Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - New York In New York Warning Any places listed in the Haunted Places requires permission to visit or investigate. Many of the places are patrolled by the authorities, trespassers will be prosecuted. Adirondack Mountains - Big Moose lake - This was featured on unsolved mysteries and is the topic of books, and a movie called a place in the sun. In the early 1900s Grace Brown was drowned by her fiance, Chester Gilette. She haunts a cabin. Reports say that they have tried to pull the string on a light and they feel a cold hand, see her drowning, or see apparitions at the lake.. Albany - Cherry Hill - an unidentified ghost has been seen on the lower floors and terrace. Albany - Education Building - In the basement there is an elevator that leads to the sub-basement. The sub-basement goes down another four floors and is nicknamed "the dungeon". It was said that when workers were laying the cement for the sub-basement a co-worker went mysteriously missing, his lunch and house keys were found but he wasn't. It was assumed that when laying the cement floor he must have fallen in and no one saw it happen. People who are new to the building are told about this ghost and the name given to him, "Jason." (for no real reason)To this day there have been many reports from people who travel down there for old documents and books. He will travel with you up the old steel elevators and you will get chills that will go all over your body. It feels like you have walked into a cold spot. And as soon as the chills start they will stop again. He will turn on the lights after they have been turned off (maybe to read so old books). He has also been known to help people look for books that they can't find. Books will mysteriously fall off of shelves and it will be the book that you were looking for. People say that they can feel him watching them work when they work down in "the dungeon". Many people have seen him out of the corner of their eye, but as soon as you turn your head to look at him he's gone again. He's also scared a few people enough to never want to go down there alone or again but he has never harmed anyone. He's become a part of everyday life with all of the people who work in the sub-basement. Albany - Sage College of Albany - Formerly - Junior College of Albany/Russell Sage - Fine Arts building on Albany Campus have numerous ghosts that still can be heard. Buildings were at one time a Children's Sanitarium (Parson's home for children) is located next door. - September 2004 update: a new Fine Arts building has been built and the old Fine Arts building is now the Graphic Design building. the ghosts that reside there are from an orphanage and died in a fire in the bacement set by the owner/caretaker that also haunts the premisis. Albany - The Capitol building - said to be haunted by a custodian who was killed in a fire many years ago. Albany - The College of Saint Rose - There are 4 houses reported here to be haunted. 3 of them have been identified to some extent. One is a 7 year old little girl killed in a fire, another is a priest, another is a musician who committed suicide in Chicago and another is a gardener. The Dean of Students has all the details and gives a presentation on it every year. Many students have witnessed many things. Albany - University at Albany - Mohican Hall - Located on Indian Quad. A young ghost is said to wander the halls late at night and has startled many residents of the dorm. The first known sightings occurred in 1994. Albany - University At Albany - Pierce Hall - located on Alumni Quad is said to be haunted by the spirit of a woman. Nobody knows who she is or why she walks the halls late at night. Many students have claimed to seen this ghostly specter all year round endlessly walking the halls. Albany - Wolf Road - Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary - Middle age gentlemen seen in walking past mirrors but when you turn there is no one there. Workers hear noises at night and sometimes lights come off and on. Spirit does not like to be around when there are many people but late during the night you get a strange feeling of heaviness and even hairs sticking up on your arms. A spirit of a dog can also be sometimes heard and seen. Building has gone many extensive renovations. It was once an old house, and then renovated to a hair stylist, it also has been reported by several people to have been at one time a secret illegal meth production house that was shut down. Spirit has been felt standing behind people and in some cases breathing down their necks behind them or being lightly touched or pushed. The activity stems from the basement. Some workers refuse to go down there by themselves. Albany County - Selkirk - GE Plastics - The site of GE in Selkirk used to be the Becker farm. It is over 300 acres. The original farm house is still intact and was occupied on and off with offices until March of 2004. There had been many stories from