Who Still Haunts the Birdcage Theatre? Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
Once a notorious hub of vice, violence, and wild entertainment, the Birdcage Theatre has earned a reputation as one of the most haunted locations in the American West. Opened in 1881, the Birdcage served as a saloon, theater, gambling hall, and brothel—hosting countless tragedies, illicit dealings, and untimely deaths.
In this episode of The Grave Talks, we’re joined by paranormal investigator and author Steven Blackwell to explore the history and hauntings that still define the Birdcage Theatre today. Reports of shadow figures, phantom voices, unexplained touches, and lingering presences suggest that not everyone who entered the Birdcage ever truly left.
Are the spirits said to haunt the Birdcage Theatre dark and malicious—or simply souls trapped by unfinished stories and violent history? Together, we examine why this iconic Wild West landmark continues to draw both investigators and the unexplained, more than a century after its doors first opened.
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| 0:30.3 | Welcome to part two of our interview with Stephen Blackwell about the haunted birdcage |
| 0:35.0 | theater. |
| 0:35.3 | When we're talking about the birdcage theater and we're talking about the bird cage theater, |
| 0:37.7 | and we're talking about the amount of deaths there, |
| 0:40.6 | as you said earlier, about 26, as far as we know, |
| 0:44.3 | that took place within the walls of the bird cage. |
| 0:48.6 | Are there any notable deaths more well known than others |
| 0:53.1 | that stand out to you that then connect back to |
| 0:55.7 | the hauntings of the birdcage? |
| 0:59.0 | Sure. |
| 1:00.2 | You know, I can think of one very clearly that's well noted, and that was a fact of a lady |
| 1:07.6 | of the night back in 1800. |
| 1:09.1 | She got pregnant, and she had the child, and allegedly she took the child into the back outhouse area, |
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