The Capitol Theatre Haunting | Campfire Stories with MrBallen

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And also, a minute ago, I was situated much closer to the fire, and it was excruciatingly hot, so we had to stop everything and move me back, so I was just pouring sweat.
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In 2006, there was a brand-new police officer named Dave Murphy, who was living in Salt Lake City, Utah, and his first role was as a protective service officer, which meant he was responsible for physical security at several county facilities. And his first post was the Capitol City Theatre, which is this landmark icon in Salt Lake City. It's this beautiful theatre. It was built in the early 1900s, and around the clock, it required physical protection because it was a historic landmark. And so on his first day of work in early August of that same year, Dave goes to the theatre, and when he gets there, he's met by Officer Morgan Matthews, who is also a police officer who had been up to that point the most recent security guard at the theatre. Basically, Dave was going to be taking over for Morgan, and Morgan was going to move on and do something else. But there was going to be a period of time where Morgan needed to train Dave on how to go about, you know, being security at this theatre.
And so, Dave, he's a pretty friendly guy, you know, he knows he's new, he knows he's green, and he shows up to the theatre ready to not only learn the job, but also get to know Morgan, who was older than him, you know, he's his boss, but he's also more senior than him. And so he meets Morgan, and pretty much right away, Dave picked up that Morgan was really not interested in getting to know Dave. In fact, really, as soon as Dave walked through the doors of this theatre, Morgan was like straight to business. There was no small talk. It was like, all right, let's go. I'm going to show you around, and I'm going to teach you how to do this job. And, you know, Dave doesn't know Morgan, and again, he's the new guy, and he's not going to protest. And so he said, okay, show me how to do this.
So the theatre was three floors. And then in addition to the three floors, there was also a basement level down below. And the actual theatre was on the first floor, but there was also some some offices in the first floor. And the second floor and the third floor as well had some offices and administrative rooms. And then down in the basement was storage. There was some rehearsal rooms and some other things like that down there. And so generally speaking, Dave's role or really like the role of a security guard at this theatre was you get to the theatre and the first thing you do is you secure it. You literally check every single space. You start in the basement, you secure that. You check every room, lock every door, turn off every light, you go to the first floor, you do the same thing. Second floor, same thing. Third floor, same thing. And then when you've secured every room, everything is locked, all lights are off. You know, the whole place is locked down. Presumably this is the beginning of your shift. You go back to the first floor where the control room is, which is just a small room for security. And inside there's all these monitors that, you know, show the different cameras that are all around the inside and the outside of the theatre. And you just basically sit there and watch the cameras. You pretty much just wait and make sure nobody breaks in or any other sort of emergency like a fire or whatever. And then at the end of your shift, somebody else will relieve you. And you go through the same process with them of go to the basement, secure every floor up to the third, and then you would depart and the new person takes over.