The title sounds like the start of a joke, doesn’t it? “Why do ghosts like spaghetti so much?”
Trouble is, I don’t have a killer punchline. Heck, forget it being killer. I simply have no punchline period!
I just have the question, sparked in part by one of Julie’s posts at Above the Norm about the haunted Old Spaghetti Factory in Phoenix.
This is not the first spaghetti joint I’ve heard of with ghosts in the sauce. Examples:
- When I was publishing articles on HauntJaunts.net the site (for the brief month I did so), Norma Jean Lippert wrote an article called “Dining with Ghosts in Houston.” It was about the ghosts that haunt the Spaghetti Warehouse in downtown Houston. I was reminded of that piece when I was doing some research for the Haunted Places issue of Destinations Travel Magazine and I came across the Spaghetti Warehouse Ghost Hunt Lock-In offered by Discover Houston Tours.
- There was another restaurant that served spaghetti I came across a while back. I thought I had noted it or bookmarked it, but I didn’t. It had information about it’s ghost on it’s site. Fat lot of good me telling you this does without a name or a link, though!
- Then there was Julie’s post.
OTHER REPORTEDLY HAUNTED SPAGHETTI RESTAURANTS
- Spaghetti Warehouse in San Antonio, Texas
- The Old Spaghetti Factory in Gastown, Vancouver, B.C. (For more info see Ghost Lounge’s post on it.)
Why do ghosts seem to favor spaghetti restaurants? Is it the bread? The pasta? The ambiance? The fact so many are located in old buildings in historic districts?
I don’t know, but it’s kind of fun. I left a comment on Julie’s post about the fond memories I have of eating at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Denver. And the first short story I ever won was called “Grandma Jo’s Alligator Honeymoon,” which was inspired by a dinner my husband and I took my Gram to at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Phoenix.
There’s an Old Spaghetti Factory here in Nashville too we like to go to when we can. It’s smaller than either Phoenix’s or Denver’s, but it’s got the old-timey charm and (my personal fave) the trolley in the middle! But does it have ghosts? Hmmm…I’ll be sure to ask next time we go.
What about you? Do you have any spaghetti restaurants where you live? Are they haunted?
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Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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This is so funny! I never even thought of that before but I have heard of a lot of spaghetti places that are haunted to, including the Spaghetti Factory in Denver.
Great Post!
Mommy D
I grew up near a haunted spagetti factory. I believe it was in Monrovia.
Oops sorry, Monrovia California..
That’s hillarious! Maybe its just a who doesn’t like spaghetti sort of thing.
The one in Phoenix does have a tragic history of murder, so that could be one reason the ghost are hanging around. The other is they just like the spaghetti. Thanks for the mention and link.
They closed the Old Spaghetti Factory here in Kansas City and I’m so sad…I loved eating there.
Oh no! That’s too bad it closed, Janessa.
And hey…I could’ve sworn I left responses to everyone else’s comment. Where the heck did it go?? Darn ghosts in the machine again. Guess they get tired of pasta and come play in my blog!