Seventy years later, Mary inherited the building from her father after he passed away. She wanted to reopen Ed's Place in her Grandfather's memory, and had the building renovated. She didn't know the details of how the people had died in the building. Her family never told her.
Mary didn't know much about the bar, or her Grandfather, until she met an old farmer who told her the bar was haunted. Mary was shaken by the information as she and her husband just moved into the apartment above the bar. She was about to have the Grand Reopening of Ed's Place when she had a vivid dream, given to her by the ghost of her Grandfather, explaining what had happened 70 years earlier.
Until the reopening of the bar, the ghosts didn't know they were dead and they didn't know how many years had passed. All of them desperately wanted to get home to their families.
The baseball team and Ed haunted the bar. Some of the ghosts looked for ways to re-claim their former lives through inhabiting the bodies of unsuspecting customers of the bar.
They made a mess out of people’s lives, breaking up marriages and landing some in jail. The person they had inhabited would return home, confused, not knowing the mess that had been made of their lives. Then the ghosts would return to the bar and look for another person to inhabit, and meet with the other ghosts.
... “I can remember it like it was yesterday,” Mr. Tucker started to say as his chair stopped rocking. Mary felt as if she were there while she listened intently to his story.
“The building started out as a bar, in the early 1930s. Edward Deems, a farmer who dreamed of owning a place that could include his love of baseball and earn the prestige it entailed, first owned it. His vision included a place where people could meet to catch up on news and events during the day, and still be able to get dressed up in the evening.
"His love of baseball would be included in his plan, two years later, along with the fire that would end his life, and the lives of his 20-member baseball team,” Mr. Tucker stated as he leaned over to Mary, and then added; “Some people think they never left,” and then he sat back in his chair, and began rocking again.
“What do you mean, they never left?” Mary asked, as her curiosity level peaked.