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America's Haunted Restaurants and Hotels

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Manhattan Bistro; New York, NY

In 1799, when Soho was still a sloping meadow, Julia Elmore Sands was murdered by her fiancé and thrown into the Manhattan Well on modern-day Spring Street. Levi Weeks was found innocent, thanks to his lawyers (who happened to include future dueling opponents Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton). Many years later, the well still exists in the basement of the Manhattan Bistro. "Her unsettled spirit remains around us," owner Martia DaGrossa says. DaGrossa recalls two incidents when bottles of red wine flew off the wall and crashed onto the floor. (129 Spring St.; 212-966-3459)