Not long after a man named Robbin Terry purchased a movie theater to fix up did he begin to experience strange happenings, like voices in empty hallways and footsteps going from room to room. Robbin brought in a psychic, who told him that a person named John Wayne was haunting the building and that she kept seeing images of a clown. Another psychic came in and claimed to have heard laughter, like a manic, cackling kind of laugh.

Then, Robbin came into the possession of a beautiful, wooden armoire. This piece of furniture was once owned by the attorney of the infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, a man who had preyed upon young men and boys while dressed as his “alter-ego”, a clown named Pogo. When Gacy was on death row, he painted, and some of these sinister portraits were kept in the wooden armoire.

People who have visited the R Theater have experienced bizarre happenings: a bright light appearing in a blacked-out room, shadows moving throughout the hallways, and a paranormal investigator noted a voice coming through a spirit box saying that someone named John was coming, and “From Hell.”