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”The Phantom of the Opera” (novel) by Gaston Leroux is based on a single horrifying event in the story, the crashing of the chandelier. At the Paris opera, Palais Garnier, in May 1986, near the end of the 1st act of the opera “Helle”, the counter weight of chandelier crashed through the ceiling onto the auditorium floor injuring many and killing one person. Well Leroux, a journalist at the time, using the chandelier crash as the centerpiece of the story, took all the ghost stories, and stories of weird events he had heard happening at that opera house, and created the phantom Eric.
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