It is a stage that has been graced by the likes of Sir Harry Lauder, Jimmy Tarbuck and the Drifters.
Now mediums and paranormal investigators want to find out if the supporting cast at Arbroath’s Webster Memorial Theatre included ghosts and ghouls.
The ghost hunters are promising to take people on a “terrifying night” of lone vigils and group experiments at the historic Angus venue on March 7.
The team will also try to contact ghosts using a Ouija board, pendulum and through electromagnetic field meters and electronic voice phenomena equipment.
It is the first time such an event has taken place at the theatre, which was gifted to Arbroath shortly after the First World War by Sir Francis Webster and his brothers William and James. The hall was to act as a memorial to Sir Francis’s son Lieutenant Joseph F Webster, killed in action at Zaandvoorde Ridge in 1914.
Sir Harry Lauder, Jimmy Tarbuck, the Drifters and Charlie Landsborough have performed at the venue. It was also where the Alexander Brothers made their professional debut.
An Afterdark Paranormal Investigations spokesman said: “The walkround will consist of a tour of the location with one of Afterdark’s mediums or a guest medium who we will bring with us for this event.
“The aim is to allow the medium to channel information from spirit and give us any information on any spiritual presences.
“The event will include various vigils and experiments which everyone will have the opportunity to participate in if they would like to. These will include lone vigils, Ouija board experiments, human pendulum experiments, EMF experiments, EVP experiments and many more.”
Afterdark is a company run out of Mains Castle in Dundee and its investigators travel all over the UK to investigate ghostly phenomena.
They say there are no actors or tricks connected to any of its events and everything people feel or experience is “100% genuine paranormal activity”.
Paranormal investigators last year said they found spooky goings-on at a Mearns museum.
Afterdark Paranormal Investigations picked the Tolbooth Museum in Stonehaven for its historical connections with the darker side of the town’s past. Many of the group said they felt physical discomfort during the evening, including a drop in temperature, minor physical assaults and general feelings of dizziness or breathing problems.
The museum was a former prison and, as the group moved into the cell area, a beeping was said to be heard for which no explanation could be found.
They said evidence was also obtained of oppression, with one spirit suffering from broken fingernails and bleeding fingers from trying to dig or scrape to escape.
Further evidence of oppression was apparently signified by the presence of a spirit who had been chained to the wall.