Weinberg Center for the Arts

According to Southern Spirit Guide's roundup of haunted Maryland theaters and to Visit Frederick's haunted-Frederick coverage, the most consistently reported phenomenon at the Weinberg Center is staff-room and restroom disturbance attributed to the ghost of 'Jimmy,' identified in the lore as a former projectionist who reportedly died of a heart attack at the theater.

The staff tradition holds that Jimmy is particularly active when new employees are hired — restroom fixtures will be found turned on, items moved, or stalls visibly used — and that the disturbances quiet down once the new hires are integrated. The standard appeasement, repeated across multiple sources, is that the last employee to leave the building each night will say goodnight to Jimmy on the way out.

The lore is described as 'medium' verifiability in our intake. It is single-source for the named entity (no contemporary obituary or newspaper account confirms a projectionist's on-site death at the Tivoli has surfaced in our verification), but it is multi-source for the staff tradition itself: Southern Spirit Guide, the haunted-Maryland-theaters circuit, and Visit Frederick all describe the same goodnight ritual and the same hiring-driven pattern of incidents.

Independent corroboration: Southern Spirit Guide's Haunted Theatres of Maryland profile and US Ghost Adventures' Frederick Ghost Tour each independently record the Jimmy-the-projectionist lore — heart-attack death on premises, restroom disturbances aimed at new hires, mezzanine stomping, box-office time-reminders — with details that match across sources. Two independent paranormal sources beyond the prior Wikipedia / Weinberg Center / Cinema Treasures historical base.