Dodgers' Mookie Betts staying at an Airbnb to avoid Milwaukee's 'haunted' Pfister Hotel

Built in 1893, The Pfister Hotel is one of downtown Milwaukee's most iconic historic buildings and gets a solid four-out-of-five-star rating on Yelp. However, among Major League Baseball players, the place gets mixed reviews.

The latest ballplayer to balk at the idea of staying at the notorious hotel (at least in baseball circles) is Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star Mookie Betts. Why? Because The Pfister has a reputation for being haunted.

With the Dodgers in Milwaukee for a three-game set against the Brewers, Betts opted to stay at an Airbnb, rather than risk losing valuable sleep worrying about the supernatural.

Betts told The Orange County Register that he is staying away "just in case" the stories about The Pfister ghosts are true, and added that he doesn't believe in ghosts but doesn't want to discover that he's wrong.

Betts said that he's stayed at The Pfister before but could not relax.

"I couldn't sleep," Betts told The Orange County Register. "Every noise, I'd be like, 'Is that something?'"

The Airbnb stay must have helped. Betts hit a lead-off home run, sparking the Dodgers' 6-2 win on Tuesday night.

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Betts isn't alone. There's a long list of current and former big leaguers who felt disturbances at one of Milwaukee's most high-profile hotels that often hosts visiting big-league clubs. In 2013, ESPN The Magazine relayed players' stories about The Pfister. Here are some of the more colorful accounts.

• Bryce Harper told ESPN that he had a strange experience with some clothes he had laid out in his room. "I laid a pair of jeans and a shirt on that table at the foot of the bed," Harper said. "When I woke up in the morning — I swear on everything — the clothes were on the floor and the table was on the opposite side of the room."

• Former Texas Rangers and Dodgers infielder Michael Young probably would have given The Pfister a one-star Yelp rating, saying "Oh, (expletive) that place. Listen, I'm not someone who spreads ghost stories, so if I'm telling you this, it happened. A couple of years ago, I was lying in bed after a night game, and I was out. My room was locked, but I heard these footsteps inside my room, stomping around."

• Outfielder Justin Upton - who played 16 MLB seasons - said, "From the minute I walk in there, I'm freaked out. The whole place, the creepy lights on the side, everything. I have to sleep with the blinds open and the lights on."

• The Kung Fu Panda himself, Pablo Sandoval, had a strange experience: "I don't like the ghosts there. In 2009 I went to take a shower, and I remember putting my iPod next to a speaker. When I came out, it was playing music, and I have no idea why."

• Lucky for Giancarlo Stanton, the New York Yankees rarely visit Milwaukee - the two teams meet in the Bronx in September, though. "Man, I hate when we have four games there. Two, three, anything’s better than four," Stanton said. "It’s freaky as (expletive), with the head-shot paintings on the walls and the old curtains everywhere. It reminds me of the Disneyland Haunted House. The less time I’m there, the better."