Updated 10/30/2008 11:01 AM
Is Professor Java's haunted?
COLONIE, N.Y. -- Frank Figliomeni has owned Professor Java's on Wolf Road since the mid-1990s. He said there has always been a number of stories about ghost sightings and other unexplainable events. It wasn't until Figliomeni saw it with his own two eyes that he started to believe the stories.
"The guy, I'm not sure, was kind of dressed in a suit, kind of like 1920s. Again, he was behind me."
And that's just one of the many bizarre events to happen to Figliomeni at Professor Java's. The house was built back in the 1940s and a number of people have lived there. It was even used as a drug den until the early 1980s.
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Figliomeni said he's not sure how all of the ghosts relate to one another, but he said none of them have been mean-spirited.
Figliomeni said, "The last time I saw the boy was a year ago, and again I heard a lot of tussling and laughter in the back. For me, I am always early, I heard it about 6 a.m. and nobody is here, and the guy I saw he was behind me. Then you can just sense it that something is down here, you know."
And Figliomeni isn't the only one who knows about the supernatural tales. Charles Pemburn has been a manger at Professor Java's for the past five years. Though he has not seen any of the friendly ghosts himself, he said the stories he's heard from his colleagues make him believe something may be out there.
Manager Charles Pemburn said, "One employee came running out of the basement saying, I am not going back down there tonight. I just heard something, I thought I saw something. Other employees will swear it's not us, something has definitely happened."
Now we're told most sightings and unexplained phenomena happen up on the main floor - things like hearing a barking dog and even seeing a woman walk by in a mirror.
Figliomeni said, "Everytime they come around, I'm so busy. I can only tell them, not now, I'm busy. They seem very pleasant. They seem to want to say something, I just don't know what."
It may be the season for ghosts and goblins, but at Professor Java's, it's just another day at the office.