The Los Angeles Dodgers are out to a 2-0 series lead over the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS, and, aside from the obvious ramifications of advancing to the World Series, L.A. has a major incentive to keep the series from returning to Cream City.
With the series beginning in Milwaukee, the majority of the Dodgers stayed at The Pfister Hotel, a landmark with a spooky reputation. Note that it is just the majority of the team, as outfielder Teoscar Hernández and his wife are confirmed to have stayed elsewhere during the team's time in Wisconsin.
According to Hernández, it was his wife's decision.
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"I don't believe in ghosts. I have stayed in there before. I never see anything or hear anything," Hernández told reporters. "But my wife is on this trip. And she says she doesn't want to stay in there. So we have to find another hotel."
The separate arrangements don't seem to have had much of an effect on Hernández, whose two hits in Game 2 included a solo home run, but the story adds more validity to reports of paranormal activity at The Pfister. Here's what to know about Milwaukee's landmark and what other athletes have said about it.
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What is the Pfister Hotel?
The Pfister Hotel is a historic luxury hotel in Downtown Milwaukee that opened in 1893. Its namesake is the Pfister family, more specifically Guido Pfister and his son, Charles F. Pfister.
Thanks in large part to its history and structure, The Pfister is one of the 287 Historic Hotels of America, as recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Is the Pfister Hotel haunted?
The Pfister Hotel is believed to be haunted, according to various accounts.
While subjective, The Pfister landed among the Haunted Rooms Co. list of the 12 most haunted places in Wisconsin. As explained on the list, the hotel "is said to be haunted by the ghost of its namesake, Charles Pfister."
The explanation also states, "Guests have reported hearing phantom footsteps inside their bedrooms in the dead of night."
Pfister Hotel haunted history
The Pfister Hotel has long been a landmark of infamy among professional athletes, namely MLB players in town to face the Brewers.
Dodgers star Mookie Betts was not willing to chance it, as a 2023 report explained that he rents an Airbnb in Milwaukee "just in case" the rumors of paranormal activity were true.
The list of athletes to share stories from The Pfister is extensive, as outlined by a 2013 story in ESPN The Magazine.
Bryce Harper, who was with the Washington Nationals at the time, claimed that he had his clothes and belongings strewn across the room on a night that he slept in the room alone with the door latched.
Within that same article, Giancarlo Stanton called The Pfister "creepy as s—."
On the NBA side of things, ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins recalled a story in which a bathroom light continued to come on without anybody flipping the switch.
Perkins further explained that then-teammate Reggie Jackson was experiencing similar things in a different hotel room, so they requested a rollaway bed, and "We had a sleepover, all the lights on. Couldn't wait to get out of that motherf—."