image from King Edward's Saloon's Facebook page.

On their website, King Eddy’s Saloon boasts that the sublevel bar is “part of an enormous network of underground tunnels sprawling the greater part of downtown Los Angeles,” and that the bar also holds the longest standing liquor license in the city. The saloon is also claims to be the true origin of an often told ghost story.

According to legend, one repeat customer has been an inebriated woman who shows up just before closing, and asks a male patron for a ride home to the Belvedare Garden neighborhood in East Los Angeles. One man who took the bait alleged that he offered her his coat before getting into his car. As they passed Evergreen Cemetery she demanded he pull over, “where she mysteriously jumps out of the car and disappears into the dark grave yard,” Richard Carradine writes. “When the driver goes to look for her (and his jacket), he finds that she has completely vanished into thin air. As he leaves, he notices his jacket draped over a tombstone bearing the same name as the one she gave.”

131 E 5TH St @ Los Angeles St.

Source: The Ghost Hunters of Urban Los Angeles