Welcome to the Spooky Sconnie podcast, the show that talks about the spooky, paranormal, criminal, and just plain odd Badger State. While we're known for sportsball and food, there's a lot more to learn about Wisconsin if you know where to look. In this episode, I cover the Pfister - a Milwaukee hotel spooky enough to scare off professional atheletes... and fancy enough to keep the pleebs like me away. We'll cover fun history, baseball, and portly gents. Also, does this look like it's seemlessly integrated? I don't think so. Further reading History on the Pfister website Documentary on the Pfister Pfister named one of America’s most haunted historic hotels Stories from Bryce Harper, Brandon Phillips, Giancarlo Stanton, Michael Young, Justin Upton, Pablo Sandoval, CJ Wilson, and Shane Victorino Carlos Martinez's story Jon Gray's ghost hunting The most frightening haunted baseball stories from Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel, according to MLB Here's a list of MLB players who have been haunted by Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel from JS Online This S**t Doesn’t Happen Overnight: The Insidious Planning That Goes Into Gentrification 7 Reasons Why Gentrification Hurts Communities of Color 5 Tactics That Fight Gentrification While Boosting Community Development 9 Ways Privileged People Can Reduce the Negative Impact of Gentrification Don’t Fall for These 3 Excuses for Gentrification – They’re Excusing Colonization, Too The next episode should be out by January 19th. Transcript Hey! In case you haven't listened to the first episode, I'm Kirsten Schultz and I'm your host. We talk about everything weird and creepy and spooky and random in Wisconsin. I really love true crime and I was really kind of getting bummed that the only few things being covered in Wisconsin constantly are Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer. And while both of their stories are interesting, there's so much more to Wisconsin. So thanks for tuning in. Thanks for wanting to learn more about Wisconsin and random creepy s**t. This week I wanted to do one of the coolest places. I have never been in the state. The Pfister hotel in Milwaukee is expensive enough to scare off the average person (i.e., me) and haunted enough to scare off even professional athletes. ----more---- Located at 424 East Wisconsin Avenue, the Pfister Hotel opened in 1893. The hotel is ornate and beautiful and happens to house the largest Victorian art collection of any hotel in the world, which I guess I didn't assume any hotel housed much Victorian art. So that was a weird fact for me. I don't know. It's fancy. It costs about a million dollars to build back in 1893. Um, and just to give you a rough idea in today's money, that's about $26,000,000. It's a lot. It's not just one of the most haunted places in Wisconsin, it's also one of the most haunted places in the country and constantly makes top 10 lists or top nine list or random numbers, but it's constantly the top of like spooky haunted hotel s**t which is kind of awesome. It is the vision of businessman Guido Pfister and his son Charles. Um, like I said, the hotel opened in 1893. Charles went forward with the plan, still really enthusiastic about it, um, after his father passed away in 1889. So they had been talking, had been, you know, getting things set in motion for the hotel to go and be built and get started. And I'm all the sudden Guido dies and Charles, you know, carries on, wants to make sure that their family name, you know, still gets represented and really, um, kind of do this for pop kind of a thing, which was cool. It was designed by architect Henry C Koch [multiple pronunciations follow] - I don't know, whatever. There's too many pronunciations of that name. Um, he also designed the Turner Hall which is now Turner Ballroom which is a concert hall in Milwaukee, um, Science Hall at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison as well as Milw