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Reported phenomena, as catalogued
Tupelo's mall-anchored eight-screen cinema
1001 Barnes Crossing Road, Tupelo, MS 38804
Research updated May 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$
Standard Cinemark movie-ticket pricing; visit the chain website for showtimes.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Mall and theater
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1990 · Mall at Barnes Crossing anchor · Northeast Mississippi regional cinema
The Cinemark Tupelo Movies 8 is an eight-screen movie theater located at 1001 Barnes Crossing Road, anchoring the entertainment side of the Mall at Barnes Crossing in Tupelo, Mississippi. The mall opened in 1990 and serves as one of the main retail anchors for northeast Mississippi. The theater is owned and operated by Cinemark, the same national chain that operates many of the South's large multiplex cinemas.
Unlike the historic, single-building haunted theaters elsewhere in the corpus, the Barnes Crossing theater is a late-twentieth-century mall-anchored multiplex. The accounts associated with the building are primarily employee oral tradition collected by regional Mississippi paranormal writing rather than archival history.
Sources
Tupelo cinema employees have described a presence called Lola, said to maintain the theater after hours and most often reported in the concession area, the arcade, and the employee break room. Lola's background is undocumented; she is described in oral tradition as a former employee who continues to work the building.
Additional accounts describe three other presences in the auditoriums, said to be especially active when horror films are playing, and a male figure on the upper-level projection floor. The phenomena are described in regional Mississippi paranormal writing including Scary HQ and the Mississippi News Group. The accounts are employee oral tradition rather than documented incidents and should be treated with the same restraint as any other workplace folklore.
Notable Entities
Catch a film at the Cinemark Tupelo Movies 8 at the Mall at Barnes Crossing. The theater is one of two cinemas in Tupelo with longstanding local employee folklore about resident presences.
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