The mixture of craft beer and gastro-pub grub is sufficient of a draw by itself, however this microbrewery has much more to supply: It's housed in historic Union Station, which is alleged to be haunted.
In-built 1927 with a bomb shelter and tunnels beneath, Union Station (and its precursor, Union Depot) has fairly the historical past. The stations have seen many well-known vacationers, together with baseball nice Babe Ruth and presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Abraham Lincoln. You might say Abe got here full circle on the location. Our sixteenth president traveled by means of the Depot on his technique to the White Home as president-elect, after which, 4 years later, returned as his funeral prepare handed by means of to his remaining resting place in Illinois.
One younger traveler wasn't well-known when she arrived at Union Station, however she has since turn out to be an Erie legend. A younger lady named Clara was touring together with her mother and father. As they climbed the steps to the higher platform, her father by accident knocked into her together with his baggage. The little lady went flying down a flight of marble steps to her loss of life. But some say that was not the top of Clara. As the parable goes, her spirit haunts the location to this present day. If you wish to hear extra concerning the station's otherworldly historical past (washed down with the aptly-named Apparition Amber Ale), take a look at the Brewerie's Haunted Historical past Excursions. They occur each April and October in—appropriately sufficient—the deep tunnels beneath the restaurant.
