The Spirits of Shaker’s Cigar Bar, Part Two | Guest Bob Weiss
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two of our conversation.
Shaker’s Cigar Bar in Milwaukee has built a reputation that goes well beyond food, drinks, and cigars—one shaped by a past that doesn’t seem to stay in the past.
The property itself has a long and complicated history. The land was once a cemetery before becoming a Prohibition-era speakeasy and brothel with ties to Al Capone. That alone raises questions—but it’s what continues to be reported inside that keeps those questions alive.
Disembodied voices. Footsteps with no one there. Objects that don’t stay where they’re left. Some encounters seem tied to specific figures—a young girl near the bathrooms, a woman upstairs—while others are harder to define, especially in the basement, where many describe a presence that feels distinctly out of place.
Renovations uncovered human remains, adding another layer to an already uneasy history. But for those who spend time inside Shaker’s, the activity isn’t something confined to stories or rumors—it’s something people say they’ve experienced firsthand.
So what is really going on inside Shaker’s Cigar Bar? Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation with Shakers Cigar Bar owner/founder, Bob Weiss.
For more information visit their website at: shakerscigarbar.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the spirits of Shakers Cigar Bar with owner and founder Bob Weiss. |
| 0:10.8 | Wow, that's such an interesting thing to happen to only women. You know, it just makes you wonder why. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, there's been a lot over the course of time. Carol, we had a, we had a cat here |
| 0:22.4 | who was a defrocked priest, Roman Catholic priest. We didn't know a story initially. So, oddly |
| 0:28.3 | enough, his name was Michael and very cherubic-looking cat. I didn't meet him the first time he came in, |
| 0:35.2 | but he had come in, and then he came in two days later, and then I was introduced to him by staff. |
| 0:41.0 | I spoke of them for a while. |
| 0:42.3 | Then he took a ghost tour here. |
| 0:44.0 | Again, they're all guided ghost tours on the four floors, three up and one down. |
| 0:47.4 | After the tour, we then realized that there were crosses, like oil crosses, all the pictures, we have a lot of pictures here, |
| 0:56.7 | and many of the mirrors that are here as well. |
| 0:59.4 | So what he was doing is he had, it wasn't obviously holy water, it was like a holy |
| 1:04.5 | oil, and he was taking his finger, dabbing into the bottle, and he's making crosses |
| 1:09.8 | on everything. |
| 1:11.1 | We've had a number of people like that, |
| 1:12.4 | or people that were Indian shamans, shamans, who were seers. |
| 1:17.9 | And they could say, and they did. |
| 1:19.4 | They would take our ghost and say that they could do this whiteout procedure. |
| 1:22.7 | They can see the different entities that are here, which ones are good, which ones aren't. |
| 1:27.1 | It's amazing the number |
| 1:28.5 | of people in four decades that have come through that have the entire backstory without having |
| 1:33.3 | been here and before the internet to tell them what's going on too. Now, I do have to ask because about |
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