Terri Fyng hadn?t turned the air on but a cold breath of air still tickled her neck hairs and sent a chill down her spine. Cat’s Eye Pub bartender, Fyng, reported she had witnessed several abnormalities over her twenty-five year stint behind the worn counter – glasses flying off of wooden shelves, buckets jumping off of soda machines and ancient harmonicas appearing out of thin air.
“I usually just talk out loud when I’m alone,” Fyng said. Once I said, “Al lright guys, leave me alone.”
Former bar owner and harmonica enthusiast, Kenny Orye died in December 1987 and he is presumed to be one of the ghosts still dwelling in the dark corners of the three-story building. Since the 1700s, the Cat?s Eye Pub has be a bed in breakfast, several other bars and a brothel. Now, tucked behind the bustling streets of Fells Point, the Cat?s Eye Pub is the local watering hole for regulars.
“The only abnormalities here are the staff,” said bartender Mike Lardner as he laughed from behind the wooden bar.
Fyng said she has never felt afraid of the Cat’s Eye Pub paranormal activities. Even when a picture of the late Kenny Orye flew off the back wall and hit a disrespectful employee on the head, Fyng just shrugs and claims the ghosts come with the bar.
The history of Cat’s Eye Pub ? coupled with the breaking glasses ? has caught the attention of Baltimore ghost hunters. While no equipment is consistently accurate, Vince Wilson has managed to nail down systematic ways to track ghosts during the past ten years of hunting the paranormal. He stalked around the Cat’s Eye Pub back bar, careful to search out electrical signals believed to originate from environmental changes.
An eerie sense of unforeseen company danced on old bar stools and between old flags hanging from the ceiling. At a small table painted to resemble a penny ? where a ghost once touched Fyng ? gave off significantly higher signals on the electrical magnetic field (EMF) device than other parts of the room.
“These signal spikes are nearly three times higher around this table,” Wilson said. “The EMF device readings wavered,” Wilson said. “The Cat’s Eye Pub ghost seemed to be moving.”
“Everything has an explanation,” said the ghost hunter as he held two briefcases brimming with ghost hunting equipment.
“Why write off ghosts as hallucinations?” Wilson said.
