Local restaurant haunted after brutal strangling
Leslie Philip
ch was established in 1910 by businessman William Anthony Moeur, housed two generations of families until 1955 After the families had passed, the house was used for parties with heavy drug use, orgies, suicides, and even murders.
Casey Moores is now believed to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who was strangled in the upper front bedroom in 1966 by a jealous lover.
She has been seen in the oval shaped mirror-placed in the corner where the bed used to be-by diners enjoying a meal upstairs.
“The funny thing, Mark Ringer used to live here back in the 60s,” said Jeff Grunow, operations manager of the paranormal investigators group, West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society. “If he went out to a restaurant or bar.he would bring her into this room.”
Grunow detailed activities that Ringer experienced in the house.
“He would come in and his bottle of booze would be gone and he would later find it downstairs in the oven and the oven was on. His (marijuana) was gone and he’d throw a fit. This would only happen when he would bring a girl home,” Grunow said.
Gunrow has comprised research on the house into a novel.
“Casey Moores opened in November of 1983, and I started the first of 84,” said owner Gavin Rutledge.
He explained how it came across its name.
“It was named by a Flappers girl, Patty Ridgebank, my cousin, and her husband Richie. It’s named after her grandmother Casey Moores, because she owned a little Speakeasy piano down in her basement and had people over and charged them for drinks,” Rutledge said.
The haunting of Casey Moore’s Oyster House has never fully been pin-pointed but the ghost of the murdered girl is believed to make her presence known by throwing a fork into the same spot on the wall whenever the owner enters the room, or if there is a kissing couple present.
Check out www.ghostsofarizona.com/CaseyMoores for The Legend of Casey Moores and visit www.caseymoores.com/Caseys for specials and menu information. You can also visit the Arizona based team, West Coast Ghosts and Paranormal Society at www.wcgaps.com
