AUSTIN, Texas — It's not even fall yet in Central Texas, but this spooky story is already haunting the KVUE newsroom.
Pianist
Chad Lawson was performing at
The Paramount Theatre in Downtown Austin Sunday when he decided to stop and snap a couple pictures from the stage after soundcheck.
But
it wasn't until he got back to his hotel that he made a chilling
discovery – the figure of what appears to be a woman floating in the
stairway of an otherwise empty theater.
"These photos were taken as we had finished our soundcheck last night
at Paramount," said Lawson. "As we were exiting the stage, I stopped to
take a picture of the hall as I do with every show. Nothing out of the
norm. Three quick shots (as if you were counting out loud 1-2-3), put
the phone in my pocket and then headed back to the hotel."
But, in one of those three quick photos, a strange figure can be seen in the stairway.
"Once
at the room, I began going through picture filters and to share one of
them on social," said Lawson. "That’s when I noticed the figure in the
mezzanine. I must confess it did freak me out a bit, especially as the
figure is not present in the first photo."
At that point, he
decided to do a little research on ghost stories at the theater. A quick
Google search returned some eerie stories, including an old
KVUE article
about spooky sightings at The Paramount.
It specifically mentions
sightings of a woman in a white dress who was seen roaming the aisles on
the mezzanine.
That's
when he decided to reach out to the Paramount itself, asking if a staff
member might have possibly been on the floor around the time he
captured the images.