Snuffer’s SNUFFER’S

3526 Greenville Ave.

Snuffer’s is home to maybe the best cheese fries ever, and it’s also home to some of our neighborhood’s bestknown ghost stories.

JennySnyderoftheDallasArea ParanormalSocietysaysthebuilding is definitely haunted. And there are dozens of ghost stories to back that up.

Employeesfeelpeopletouching them, and when they turn around, no one is there.

Backwhensmokingwasallowed in restaurants, a bartender’s lit cigarette commonly was manipulated. He would pour a drink and turn around to find it had been turned around in the ashtray.

Nowadays,electronics cameras and phones, usually — tend to have glitches in the building but turn out to be fine elsewhere.

Temperaturesdropsuddenly. Pendulum lights sway for no reason. People hear footsteps, doors creaking openorchildren’svoiceswhenno one else is around. These happenings don’t harm anyone. They’re just startling, says Pat Snuffer, who opened the restaurant in 1978.

“Bottom line is, I won’t go in that building by myself,” Snuffer says. “A lot of people feel the same way.”

Snuffer has been interviewed about theparanormalactivitydozensof timesovertheyears,andseveral times, he has allowed ghost hunters to spend the night in the restaurant.

The building was a grocery store in the 1940s.

Supposedly, a manwasstabbed theredecadesagoanddiedinthe entrancetothemen’srestroom. Anotherstorysaystherestaurant was built on top of an Indian burial ground.

Yikes. If that’s the case, maybe all of Lower Greenville is haunted.