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A c.1900 Globe saloon in the old International House, where two miners were killed upstairs in 1907 and a silent man in grey is still seen at the bar
636 N Broad St, Globe, AZ 85501
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Operating historic saloon and restaurant; no cover. Paranormal tours and events are ticketed separately when offered.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Street-level historic downtown saloon; upper floor reached by stairs
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1900 · Built by the immigrant Rabogliatti brothers as the International House, c.1900 · Upstairs operated as the International Rooms brothel · Site of two documented 1907 deaths in Room 18 · Long-running downtown Globe saloon
Globe grew quickly as a copper-mining town, and its Broad Street commercial strip filled with the businesses that served thousands of miners. Around the turn of the 20th century the Rabogliatti brothers — Italian immigrants Stephen, Dominic, and Alfred — built the International House, an adobe-brick building of roughly 6,000 square feet that packed several enterprises under one roof: the Club House Café, the International Saloon, and a store, with rented rooms above.
The upper floor operated as a brothel, the International Rooms, with a row of small cribs lining the hallways. As in many mining-town vice districts, the rooms saw their share of violence, and the building's Room 18 became the site of two deaths in the fall of 1907. One was a young miner named Joseph Ludwig, who was killed and whose body was later moved from the building; the other was Richard Veckland, a 25-year-old Finnish miner found dead in the same room, whose death a post-mortem attributed to poisoning. Both cases are part of the documented record local historians draw on.
The building has had many uses since, and today it operates as the Drift Inn Saloon, a downtown Globe bar that leans into its history. The saloon hosts paranormal-themed events and is a regular stop in accounts of haunted Globe.
Sources
The Drift Inn's reputation rests largely on a single recurring figure: an older man in grey, seen at the bar and in the kitchen area. Accounts describe him standing close behind customers, as if reading over a shoulder, never speaking; when someone turns or reaches toward him, he is gone. The same grey-clad spirit at the bar appears across independent retellings of haunted Globe.
Beyond the man in grey, staff and guests report poltergeist-style activity on the ground floor — barstools tipped over with no one near them, and billiards chalk seen flying across the room. The stories tend to be anchored to the building's history: the brothel that ran upstairs in the International Rooms, and the two deaths recorded in Room 18 in 1907.
The saloon embraces its haunted billing and has hosted paranormal investigations and themed events. The accounts remain anecdotal, passed along by staff, patrons, and local writers rather than verified, but the consistency of the man-in-grey sightings across separate sources is what keeps the Drift Inn on Globe's haunted itineraries.
Notable Entities
The Drift Inn operates as a downtown Globe saloon in the historic International House building. Patrons can visit the bar and take in the early-1900s setting where the reported sightings center; the upstairs rooms that once held the International Rooms are tied to the building's darker history.
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