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This thread made me remember the roadhouse/3.2 bar that I frequented when I was a kid (they had a nice game room with pinball machines and Pac-Man games..etc).
The Pavilion was a local place set in the midst of nearly no-wheres-ville, MN next to a small lake.
It was always a rumour that the place was haunted.
In my early 20's, I was employed by the then owner for bartending/bouncer, this was in the early 80's.
Many times when I was there alone, I would feel like I was being watched from where the old dancefloor area was, other times I heard a male voice asking "who are you?" Or "I'm angry" or "Help me". I wasn't the only one.
Others had some claims of their own, from hearing voices to seeing people dressed in period clothing.(see photo)^
At least 2 owners claimed the place was haunted.
The ones I worked for and the one prior to them.
It was in the last few years of the Pavilions existence things really got bad. I would come in to work and there would be chairs knocked off of tables down on the dancefloor... I would put them back up. The owner was getting more and more agitated with finding windows down there broken and chairs thrown off from tables...again. "Vandals obviously!" He would say until one day... I pointed something out to him and his wife, the broken glass was on the ground outside of the building. So, it had to have come from inside!
He was having none of it.
Ghosts don't exist!!
His wife would later confide that she was aware of this presence and no longer felt safe, like it was angry.
I quit shortly after being held at gunpoint after closing time by the owner who I had found out was dealing drugs while I was on duty.
He went psycho-paranoid and thought I was working for the cops!
I never went back.
Rumour has it that all or most of the back windows were taken out and lots of tables and chairs were badly broken while they were away. And other things such as fresh foods being spoilt over night, TV sets blowing out..etc.
The Pavilion was set on fire one night during an electrical storm.
The official cause was an act of God. (Lightning strike).
It wasn't insured, so it was never again rebuilt.
I still have a piece of the old hardwood floor.
Now, here's the kicker...
Several starts were made to build a house on this land, each burned according to local gossip.
The land was found to house a graveyard full of what turned out to be animal bones (bear and bison mostly).
The ground was found out to be sacred Indian ground and was settled out by a ceremony performed by a local tribe.
Same sort of ceremony was performed during an excavation of Indian Burial ground to rebuild the roads just South of the old Pavilion. Graves had to be relocated.
Well, there you have it.
That's the local haunting story that (kind of) became famous.
I know that there are still some who certainly could corroborate the old 'hauntings' in the Pavilion.
I know that I wasn't the only one who heard/witnessed a 'something' while there.
For the record...there is a big, nice home built where the old Pavilion once stood. Been there a while now.
I would love to know if the 'new owners' have ever had a paranormal occurrence.
Here is some earlier findings of the same general area
and surroundings.
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