History & local legend
Andy Gavin’s, at North Washington Avenue and New York Street in Scranton, has a resident ghost known to staff as George. The Lackawanna Historical Society’s 2009 newsletter described him as a nineteenth-century miner who switches lights, moves objects and occasionally touches customers.
Paranormal researcher Alicia VanDuzer shared one of the pub’s stories in a 2014 interview with NEPA Scene. After closing, a bartender would lift the chairs onto the tables, then go downstairs. On returning from the basement, he sometimes found the chairs back on the floor. VanDuzer also described glasses coming off shelves and tables moving in an otherwise empty room.
The pub’s own collection of accounts places unexplained voices in the basement storage area and footsteps around the old dining room and upstairs hallway.
Sources
- NEPA Scene, interview with Alicia VanDuzer describing the bartender’s chair story and other reports, October 2014
- Andy Gavin’s, staff stories, basement locations and on-site investigations
- Lackawanna Historical Society Journal, volume 39 issue 4, printed page 5, neighborhood tradition about George
- OpenStreetMap, named pub at North Washington Avenue and New York Street
