THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Julep's occupies a historic Richmond building where employees have reported paranormal activity after closing. Witnesses have described apparitions, unexplained footsteps, mysterious voices, and objects moving without explanation. The restaurant has become one of the city's lesser-known haunted dining locations.
Julep’s is a restaurant now, but in 1826 it was the weapon shop where Daniel Denoon, an apprentice gunsmith, was shot to death by shop owner James McNaught. Denoon’s ghost is said to have inhabited the restaurant ever since 2003, when the new owners began a remodeling project that turned the stairs Denoon fell down when he died into a storage closet. Thumps and noises have come from the closet ever since.