According to an article in the October 30, 1996, edition of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times staff photographer George Sakkestad, inadvertently captured the ghost of the town's 1904 opera house (below) during a 1992 photo shoot.

Ford's Opera House at 140 West Main Street is known today as the Opera House Shops and Banquet Facilities. When the building was purchased and renovated Paul and Linda Dorsa in the early 1980s, it already had the reputation of hosting more than lectures, concerts, and plays. In the Weekly-Times article, reporter Clarence Cromwell recounts reports of lights switched on by themselves and of visitors sensing a presence in the building.

"When the Dorsas remodeled their banquet room," Cromwell writes, "Sakkestad snapped 25 frames of an Opera House employee to illustrate an article for our business section. In one of the photos, a dark figure appeared on an upstairs balcony .... The next shot, at the end of a roll of film, is only half a frame, but the figure is still there, and has moved to the photographer's left." Sakkestad believes that the image cannot be a developing error because the balcony banister is clearly visible in front of the shadow. Exactly what, or who, posed for Sakkestad remains unknown.