AMC Hampton Theatres
Three theatres were built in 1971, and in 1979 a fourth one was added. During the process of building, a worker was killed. Soon after construction was completed, many strange happenings were witnessed on the premises. Seats in the front row have rocked on their own, garbage cans rolled up the aisle, cans knocked over by themselves, lights flicker on their own, toilets have randomly flushed, and many others. These strange events have been witnessed by numerous patrons and employees. Over time, the employees nicknamed the ghost “Johnny”. The theatres closed on January 17, 1999 due to a lease expiration. In March of 1999, a group of former employees visited theatre four, said, “Hi.” to Johnny, and the lights mysteriously turned on.
is this place still closed and if so how do u get there
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Comment by dude | 10.17.2005 | 9:41 am
The building has been torn down for some years now; Bed Bath & Beyond now stands in its place.
Comment by Mel | 12.7.2005 | 9:49 pm
I wonder if the bed bath and beyond that now stands there is haunted???
Comment by git-r-done | 12.23.2005 | 5:06 pm
ilove going to the movies and anything that will make it scarier is cool by me
Comment by sara mitchell | 02.21.2006 | 6:47 pm
yh i knw about that also there waz that film wen first Exorcist sum fing about the film waz cursed and many ppl died watching it n wen ma sis waz 17 she knew a old m8 of her’s that watched it but is now to scared to go pass the theaters (scary n weird)
Comment by priya | 03.5.2006 | 12:48 pm
this story is scary!
Comment by babee_s0_fabulous | 03.18.2006 | 9:18 am
If we’re talking about the Hampton Theatre that was off Rochester Rd. in Rochester Hills, I’ve been there tons of times…
Not to contradict anything said above, but I never expirienced anything unusual there.
PS: This is what is known as that “correct grammer, capitalization and punctuation”. Some people don’t seem to know the difference btwn this and “yh i knw about that also there waz that film wen first Exorcist sum fing about the film waz cursed and many ppl died watching it n wen ma sis waz…” and so on.
Comment by Cassandra | 04.19.2006 | 1:07 pm
Cassandra,
How about you and I find a cozy corner in the Hampton Theatre?
Comment by Big Bill | 04.26.2006 | 6:05 pm
this object that is be witen is velly suspishus and you shod it somebody to look at it
Comment by somebodyiswhatching | 04.27.2006 | 10:11 am
G-R-A-M-M-A-R
Comment by Stephanie | 05.13.2006 | 5:37 pm
I practically lived at that theatre growing up, in was inside the Winchester Mall. Unfortunately I had never experienced anything out of the blue.
Comment by Carol | 06.5.2006 | 10:24 pm
Carol,
What do you mean by ‘unfortunately’? Would a hatchet in your skull have been nice?
Comment by Big Bill | 06.6.2006 | 4:14 am
I believe that you are hurting peoples feelings. Some people believe in many things and you don’t know who your’re insulting. So if you don’t have an opionion or comment don’t post it here
Comment by NOImNOTTELLING | 06.27.2006 | 11:26 pm
Hey ppl,
well i think this is soo scary because my last name is hampton and my uncles name is johnny!!!
even my mum thinks its scary and me dad, well he thinks its spooky.
byebye
Cassie
p.s i think is so interesting!
Comment by cassie | 07.18.2006 | 8:49 am
my mom is a waitress here in kalamazoo and the place she worked at was called mermaid lounge and it used 2
Be a apple cider farm the people got sick died even babies! every time they closed up 4
the night something wierd would happen like alchoholic
drinks crashing on the floor or hearing someone cry
but they recently knocked it down and have a place called deja vu or something of what.
Comment by Audrey | 07.20.2006 | 10:19 am
Hey Carol, the theatres were NOT in the Winchester Mall. Winchester Mall was further on down Rochester Road., Dummy!
Comment by Nancy | 08.3.2006 | 2:28 am
URM ANY1 DER
Comment by angel | 08.9.2006 | 10:56 am
I worked at the theatres for along time later 80’s - 1996. There were certainly strang occurances. Lights going on and off by themselves. Faces in the projection booth when no one was around. ‘Johnny’ had his own seat up front in theatre #4 with a different colored base, it would occasionally rock on it’s own. One time, cleaning crew told us about gathering up dropped coins in the theatre, and dropping it all at the top of the aisle, then walking down front, hearing the whoosing of wind and upon checking the coins, they were all face up in a straight line.
Comment by Steve | 08.25.2006 | 2:59 pm
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Comment by POO | 08.31.2006 | 3:46 pm
ok this story isn’t scary and it kinda dumb if u think bout it!!!
Comment by Breezy | 09.9.2006 | 9:14 pm
Um yeah. The old dollar theater? LOL What a joke.
Comment by Ally | 09.14.2006 | 10:30 am
Um the Hampton theater isnt torn down i just passed by it the other day. yea the windows are all boarded up but i am sure you can still get into that place.
Comment by lauren | 10.13.2006 | 10:51 am
hey nancy how you doing? well you need to shut up ok! maybe some people dont know as much as you do or you dont know anything ok ok. this story freacks me out!
luv sweetie
Comment by sweetie | 10.13.2006 | 6:13 pm
Ok ya i seroiusly dont belive it! i mean ya since someone said that they worked there and told about THEIR story but it is realy like how you say DUMB in a way and the only way u will het me to belive it is when i go there and experience it for myself….. but since it has been torn down and somthing is now in its place you will have to find some NEW evidence JEEZ! get it right**
Comment by Danielle | 10.17.2006 | 5:22 pm
Well those ghost stories were kind of creepy.
How did you find them all?
