Owners of downtown shop say it's haunted
RICK KLIMANOWSKI , Register Citizen Staff 09/06/2004
TORRINGTON - While many people have explanations for strange
phenomena, Diane Persechino and Charlie Marczewski have yet to reach
any conclusion on unexplained occurrences at their Main Street coffee
shop. They have simply ruled it as haunted.
Since opening four and a half months ago, Marczewski has seen images
of a young man throughout the shop, Chiane's Gourmet Coffee House &
Café. Persechino said she'd never seen anything out of the ordinary
herself, but that all changed about a month ago.
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"I was downstairs and I could hear chairs moving upstairs," she said.
"Then I began to hear people talking, having a conversation."
Persechino thought the radio may have been on or there might have been
customers waiting, but she remembered that she locked the door because
she was the only one there and the shop wasn't open yet for the day.
The possibility of Marczewski being in the shop also crossed her mind.
However, Persechino received no response to repeated calls from the
bottom of the stairs. When she finally reached the top of the stairs
the noises had stopped, the radio wasn't on and the door was locked.
Just a few days ago, Persechino saw what she thought was a customer
standing at the front counter while she was in the kitchen, located in
the back of the 77 Main St. shop. After yelling to the person, "I'll
be right with you," she looked up in time to see the figure, a male
described to have dark hair, slim figure and in his late teens or
early 20s, walk behind a pillar in the store and disappear.
"The kid will be there and then he fades," she said. "I never believed
in ghosts until I saw him."
Even customers have mentioned seeing things at times, they said. One
customer thought someone was walking behind him and when he turned
around - nothing.
The two went as far as contacting the Torrington Historical Society to
learn any information and history about the building and their stop.
Historical Society Curator Gail Kruppa said she hasn't done any
extensive research so far, but she does have a brief history of the
building.
Built in 1902 by the Torrington Building Co., the building, which
included storefronts 73-83, was first owned by George Lilley before he
became the state's governor. Kruppa believes that the building's usage
hasn't changed drastically over the years. She believes, like now, the
building was used for apartments above and stores on the ground level.
"That's something that would be great to find something about," Kruppa
said of the ghost's history. "Of course there is no way I could find
out information, historical information, about any ghosts ..that's
something we don't have any record on."
Neither Persechino nor Marczewski believe the presence to be an evil
one. If anything, they said, it's there to protect them. Marczewski
once felt someone leaning over his shoulder as he was slicing meat in
the kitchen. When he turned around he saw the face of the man as it
was backing up and then just faded away.
Even a psychic, who happens to be a customer from time to time, has
told them of a presence in the building. She told the owners that she
felt many people in there, including a woman wearing 1950s-style
clothing.
Though the two have never seen anything else besides the young man,
they don't doubt that there may be more. "It's weird because you can
feel when he's around," Marczewski said of the young man.
Both are interested in finding out what Kruppa comes up with or anyone
else who may know any history of the building. The two joke about ever
coming across a photo with the young man in it.
"Although, I'd like to still believe I'm hallucinating," Marczewski
said.
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Mark 5:8-13 (NRSV)
8 For he had said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" 9
Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is
Legion; for we are many." 10 He begged him earnestly not to send them
out of the country. 11 Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine
was feeding; 12 and the unclean spirits begged him, "Send us into the
swine; let us enter them." 13 So he gave them permission. And the
unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd,
numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea,
and were drowned in the sea.
End of the pigs but not the end of the demons who went
elsewhere!
End
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