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The staff member responded with alarming ease, revealing that the ghost in question was known as William Terrace—a well-known actor who was tragically murdered at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre on the opening night of a play where he played a captain in the American Union Army. This shocking revelation connected the dots and flooded the father with a sense of dread. Here he was, preparing for a performance in a room once haunted by a restless spirit—a ghost who had once walked the very boards he now stood upon.