His reporter’s instincts aroused, Leroux studied the Opera House, exploring it from the pinnacles of its rooftops to the slimy underground caverns. The Opera House had already had its share of mysterious accidents when, on, a counterweight of the seven-tonne chandelier had fallen into the audience, killing a concierge. Several unexplainable deaths had been attributed to this spectre, and backstage gossip only fuelled the story. ![]() ![]() In the early 1900s, during one of his frequent visits to the Paris Opera House, journalist and novelist Gaston Leroux began to hear rumours of a ghost that haunted the old building.
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