Comment by Samantha D | 12.22.2006 | 12:46 pm
Well those ghost stories were kind of creepy.
when did you get them?
Comment by Samantha D | 12.22.2006 | 12:47 pm
Everyone is so hostile here! If you are skepitcal about this kind of thing, then why are you even here? And we don’t need to call people dummies.
Comment by Cobie | 01.2.2007 | 4:53 pm
Hay people cant u agree on somthing that is why I cant bleive anything that u say I have 2 c it for myself.IS IT TRUE OR NOT????
Comment by pinky | 01.15.2007 | 3:52 pm
Well I have been there and let me tell you…. I was soo surprised.
If you weere a lucky person, like me, then you will probably find a ghost right next to you drinking a diet cok e
DUDES IT WAS ****** SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by rida | 01.29.2007 | 11:56 pm
I was a teenager when all this was going on at the Hampton Theatre. My friend bryan worked there and told me about other people seeing stuff. The only thing he saw was one night closing the Hampton he and one other person turned out the lights and locked the door. When walking out to the parking lot the light cme back on. They both turned them out again, but in the morning they were on again.
I ask the people at the Bed Bath & Beyond about anything happening and I’ve been told that at night the store give people the creeps at close.
Comment by ed | 09.20.2007 | 9:47 am
ok listen people i have lived in rochester hills my whole life and its been a long 11years but i have been to that complex pretty much a million times. Nothing weird has ever happens there that I know of.so if you also live in Rochester hills don’t be freaked out whenever u go there. I am saying there is no ghost there but I know for sure my neighborhood is haunted in some areas.
Comment by lyndsey | 10.2.2007 | 7:31 pm
ok its me again and I told you my neighborhood was haunted so I will tell you a story.I am typing this on a iPod touch so it is hard for it to be perfect. So one time my friend and I were in my neighborhood woods and we heard people yelling and screaming. So my friend did the stupidest thing and screamed out,”hello!”as load as she could and we heardthem say,”there they are,get em!” so we rsn out of there as fast as we could.we were thinking they were people but we heard there foot steps and yelling right next to us and yet no one was there. Once we got out of there we hopped on our bikes and drove them as fast as possible even though we were so tired to my house. It was so freaky!
Comment by lyndsey | 10.2.2007 | 7:40 pm
I was at the theater a number of times over several years and noticed nothing unusual. The building was torn apart and redone for BBB; a friend worked there until last year but he said nothing of any weirdness. A manager there who I know slightly hasn’t told of anything I’ve heard, as well. It operated as a theater for perhaps 20-25 years. It’s possible that the only fright in that place was was during the time when they were showing horror movies.
Comment by jim | 10.9.2007 | 10:52 am
Awesome,well i hope i get to investigate were I live there is a house it’s by some woods and there are haunted i think my house is too.
Comment by cristina | 10.10.2007 | 7:53 pm
hey i have been in michigan a cuple of years were eaxctly is this place?
Comment by angie | 10.14.2007 | 10:17 pm
Hey,
Ive been to that theature a few times, and i have seen some scary stuff.
Its been gone for a while tho, and BBB has never said anything about strange stuff happening.
idk.
Comment by Mari | 10.18.2007 | 1:11 pm
I think that it’s kool because I love scary stories
especially if they are true!
Peace Out,
Alexa!
Comment by Alexa Rose Matin | 10.23.2007 | 6:27 pm
wow, I don’t understand the reason for the harsh words on here when people are talking about their experiences. I used to go to that theater at least once a week, and even when I was a kid going there years before it closed, you always kind of got that weird vibe from there. My grandpa swears up and down that he sat next to “Johnny” once and he knocked over my grandpa’s popcorn. I wasn’t there for that, but he’s not the kind of person who would make that kind of thing up. Rochester and Rochester Hills in general is a pretty spooky town, a lot of crazy things have happened here and if I can recommend 2 places that you that haven’t been changed, they would be underneath the down town Rochester bridge and the Mt. Avon Cemetery (if after dark though, be prepared to be asked to leave by the police if found)
Comment by MJ | 10.25.2007 | 12:05 pm
For those who complain about “the employees are the only one who have seen it,”; how else do you expect the word to get around?
Comment by Carl | 10.26.2007 | 7:59 am
AMC Hampton Theatres?…they can’t mean the ones that are behind Best Buy. There’s no way that they have been there since 1971.
What was/is the location of the theaters that they are talking about?
The only thing that I can think of would be the theaters at Winchester Mall.
Comment by Rob | 10.26.2007 | 11:11 am
I believe the AMC Hampton Theatre is the $1 theater that would show old movies at the corner of Hamlin and Rochester Rd.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Bed+Bath+Beyond&near=W+Hamlin+Rd+%26+S+Rochester+Rd,+Rochester,+Oakland,+Michigan+48307,+United+States&sll=42.651219,-83.130643&sspn=0.00286,0.006362&layer=t&ie=UTF8&ll=42.650295,-83.132386&spn=0.005721,0.012724&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A&om=1
I remember going there a few times as a kid, but it was so long ago that I don’t remember anything.
Comment by Brian | 10.28.2007 | 8:57 pm
I remember being there back in the day when it was still a theatre. I don’t remember hearing that it was haunted.I’ve been living here in Utica for 30 years. although I do believe that the spirt lives forever but why would it remain here when there’s a better place. It does however makes one wonder want really is after death???? DENNIS
Comment by Dennis Hiegel | 11.22.2007 | 11:06 pm
This story is NOT REAL ive been here it is not even haunted.
-STEVE
Comment by steven hazel | 02.12.2008 | 10:08 am