"If you appreciate the "if you know, you know" appeal of some of the country's best hole-in-the-wall restaurants and bars, you're in good company. None other than the King of Rock 'n Roll himself sought out more clandestine establishments, and you can actually still toast the icon in one of his favorite Mississippi bars, The Julep Room. Elvis Presley was a Mississippi native, and spent a summer playing gigs on the state's Gulf Coast in 1956 when he was 21, on the verge of superstardom."
"Before becoming a restaurant and bar, the building that houses Aunt Jenny's and The Julep Room is believed to have been an asylum. Especially in the bar's basement setting, both staff and guests claim to have had ghostly encounters - there's even a particular ghost multiple people have seen over the years; some believe it's that of an asylum patient, while others wonder if it could be Elvis hanging around his once-beloved haunt, pun inten"
Elvis Presley spent a summer playing gigs on Mississippi's Gulf Coast in 1956, where he met and proposed to June Juanico. He and Juanico sought secretive date spots to avoid fans and frequented The Julep Room, a subterranean speakeasy beneath Aunt Jenny's Catfish Restaurant in Ocean Springs. Presley favored virgin mint juleps at that time because he was not drinking alcohol. His rapid rise to fame soon ended the relationship and his time in Ocean Springs. The building is believed to have once been an asylum, and staff and patrons report ghostly encounters, with some speculating sightings include Elvis himself.
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