Haunted Places: Bar

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    Hotel Provincial

    Hotel Provincial says its land held a military hospital as early as 1722 and again during the Civil War. The travel guide Time Out reports that a Civil War soldier from those days is believed to haunt the hotel.

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    May Baily’s Place

    The Dauphine Orleans Hotel says its bar was once May Baily's bordello, and that the ghost of a bride seen there is May's sister, Millie. Ghost Adventures investigated the bar in 2013.

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    UpStairs Lounge

    An arson fire at the UpStairs Lounge gay bar killed 32 people on June 24, 1973, the deadliest fire on record in New Orleans. In 2012, the TV series Ghost Hunters came looking for their ghosts.

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    Muriel’s Jackson Square

    Muriel's says Pierre Jourdan rebuilt this house after the fire of 1788, then lost it in a poker game in 1814 and took his own life upstairs. The restaurant keeps a table reserved for him, set with bread and wine.

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    Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar

    By tradition, the pirate Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre posed as blacksmiths in this late-1700s cottage to cover their illegal trade in enslaved people. Ghost tours tell of bartenders and patrons spotting Jean at a table near the piano bar.

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    Moonshine Grill

    Moonshine Grill occupies a store built for German immigrant Henry Hofheintz between 1850 and 1875, and KUT public radio reports that the ghosts of flood victims are believed to tap diners on the shoulder.

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    The Tavern

    The Tavern, a grocery in 1916 and a bar since 1933, calls itself Austin's most haunted bar on account of Emily, a 12-year-old said to have been murdered on the site during Prohibition. When the Austin American-Statesman wrote about her in 2002, Emily was the ghost of a prostitute.

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    Moss Beach Distillery

    Frank Torres built the Moss Beach Distillery in 1927 as Frank's Place. Its Blue Lady ghost made it onto the TV show Unsolved Mysteries before another show, Ghost Hunters, found a ghostly face rigged into a bathroom mirror.