Caffe Vittoria
Vintage Italian cafe crowded with antique espresso machines and a below-ground cigar lounge with a haunted reputation.
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This guide to Caffe Vittoria in Boston's North End follows a 2013 paranormal investigation into cold spots and shifting shadows reported by staff in the cigar room downstairs, which led investigators to a tin box hidden behind the staircase wall and to old city records about the building's earlier life on Hanover Street. It traces what those records turned up about a nineteenth-century boarding house once run at this address. Listen from a seat near the antique espresso machines, which have lined these walls since 1929.
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