If you've followed this blog for very long, you know we have a ghost in the bar. And you may also know that we're actively researching the ghost to find out who he was in his former life. You might say we've become a little bit obsessed.
Our good friend Emerson is leading the investigation. He's also a history buff, and he's spent countless hours poring over old maps, pictures and other information trying to figure out who our ghost might be. At one point, he was convinced that it was the ghost of a soldier killed in Quantrill's Raid.
So, when we saw that Paranormal Adventures USA had a history tour scheduled for Lawrence this weekend, we jumped on it. A group of us are going on the Quantrill's Raid tour on Sunday. It starts at the Eldridge Hotel- another local spot known for having a ghost- and lasts for two hours.
Who knows, maybe we'll find out something interesting about our block or even our building!
Knowing Emerson, he’ll probably conclude that it’s Reagan’s ghost.
Ha! Except he thinks the ghost is messing with him…so the ghost must be a Democrat.
When the bar was AJ’s 8th Street, a wild old lady know as Grandma Schall frequented the bar. She lived with her son Robbie Schall and for awhile in the back of Romania’s Bar in Perry. She loved a wild bar. Before she died in 1986 she told several of us that she would haunt AJ’s forever. It was her kind of dive. Been there several times to say hi to her. Glad to hear she is still kicking to the juke box. She was a liberal Democrat and loved her beer.
That is a GREAT story! Thanks for sharing. We’ll have to include her in our research.
what time is the ghost tour and is the public invited? If so,my girlfriends & i would like to join. Thank You, Dee
Dee, sorry I didn’t see this until today, we were out of town over the weekend and I was at work today.
The tour was more of a history tour rather than a ghost tour, but we’ve been researching the bar’s history in order to figure out who our ghost might be so we thought the history tour would be fun.
Check out the website http://www.paranormaladventuresusa.com. This is the company who put on the tour, and they have history tours as well as ghost tours available.