Jack's Gourmet Restaurant and Bar, a former eatery in Columbia, Missouri, was rumored to be haunted, with stories tied to its history as a dance hall and its location in an old, historical building. The restaurant opened in 1928 as a rowdy dance hall and later operated in an old building at 708 East Broadway in downtown Columbia. It is common for ghost stories to emerge around older structures, with unexplained phenomena often attributed to the past lives of a building. A "phantom": An article from Vox Magazine in 2014 noted that the ghost of "a cigar-smoking man, perhaps one of the dance hall's original owners, has made appearances over the years". The Vox article mentioned that the building's age and history "have also inspired a few spirits—paranormal, that is—to hang around". Typical of haunted lore, Jack's was the subject of various stories involving ghostly encounters and unexplainable occurrences. However, specific eyewitness accounts of hauntings are not widely publicized and are largely part of local folklore.