The first time Jeff Hathcock says he saw him, the apparition was sitting quietly in a back row. "I said 'Hi' and he just put his head down," the theater's director said. "When I turned around, he was gone."

Later, the ghostly sailor allegedly touched and whispered to two actresses as they performed onstage. One got so flustered that she flubbed a line.

"He seems to like buxom women," Hathcock said.

In fact, the lecherous seaman, who Hathcock claims lives in the men's dressing room, is one of many ghosts said to inhabit the old theater at the military Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos.

Whether they are literal or figurative depends on who's talking.

"It's part of our history from another time," Hathcock said of the (more...)