Can you see Kambrook the ghost in this picture?This is the picture that psychic medium and spirit hunter John Overholt claims proves the existence a ghost haunting Newcastle Repertory Theatre.
According to John you can see the face of a middle-aged man in this picture, a man named Kambrook, who workers say has long haunted the sound and lighting box at the De Vitre St, Lambton theatre.
"He is mischievous but he is a good spirit," Mr Overholt says. "He just loves the theatre."
Newcastle Theatre Company commissioned Mr Overholt to spend a night at the theatre to see if he could produce evidence it was haunted.
He not only found but claims to have photographed Kambrook, and uncovered more than half a dozen spiritual entities that call the theatre home, including one "bad" spirit.
"He is here from a time before this was a theatre," Mr Overholt said. "It has been a church and various other things before it was a theatre, and he is from that time.
"He had a very negative energy, and so we brought our own energy and removed him."
According to Mr Overholt discovered the spirit of an older woman dwelling in the green room, and various other "friendly" ghosts made themselves known to him over the course of the evening.
The findings of Mr Overholt's evening were presented at a fundraising lecture Encounters With the Beyond. He says Hunter hauntings are very common.
"I would say 70 per cent of homes and buildings in this area have spirits within them," he says. "We also have our own personal spirits with us."
Mr Overholt also claims to have felt the presence of a 1233 ghost at the ABC Studios in Newcastle West, a spirit that some who work nights and weekends here believe lurks in the back corridor.
"He is wearing blue overalls, so I don't feel that he was a radio person. He wasn't a journalist or 'on the radio'," Mr Overholt said. "I feel he had some sort of maintenance role."
Haunted Newcastle Repertory Theatre
Haunted Newcastle Repertory Theatre
