A haunting Eclipse

DOWNTOWN TOLEDO - Halloween is the day when ghosts are said to roam freely between their realm and ours.

A loud night club is the last place you might expect ghosts to roam, but bouncers at Club Eclipse on Superior Street in Downtown Toledo believe specters spook them year around, especially on the bar's busiest nights.

The ghosts they claim roam the floors of Club Eclipse are so startling, the spirits tend to scare even the bravest of bouncers.

"I was up there taking out the door and there was a lady standing there watching me," said Tim McLaughlin, a Club Eclipse Chief of Security. "You could see through her, but you saw the image of a lady in her 20s but she was dressed in 30s style in a big long dress."

The phantom has been spotted on the third floor of the downtown niteclub. If you are outside, look up. You might spot her looking out the window, the Eclipse staff say.

"The third floor used to be a bank and the manager had an affair with his secretary," Brett Keller recalls. "She threatened to tell his wife and he strangled her on the third floor."

The image of the woman on the third floor is just one of the tales the Eclipse staff tell their guests. Almost all of them have had some sort of experience with a spirit.

"Most of us are scared to go in certain places of the building," McLaughlin said.

"We have a rule, we don't go down in the basement alone, because we have had a lot of crazy stuff happen," said Kevin Trolio, one of the club's bouncers.

The staff said they have seen an apparition of an old man, heard voices, and have even been pushed.

"I thought I was just being paranoid, then 2 seconds later I hear footsteps running and something cold bumped my shoulder and make me go forward," Keller added. "It felt like something ran into me. My whole arm was cold. I push it and flew up the stairs."

To calm their fears, the club called in members of PEARL - The Paranormal Exploration Research League .

"We go in to disprove a haunting so if there is a real world explanation to something, like if there is a banging on the wall from a water pipe, it's not something knocking on the wall," said Joseph Yarchak of PEARL. "We can hopefully tell the owners it's causing that and if we find something we can't explain, it's obviously paranormal."

While combing through Club Eclipse recently, PEARL said it has not found any evidence that the club is actually haunted. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's not.

PEARL said it could take several tours of a place to actually determine whether you do or do not really have a ghost.

(FOX Toledo's Heather Miller contributed to this report)