Investigations

Piper's Opera House, B Street, Virginia City, Nevada
The Jekyll and Hyde Show
August 26, 2006

     Built after burning down three seperate times, once in 1863, once in the Great Fire of 1875 and this one was finally rebuilt in 1885.
     Erected by John Piper in 1885,this was the third in a succession of theatres that He operated on the Comstock in Virginia City, Nevada. It still contains its original scenery, raged stage ,(adding depth and three dimensionality. It is only one of three left that have raked stages ,the others being Ford’s Theatre, and one in London. It still has its elegant proscenium boxes. It is a remarkable structure where many 19 nth century artists “Walked the boards”
Lisa Reyna, of Northern Nevada Spirit Seekers placed EVP monitors in the upper proscenium boxes. There were two interesting EVP’s One was that of a female saying “Do You want to? and still another where a voice was saying “I am going to kill it” Often times prostitutes would ply their trade in the upper boxes belonging to the more wealthy male clientele of that day. I suppose that they felt unabashed enough to speak freely there. The first EVP could be a prostitute asking the client about her services and the other could refer to a woman telling another girl about an unwanted pregnancy and what she intended to do about it.

Piper's Opera House EVPs

These 3 EVPs were taken up in the left side of the stage.

This one is saying "Do you want to?"
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This one is saying "I am going to kill you."
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This one is saying "I know you coming?"
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