Haunted Places: Bar

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    Old Ship Saloon

    This Pacific Avenue bar traces back to the Gold Rush ship Arkansas, which ran aground on Alcatraz in 1849. A former owner told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2016 that upstairs tenants report "some kind of ghostly presence."

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    Rockafellas

    Rockafellas fills the 1826 First Church building on Essex Street, and its co-owners told CBS Boston that a ghost they call the Lady in Blue first showed up on the restaurant's computer screen, two days before the computer died.

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    Liar’s Club

    A jury convicted the bar's owner of killing his pregnant wife, Julia Hansen, with an ax in their apartment upstairs in 1986. Today's owner, Herb Rosen, says she still appears behind the DJ booth.

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    Red Lion Pub

    The Red Lion's 1882 building came down in 2008. Owner Colin Cordwell says its ghosts never left, among them a woman thought to have died upstairs on her 20th birthday.

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    Excalibur Building

    Once the Chicago Historical Society's home, the stone fortress on Dearborn became the Excalibur nightclub, and its ghost stories brought the TV series Ghost Adventures to spend a night locked inside in 2012.

  • Hotel

    Arctic Club Hotel

    Congressman Marion Zioncheck died in a fall from his fifth-floor office window here in 1936. A Seattle police captain was later told the elevator stops on that floor by itself because of "the Zioncheck ghost."

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    Kells Irish Pub

    Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub fills the basement of a 1903 mortuary, which is where its ghost stories start.