young Yorkcan be a pretty scary place – between cockroaches , rats , high rent , and subway woe , there ’s batch to be afraid of in this city . The one thing you probably have n’t view fearing ? Ghosts . Yes … on top of rodents the size of Caterpillar , we have to vex about the deadened . The metropolis ( and its surrounding towns ) are purportedly full of haunt construction – rag old bars and banks , villainous NYU hall , and spooky Staten Island asylums – many of which you may see for yourself this Halloween . Think of it this way of life – maybe the paranormal will make your everyday life finger kind of normal ?
The Sagamore
Lake GeorgeLocated on a private island on Lake George , the 135 - year - old Sagamore Resort offer fresh mountain gentle wind , breathless lake view , and plenty of purported hard drink . Stories of ghost sighting in the restaurants and golf form have circulate for years . During your stay , keep your eyes peeled for all sorts of ghoulish year - round residents – the most noted of which is ( allegedly ) a little male child who sold lost golf ball to the pro workshop and give way after being hit by a car . You might just encounter his heart accompanied with some fuzz - raising giggling .
1890s Brooklyn Trust Company’s Bedford Branch
Bed - StuyFinance is scary in and of itself . But tote up in some incomprehensible , probably ghost - related activeness , and your checking account ’s negative balance looks a band more manageable . This 2,500 - square - infantry , nineteenth - hundred bank , which now housesWintercheck Factory’sfurniture studio apartment , is rife with nervous stories . " We continue to find diminished notes in the building , strange and sometimes menacing little piece of paper with writing on them slue into moldings and in between floor board , " says Kristen Wentrcek , who run for her business out of the space .
George’s
AstoriaHollywood - stylus hauntings are rampant at this former Kaufman Astoria Studios commissary . make in 1920 , it dish up as a cafeteria for both movie stars and gang . Old - school actor like Rudolph Valentino , Mary Pickford , Gloria Swanson , and W.C. Fields all shoot here , and some may still be lurking . Visitors to what was antecedently called The Astor Room restaurant have reportedly spotted a woman with a vintage cigaret bearer in the noblewoman ’ bath , who disappears after a 2d glance . Another mystifying cleaning woman dressed in old - fashioned wearable arrive at spooky appearances on the staircase . Valentino , the silent - movie heartbreaker who filmed at the studios and died at just 31 years older in 1926 , allegedly still taste to sneak in some saloon time by haunting the space , as well as many Los Angeles venues . Sounds like a really nice bicoastal living for a touch .
NYU’s Brittany Hall
Greenwich VillageAs if starting college were n’t shuddery enough , NYU students placed in Brittany Hall have yet another worry to contribute to their list of stressors : hauntings . Washington Square Park , built on top of anestimated 20,000 bodies , and the surrounding area are surely skittish , and this dormitory room ups the ante . Students , building workers , and staff all have their own accounts of strange consequence in the building , like cryptic smash and go coming from the roof , flickering lights , feelings ofbeing follow , andpossible visitsfrom a small girl who died in a tragical lift stroke long ago .
Smalley’s Inn
CarmelIf you ’re looking for a satisfying meal served up alongside a spooky phantasma or two , header to Smalley ’s Inn in Carmel . The Putnam County turning point , which opened its doors in 1852 and later receive a nip and tuck abide by a withering fire , has witnessed its fair share of paranormal activity . Elizabeth Smalley , whose life ended as a toddler , has been sleep together to make appearances , peek out from behind a mainstay in the basement ( her gravestone was even reportedly uncovered under the basement step ) . invitee have felt their clothing tugged on , heard menacing footsteps , encounter peculiar presences , and on one dark , every cell phone went off at the same meter .
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
West VillageTaking a date out to a romanticistic meal may be the most terrifying matter you do all week , but that pales in comparison to the hauntings at this sexual steak and seafood bit . Housed in a former carriage house , this restaurant was once home to Vice President Aaron Burr ’s horses – you know , that guy who killed the sensation of the world ’s favorite pelvis - hops melodious sensation .
After Burr ’s daughter Theodosia was rumored to have been off at ocean by plagiariser , and the Hamilton slayer die by accident , the space served as a bagnio before it was finally repurposed as a $ 150 savour menu destination . But does the father - daughter duo stalk the spendy locale ? Staff is said to have been taunted by ghostwriter , and numerous guest have claimed to have theirearrings pulled offwhile in the spooky dining room . Also scarey : A side of cultivated carrot here costs $ 12 .
United States Military Academy
West PointWhile cadets come up and go as they please from the United States Military Academy in West Point , some residents have patently stick around around forever . In 1972 , cadet claimed they saw a ghost , clad in an old - school uniform , in Room 4714 ( which is no longer in use ) . Other supernatural beingness – namely , a female phantasma – also allegedly put up shop in Quarters 100 , accommodations of the former Superintendent Colonel Thayer .
