Hello and happy Friday!

October is finally here so we're grabbing a couple cold Oktoberfests and marathoning horror movies all weekend.

In this week's issue:

Every October our family goes looking for a scare.

Knott's Scary Farm, Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, old graveyards, and horror movie locations, all on the list. We love seeing pictures from their trip, there’s something about the fear and joy and love in the photos that’s so unique to this season.

But when everyone gets home and swaps stories, there’s a stop that hardly ever makes the highlight reel: where they grabbed a beer.

We want to change that! Some of the most historic and spooky buildings in the country are pouring pints RIGHT NOW. So this week we're making the case that a pub belongs on your haunted itinerary. Here are a few stops we'd add.

First up is Savannah, GA, a place that often gets called the most haunted city in America. At Moon River Brewing Company staff and guests have been reporting things they can't explain ever since they opened in 1999. The most famous regular is a basement ghost named Toby, and both Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures have come looking for him.

Out in Portland, Old Town Pizza & Brewing sits in the original lobby of the 1880 Merchant Hotel, right on top of the city's Shanghai tunnels. The window where you order your pizza was once the hotel's front desk.

Staff say the place has a permanent guest named Nina, a woman in a black dress who watches the diners and wanders the basement. If you catch a faint smell of perfume, they'll tell you she just walked by.

Insiders note; if you visit ask for the booth in the back. Its brick wall was once the hotel's elevator shaft, and some believe the name carved into it is hers.

In Mansfield, Ohio, The Phoenix Brewing Company moved into a 1914 mortuary. The old embalming room in the basement now holds the brewhouse, the chapel upstairs is the taproom, and the casket elevator stores supplies.

The beers lean into it with coffin-shaped tap handles and names pulled from local legend, like the 7.2% Ferryman Oatmeal Milk Stout. When a local writer asked the brewery's marketing director if the building is haunted, she answered yes without a pause.

And finally, we'll end in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, at Straub Brewery, a family brewery with more than 150 years of history. Its taproom sits in the 1917 house where Tony Straub and his wife Regina, known to everyone as Aunt Reggie, used to live.

For decades, anyone who stopped by at 4 p.m. got a Straub or a martini and whatever food Reggie could put out. She kept hosting until she was 104.

These days, staff hear footsteps and furniture moving upstairs when no one else is in the house. Sometimes one of the taps at the brewery's Eternal Tap will even start pouring on its own.. The family likes to think it's the old Straubs offering a little hospitality.

That's the part of these stories we love most. Most of these buildings were hotels, saloons, and homes long before they poured craft beer, and they were already places where people gathered and looked after each other.

A good local pub keeps that going, haunted or not. So this October, when you're planning your scary farm nights and graveyard walks, we hope you save room for a pint somewhere with a little history, raise a glass to whoever might be watching over the bar, and tell us the story when you get home.