Ghost Hotel
Quickly now: solutionize me this, unriddle me that! What predicament is closer to the ultimate concept of what the sentiment of languishing can be?
Waiting to be drilled at the dentist's...?
Awaiting acceptance letters for 1001 things throughout our dreary lives, be it admission into the (supposed) dream college, getting that precious desired assignment or obtaining the green light for thy manuscript to go forth into the printer's office...?!
Waiting with baited breath for the end of the game to be absolutely sure that you (and your favourite team) will indeed savour victory and not disappointing, crushing, and oh-so-disheartening defeat?
Or - being stuck to haunt an old hotel forevermore!?
No question, in my mind: the haunting gig has to be it!
Of all the (many - oh, so many) reputedly haunted places that have been spoken about in media of all sorts, over the years, this one stands out now: and, of all places to have got it, Milwaukee has it!
The Pfister in Milwaukee is the most haunted place these days - simply due to the fact that so many ballplayers go through there as they come to town to play the miserable Brewers! But that is another story...
One might feel for the poor baseball jocks that, routinely now, get scared shitless every single time...! This is not their kind of hotel, surely - but one cannot always get what one prefers, right Sparky?
Here, on the languishing blog, we will feel for the poor ghosts -whoever they are, whoever they might have been during their living years- that have to stay put there, for whatever reason, and put up with wave after wave of classless jerks such as the Dodgers, the Pirates, the Giants - and any edition of the New York Mets!
And we won't even cover interleague play here...!
For those ghosts we languishly ask ourselves today:
just how long is eternity again?!?
This is the lobby of the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. The Pfister is Milwaukee's most regal address, having hosted every U.S. president since William McKinley and scores of celebrities. Today it's the place to stay for upscale business travelers and out-of-town visitors, including many Major League Baseball teams, authors and politicians.
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Morry Gash)
A shot of the hotel at night - looks scary and gothic alright, does it not?
Photo courtesy of the Pfister Blog!
Waiting to be drilled at the dentist's...?
Awaiting acceptance letters for 1001 things throughout our dreary lives, be it admission into the (supposed) dream college, getting that precious desired assignment or obtaining the green light for thy manuscript to go forth into the printer's office...?!
Waiting with baited breath for the end of the game to be absolutely sure that you (and your favourite team) will indeed savour victory and not disappointing, crushing, and oh-so-disheartening defeat?
Or - being stuck to haunt an old hotel forevermore!?
No question, in my mind: the haunting gig has to be it!
Of all the (many - oh, so many) reputedly haunted places that have been spoken about in media of all sorts, over the years, this one stands out now: and, of all places to have got it, Milwaukee has it!
The Pfister in Milwaukee is the most haunted place these days - simply due to the fact that so many ballplayers go through there as they come to town to play the miserable Brewers! But that is another story...
One might feel for the poor baseball jocks that, routinely now, get scared shitless every single time...! This is not their kind of hotel, surely - but one cannot always get what one prefers, right Sparky?
Here, on the languishing blog, we will feel for the poor ghosts -whoever they are, whoever they might have been during their living years- that have to stay put there, for whatever reason, and put up with wave after wave of classless jerks such as the Dodgers, the Pirates, the Giants - and any edition of the New York Mets!
And we won't even cover interleague play here...!
For those ghosts we languishly ask ourselves today:
just how long is eternity again?!?
This is the lobby of the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. The Pfister is Milwaukee's most regal address, having hosted every U.S. president since William McKinley and scores of celebrities. Today it's the place to stay for upscale business travelers and out-of-town visitors, including many Major League Baseball teams, authors and politicians.
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Morry Gash)
A shot of the hotel at night - looks scary and gothic alright, does it not?
Photo courtesy of the Pfister Blog!
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Travelling baseball teams fear staying in 'haunted' Milwaukee hotel
Fri Jul 10, 3:43 PM
By Chris Jenkins And Colin Fly, The Associated Press
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MILWAUKEE - First Carlos Gomez heard voices. Then he watched his iPod go haywire after he got out of the shower, sending him scrambling for the lobby without stopping to put on his pants and shoes.
