7 Haunted Places in New York
Every case file on record in New York — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.
Hotel Chelsea — New York's Bohemian Ghost Hotel
A · New York City, New York, United States — The hotel where Dylan Thomas fell ill, Sid Vicious's Nancy died, and a century of artists left presences behind.…
112 Ocean Avenue — The Amityville Horror House
A · Amityville, New York, United States — The Dutch Colonial where Ronald DeFeo murdered his family in 1974 — and where the next family fled after 28 days, launching America's most famous haunted-house story and its most famous debunking.…
Hydesville Cottage — Where the Rappings Began
A · Hydesville, Newark, Wayne County, New York, United States — The bedroom of two young girls where, in March 1848, unexplained rapping noises launched modern Spiritualism — a movement that numbered its followers in millions and ended with one of history's most f…
Sleepy Hollow — The Headless Horseman's Home Ground
A · Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States — The village Washington Irving made immortal in 1820: the Old Dutch Church of 1685, its haunted churchyard, and the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where Irving himself lies buried — ground zero for America's m…
The Manhattan Well — Elma Sands' 1799 Murder
A · New York, New York, United States — A sealed well beneath a Spring Street shop where Elma Sands' body was found on New Year's Eve 1799 — the case that put Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr on the same defense table in America's first gr…
Merchant's House Museum
B · New York, NY, United States — Manhattan's intact 1832 family home, preserved with original belongings; Gertrude Tredwell, the last resident, is said to have never left.…
Port Henry — Champ, the Lake Champlain Monster
B · Port Henry, Essex County, New York, United States — America's lake monster, on the hundred-mile lake between New York and Vermont: a serpentine being in the file since Samuel de Champlain's own era, the town of Port Henry as its self-declared home, and…