Today on The Grave Talks, the haunted bird cage theater.

Originally opened in 726, 1881, the haunted bird cage theater in Tombstone, Arizona

has a very dark story to tell.

Wine shrouded in murder, illicit activity, in nefarious intent.

The haunted bird cage theater was and still is a hotbed of negative energy.

Do all the spirits who haunt the bird cage theater have negative intent, or are they simply

victims of its former patrons? It truly was a stop. An innocent passerby would have

better skip in its day. Today the spirits are energy of those who passed by the theater only to

meet their demise may still linger around the bird cage. Author and paranormal investigator Steven

Blackwell tells the story. Bird cage theater was actually opened in December 26, 1881.

Over the years it initially stayed open for a period of nine years at which time Tombstone's

silver industry kind of flooded out and a lot of people ended up leaving the area.

One time they had grand plans on Tombstone becoming a metropolis of a city.

They figured it was going to be larger in San Francisco within about 25 years because of the

boom of silver. So when that closed down, a lot of the town ended up evacuating, leaving,

and pulling up other places. But the bird cage theater itself is the only original building

that's left on the infamous Allen Street. And for those that don't understand the history of

Tombstone, Tombstone Arizona is where the gunfight of the OK Crel happened there with

Wider, Doc Holiday, and the outlaw cowboy gang. And there were three people killed during that

gunfight there now buried at the Boothill cemetery, which is another very famous place.

The original Boothill cemetery there in Tombstone, it is thought to have quite a bit of paranormal

activity. And the bird cage itself actually survived two fires that pretty much devastated the

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