When Terry Pardee bought the Chisel Building, he heard rumors that the place was haunted.

“There was supposed to be a spook running around in there somewhere,” he said.

But Pardee, who ran Porcupine Pete’s restaurant out of the building in the 80s and 90s, said it was only a rumor. “Just a story I’d heard once or twice,” he said.

The Chisel Building has certainly had enough history to acquire a few ghost stories.…