The Sci Fi Channel show “Ghost Hunters” went to Somerville last month to investigate reports of haints and haunts at the Sacco’s bowling alley, Boston.

There have been numerous reports of mysterious events and happenings taking place in the aging alley.

Since opening its doors in 1939, more seems to take place there than boowling and socialising.

Many of the employees have heard strange noises ranging from footprints to idle pins toppling. Some have seen unexplained shadows moving past, electrical equipment turning on and off by themselves, and a previous worker there felt something brush his neck, prompting him to quit o the spot.

Some take the bizarre happenings with a pinch of salt, but enough has gone on there to prompt an investigation by the Ghost Hunters

Comedian/historian Jimmy Del Ponte gave the Ghost Hunters several possible explanations. Maybe it was Minnesota Fats, angry because a Somerville man once beat the famed pool player at his own game at Sacco’s billiards room. Rumor said a habitué of an after-hours club next door was murdered, though not at the lanes.

It could even be his own sister, Del Ponte thought: She’d had run-ins with a Sacco’s employee before her death, in 1992.

Somerville city spokesman Tom Champion tried to focus the attention across the river: He’d expect “Sammy White’s Brighton Bowl would be the locus” of paranormal practices in Boston, he said. Four employees were murdered there in 1980; a Somerville cabbie was convicted.

The mystery may remain unsolved. In the end, the Ghost Hunters sat Damon Sacco down and told him: no ghosts.

Sacco professed to be relieved. “I’m happy to know that the place isn’t haunted,” he said. He did the show “just to help [set] everyone’s minds at ease.”

Still, “they did find a few things that were bizarre,” he said – specifically “extraordinarily high levels of electromagnetic energy” that can cause paranoia and creepy feelings.

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