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Seeking out\u00a0spirits in one of New York\u2019s spookiest bars.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>

Photo: Alex Strada.<\/p><\/div>\n

You\u2019d think it\u2019d be relatively easy to pin down a ghost in this town, with all of its historic buildings and unsettled scores. Most of the haunts frequented by the city\u2019s cognoscenti are said to have an apparition or two knocking around, if you believe in that sort of thing. There\u2019s the shadowy figure that paces the shore of Rockaway Beach. A young girl\u2019s screams are sometimes heard coming from within McCarren Pool. And from the stories told about the Brooklyn Bridge, you\u2019d think its walkway would be incandescent with floating orbs and strange lights.<\/p>\n

After hearing that a glamorous specter often manifests and smokes sullenly in a corner of the women\u2019s restroom at the Astor Room in Queens, I drank far too much wine and drifted in and out of the bathroom stalls a few weekends ago, but to no avail. And returning home in the early hours that morning, I thought of the original owner of my apartment building, who hanged himself from the front-door frame in 1890. He, too, has yet to materialize.<\/p>\n

So I stopped by the perennially spooky KGB Bar in the East Village after work one night last week to see if Dan Christian, the longtime bar manager, might act as my spirit guide. I\u2019d always heard that the bar was very haunted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re in there,\u201d Dan said, pointing at the cloudy mirror behind the bar. He walked over to it and rapped his knuckles on the glass. \u201cRight. In. There.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is \u2026 in there?\u201d I asked, sliding off my stool and walking behind the bar to stand next to him. I studied the reflections of dusty liquor bottles and Dan\u2019s wild white hair. His eyes darted back and forth, searching the mirror.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh just dark figures moving through,\u201d he said softly, still looking into the mirror. \u201cThey come late at night when you\u2019re the only one here. I sit at the bar and look into it and see \u2026 translucent shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n

A poetry reading began and we stopped chatting for a moment as a woman recited verse about her son and the golden flora of the Midwest. KGB is best known these days, perhaps, for nightly literary events like this, but it was, for years, a hideout for Ukranian socialists in the McCarthy era, and before that a Mafia-run speakeasy opened by Lucky Luciano. These days, the bar is painted bloodred and kept very dark: the windows\u2019 heavy red velvet curtains are always drawn; the space is lit by dim chandeliers hanging by metal chains and stained-glass panels glowing just above the liquor shelf.<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a>

Inside KGB Bar.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s a place that would have terrified me when I was a child and, frankly, still gives me the heebie-jeebies. Then again, I\u2019ve always been a little bit more susceptible to ghost stories than some\u2014I slept with the light on after seeing the new Ghostbusters<\/em>, for example, and as soon as I heard the premise of Stranger Things<\/em>, I knew I wouldn\u2019t be able to watch it. I realize this makes me seem ridiculous, but I\u2019m tired of being ashamed of my fear.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why some people are so insistent about the fact that they don\u2019t believe in ghosts, anyway. I think there\u2019s something to be said about reserving your skepticism over a good haunting. Ghosts aren\u2019t really the apparition of the dead so much as they are the manifestation of something fundamentally human: gossip embellished as it passes from friend to friend, until it takes shape, and suddenly, out of the corner of your eye\u2014a trail of white smoke drifting up the stairs.<\/p>\n

Dan had mentioned that he didn\u2019t really believe in ghosts, and I wondered if he wasn\u2019t just sassing me with all that mirror stuff. He pressed a finger to his lips and motioned for me to follow him as he walked through a small hallway at the end of the bar. It led into a tiny back room with just enough room for a wooden table, two chairs, and a mirror that was propped against one wall. He closed the door softly behind him, and we sat down, the rhythmic sound of poems being read now muffled and far off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell you know, once, I was taking a nap upstairs in the boss\u2019s office,\u201d Dan said. \u201cAnd all of the sudden I felt this chill. It started at my face and just went through me.\u201d He wiggled his fingers in front of his face. \u201cI got up immediately and checked the windows to see if there\u2019d been a draft. But there was nothing.\u201d He glanced at the window by the desk. \u201cIt was spooky, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you said you don\u2019t believe in ghosts,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d he said, \u201cI don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what was that thing that happened \u2026 with the draft?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was paranormal energy \u2026 paranormal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut not a ghost,\u201d I said, puzzled by the distinction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t like the word ghost<\/em>,\u201d he said, laughing. \u201cI think it diminishes the entire reality of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wei Tchou is a member of\u00a0<\/em>The New Yorker\u2019s\u00a0editorial staff and\u00a0is one of the\u00a0<\/em><\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondents.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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