There are several several stories of many different ghosts and haunted occurrences within this old building. Many report hearing children laughing and seeing a glowing green light coming from areas in the basement, dressing rooms and on the 3rd Floor, where a hotel was once located. There has also been reports of a "scraping" sound being heard in the hallways of the 3rd Floor, followed by a foul smell the next day. A small child's face has been photographed in the dressing rooms during a production of a play featuring many children. Some believe the child's shade being brought out by the excited laughter of other children.

The most famous haint of the old Springer Opera House is however none other than Edwin Booth, the great tragic Shakespearean and the elder brother of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.

Booth freely travels the old theatre, especially onstage, in the box seats and the lobby where his portrait still hangs. It is even rumored the shade of Edwin Booth helps out during productions by moving stage props and he has been known upon occasion to reach out and tap an unsuspecting patron on their back ...

My boyfriend used to live in Columbus and has been to the opera house many times, one story he heard was that one of the ghosts helps the costume department in finding costumes for their productions. Say they are pushing a deadline and are having trouble finding a particular costume, on several occasions they have left the theater for the night, come in the next morning, and found the costume layed out for them in the front of the room.