Ghosts continue torturing MLB players at Milwaukee Hotel

In a forthcoming article for ESPN the Magazine, Stacey Pressman caught up with a handful of baseball players to continue what seems to have become a near-annual tradition: Baseball players complaining about ghosts at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

Ghosts, bro. Hauntings at the Pfister Hotel have tortured baseball players for at least a decade now. Many insist they've lost sleep before games because of strange noises in the night, and some have even resorted to leaving the team hotel and checking in elsewhere. 

Pressman's entries to the canon include several first-person ghost stories, but none stands out quite like Bryce Harper's:

Center fielder Carlos Gomez now plays for the Brewers, ensuring that he never has to visit the Pfister as an opposing player. That's good, because a 2008 report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune described the way ghosts terrorized Carlos Gomez's iPod.

Gomez has been rooming with Alexi Casilla on the road. Casilla left the room around noon Friday. Gomez was alone. His iPod was on a table across the room.

Suddenly, it started playing tunes and vibrating across the table. Gomez turned it off, backed away, and then the iPod did the same thing.

In May, 2009, at least two pairs of Marlins teammates shared rooms at the Pfister due to an apparent fear that being alone would make them more susceptible to hauntings. Via the Palm Beach Post: 

Pitchers Josh Johnson and Dan Meyers have separate but adjoining rooms. “Every time there was a noise, JJ would yell, ‘It’s the ghosts,’’’ Meyer said.

In July of that year, Brewers visiting clubhouse manager Phil Rosewicz told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about an opposing player who had to flee the hotel.

The Pfister placed 10th on Travelocity's list of the country's most haunted hotels, which is a thing. Non-baseball-playing celebrities to report ghost sightings inside the hotel include former Blossom co-star Joey Lawrence.