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 entry-way without stopping to put on his small-clothes and shoes. After behind year's experience, the Minnesota Twins outfielder didn't want to go back to Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel.
But Gomez had to block there when the Twins were in burgh to looseness the Brewers decisive 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, infatuated stuff. No good, man.
" The Pfister is Milwaukee's most sovereign address, the classify to stopover for upscale area travellers and out-of-town visitors, including many Major League Baseball teams. But some players don't vigilance for the 116-year-old hotel's luxe accommodations and position for privacy. They utter profanities it's haunted. Gomez, San Francisco's Pablo Sandoval, St. Louis's Brendan Ryan and several Florida Marlins all vote they've had unexpected experiences, though Ryan later said nothing in the end happened.
Others aren't happy to twaddle about what they've seen and heard. But Pfister shadow stories go well beyond the ballpark. Allison Jornlin, who leads haunted representation tours for the folklore experiment with coalition Milwaukee Ghosts, said guests have reported considering a "portly, smiling gentleman" roaming the halls, riding the elevator and walking his dog.
The apparition is said to seem Charles Pfister, who founded the hotel. "His banshee is thought, usually, to act very well," Jornlin said. "But MLB players seem to bring about out his baneful side." Why's that? "Obviously, he's a Brewers fan," Jornlin said.
But even some of the Brewers won't hinder there in the off-season. "Even if I come into borough for FanFest or whatever, I'm staying somewhere else," said Brewers middle fielder Mike Cameron, who moved his forefathers to another tourist house after one twilight carry on off-season. "I mean, it's not a mouldy place. But there has been a lot of stories, a lot of creepy things that have gone on." That sounds overfamiliar to Gomez, who said he hears voices and noises when he stays there.
He wishes the Twins would interrupt somewhere else.