obsessed houses can get a small old , especially the ones with unrealistic credit card skeletons hang from the cap and performers who are so unenthusiastic that you’re able to barely take heed their " boo ! " So let ’s skip the kid stuff and nonsense this class and go right for the nerveless spots that are actually haunted … you could even spend the night in some of them .
The Pfister Hotel
Legend has it that Charles Pfister , the original proprietor , haunt this nineteenth - one C hotel . He ’s best roll in the hay for antagonizing MLB players , who stay on at The Pfister while playing in townsfolk . Former Brewer Carlos Gomez heard interpreter and watched his iPod go crazy , while others report seeing apparitions . Some players deny to detain at The Pfister and make up for their own rooms somewhere else .
Technology Innovation Center
While " Technology Innovation Center " does n’t vocalise so scary , it ’s more usually known by its former name : the Muirdale Sanitorium . Opened in 1915 , it was a hospital for treat TB patients , many of whom died . It eventually was turned into a facility to house mentally sick individuals , and purportedly sits atop an American Amerind burial ground . All that history make for a very creepy place , full of apparition sightings , voice , and lightheaded coughing … even if the construction is full of engineering startups now .
The Rave
The Rave started out as the household of the fraternal gild of the Eagles ( hence “ Eagles Ballroom ” ) when it was built in 1927 . It included a gymnasium , bowling alley , and swimming kitty in the basement . hearsay is that it ’s haunted by various people : kid who overwhelm in the pocket billiards , an opprobrious theatre director of the shelter that was once housed here , and even Buddy Holly , who played one of his last concerts here . tour stria often request tours of the cellar and swimming puddle sphere … or just find their way down there themselves .
Marquette University
There are many purportedly haunted construction on the Marquette campus . Humphrey Hall was a former children ’s hospital , and one of its ill-starred patients haunts the lift at night in a white hospital gown . The University ’s Schroeder Hall – and the ninth story in particular – has experience unexplained occurrences for decades , and Straz Tower was formerly a YMCA where a son drown , and now likes to swim next to student doing laps . Two Jesuit priests charge felo-de-se by jumping off Johnston Hall and now pay sojourn to current residents … when you get a campus with this much history , there ’s recoil to be a few ghosts hanging around .
Modjeska Theater
Though it ’s dormant at the moment , the Modjeska host major vaudeville acts when it was open up in 1910 . Over the years , many employees and node have claimed to see float orb of light and people out of the corners of their center , although the two most common sights are of a nonexistent woman wearing blanched on the stage , and a man appearing regularly in the balcony .
Hilton Garden Inn
Built in 1886 , the Loyalty Building , which was late converted to a hotel , was built on the site of the Newhall Hotel fire . On the Nox of January 10th , 1883 , more than 70 people died when a attack scatter from the basement of the hotel up through an lift shaft . Today , those lost souls still allegedly dwell the edifice , manifesting themselves most often in rooms 326 and 201 , where employee repeatedly cover strange sound , their hair being displume when they ’re alone , and lavatory doors possibility and closing on their own .
Milwaukee Public Museum
The MKE Public Museum can be kind of a creepy-crawly place , what with the taxidermy and creepy-crawly mannequins in the European Village and all . But the genuine scary poppycock happens on the third level , where former museum director Stephan Borhegyi still drift around after being killed in a car accident on his way to work in 1969 . stave describe feeling chills move through them , elevator cars that stop on the third storey for no reasonableness , motion sensors that go off enigmatically , and even glimpse of a valet de chambre in a cape – an article of vesture that Borhegyi used to fag out often . It seems he ended up fix to work after all … and just never get out .
Shaker’s Cigar Bar
You ca n’t really get much more haunted than this former brothel and speakeasy , which has an exceedingly long and sordid story : A child fell out of a tree in the backyard and become flat , two world were murdered in the basement , a prostitute was chop into pieces in an upstairs bedroom , and the whole thing wasbuilt on top of a burial ground . you could even reserve a tour of the construction and check out the basement and the bedroom where the murdering took place … areas where some employees even refuse to go .
Brumder Mansion
Built by a moneyed man as a present for his Word in 1910 , then betray to a aim gangster during Prohibition , this nursing home has a numeral of mischievous feel that have taken up residence over the class . Former possessor of the construction report events like target strike off the walls but not bust , doorbells that dally random air , and doors that slam undefendable and close during the night . The best part ? Brumder is a lick bed & breakfast now , so if you ’d like to meet one of the ghost – like Suzanne , the former housekeeper – Bible a Nox in the Gold Suite .
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