Amy Bruni has spent more than twenty years investigating genuinely haunted places — including the actual locations behind The Conjuring, The Shining, Annabelle, and The Amityville Horror — and on Saturday, October 10, she brings all of it to Clayton Opera House for Walking With Ghosts: The True Hauntings That Inspired Iconic Horror Films. This is not a screening. It is not a trivia night. It is a live lecture from someone who has actually stood in those rooms, collected evidence, and talked to the people who lived through the real events the movies are based on.
About Amy Bruni
If you know paranormal television at all, you know Amy Bruni. She appeared in 116 episodes of SYFY’s Ghost Hunters, joining in 2007 as a cast member and historical researcher, and later co-created and executive produced Travel Channel’s Kindred Spirits — one of the network’s longest-running and highest-rated paranormal series. Her interest in the supernatural is not a career calculation. She grew up in a haunted house, which tends to give you real stakes in the work.
Beyond television, Bruni hosts the Haunted Road podcast and founded Strange Escapes, a paranormal travel company running investigations at places like The Stanley Hotel, The Queen Mary, and the Mt. Washington Hotel. She is also the author of Life with the Afterlife and Food to Die For, both published by HarperCollins Focus.
Walking With Ghosts is her live show, and it goes deep. Bruni walks audiences through the true hauntings behind four of the most recognized horror films ever made — The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Shining, and The Amityville Horror — drawing on firsthand eyewitness accounts and actual paranormal evidence collected at the real locations. She examines what the films got right, what they dramatized, and what the families at the center of these stories actually experienced. One more thing worth knowing: she brings a mini museum of haunted artifacts and spiritualist memorabilia to each stop, available to explore before and after the show. Getting there early is a good idea.
Venue Info
Clayton Opera House sits at 405 Riverside Drive in Clayton — right on the St. Lawrence River in the heart of the Thousand Islands. It is a 400-seat historic theater, the kind of room with real character built into the walls, and for a show about documented hauntings, that atmosphere is not incidental. The venue runs a serious season each year, presenting comedy, music, literary performers, and theatrical productions — David Sedaris and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra are both in the 2026 lineup — and Amy Bruni’s show fits squarely in that tradition of bringing something genuinely unexpected to a small-town stage.
If you have not made the trip to Clayton before, October is a fine time to start. The Thousand Islands in fall is quieter than summer, the river is still worth pulling over to look at, and the 7:30 PM curtain gives you a bit of daylight on the drive up. Box office: (315) 686-2200.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets are on sale now, priced at $25, $30, and $35. The show starts at 7:30 PM on Saturday, October 10. Clayton Opera House holds 400 people, and this is a small-room touring show with a national following — don’t wait on it.