| 2:06.3 | at if there's any changes. So we've got some lovely evidence of light orbs kind of moving through |
| 2:12.2 | the downstairs through the main part of the theater in that main sort of gallery area. We've gotten a lot of what we call |
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