Akron Civic Theater (opened 1929 as Loewe's), is said to have at least two ghosts. Fred the Janitor, a theater worker in the 1930s, died in the theater and is said to haunt the building, particularly the bathrooms where he worked. The other ghost is a young woman, said to date from before the theater was built. She is thought to be from a mid-19th century canal barge family, as the Ohio-Erie Canal originally ran through the theater site.