Moon River Brewing Company

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According to folklore which we are trying to verify there was a fire in the building sometime before the Civil War. The fire itself we can verify because we saw the charred wood lying in the attic space upstairs. The story is that during this time the slave labor was given hay to sleep on and kept locked up in the attic and basement. It was the hay that fed the fire and unfortunately no one came to unlock the areas that the slaves were kept in. Since records for slaves were not keep well, we may never know the true count of how many that were left behind that dreadful night.

In 1851 Peter Wiltberger (Who set in motion the Bonaventure Cemetery) bought the City Hotel. He renovated it and it served the community up until the last check out in 1864 just before the arrival of the Union Army and General Sherman.

The building was used as a coal and lumber warehouse in the early 1900’s and eventually was used as a general storage house until the 1960’s. It was then that it was turned into an office supply store and served as this until Hurricane David ripped the roof off in 1979. It sat empty until 1995 and the Moon River Brewery opened up its space in 1999.

The paranormal activity abounds at the Moon River and is even blamed for the stoppage of all the renovation work that was attempted. In 1832 Dr. Phillip Minus got in a fight with a local man named James Stark and shot him as he was headed down the steps in the hotel. It is claimed that James Stark is still seen coming down those stairs to meet his fate.

Bottle’s have been thrown off shelves according to staff there as well as shadows being seen to numerous times to count and little kids being heard playing and of course, no kids are there. There is a ghost by the name of Toby that appears in the basement that has been known to push people out of the way and claims of people being touched while sitting at the bar.

Two of the most famed ghosts that reside at Moon River Brewery would have to be the woman in white that staff has seen on the third floor and the somewhat belligerent spirit that stands at the top of the steps and doesn’t like it when people come up.

For those that say Moon River Brewery is the most haunted building in the most haunted city in America, we would have to agree. During our investigation on Halloween night we had numerous personal experiences and though we have not concluded with all the evidence we gathered we do have some very interesting and somewhat creepy EVP’s that we will be posting very soon.

Some of the personal experiences our team had was Angela and I both having our head tapped on the fourth floor while standing in the same corner at different times, hearing what sounded like a rock being tossed down the steps in the basement and pinging off the metal door, Angela getting the overwhelming feeling of sadness in the basement that almost brought tears and end part of the attic I felt like someone was rushing at me when no one was there.

Added by: sdonley on 01/20/2011 DB#: 1016
Source(s): http://www.ghosteyes.com/paranormal-activity-moon-...

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