Haunted Places: Restaurant

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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.

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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. Its owner told the San Francisco Chronicle 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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    Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall

    An 1867 history puts Bridget Bishop's orchard on the ground under Lyceum Hall. Turner's Seafood, the restaurant there now, says the ghost of Bishop, the first person hanged in the 1692 witch trials, still haunts and oversees the building.

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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.