An L.A. Dodger had a haunting experience the last time his team came to Milwaukee to play the Brewers. Third baseman Adrian Beltre told Sports Illustrated his ghost story, but he's not the first to have experienced the ghost of Charles Pfister. The stories have been out there for years.

The Pfister Hotel, built in 1893, is a piece of Milwaukee history. But when Dodgers third baseman Adrian Beltre stayed here, he didn't know the place was haunted.

First, he said that he heard knocking in the hallway and on his door. Then his TV kept turning off -- so did the air conditioning.

But when he heard pounding noises from behind his headboard -- that was it. Beltre needed a ghostbuster.

"You know, I'm happy that he had a memorable visit to the hotel," Pfister Chief Concierge Peter Mortensen said.

Mortensen has walked the hotel halls for 16 years. He's never seen the ghost of hotel founder, Charles Pfister (pictured right).

"Even if he was a Brewers' fan -- he would still find something a little more sophisticated and genteel to do than play frat house tricks," Mortensen said.

Maybe it's just a baseball thing. Does Milwaukee Brewer Mark Sweeney believe in ghosts?

"Actually I had a ghost come up and whale me in the lip the other day, I couldn't believe it."

Former Dodger Devon White has his own idea of why Beltre got scared.

"We tell them (visiting teams) at the Pfister there's real ghosts. It seems a lot of Latin players -- they believe in those things. They tend to not get any sleep," White said.

So was it all in his head?

Beltre says that he only got two hours of sleep in three nights. The Pfister Hotel said that if they had known about the haunting experience, they would have happily moved Beltre to another room.

Of course, if Charles Pfister is a Brewers fan trying to help out the home team, he failed. The Dodgers won two out of three games of that series.