White Horse Tavern
West VillageThis erstwhile - schooltime watering hole has a recollective chronicle of draw in creative person and author – Dylan Thomas , Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg , and Jim Morrison were all customers , and some may still haunt the bar today . Legend has it that once , after drinking too much and getting kicked out of the prevention , Kerouac saw the words “ Go Home Jack ” scribbled near the urinals . To this day , dissimilar edition of “ Go Home Jack ” or “ Jack Go menage ” are still institute write mysteriously on the rampart , perhaps by a peeing frequenter , but more likely , by a ghost with a Sharpie .
84 West Third Street
Greenwich VillageThis historic , 1906 Greenwich Village firehouse was purchased and converted into a individual residence in 2010 by no other than the atomic number 47 Charles James Fox himself , Anderson Cooper , who enlisted architect Cary Tamarkin to do a$4.3 million refurbishment . The lavish modus vivendi does n’t come without everyday ghosts , however . In 1930 , after let on that his wife was having an affair , Firefighter Schwartz hung himself from the rafters of that very fire station . Firefighters operate in the building for decades to come report hearing strange noises and even see the shape of a corpsehanging in mid - air . While Cooper is notoriously close about his personal barb , we ’d pretend that after a belated nighttime of CNN anchoring , he ’s had a few haunted discharge - ins .
Staten Island, in general
“ Some of the most haunted spots in the city happen to be , perhaps unsurprisingly , in our least populous borough : Staten Island , ” says Andrea Janes , possessor and laminitis ofBoroughs of the Dead : Macabre New York City Walking Tours . “ For some intellect , and I ca n’t quite figure out what it is , there ’s an staggeringly high absorption of eery and haunted spots out there . ” The Conference House and the former Willowbrook Asylum , which is now part of the College of Staten Island , are both notorious for their hauntings .
For lesser - known obsessed spots , just search the borough : Janes says hauntings come along at “ the oddest place ” like Richmond Road in Graniteville , wherea cobwebby gentleman in grayis say to drift in a wooded lot on the side of the route . Janes pointed out that this emplacement also happens to be the spot wherePolly Bodineallegedly murdered Emeline Van Pelt and her 18 - calendar month - old baby in 1843 ( coincidence or not ? ) . To add to the spooky factor , the location is also by the Moravian Cemetery , “ where the Vanderbilt Tomb is said to be haunt by the luminous form of an unknown woman , as well as the spectre of a man in a gray suit of clothes , who people swear is none other than old Cornelius Vanderbilt himself , ” sound out Janes . “ Gray , it seems , is the sartorial color of choice for the departed gentleman in Staten Island . ”
Gay Street
Greenwich VillageThis inadequate , curving street may be one of the most endearing in Greenwich Village , but it ’s also home to a fair amount of flighty sightings . Mayor Jimmy Walker housed his fancy woman , showgirl Betty Compton , at 12 Gay Street in the 1920s , at a site that was formerly home to a Prohibition - geological era speakeasy telephone Pirate ’s Den . While it ’s ill-defined whether Betty herself is haunting the edifice , that specific townhouse is said to be especially skittish , with a strange , restless energy reported near it , as well asmysterious footstepsat dark .
Creepier yet , puppeteer Frank Paris , who make the seriously terrifying Howdy Doody puppet , lived at 12 Gay Street and report singular paranormal natural process , include aninexplicable smell of onion plant fryingat odd hours when he was alone . 12 Gay Street was gutted and sell for over $ 4 million in 2007 . Even if you ’re debar the townhouse , all of Gay Street has been say to be haunt with the ghosts of flapper , as well asthe Gay Street fantasm , reported both as adapper man in coattails(perhaps the adulterous Mayor Walker ? ) and a slim adult female who appears with a lozenge nursing bottle in her hand and is allege to have once made an visual aspect all the way up on 42nd Street . Nowhere is safe .
Fire Island Lighthouse
Fire IslandWhile you ’re sure to get a decorous selfie at the Fire Island Lighthouse , you ’re also signing yourself up for likely encounters with sinister figures , eery haphazardness , and flap down doors . The lighthouse , which dates back to the 1800s and secured a spot on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 , stand at 167 feet above sea level and carry with it a haunted legacy . As the caption goes , one of the caretaker hung himself in the lighthouse and his spook continues to lurk around the grounds today .
Your next apartment, probably
Everywhere“The craziest floor are always the ones that customers tell me on my tours , ” Janes pronounce . “ These private , domesticated ghost story are often extremely intense , and quite emotional . ” One Upper West Side cleaning lady told Janes about waking up in the middle of the night to see her ex-husband - boyfriend sitting at the understructure of her seam . He ’d institutionalize self-annihilation in her room the calendar week before , shooting himself with her own gun . Nina Ruggiero , who dwell in StuyTown , order that when she was niggling she ’d wake up and see ghost every so often , but after living in StuyTown for three years , she had n’t experienced the paranormal – until lately . “ I woke up and saw this blond girl , it ’s never someone I know , she seemed to be around my eld though , in her 20s . She was fag out a smutty skirt and black top and was just hovering in my bedchamber by my room access , looking down at the level . ” Ruggiero notes the ghost was “ an extra - obstinate one and would n’t disappear , so I slept with all the twinkle on . ”
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The Sagamore
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The Astor Room
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One if by Land, Two if by Sea
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Richmond Road, Staten Island|Flickr/Wally Gobetz
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