Landers Theater and Haunted Springfield Redux

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Springfield, Missouri will soon be celebrating its 200th anniversary. We've covered the haunted Pythian Castle that is here and back in 2015, we also featured the Landers Theater. This is a typical theater, meaning it has ghosts. There's just something about the emotions that are displayed on the stage and evoked in the audience that causes unexplained activity. Landers has stood for decades and seen much history. Famous performers took to the stage, including Lillian Russell and Lon Chaney. When motion pictures became the thing, the theater adapted. Turns out there are other haunted locations in the city as well. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Landers Theater and the city of Springfield, Missouri.

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Music used in this episode:

Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

Other music in this episode:

Music: Silent Movie 51 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/12470-silent-movie-51

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1:28.4	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
1:39.3	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump
1:48.5	podcast. Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux. I am your host, I am.
2:00.2	And this is Kelly. Kelly on this episode,
2:03.2	we're going back to the Landers Theater in Springfield, Missouri. And when we did this show about 10 years ago,
2:09.9	it wasn't a very long one. And I wanted to fill this out a little bit more. So we're going to talk about
2:13.6	some other haunted locations in Haunted Springfield as well. Excellent. Are you ready to go back?
2:19.4	I'm ready.
2:32.0	Springfield, Missouri will soon be celebrating its 200th anniversary.
2:36.3	We've covered the haunted Pythian castle that is here, and back in 2015, we also featured the Landers' theater.
2:42.7	This is a typical theater, meaning it has ghosts.
2:46.2	There's just something about the emotions that are displayed on stage and evoked in the audience that causes
2:51.3	unexplained activity. Landers has stood for decades and seen much history. Famous performers took
2:58.1	to the stage, including Lillian Russell and Lon Cheney. When motion pictures became the thing,
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