Bing Crosby Theater (Clemmer Theater)

Per the Spokesman-Review's 2022 'Is it haunted?' feature, KREM's 'Haunted Spokane: ghostly Bing Crosby Theater' segment, and the Spokane Public Library's haunted walking-tour PDF, the theater's primary ghost story dates to the Clemmer era. The narrative describes a young woman — variously identified as a Lewis and Clark High School student — who arrived at the theater to elope to Seattle with her young lover. When he failed to appear, she fell or jumped from the balcony; the cause of death is reported variously as a fall or a heart attack. Reports describe a female figure pacing the balcony, said to still be waiting.

A second commonly-cited spirit is identified as a former stage manager (or in some sources a janitor) who is said to have died of a heart attack while resting on an ottoman backstage. Patrons and tour participants have reported assorted phenomena consistent with the lore.

The theater's executive director told the Spokesman-Review she was not sure why the venue is on the haunted walking tour but acknowledged that visitors and staff report 'all kinds of different energies.' Notably, contemporary reporting flags that the lore is rarely accompanied by primary-source documentation — neither the woman's identity nor a corroborating death record have surfaced in published accounts, which is why this entry is classified as community-folkloric rather than historically documented.