Haunted Places: Restaurant

  • Restaurant

    Brennan’s

    In 1956, Brennan's moved into this pink 1795 building, once the home of chess master Paul Morphy. In 2005, a Ghost Hunters team found no spiritual activity in its Red Room, known as "the haunted dining room."

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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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    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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    Clay Pit

    KUT public radio reports that Rudolph Bertram's young son is said to haunt his father's old store, and the store's National Register record says four of Bertram's eight children died of diphtheria in 1880.

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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.

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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.