The Goss Opera House  Watertown South Dakota

Built in 1889 the Goss building would be one of several Opera Houses in Watertown South Dakota at the time. The times were good and so was attendance until the 1930s when the Great Depression hit and the theater went dark and the building would eventually be vacant for decades. We are so lucky this building made it through the past few decades without meeting a wrecking ball, and now it has been brought back to life after a few renovations. Now the building was once again bustling and full of life people started hearing things like slamming doors and phantom pianos playing and maybe even seeing things (or a woman) from time to time... Goss tour guides started telling stories about a ghost named Annie, a traveling performer who burned to death after performing at the Goss and that's when some local historians stepped it... not to tell them the ghost isn't real but to give them the right name and backstory.