Visit the final resting places of the long since departed…walk in the footsteps of the Phantom (of the Opera)…and sleep with ghosts! Check out these top spooky, mysterious, and magical posts from Finding Fantastic Beasts!
Did you know that the Phantom of the Opera was based off a real accident at an opera house in Paris? In 1896, a counterweight for the grand chandelier in the Palais Garnier broke free and fell, killing a worker in the process. That incident and the theater itself served as inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera (and the subsequent Broadway adaptation by Andrew Lloyd Webber.