“Lizzie does not like men who cheat and
are rascals … things have been hurled at
them,” Saltarella said.
When Saltarella was giving a ghost tour,
he said that every time he mentioned the
name “Jesse Lemon” while standing in front of
the home, the lights would flicker. That same
night, a familiar face appeared in a photograph
taken by an attendee.
“They sent (the photograph) to us several
days later. In the window is Jesse Lemon’s face,
Saltarella said. “I have a picture of Jesse
Lemon from one of the old newspapers, and it
looked so much like him.”
Knight, who said she was willing to
believe in the spiritual realm, said that checks
have turned up missing on multiple occasions,
nowhere to be found after a thorough search.
“Somebody said, ‘Did you ask Lizzie for
(the checks?)’ I said no, I hadn’t asked her for
them,” Knight said. “So I said, ‘Lizzie, what are
you doing to me?’ And I found them. I swear
it was in a place that I had already looked.”
Though she is happy to share her space,
Knight said that she doesn’t view the otherworldly
inhabitants as a bad thing.
“I don’t look at it as being haunted. I just
look at it as, you can’t just be in a place and
have your heart in it without leaving something
behind,” Knight said.
2 THE STILL ON THE SQUARE, MARIETTA
LEFT AND BELOW:
The basement of
Red Hare’s Still on
the Square acted as
a morgue during
the Civil War.
Ghosts have been
sighted in the
women’s restroom
and the manager
reported smelling
formaldehyde, a
chemical commonly
used to preserve
bodies, when
walking down
the stairs.
When a patron walks into the Red Hare Brewing Company’s
location on the Marietta Square, they might expect to be
greeted with the scents of craft beers and handcrafted cocktails.
This assumption holds true for the first floor, but a walk down to
the basement might bring different aromas; Red Hare’s basement was
the city morgue during the Civil War.
“Every now and then, I’ll walk down the stairs or go to my office
and it will smell like formaldehyde,” said Daphne Leveque, general
manager of the Marietta Square location.
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