There are two, that I know of, restaurants in Hoboken NJ that are widely considered haunted.
The first I want to bring to your attention is The Brass Rail. Which is beautiful to look at.
If you search that you will find the same short paragraph repeated over and over again–that a bride tripped on the stairs and broke her neck, killing her. Then her new husband killed himself out of grief. The staff say they can be seen “late at night, when they’re cleaning up.”
The staircase in question is also beautiful. But aside from the frequent repeats of the dead bride story I was unable to find anyone, without a desire to run a special Halloween themed party, to corroborate.
The second one is the meat-apocalypse known as Arthur’s Tavern. This location is said to be haunted by three ghosts. They heard footsteps, see lights and experience a little light hair-pulling.
That story also seems to be repeated via a copy/paste over and over again. I have been up and down the stairs there and they are fairly unchanged since the early 1900’s. I can believe a lot of the creaking is just the wood expressing displeasure. The second floor is said to be more actively haunted. I have eaten there and I can easily believe it’s haunted by the cows they serve–since the signature steak is a 24 ounce rib eye served with a pile of fried potatoes. You can read more about that from at Hoboken Girl.
In the interest of pseudo-science I consulted one of the best resources I have on weird things in Hudson County NJ–my father. His statement is “I don’t know about ghosts but they have a really good weiss beer. I had one and then I got a second and I couldn’t drive the tow truck.” Yes, that might explain a few ghosts.
