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Los Angeles Dodgers star Teoscar Hernandez didn’t stay at the team hotel in Milwaukee this week because his wife believes it is haunted by ghosts. So does Mookie Betts, and he didn’t stay there either.
The Pfister Hotel, which has been called “Baseball’s Most Haunted Hotel,” has been spooking ballplayers for years. It opened was in 1893 by Charles Pfister, the son of leather tycoon Guido Pfister, and supposedly over the years, baseball players have seen apparitions of Charles Pfister roaming the staircase, the sound of knocking and pounding, electronics turning off and on, and objects moving.
“For me, it’s whatever,” Hernandez told the media after the first game of the National League Championship Series in Milwaukee. “I don’t believe in ghosts. I have stayed in there before. I never see anything or hear anything. 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. But I’ve been hearing from other players and other wives that it’s something happening these couple nights.”
In a follow-up question, Hernandez added, “My wife told me. The lights — some of the rooms — the lights go off and on. The doors, there are noises, footsteps. Things like, I dunno. I’m not the guy that I’m gonna be here saying, yeah, I’ve experienced that before. And I don’t think I’m gonna experience that.”
Mookie Betts doesn’t stay at the haunted hotel either
In 2023, the Dodgers visited Milwaukee for a three-game series with the Brewers and, as usual, the team stayed at the Pfister Hotel. One player who chose to stay at an Airbnb with friends that were in town instead of the hotel was Mookie Betts.
“It was a good excuse. You can tell me what happened after. I just don’t want to find out myself,” he said.
Betts had stayed at the hotel before, but claimed he couldn’t sleep there. “Every noise, I’d be like, ‘Is that something?'” he said.
Many baseball players fear the Pfister Hotel
In 2013, Stacey Pressman of ESPN interviewed several players who don’t like staying at the hotel.
Bryce Harper had to change rooms, and floors, after he woke up one morning and his clothes were on the floor and a table was on the opposite side of the room. Giancarlo Stanton called the hotel “freaky as s—.” Michael Young, when asked to talk about it, replied, “Oh, f— that place.” And Carlos Martinez posted a video in 2018 in which he said he and two teammates were bunking together in one of their rooms because two of them had seen ghosts. “If the ghost shows again, we are all going to fight together,” he said.