Merchant House Museum, New York

Seeing as it's the only preserved and intact family home from the 19th century in all of New York City, it makes sense that this house has also been the source and subject of many ghost stories. The Tredwell family lived here for over 100 years, and the last family occupant was Gertrude, the youngest daughter, who died in the home in 1933. Staff, visitors, and even passerby say they experience weird, disembodied things here.

Don't buy it? Take a candlelit ghost tour of the museum to decide for yourself. And even if you don't catch an apparition out the corner of your eye or hear children playing and floorboards in empty rooms, you'll at least get the sense that you're intruding on someone else's space, in a completely different time, since it's virtually the same as was when Gertrude died.

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Rolling Hills Asylum - E. Bethany, New York

Located between Buffalo and Rochester, Rolling Hills Asylum's enormous 53,000+ sq. ft. brick building sits on a knoll in the hamlet of E. Bethany, N.Y. and has been a popular destination for ghost hunters for many years. Opened on January 1, 1827 and originally named The Genesee County Poor Farm, it was created by Genesee County to house those eligible for assistance including paupers, habitual drunkards, lunatics, the blind, lame or otherwise handicapped, orphans, widows, vagrants, and even a murderer or two. In the 1950s it became the Old County Home & Infirmary, and then in the 1990s was transformed into a set of shops and later an antiques mall. When the property owners, vendors and shoppers began to notice strange occurrences, a paranormal group was called into investigate and Rolling Hills' spooky reputation was born. Reports include disembodied voices, doors mysteriously held shut, screams in the night, shadow people and more. Rolling Hills Case Manager, Suzie Yencer relates one chilling experience: "It was September 2007. While working a public hunt, we had a gentleman with us that was filming a documentary about the building. He wanted to try an experiment in one of the rooms. The room he chose was in the basement, popularly known as The Christmas Room. The experiment he wanted to try was to sit in the room with no lights or equipment on. The only light we would use was a pink glow stick in the middle of a circle of people. We also placed a small ball and a toddler size rocking horse in the circle. The gentleman conducting the experiment requested that only I talk and try to make contact with the spirits. The more I talked, the more strange occurrences began to happen. The glow stick started to move back and forth, and the rocking horse began to slowly rock. A few of the guests in the room including myself saw a hand and arm come out of nowhere and reach for the ball in the circle and then just vanish...."

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Old Genesee County Home and Infirmary - Bethany,New York

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.

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Delaware Rd - Clarence,New York

In the early morning hours of spring and fall driving down this old carriage road you can feel a presence of old world culture.If on the right night one can make out a man standing roadside holding a lantern,and two feet on the right or left you can see a young girl waiting with the man for something.

Warning: Rumors of a kid beaten pretty badly, please do not stop, it may not be safe.

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Cemetery - East Otto,New York

At night if you go there you will see two headless women running away from
this man with an axe, they scream as this man is chasing them, and your
car will shake, and your horn will beep all by itself, it is very
scary, just get out of there as soon as you can!!

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Cramer RD, Blue Lady House - Little Falls,New York

Old
farm house built in late 1800's is haunted by a women wearing a blue
dress. Activity have been seen and photographed throughout the house,
especially in upstairs bedrooms. Woman was believed to have hanged
herself in the second bedroom to the right going up the stairs. Reports
of activity dating back to 1949.warning!:Farm house is
partially torn down and condemned. Be careful!

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Central Islip / Central Islip Psychiatric Center - Long Island

This place is very creepy and the main building is not only haunted but you
can feel a taint of evil from the main building when walking the
grounds near the main building that will put the hairs up on the back
of your neck.

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Centereach High School Track - Long Island,New York

Back in 1997, there was an off-duty FDNY firefighter running track on a highschool track near his house. There were some kids who had a gun and they wanted to see what it felt like to shoot someone, so they waited in the woods until the fireman came around the northeast corner of the track, then they shot him. Both boys were arrested and convicted for killing the firefighter. Not long after, people reported seeing a glowing figure running along the track. Others have seen the body of a man laying on the track then dissappearing, all in the same spot he was

shot, the northeast corner of lane 5. Most people won't go over to the northeast bleachers because they have the feeling of being watched. When visiting football teams come to visit, they and their fans refuse to sit in the visitors bleachers, as those lie on the northeastern part of the field. That part has now become mostly abandoned.

