I've been working at the restaurant as a waitress for two years. My first ghost experience took place one evening around 8:30, just a year ago.

I was serving a table of three women in the Carlota room. After taking their order for coffee, I returned from the kitchen with a serving tray, upon which were cups of hot coffee on saucers. As i placed the cups on the table before the patrons, we noticed the cups start to move slowly by themselves. They rapidly moved around the place mats, flatware and dishes, as if an unseen hand was pushing them along. Our mouths fell open wide with astonishment. The women moved away from the table. It happened really fast. To move from the spot where I set down the cups, to the place they eventually ended up at the opposite end of the table, they took no more than seven seconds. I gave a nervous half-smile to the patrons, I was perplexed by the incident. Cautiously I looked beneath the table and checked the table legs for any unevenness which may have caused the cups and saucers to move. I found nothing out of the ordinary. We laughed nervously and changed the subject.

The second ghost experience occurred about midmorning, just a few days after the coffee cup experience. Several other wait staff and I were in the Maximillian Room, preparing it for a banquet. My task was to push the chairs up to the tables, making sure the table cloth was draping nicely. After completing two tables, I moved on to the next one. When I glanced over to the table I had just completed, I noticed that one chair was pulled away from the table. I thought this was unusual because I had personally arranged it. Returning to that particular table, I pushed the chair under once again. As I turned to walk away, the chair suddenly whipped around on its own and moved away from the table! I saw it with my own eyes and still could not believe it. It appeared as if someone had taken hold of the chair, and then pulled it out and away from the table. Once again, I looked under the table, thinking maybe a fellow employee was hiding underneath to scare me. I saw no one. I decided to leave the chair right where it stood. This was reason enough for me to know that the ghost wanted to have its way with the chair, and believe me, I did not want to argue!