Screen five

California · United States · Theatre

A young boy was killed in a construction accident here in the seventies. Staff hear footsteps behind them, banging in the walls, and laughter.

A boy was killed during the construction of this cinema at Thousand Oaks, California in the 1970s, in what the account calls a freak accident.

He is associated with screen five.

Staff report footsteps behind them with nobody there, banging from the walls and from the exit door, blue flashes of light by that door, and laughter in an empty auditorium.

There is one further incident that the staff describe in more detail.

No name is set down here. This happened within living memory in a town of this size and the family will be known.

A child on a building site in the 1970s is a reminder of how recently that was normal. Sites were unfenced, children played on them, and the fatality statistics of the period show it.

The cinema has operated under different names.

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Where is Screen five located?

Screen five is in California, United States.