The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts said he doesn’t believe in ghosts — though his actions might indicate otherwise.
The star outfielder told the Orange County Register that he’s staying at an Airbnb to avoid rooming in the allegedly haunted Pfister Hotel during the team’s road series against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Betts has lodged at the hotel during previous trips to the city, but once he found out some friends were staying off-site, he decided to join them, given his prior experiences at the historic Pfister.
“I couldn’t sleep,” he told the Register of past trips to the Pfister. “Every noise I’d be like ‘Is that something?’”
The four-star Pfister opened in 1893 and regularly hosts celebrities, presidents and pro athletes. The hotel gets its haunted reputation from supposedly being built on land that had once been graves, according to local radio station WUWM.
Betts isn’t the only player to air concerns about paranormal possibilities at the Pfister.
Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper said he awoke one morning to find a table on the opposite side of the room and his neatly laid clothes on the ground, according to a 2013 article in ESPN The Magazine.
Former big league infielder Michael Young has said that he’s heard footsteps in his room before, and World Series champion Pablo Sandoval said that his iPod started playing music automatically after a shower once.
• Matt Delaney can be reached at mdelaney@washingtontimes.com.
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