Hawkinsville Opera House
Designed by Macon theater architect W.R. Gunn and built in 1907 for $16,470, the 576-seat Hawkinsville Opera House was the grandest public building in Pulaski County, hosting vaudeville acts and even drawing a young Oliver Hardy to its stage. Over the decades it sheltered a displaced congregation and stood in as a movie house when those buildings burned, before a $1.7 million restoration brought the old auditorium back to life in 2001. Since the renovation, staff have noticed the house lights inexplicably dimming during quiet moments, a phenomenon they have come to blame on a lingering presence. Paranormal investigators who spent a night inside reported lights flickering on and off by themselves and disembodied voices drifting through the dark, one of them startled to hear his own name called from the speaker room atop the spiral staircase, where no living soul stood waiting.
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