My husband works at the Firehouse, and he said it's definitely haunted. Once, while walking through the larger banquet room (next to the old saloon bar), it was empty, and he saw a man in a dark suit sitting at a table. He thought it was the owner doing paperwork, so he said hello and kept walking. A second later, he realized that the owner didn't respond and thought twice about it, turned around to look and the man was gone. It was obviously not the owner. Another time, another employee there saw a women in a (I think) blue dress standing next to one of the paintings from the Hearst mansion in between lunch and dinner shifts in the main dining room. He went to grab a hostess to help the women, thinking she was a customer. When he turned to tell her someone would be right with her, she was gone. Many other times, employees and others have heard things, such as the bells from the old fire station, horses in the wine cellar (where the stables for the fire station were located), conversations that sound like political strategy sessions, bottles/glasses moving, and the ghost of a man in a railroad uniform (maybe there to visit the old saloon?). I've also heard people say there's something weird with the spiral staircase, which was relocated from an old boys reformatory.