Comments on: AMC Hampton Theatres

By: Ericka

Ericka — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:53:36 +0000

I am 28 years old and i spent alot of time at the theater when i was a teen. My friends and I walked to the theater and used it as a hang out. until now i never heard of “johnny” and never experienced anything weird. However i dont doubt it either, Rochester is a old town with creepy stories. Anyways, i was super sad to see it shut down…good memories….

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:33:20 +0000

HAS ANY1 EVER BEEN TO THAT MOVIE THEATER BEFORE IT WAS TORN DOWN THAT IS STILL ALIVE TODAY??? PLZ COMMENT BACK IF U R ONE O THE PEOPLE!!! I’m 10 years old and LOVE to hear about haunted places!!! Im hoping someday to be able to go to an actual haunted place!!!!!!!!

By: jfgdkjhfkds

jfgdkjhfkds — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:56:53 +0000

weres the bed bath& beond

By: jfgdkjhfkds

jfgdkjhfkds — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:54:16 +0000

cool

By: jfgdkjhfkds

jfgdkjhfkds — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:51:30 +0000

sounds cool

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:23:27 +0000

I have worked at the Rochester Hills Bed Bath & Beyond for several years. I have experienced a lot of strange things happened. People still hear voices and noises that cannot be explained. I personally have worked overnight and heard the ladders in the center stockroom move. The whole team heard it and check the ladders. All the ladders were locked down. We just looked at each other and blamed the ghost.
Another manager and I were closing down the store when we heard voices. I left her in the office while I checked for where it was coming from. When I was in the office, it sounded like they were by the registers. When I got to the service desk, it sounded like they were back in Housewares. I followed it around the entire store till it disappeared when I made it back up front again. The music and display tvs were already turned off. By all rights, we should not have been able to hear anything but ourselves. We left quite quickly after that.
The last is the most recent of events. I had just gotten transferred back to the Rochester Hills store. I was closing up the store and looked down by the emergency exit on the front of the building. I saw movement while I was locking the front door. A shadow person walk through the wall. It was about halfway down the wall. All I could think of was “wow, that’s a new one.”
While I have gotten creeped out a few times, I have never felt threatened by anything at the store. It has made working there interesting.

By: Jim, too

Jim, too — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:32:47 +0000

I’m inclined to laugh about the disbelievers at the same times as I make fun of the gullible–I prefer actual experience to twice-told tales–and each point of view can be heavily flawed, as we see in these postings. Claiming something ‘does not exist’ is complete ignorance. Everyone regards things differently, and how can anyone dismiss something that someone else experienced? It’s irrational to do that, and it shows off the low IQ of the pseudo-skeptic. Similarly, having a belief about things that you did not experience yourself can be problematic. It took me (once having been slightly skeptical, but no longer) getting MP3 recordings of voice of people who were not there, to convince me strongly that odd things occur in this world and that the paranormal is an aspect of reality.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:21:55 +0000

I know of no “old Indian burial grounds” anywhere around the former theater site. That story sounds like someone has seen Poltergeist a bit too much and has lost touch with reality. In more recent, real-life, real-world history, the site was a section of the former Ferry seed farm that raised plants for resale of seed lines (vegetable, fruits, etc.) earlier in the 20th century. Not a very sinister past there.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:14:54 +0000

It’s not a theater now, it’s a Bed Bath & Beyond and the building was rebuilt for that. However, a current or past manager at BBB claims things like that still happen. He’s not the type to be suggestible. Despite the failed memory of that other contributor, the Hampton was NOT in the Winchester Mall. Umm, it was the Winchester Cinemas, but maybe that person’s brain cells are empty or they got stoned too often behind the Winchester out in the woods. That theater also does not exist. The Hampton was in the (still-extant) Hampton Plaza, Rochester & Hamlin. It did show $1 movies, vintage stuff, toward the end. They were losing money at that point, not thriving, so an employee told then me they were getting rentals of things like The Wizard Of Oz for only $50 per week, bargain basement prices, and that kept them afloat for awhile longer. Why don’t more MI theaters do this???

By: Picard

Picard — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:01:05 +0000

but then who was phone?