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Niagara gorge / Devils hole - Niagara Falls,New York

Down by devils hole, just underneath the famous hauntings of Clet Castle,
Niagara University, there are mysterious apparitions, foreign language
cants, and sometimes the feeling that someone is watching you or simply
just brushed you gently as they passed you by. The light never really
does seem to shine fully on this long decent of stairs. and many locals
will not go down there at night, not because of crime, because people
here are very trusting. It is just a given knowledge. you don't want to
go there. A few summers ago a couple of fishermen found bones of a
young Indian warrior (perhaps), or from a young Indian boy thrown down
to the gorge, possibly for sacrifice.

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Mater Dei College - Ogdensburg,New York

It is said that the spirit of a young boy roams the halls giggling and
laughing on the way. He was killed after a tragic fall. People have
reported seeing a nun roam the halls along with strange noises and
lights going on and off in locked upped rooms. Urban legend of a nun
hanging herself is untrue. No one is sure where the little boy fits in.
- ”There is, however, something
definitely not right in the upper floor in the new dormitory wing.
There has been cold spots in one room, strange appearances and a
feeling of "evil" in one or two rooms. A couple of the sisters have
experienced this as well as the lay students and the dormitory wing was
blessed by a priest exorcist. According to the girls, problems all
began with students playing around with an ouija board. Problems seem
to persist to this day even those the college is closed and has been
sold to a new owner.” - Quote from a
Sister of St. Joseph whose congregation founded Mater Dei, built it and
had lived there off and on since it was built in 1960.

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Bay Side Cemetry - Ozone Park,New York

The Jewish cemetery is over a century old, and has hardly been taken care
of. Though many have passed it on the A train, at Boyd ave. It has ben
vandalized so often that the caretakers are forced to close it down at
4 PM. The graveyard is a group of 3 cemeteries. If you walk in it you
will come across many graves with pictures of who occupies the tomb. As
well as a few un-earth graves. One part is almost sectioned off, where
only infants and children remain, with there tombstones almost
completely sucked into the ground. The trees for some reason also grow
in twisted formations that even you imagination can't muster a image.
At night you feel like you are being watched. Reports of cries,
talking, laugher and an ominous fog loom over the site. As well as
faces and orbs appearing in pictures. And sites of gray images sitting
on the tomb stones. But who says its safe during the day? At all hours
you feel you are being watched. As well as many who have reported
stomach pains near the location. While you walk, you feel like
something is standing next to you or running past your eyes. And once
in a while you get an over whelming stench, that brings tears to your
eyes. Prey you don't go and vandalize the already damaged graves, who
knows how much more those poor souls can take.

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Raynham Hall - Oyster Bay,New York

The home was originally owned by the Townsend family. The house was used as
a base for the British during the Revolutionary War. John Andre was a
British Major during the war and visited often. One day Townsend's
daughter overheard Andre and John Simcoe (Commander of British Forces)
talking about a payment to Benedict Arnold to surrender his troops. The
Townsends relayed this information to George Washington. Benedict
Arnold escaped, but Andre was captured and hanged. His ghost was first
reported here in the 1930s when he was seen on horseback outside a
bedroom window. John Andre isn't the only ghost here. Sally Townsend,
allegedly John Simcoe's lover is said to still haunt the house. Her
former bedroom is always cold, even in the summer the curator wears a
warm wool vest in that room! Paranormal investigators have said that
whatever is in that room is not happy. In October of 1999 a volunteer
was working on the property when the garden door opened and a man came
out wearing a dark wool coat with brass buttons. First it was strange
to see someone wearing that clothing, second the building was locked,
and third the alarms were all on! In march another worker saw the same
ghost materialize by the staircase. Once with the bottom half of his
body missing, and then again full-figure. The ghost is believed to be
Michael Conlin, an Irish immigrant who worked as a servant in the
1860's. In the upstairs of the former servants quarters moving shadows
have been seen when no one else is in the house. In that same area the
smell of roses has mysteriously been sensed. The spirit of a servant
woman has materialized and walked into the kitchen. In that kitchen the
smell of apple pie has also been present when ghosts want to make
themselves known. The submitter was extremely privileged when they
smelled the strong scent of cinnamon-apple on their way down the stairs
near the kitchen. When they got down to the bottom of the stairs they
could smell the strong scent of something like cinnamon rolls or apple
pie! Another area that is said to produce some interesting smells is
the front foyer. The smell of a non-existent stove has been sensed
there as well as the faint smell of a smoking pipe. At one time this
was the kitchen area. The former museum director Andrew Batten says he
has sensed at least 5 different entities and something in Sally
Townsend's room.

