Managers of a Japanese restaurant in Miami have refused to take possession of a locale they had leased because, they say, it is haunted.
“There have been several documented reports from subcontractors and others of having seen ghosts or apparitions in the restaurant at night,” the lawyer for Amura restaurant, Lynn Franklin, told the Orlando Sentinel.
The locale is in a refurbished Orlando, Florida, train station. Its owner, Lou Perlman, even offered to have the place exorcised, the Orlando daily said.
Still, cautious restaurant managers refused to pay the rent, and Perlman sued for $2,6-million, according to the Sentinel.
Franklin said that her client, Christopher Chung, is a Jehovah’s Witness.
“These beliefs require him to avoid encountering or having any association with spirits or demons,” she said.
A local tour operator told the Sentinel that the ghosts were nothing new.
On the floor above the disputed locale was once a bordello, which ever since has emanated the sounds of crying children, murdered by their mothers to protect the reputation of the fathers, so the local legend goes. — AFP