Haunted Theatres

I must of been a sleep jeff, but sometime later talking to Mandy next door & she asked me why I was checking out the fence? So I reluctantly told her what happened. She didn't want to know any more about spooks! However she told me that aboriginies aviod the house & would walk away from the property if they passed. So she asked them why they always crossed the street then crossed back, after they had passed the house? They told her it was haunted & they refused to go near it!

  But to me it  was all so much 'my eye 'n Mary Martin'.

I also checked my medication in the Webster Packs after it happened & I hadn't missed taking any.

Gawd know I'm starting to remember when I was a kid, working at the Grand Theatre on Byker Bank in Newcastle upon Tyne UK.

In the dundgeon beneath the stage, if the 'Piss Pots' [Water dimmers] were switched on for whatever reason. A darkened image would apear as a depression in the bricks of the dungeons upstage wall. The story goes it was the ghost of one of the workers, 'wee Geordie', who installed the electric lighting back in the late 1800 & He was testing the water dimmers. As the water level was getting low & as there was no water available, being a Canny he used what was at hand & pissed into the water pot to top it up, resulting in him being  impailed on the back wall & some what crispy fried. {They even added a verse to the old geordie song of the 'Lampton Worm', }

The bricks in the dungeon walls being 'Cowen Fire Bricks', which were a light fawn Blaydon Clay in colour, so any shadow or depression was easly visable.

 {Blaydon Brick Company was owned by one of ansestors Joseph Cowen, which was started up by his Dad Sir Joseph Cowen. Joe jnr owned The Newcatle Brewary, Chronicle Newspaper & built the Tyneside Theatre & Opera house on Westgate Road Newcastle,. Where the City 'n folk of the 'Toon' erected a monument to him - But that's all another story!.}

Sure enough when the wall was checked after the performance or the next day, the shadow & imsge was gone?

Being a wee bloke I soon realised later it was a shadow cast by the newell post on the dungeon stairs, when the lights were switched on. But I never worked out how the depression in the brick wall was achieved?