This vintage steakhouse is housed inside an 1893 railroad depot, and is furnished with antiques and train memorabilia to imitate the inside of a elegant train carriage. Diners at this location have reported smelling smoke emanating from no apparent source, while others have reported hearing the sound of a train whistle and a bell ringing.
(Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- 850 South Broadway
Walnut Creek, CA
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 37.8952349, -122.05560689999999
- County:
- Contra Costa County, California
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I have been hearing a ghost train for the 15 years we have lived on Rudgear Road. Today I heard the train sound and its horn. Twice I heard the wheels and the bell ringing. There was a train track on what is now Broadway Street in 1891. The station it stopped at is where Vic Stewart’s Restaurant is now. One time during the day I was driving home on Broadway, and I suddenly saw the train heading right toward me. It went through me just like that scene from the ghost busters movie when they were below the street in New York.
Submitted by Liz
Vic Stewart’s has closed, and the train car is being moved to the old train station in Martinez, CA.
I worked there in the 1980s as a bartender. I and others experienced many paranormal activities. The old station master’s bedroom above the bar had the most activity. Some nights when I was closing the bar the experiences were truly hair raising. Years later I visited the restaurant from out of state. When I walked in I asked the hostess and manager whether the restaurant was still haunted. The manager, wide eyed, pulled me aside and began telling me many of her paranormal experiences—in the old station master’s bedroom (which was her office). She told me stories of something coming up behind her, tickling her and blowing on her neck; lights flickering off and on; etc. My experiences consisted of hearing someone walking down the stairs from the station master’s bedroom to the bar and rattling the door (which was deadbolted shut); the building shaking when another bartender shouted that the ghost stories were bogus; a loud guttural noise swirling around the perimeter of the bar (and increasing in speed and volume) when I and some cocktail waitresses were having a drink after work and discussing the ghost stories. They were so terrified that they were in tears and thereafter refused to stay after work.