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Hotel
The Driskill
Cattle baron Jesse Driskill opened his hotel in 1886, and ghost tour guide Monica Ballard tells of a guest who woke at 3 a.m. to find him at the window, puffing on a cigar.
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Bar
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.
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Bar
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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Bar
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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Bar
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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Bar
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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Bar
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.
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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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Bar
Kells Irish Pub
Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub fills the basement of a 1903 mortuary, which is where its ghost stories start.
