The October issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray features restaurants across the country believed to be haunted. One of them is in our area, the Middleton Tavern in Annapolis.

Here's the ghost story that appears in the article, as told by Jim Gunning, a former bartender:

 “A séance once revealed that our resident ghost, Roland, liked cognac.  One day, I was talking to a customer when a bottle of Remy Martin cognac flew off the shelf, like someone had pushed it.  I asked the guy if he had seen it and he said ‘Yes, check, please!'"

I don't know. That just doesn't scare me. It's an 18th century building. Maybe the shelf was a little wobbly. Or am I missing something here? Still, always nice for a local place to get some national publicity.