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Happy Valley - Parish,New York

In the late 1800s there was a city its name was happy valley its is said.

it was a fairly big city. Until the black plague came and seemingly wiped out this city. Now very desolate there are roads thru out 5000

acres of land were "no won lives" there are many sightings of paranormal activity. If you where to get lost on one of its many roads

you would be seemly lost for days. Back in 1976 there were some friends driving thru and they stumbled upon a skull one of them put in the rear of there car while they were driving the eyes of the skull lit up bright red. They were spooked and never returned since. To this day no won will go alone on any giving night.

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Rt.311- Patterson,New York

After a hotel burned down in the late 1800's, a family bought it a couple of
years later and built a house on top of the old foundation. Now people
say at night you can see the top half of the people that died in the
fire because they are walking on the floor of the building that burned
down.

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J.N. Adam - Perrysburg,New York

Two ponds are behind the abandoned castle like building J. N. Adam mental
institution and former TB ward. Voices and a lingering presence is felt
at the gazebo and concrete wall that the water runs off of. also nearby
path in the woods that was once a railroad exhibits the same dark
unexplained presence.

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Church Street Apts. - Port Byron,New York

Beware, this is the place with the most hauntings. This place was built on an ancient Indian burial ground. In almost every apartment there is at
least 2 hauntings. If you fall asleep for just at least 10 minutes, you
will see Indians roaming around the apartment and they will be gone in
at least the blink of an eye.

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Star Hill - Rome,New York

Legend has it that an old man used to live in a small house by a graveyard and that he had a rocking chair he would sit in. Later, the old man would die and his rocking chair would be left alone and guarded by his spirit. It is said that sometimes if you look, and see his rocking chair there, everything is okay, but if it not there, then the spirit is very mad and that you better leave.

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Lodi / Mill Creek - Seneca,New York

There was said to be a woman that mysteriously was drowned in this creek. It was called a suicide, but the water was only 4 feet deep at the deepest
spot where this woman was found. There is also a graveyard that runs
along side the edge of the gorge of this creek. There have been stories
of a woman ,dressed in black garments of the 1800s alongside the
creek,opposite the graveyard, looking right at a person, with a sad
expression on her face, and then pointing across the gorge (towards the
cemetary) and then disapearing. She has been seen in various areas of
this property. In addition, General Sullivan was said to have marched
through this area, burning down Native Americans crops along the way,
and was said to have buried his cannowith all the soldiers pay
somewhere, alongside the creek. Occasionally an erie feeling will come
over people when they walk through that area.

This land is privately owned, but with
permission from the owners,people would likely be able to investigate.

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Richmond Town - Staten Island,New York

Richmond Town is located off of Amboy Road in Staten Island New York with a
number of historical houses to visit. The houses range from 100-300
years old. All of the houses are known to have spirits in them. If you
go there late at night, there is a specific house located on one of the
side streets, which is white in color with a green cellar door on the
side of the house. If you look up at the left hand window, you will
without a doubt see the apparition of a little boy in the window. Two
little boys were known to have died in the upper level of the house.
You can go on a tour of Richmond Town during the day with the tour
guides,(but it's more fun to explore at night). The up stairs in the
children's house smells like a hospital, and the kitchen of the
children's house still smells like the burning of the stove after a
meal. If you go near the kitchen window at night, it smells like
something was just cooked on the wood-burning stove. The schoolhouse in
historical Richmond town is also haunted. There is also a small
graveyard next to the old courthouse in Richmond Town, which has many
restless spirits in it. One spirit is that of a young girl with a
broken heart, who has been known to wander around at night looking for
her lost love. When boys walk passed the graveyard or through Richmond
Town, she sometimes mistakes them for being her long lost love.

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Lindenhurst / Mary O'Leary's grave - Suffolk County

Behind Queen of the Rosary Academy, there is a cemetery that priests and nuns were buried in.  A young novice had fallen in love with one of the
grounds keepers.  She snuck out of the convent one night to meet
her lover. They were going to run away and get married. Before her
lover got there she was raped and murdered.  Because of the
horrible way that she was murdered she could not be buried in the
cemetery so they buried her where they found her body.  on the
night of a full moon if you pulled up by her grave stone you could see
her standing on the road side. They have since opened the road and her
gravestone can no longer be found. However, when you drive a certain
point of new highway, you can hear screams.

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