employees on what they had seen or heard. The story goes that Mr. Becker caught his wife having sex with one of the slaves. He took the slave and pushed him down a very narrow out of the way set of slave stairs and he died, he then took a knife and killed his wife by cutting her head off or attempting to anyway. He was so grief stricken about his wife having an affair and the fact that he killed her, he went to the basement and hung himself. When in the basement sometimes the lights will all blow out or other things will turn on and off. And when on the second floor where he supposedly killed his wife there is a strange smell, kind of like perfume. And when going up or down the slave stairs you get a strange sense of being watched or followed. There are also motion detectors and intrusion alarms. some guards say there that sometimes they will go off, when the building is completely empty. And they will go off in a strange order, sometimes near the basement and then almost immediately near the stairs. Sometimes it appears as if someone is walking through. They will check the system to see who accessed the Becker House and see that no one has. Alden - Erie County Home and Infirmary - The third floor is said to be haunted. Workers there have heard noises upstairs even though it is now vacant on that floor. From outside you can see a man standing in the window sometimes. Lights have been seen on even though there is no electricity running on that floor. Alexandria Bay - Boldt Castle - Castle built in early 1900's,which was never completed due to the death of the builder's wife. Heartbroken, he left it, never to return. On many nights, a light can be seen in the uppermost windows of the castle, said to be the ghost of Mrs. Boldt. Alfred - State University of New York - Alfred Mackenzie Complex - The Mackenzie Dormitory of Alfred State College. Rumor has it that the architect of the MacKenzie Complex committed suicide in the south part of the Complex. This is because the school made changes the Complex so it wouldn't look like an reverse "swastika." Allegany - St. Boneventure - Fancis Hall - It's very old and many monks used to live there. Workers and students have reported weird noises and feelings of spirits. No one likes to go in there at night. Allegany - Wing Hollow/Ski Wing Resort - This place was a nice ski resort which opened in the late 1950s. In the 60s/70s, several people were crushed/dismembered in a lift accident, a little boy drowned in the pond at the base, and a janitor in the chalet was shot in the head executioner-style by the two people who robbed the place for $17,000. They were never caught. Reported white figures in the road, people walking with ski-equipment, man following you in the chalet, little boy screaming, your car stalls at the base of the hill and you see white faces in the rear window. Allegany - Wing Hollow/Ski Wing Resort – Speak Easy - speak-easy down the road from the Ski resort, which Al Capone visited, people were killed there in the 30s. Very freaky swamp surrounding it, and faces can be seen in the windows. Amherst - Daemen College - Curtis Hall - It is said that two brothers had gotten into a fight, and had hung themselves at the same time on separate sides of their home in Curtis Hall. People have felt the presence of these two brothers, and say that the brothers have tried to play tricks on the people who visit and work in Curtis Hall. They will move chairs around, and tie knots in your shoelaces. Amsterdam - Captain Video - Often at night when the store is closed flashes of lights and small orbs seem to appear. An apparition of a young woman will be seen and disappear. Amsterdam - Widow Susan Cemetery - To start off, the story goes that at the top of the hill before the cemetery you are supposed to turn off your car head lights and as your coasting down the hill, you chant Widow Susan three times then turn on your lights and turn into the cemetery. Reports of cars not starting, something trying to open car doors from the outside. Words being written cars have also been reported. Angola - Holland Rd - Pigmans Rd - Location of both a tragic train accident and heinous murders of a killer known as pigman. Many stories throughout the years of supernatural activity. Annandale-on-Hudson - Bard College - Blithewood Mansion - Students and faculty have long reported noises and poltergeist activity at the mansion. Sightings of a ghostly young girl between the ages of 8-12 have also been mentioned in the house and the surrounding gardens. The spirit is believed to be the daughter of Captain Andrew C. Zabriskie, the former owner and builder of the house. One winter their daughter either fell or jumped to her death out the window of their New York apartment and it is said she remains at the summer house because she disliked Manhattan while alive. An eerie postscript: before her death, Capt. Zabriskie commissioned a sculptor to create 4 statues of her for each 3 years of her life up to the age of 12 