Paranormal investigator doubles down on haunted presence at Richmond’s Byrd Theatre

A paranormal investigator is as convinced as ever that Richmond’s Byrd Theatre is haunted by the spirit of the Byrd’s first manager, Robert Coulter, and one or more giggling little girls in the women’s restroom.

Dennis Estlock, paranormal investigator and medium of over 25 years, is the lead investigator of a team of 12 called the Commonwealth Researchers of the Paranormal. Estlock reported his team contacted spirits at the Byrd Theatre in an overnight investigation about six years ago.

“We saw a shadow figure sitting in a seat up in the balcony, and [the staff] said that was where [Coulter] was commonly seen sitting,” Estlock said. “In one of our photographs, it looked like that area was a little bit darker. It kind of had a form of a humanoid shape and his chair looked a little blurry.”…

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