Dan and Gary had interviewed dozens of members with stories from the Guild during the writing of Cape Encounters, so it wasnít much of a surprise for Dan to find out during Cyril's photo shoot that Lynn also had her own set of encounters. Lynn described how Faye often steals her makeup pencils. "They go missing from the dressing room and then I find them behind the theater. She does that all the time. She's like a typical teenager who experiments with makeup."
Lori Welch, another longtime veteran of the theatre, described on the TV show Chronicle, which recently did a segment on Cape Encounters, how she once saw Faye pass by in the dressing room mirror.

 

 

Perhaps the most puzzling dressing room encounter with Faye occurred one brutally cold afternoon in February. The following excerpt from Cape Encounters captures the moment. Longtime Guild member Vicki Engstrom was alone in the theater, and there appeared to be no one next door at the Beebe Woods Facility for the Cape Cod Conservatory. No other cars were in the parking lot. Vicki was in the dressing room sewing costumes when she started hearing music. It sounded like it was in the background, like a pianist playing in a nightclub. She called out, "Hello, I'm up here!"Nobody responded. She went down the stairs, across the stage, and out the stage door entrance and found nobody. Returning to the dressing room, she heard the sound again. She opened the dressing room's exit door and looked back and saw no one. It unnerved her enough that she decided to go home.
But as is conveyed so poignantly in Cape Encounters, the theatre is indeed home for the actors and crew who volunteer and for the surrounding community. As the stories unfold, Dan and Gary capture the idea that haunted settings can also be pulsating with life. Many of the interviewees describe in their own words their deep affection for their haunted home or workplace. Part of the charm of this wonderfully entertaining book is that it captures the soul of the living as well as the souls of the dead.