After last year's experience, the Minnesota Twins outfielder didn't want to go back to Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. But Gomez had to stay there when the Twins were in town to play the Brewers last month, so he brought some protection: teammate-turned-roommate Francisco Liriano and a Bible.
"Everything's scary," Gomez said. "Everything in the hotel, the paintings and pictures, it's a lot of old, crazy stuff. No good, man. No good."
The Pfister is Milwaukee's most regal address, having hosted every U.S. president since William McKinley and scores of celebrities who can take a self-guided tour of the hotel's Victorian art collection. Today, it's the place to stay for upscale business travellers and out-of-town visitors, including many Major League Baseball teams. Commissioner Bud Selig, a Milwaukee native, is a frequent visitor.
But some players don't care for the 116-year-old hotel's posh accommodations and reputation for privacy. They swear it's haunted.
Gomez, San Francisco's Pablo Sandoval, St. Louis' Brendan Ryan and several Florida Marlins all say they've had odd experiences, though Ryan later said nothing really happened. Others aren't willing to talk publicly about what they've seen and heard.
Brewers visiting clubhouse manager Phil Rozewicz has heard it all from sleepy-eyed players who would rather hang out at Miller Park than spend one minute more than they have to at the Pfister.
"There was a rookie ball player and he was back in his room and he woke up in the middle of the night and his blinds were open, the window was opened and he was panicked," Rozewicz said. "So he went into the bathroom, splashed water on his face, came back out and went to bed. Shut the blinds, the window. Woke up in the morning. Same thing. Slept on the couch in the lobby the next night. Refused to go to his room. Finally, went to a Motel 6 or whatever up the street and just stayed there."
Of course, some of this could be mischievous teammates pulling pranks. But Pfister ghost stories go well beyond the ballpark.
Allison Jornlin, who leads haunted history tours for the folklore research organization Milwaukee Ghosts, said guests have reported seeing a "portly, smiling gentleman" roaming the halls, riding the elevator and even walking his dog. The apparition is said to resemble Charles Pfister, who founded the hotel with his father, Guido.
"His ghost is thought, usually, to behave very well," Jornlin said. "But MLB players seem to bring out his mischievous side."
Why's that?
"Obviously, he's a Brewers fan," Jornlin said.
But even some of the Brewers won't stay there in the off-season.
"Even if I come into town for FanFest or whatever, I'm staying somewhere else," said Brewers centre-fielder Mike Cameron, who moved his family to another hotel after one night last off-season. "I mean, it's not a bad place. But there has been a lot of stories, a lot of creepy things that have gone on."
Hotel general manager Joe Kurth won't acknowledge any specific ghost stories from ballplayers or other guests, citing privacy concerns. But he doesn't shy away from the rumours, suggesting that guests interested in seeing a spirit might want to stay in the hotel's historic wing.
The Pfister does have its fans. Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy loves the quiet atmosphere, though the same couldn't be said for Tracy's players when he was managing the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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"I was hearing suggestions, to the point that they were saying, "I've got to go to a different hotel,"' Tracy said.
That sounds familiar to Gomez, who said he hears voices and noises when he stays there and had his worst experience after hopping out of the shower last year.
He'd just started putting his clothes on when his iPod started playing with a static noise. He grabbed it and the iPod changed music suddenly before going to static again.
"I grabbed my pants and my shoes and I ran to the lobby," Gomez said.
Gomez wishes the Twins would stay somewhere else.
"I'm scared to go there," he said. "They should change the hotel. Everybody here doesn't like the hotel. Why (do) they always put us in the same hotel when you can't sleep?"
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AP Sports Writer John Marshall in Kansas City, Mo., Associated Press Writer Dave De Grace and AP freelance writer Joe Totoraitis in Milwaukee contributed to this report.
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On the Net:
Pfister: http://www.thepfisterhotel.com
Milwaukee Ghosts: http://www.milwaukeeghosts.com
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