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Sam Worek, who lived upstairs and arrived in New York on June 27, 1905, is blamed for a ghost that supposedly half-pushed, half-carried a server down the basement stairs in the 1990s. People also claim to see a face at a second-floor window and feel a chill in Room #2. Source: McMenamins blog, 2018.
Facts below are drawn from the linked sources.
Real history
Polish immigrants opened the White Eagle in 1905. McMenamins' historians found no record of a brothel: the 1920 Census shows nine Polish men living upstairs. They confirm that police raided it on June 18, 1906, during a scare over an alleged anarchist plot. The basement vault door was added in the 1970s (McMenamins, 2019).
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Then and now
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Open to the public Operating saloon and hotel. Last checked: Oct 31, 2026.
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