Old City Hall
Built in monumental Richardsonian Romanesque stone to a design by Alfred S. Eichberg, Brunswick's Old City Hall opened in 1890 as the coastal city's seat of government and courts. That spring, on April 12, 1890, Officer Robert L. Massey laid a hand on a man who refused to pay a two-dollar fine; the man drew a pistol and shot him in the side, then the back, and Massey died the next day.
Ever since, staff and visitors report seeing him regularly, from fleeting glances to full-bodied encounters, alongside disembodied footsteps and doors that open on their own. Locals say the activity intensified after the 2000 restoration, and Syfy's Ghost Hunters claimed an hour-long flashlight "conversation" with an unseen presence in the old courtroom, now an event space the fallen officer never seems to have left.
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