Lainey Seyler

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

You may have heard about the ghost at the Pfister Hotel or the hauntings at Shaker's Cigar Bar, but Milwaukee is full of ghost stories.

And Anna Lardinois researched many of them for her tours through Gothic Milwaukee and her book, "Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends."

She founded Gothic Milwaukee in 2012 in what started as a fun summer project. But the tours were so popular it turned into a full-time job.

"I was a high school English teacher for most of my career," she said. "Every year I would do a solo road trip, and it would be kind of hard to find stuff to do on the road trips as a woman traveling solo, so I ended up doing ghost tours in every city."

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She loved the ghost tours and the interesting people she met so much that she decided to start doing tours in Milwaukee in 2012. The tours were so popular that she created a full-time business out of it.

On this spookiest of holidays, she shared some ghost stories with us.

Calvary Cemetery

Calvary Cemetery, 5503 W. Blue Mound Road, is the oldest Catholic cemetery in Milwaukee. It dates to 1857, and notables such as Milwaukee's first mayor, Solomon Juneau, are buried there. And so is a priest named P. Walter H. Halloran. He is one of three priests who performed the 1949 exorcism of Roland Doe in St. Louis. That exorcism got a lot of attention nationwide, and inspired a novel and subsequent 1973 movie, "The Exorcist."

Halloran later served in the Vietnam War, and eventually taught at Marquette University. He died in 2005.

Grant Park

Seven Bridges Trail in Grant Park, 100 E. Hawthorne Ave. in South Milwaukee, welcomes hikers with these words: "Enter this wild wood and view the haunts of nature.”

The park and trails were built in the early 1900s, and it does feel a bit spooky. The trees cover the trail, blocking out some moonlight. And the bridges are kind of spooky. There are rumors about people who have died in the park — specifically, one glowing lady who is searching for her missing children.

Lardinois writes in her book that people have claimed to see the spirit of a woman in white wandering the trail crying. They say she's looking for her children who died in Lake Michigan.

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Historic Miller Caves

Before modern refrigeration and air conditioning, Miller Brewing Co., 3897 W. State St., used underground caves to keep its beer cool. In summer, people would escape the heat by wandering around the caves with the beer.

Workers still say that they see the ghosts of two young lovers who walked the caves one summer.

The story goes that the young woman would wait for her beau at the caves, but one day, he didn't come. He had tripped, hit his head at the entrance to the cave and died. She died shortly after. Doctors said she died of a lung disease, but brewery workers claim it was a broken heart, and that she and her beau are reunited in the brewery's old caves.