AMC Puente Hills 20 (Former Broadway Department Store Site)

The Shadowlands narrative attached to this location concerns primarily the demolished Broadway Department Store, not the current AMC theater. Former Broadway employees described an unusually consistent set of phenomena across the late 1980s and early 1990s prior to the store's 1996 closure.

Third-floor stock workers described music audible from locked, unoccupied stockrooms, and described the freight-elevator area as a place where staff felt panic and chills. On the second floor, employees in the Children's department reported names called by unseen voices, clothing racks swinging as if someone walked between them, cool drafts in the stockrooms, and the sound of breathing near them. Before-hours staff in the Lingerie department reported the sounds of someone straightening racks and the visible legs of a figure wearing black pants standing behind a tall fixture, with the legs disappearing when investigated.

A reported in-store death was that of a manager who had a heart attack at work and died during transport by paramedics. A child injury on a second-floor escalator left a stain reportedly visible until the building's demolition. Whether either incident contributed to the staff lore is a matter of staff interpretation.

The AMC theater on the same footprint, opened in 1997, does not carry a substantial paranormal reputation in publicly available sources. Reports of children running and vanishing in the theater do appear in the original Shadowlands narrative, but the legend's substance is rooted in the prior Broadway store rather than the current AMC. The current theater operates as a normal commercial venue and Hauntbound recommends approaching it as such; the paranormal interest, if any, is historical.