Ask a bartender who has worked a few closing shifts in an old building, and sooner or later you’ll hear about the door that swings shut by itself, or the footsteps upstairs after everyone has gone home.
Believe it or don’t. Either way, every stop below is open, pours a good drink and has a ghost story that has outlasted generations of staff. With Halloween coming, here’s where to have a drink with the dearly departed in Dallas and Fort Worth.
Sons of Hermann Hall, Dallas
If Dallas has a haunted headquarters, it’s this old lodge hall on Elm Street, between Deep Ellum and Fair Park. Four German fraternal lodges built it, and it held its grand opening in April 1911. People often call it the oldest freestanding wooden building in the area, and more than a century later it’s still a working bar, music hall and swing dance floor…