The ghost hunt at Mad Dawg's & Mel's Restaurant, conducted the evening of Nov. 1, 2004 is detailed in a final report posted on the Missouri Ghost Hunters Society's website. Investigators, Brian and Linda Lile, were in Arizona for a psychic convention when they heard stories of ghost sightings and occurrences at the Main Street eatery located in the historic Journigan House at 202 W. Main St. Co-owners Melanie McCarthy and Madeline Manchio agreed to let them bring in their equipment after the restaurant closed.The encounters included "hot chocolate" and "cranberry juice" mysteriously printing on sales tickets when they hadn't been ordered; bottles of A-1 steak sauce flying through the air in the kitchen; lights and equipment being turned on in the middle of the night; and a steel fire door creaking open and shut by itself.Brian Lile, a retired federal law enforcement officer and president of the Missouri Ghost Hunters Society, used dowsing rods as part of his investigation at Mad Dawg's and Mel's Restaurant. His wife, Linda Lile, who founded the society, grew up in a haunted house.