Haunted Tulsa: Where History Refuses to Stay Buried, Part Two | Guest Karla Cantrell
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The 1921 Race Massacre remains one of the darkest moments in American history, its devastation still felt in the foundations of the city. And at the Tulsa Theatre—once linked to the very men who helped ignite that tragedy—people still experience paranormal activity tied to the building’s painful past. Some even believe the famed tenor Enrico Caruso left more than an echo behind after his ill-fated visit to the city.
At Cain’s Ballroom, the home of Western Swing, legends say Bob Wills never really left the building, and then there’s the Hex House—the events that unfolded there left a stain so deep that the empty lot itself is still known for strange sensations and an atmosphere people struggle to explain.
Karla Cantrell is a Tulsa ghost tour host who spends her nights sharing the stories that refuse to fade. Together, we explore the tragedies that shaped the city and the hauntings that linger long after the headlines ended. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about Haunted Tulsa, where history refuses to stay buried with Carla Cantrell. |
| 0:11.1 | The one I want to talk about is Kane's Ballroom. |
| 0:15.1 | It's legendary, probably most people have, I like to think most people have heard of Kane's Ballroom. |
| 0:21.2 | I have never been, so you and I have to I like to think most people have heard of Kane's ballroom. I have never been. |
| 0:23.0 | So you and I have to go sometime to a show there. |
| 0:25.7 | I cannot believe that you live so close to Tulsa and you haven't done. |
| 0:29.2 | Well, and there was Allison Krause and Robert Plant were there this past summer. |
| 0:34.9 | I was so excited. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm going and it was sold out by the time I even |
| 0:38.2 | heard about the show. It's like kind of an old, like a dance hall. |
| 0:43.4 | 1924, it was actually built as a parking garage for the wealthy because the oil boom and everything |
| 0:49.0 | was going on. And then it became a concert venue. And yeah, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys put it on the map. |
| 0:56.3 | It was the house that Bob built. |
| 0:59.0 | Beautiful. |
| 0:59.0 | Everybody has played in that theater. |
| 1:01.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:02.4 | And if you mention it to an artist now, they're like, oh, my gosh, yes, I'll play at Keynes. |
| 1:07.4 | I'll play at Keynes all day long. |
| 1:09.4 | They have a wooden floor, and then they have a new stage, which is actually built on top of the original stage, and there's a crawl space between them that you can go and, like, you can sit, like, cross-legged in this space, and a lot of artists do it. |
| 1:28.4 | Oh, that's cool. |
| 1:30.5 | I know, isn't that cool? |
| 1:32.4 | And yeah, it's the house that Bob built and Bob Wills loved that venue and played there all |
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