in the gardens; but to this day only three statues are present, along with an empty pedestal for the fourth one. Astoria - Queens - American Museum of the Moving Image - Foot steps following you at night in the office area. A deep voice herd for a man in the hallway. People heard talking from the vents when no one else was in the building. A black women, in a white dress seen sitting at the desk in the entrance lobby. Aurora - The Aurora Inn - There is a ghost named the white lady that i have experienced and heard of haunting the hotel and lobby of the Aurora Inn off route 90. Waiters and waitresses will even tell you that down on the shorefront of Cayuga Lake, there was once and old building that burned down and three people died. Two male ghosts haunt the shore and the white lady haunts the hotel, which is now being renovated into a restaurant and museum. Aurora - Wells College - The Main Building - Wells College actually has a number of ghost stories. One of the most prevalent however, is that of the ghostly nurses. Many years ago, when a brutal influenza epidemic swept the nation, many students fell ill. The college then turned the fourth floor of the main building into an infirmary. Students who live there today will occasionally wake in the middle of the night to find a ghostly nurse standing over their beds. Some witnesses even claim that the ghost will go as far as to place a cold hand upon the student's forehead. Averill Park - Averill Park High School Woods - Has been removed out of respect for the family and the unsafe conditions of the area. Baldwinsville - Jacksonville Cemetary - Eerie things seen in the back of the cemetary, a stream in the back of the woods seems to pull you towards it. Often eerie sounds heard at night, and a black cat with glowing green eyes seems to watch anyone who walks in. As you near the back, more creepy feelings seem to come upon you. Often a teenage girl is seen wandering seemingly aimlessly throughout the nights, watching, sometimes following people. In the back woods, gunshots are often heard, and screams following. Baldwinsville - Whiskey Hollow - It is a 5 mile road with no street lights or houses. It is all forest. It is said that back in the old days devil worshipers and members of the KKK used to worship up there and kill children as sacrifices...it is said that if you drive down the road at night you can see the children walking and there is also a bloody blanket. it is a very eerie feeling.- June 2005 Update/ Correction: The story of the KKK and satanic rituals is most likely false. Rumors are told that at some point in the past it was told that a man had been wrongly convicted of committing murder. Either as punishment or in holding before his punishment he was placed in a small shack at the end of Whiskey Hollow Road. Due to some mysterious circumstances the man died in that shack before his execution or during his incarceration there. Stricken with the grief of not only his wrongful conviction but also his untimely death his wife hung herself on a tree down Whiskey Hollow Road upon hearing the news of his death. Many claimed the tree still stands there. Ballston Lake - Hunters Woods - Documentation of apparitions, Sounds of children laughing, gunshots heard in the late hours of the night on several occasions, in the 1500's it is rumored that the murders of over 60 people took place in what would become hunters woods during a take over of the nearby town Atla. Bannerman Island - Ruins of a replica of Scottish castle - built by a wealthy Arms dealer that was destroyed in a fire caused by a lightning strike. You can hear bells, horses and strange lights. - August 2005 Additional Information: the castle was a strong hold storing munitions, gun powder & other explosives. Reports are that it is not safe to go ashore due to the fact there may still be explosives there. Barnes Corners - Tug Hill - On Rt. 177 a woman has been seen walking along the road, only to disappear in the rearview mirror. Other times she has been seen headless along the side of the road. The story goes that her and her baby were in a car accident, where she was killed. Somebody stopped to help and the baby was saved. She walks up and down the road searching for her missing baby. Barkersville - The Homestead Asylum - It was a hospital for patients with TB. The place is rumored to still be inhabited by the spirits of the dead. Basom - Indian Falls - Back in the late 1900's (no specific date sorry) a women and her husband were traveling along the edge of the falls. And the husband fell in. It's claimed that she didn't want to live without him. She jumped in too. People have claimed that still today they can see that women and sometimes they see Red light or orbs floating around the spots she died. - Feuary 2005 Update: many people have drowned there but two in particular stand out. In the late 1950's two brothers were swimming at the bottom of the falls when one went out too far and started to sink. The other