In the 90s I did sub contracted telephone installation work for Avaya Business Partner Phone Systems and one of the places I put a new updated system was Micheal Blahas Flower Shop in Etna its a neat old building built in 1800s .
Thou Blahas has been in business for over 100 years it moved into its new location on Bridge street in 1991 after moving from a previous location up the street on Butler Street
The buildings owner Mr .Kevin Burke was dead serious when he told the new owner Dave Kornely who kept the Blaha name for the flower shop that it was haunted .
Yes while I was there I got to meet the mischievous Peter who messed with me trying to get the new phones working but I did not hear or see him. I had all kind of problems I normally did not have setting up the phone system.
So who is Peter ? well according to the story the whole front and back buildings where a one time hotel and bordello then a bar and restaurant
. When it was a bordello in 1920's a worker there had an illegitimate son named Peter
who perished in a fire in the attic of the back building.
Now is there any truth to the story I don't know I have not had time to track it down .
But many claim Peter has done all kind of mischievous things around there. but after a spiritual cleansing of the building his presence has not been felt.
So was Peter messing with me or was it just bad wiring etc. I guess we will never know. But a grizzly Murder Occurred right by there when a man was shot and killed very brutally in 70s. whose murder has never been solved.
and about 3 blocks away on main St. in Sharpsburg an apartment building I worked in is said to be haunted by a well loved maintenance man who was brutally murdered and found in basement hall
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