There is a legendary story of a ghost at the Arts Theater with the name Susan. She is a friendly ghost that loves to play jokes on a person from time to time. From hiding paint buckets to letting the curtain fall on another's head and there are much more stories yet to be told. Her voice sometimes echoes through the walls when you are all alone upstairs, but somehow you never truly feel threatened, except when its uhm dark. You see even though she is friendly, I am not so sure about her roommates. She is very social, but her buddies not so much. They are the scary one's. At least in the day you don't worry about the creepy crawlers, because than it is only you and Susan enjoying the daylight weather.
No one truly knows how they ended up haunting the building, the building is over 110 years old. It first provided as the First Class Public School for Girls, in 1905. By the Fifties, the facility was of no more use to the rapidly expanding local schools, and the building’s main hall was used as a bio-scope. In 1968, a group of entertainment enthusiasts known as the George Society of Arts, (founded in 1948) bought the derelict building and set about converting it into a 217-seat theater. A year later, on 26 April 1969, the George Arts Theater opened its doors to the public with its first show, The Sleeping Prince. At the time it was the only fully operational, community-run theater in the triangle formed by Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Kimberley.
So you see, no one knows how Susan and her friends ended up in the George Arts Theater. But you really have no need to fear sweet Susan.
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