brother then jumped in to save him but unfortunately both drowned and are seen quite regularly by the staff of the Log cabin. Batavia - Tonawanda Creekside North - On the north side of the Tonawanda, in the City of Batavia, lies the old Pioneer Cemetery. It was moved more than seventy years ago to the center of Batavia because of a flooding problem. When the creek flooded, it would sometimes wash up a body or two. It is believed that not all of the bodies were relocated. There now stands a number of businesses where the original cemetery once was. People claim to this day of seeing a mysterious woman in gray walking along the creekside. Bellport - Kreamer Elementary School - There were numerous sightings of a young boy in the second grade hallway by several witnesses. Doors being pushed open, tripping people and his shadow has been seen. Bemus Point - Casino - The Casino is a teen dance place. The Ghost that haunts it is known as Jordan Basile, a young chef there who died when the oven blew up. He was around the age of 15. Now when they hold dances, food mysteriously disappears and people often trip and fall when nothing was in their path. Jordan Basile is seen at the new oven on August 16th (the date of his death) every 2 years making what appears to be lobster, which was his specialty. Bethany - Old Genesee County Home and Infirmary - The old county poor farm and insane asylum has had over 1,000 deaths documented on the property. Owners and others have seen hundreds of ghosts roaming the halls. Doors slam, voices call out, items misplaced etc. Many psychics and paranormal investigators have documented such happenings. Many photos taken show orbs, ectoplasm, and actual ghostly apparitions. Property was in operation from 1827-1974 as county home, and stood empty until 1992,when opened as antique and craft mall. 3rd floor of west wing, that housed the nurses, is very very haunted. Paranormal investigations are currently being held there. Museum opening on site will offer much history. Genesee County history dept has compiled a book of all documented deaths at site, and is available for viewing. Binghamton - The Roberson Museum and Science Center - It is haunted by the ghost of Alonzo Roberson who built the Roberson Mansion which is part of the museum complex. It is said that he haunts the elevator and halls of his home. Bluffs Point - Gerretts Memorial - orbs of light, green glows, feeling of being grabbed...when checked upside down blood cross was revealed. Story has it that a young boy, priest, and a woman haunt this chapel. Also a child screams can be heard. Boonville - Lovers Lane road (Formerly the old French road) - has been known to be haunted by the ghosts of French settlers trying to reach Canada. On warm summer nights many people have reported hearing the creak of the wagon wheels. Broadalbin - Broadalbin hotel - Witnesses report that they feel someone sitting on the bed, playing with their feet. People have seen ghostly figures in really old military uniforms walking the hallways at night. Lights will go on and off by themselves. Brewster - Federal Hill Rd. - There are several, seemingly, unrelated stories about this road which starts as Federal Hill Road in Brewster, New York and ends as Joe's Hill Road in Danbury, Connecticut. The most pronounced story is that of the Jesus Tree (cut down in the early 1990's). This tree with the image of Jesus on the crucifix was said to "bleed" a red substance from its trunk when they cut it down. There are twelve trees evenly spaced and equal in stature directly following where the Jesus Tree stood. These are said to be the twelve apostles. When you travel farther down the road (eastbound), you come to a very curious looking estate. this ominous looking estate is actually Morefar Golf Club. This is believed to be a cover for something else. Word of links to the Satanic church have been bantered about. The main entrance has a sign reading "Back 'o Beyond". Interesting welcome for a country club. Immediately following Morefar, and across the street is Farrington Pond. There have been several stories about people driving off the road, into the pond, claiming to have seen "something". The undifinitive story of this pond is that a young lady, on her way to a High School Prom, went off the road and into the pond. She was said to have drowned. When the moonlight hits the water, people have been known to see an image in a prom dress on top of the water, dancing - alone. In 1988, a young man named Dean, was found in his car on the side of the pond (just off the road), dead from gun shot wounds to the back of his head. The two men who were responsible were captured within a week. It is unknown whether this has anything to do with the spirit of the pond, but, if nothing else, it adds to the eeriness of the road. Brewster - Jesus Tree - Tree was recently cut down because too many people were doing satanic rituals and gatherings in the fields … truncated (167,836 more characters in archive)