You know that weird feeling of staying overnight in a hotel? Yeah, let's double that feeling with a hotel that is haunted. This time we are going to gander on over to good old Wisconsin. The Old Baraboo Inn located in Baraboo, Wisconsin is a hotspot location for the haunted hotel experience.
The Baraboo Inn was established in 1864 and started off as a tavern and brothel. It was also a brewery and winery at one point in time. But the building ended up being closed around 1988 due to a fire. It was closed for fourteen years due to the damage but come 2002 it would have a new owner.
B.C. Farr purchased the 141-year-old building and turned it into a restaurant/bar. He started renovating it in 1998, but what he would come across would be far more interesting than the interesting itself. Multiple people have died during its time such as three prostitutes and two former owners.
During the time Farr was restoring the building paranormal incidents started to happen. Lights would flicker off when the crew would be finished for the day and would be found turned on the next morning for the crew. Objects would also be found in different places than where they were left.
So far, at least the ghosts are friendly. #goodghouls
When the upstairs apartments used to be rented out, renters would report to the owner hearing loud honky-tonk and old piano music, sounds of people laughing or talking. There have also been rumors of dishes, cups, and utensils flying off the storage racks. Supposedly brooms would float across the kitchen by themselves.
Talk about some witch stuff brewing in the kitchen.
But, there is something in the basement that likes to makes itself known. This particular thing will let you know if they like or not by using the walk-in cooler. A presence supposedly waits for the disliked human to walk through the door of the cooler and will shut it then shut the light off. But, if you are liked, the door might open by itself.
There also been sightings of a female dressed as a saloon dancer. She has been coined the name Mary who bled to death sometime during the early 1900s. So, just don't go playing Bloody Mary if you do visit. Visitors have spotted her in the bar area dancing next to the jukebox.
A female also haunts the upstairs area where to teases the living and appears as an apparition. In one case she kept calling a males name during the night and scratching on his door causing him to leave.
Could these two gals be two of prostitutes who died during the time?
Due to the hauntings, Farr seems to believe in the ghouls who haunt his establishment. He has lost renters and employees due to the paranormal incidents. But, Farr doesn't seem to mind the ghosts seeing as how they probably like him due to returning the building to its former glory.
