Who Still Haunts the Birdcage Theatre? Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Once a bustling hub of wild entertainment, crime, and vice, the haunted Birdcage Theatre in Tombstone, AZ still echoes with the spirits of its past. Opened in 1881, this infamous saloon and brothel saw more than its fair share of murder, illicit dealings, and tragic fates. Today, its ghosts refuse to leave. Do the spirits haunting the Birdcage Theatre harbor dark intentions, or are they simply lost souls caught in history’s grip? Join us as paranormal investigator and author Steven Blackwell uncovers the chilling tales of phantoms, shadow figures, and eerie encounters that make the Birdcage Theatre one of the most haunted locations in the Wild West.

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0:00.0	Today on the Grave Talks, the Haunted Birdcage Theater.
0:14.0	Originally opened December 26, 1881, the Haunted Birdcage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona,
0:20.7	has a very dark story to tell.
0:24.2	Wine shrouded in murder, illicit activity, and nefarious intent.
0:28.7	The Haunted Birdcage Theater was and still is a hotbed of negative energy.
0:34.7	Do all the spirits who haunt the Birdcage theater have negative intent, or are they
0:38.8	simply victims of its former patrons? It truly was a stop. An innocent passerby would have better
0:46.8	skip in its day. Today, the spirits are energy of those who passed by the theater only to
0:53.8	meet their demise may still
0:55.6	linger around the birdcage.
0:58.4	Author and paranormal investigator Stephen Blackwell tells the story.
1:02.3	Birdcage theater was actually opened in December 26, 1881.
1:09.2	Over the years, it initially stayed open for a period of nine years, at which time Tombstone's
1:16.6	silver industry kind of flooded out, and a lot of people ended up leaving the area.
1:22.6	At one time they had grand plans on Tombstone becoming a metropolis of a city. They figured it was going to be
1:31.4	larger in San Francisco within about 25 years because of the boom of silver. So when that closed down,
1:39.9	you know, a lot of the town ended up evacuating, leaving, and, you know, pulling up stakes other places.
1:47.9	But the birdcage theater itself is the only original building that's left on the infamous Allen Street.
1:55.6	And for those that don't understand the history of Tombstone, Tombstone, Arizona is where the gunfight of the
2:03.6	O.K. Krell happened there with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, and the outlaw cowboy gangs. And there
2:12.9	were three people killed during that gunfight. They are now buried at the Boothill Cemetery, which is
2:19.8	another very famous place, the original Boothill Cemetery there in Tombstone.
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