Northeast — open filings

Open to visit in New York

132 dossiers in New York carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

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Shanley Hotel

Napanoch, New York

Rebuilt nineteenth-century hotel hosting investigations, with multiple attributed guest reports.

4 claims · 1 legend→

Mount Misery & Sweet Hollow Road

Huntington, New York

Long Island’s most storied road—the girl on the bridge and the "Mount Misery" name.

2 claims · 2 legends→

One If By Land, Two If By Sea

New York, New York

The West Village restaurant in Aaron Burr’s 1767 carriage house.

2 claims · 2 legends→

The Ansonia

New York, New York

The 1904 Beaux-Arts palace—Stravinsky, Toscanini, and the ghosts.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Grand Central

New York, New York

The 1913 terminal—the dead are said to walk the tracks.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Sailors’ Snug Harbor

Staten Island, New York

The 1833 sailors’ home—the Staten Island cultural center.

2 claims · 2 legends→

St. Paul’s Chapel

New York, New York

The 1766 chapel that survived 9/11—and the churchyard’s dead.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Trinity Churchyard

New York, New York

Hamilton’s grave at the Wall Street end—the 1697 churchyard.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Cherry Lane Theatre

New York, New York

The 1924 off-Broadway house—where the playwrights still watch.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Tenement Museum

New York, New York

97 Orchard Street—the preserved tenement where the families’ lives are told.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Former Institution

Rolling Hills Asylum

East Bethany, New York

Genesee County poorhouse turned paranormal-investigation venue.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Execution Rocks Lighthouse

New Rochelle, New York

The reef named for chained executions—British lore and a keeper’s curse.

2 claims · 1 legend→

New Amsterdam Theatre

New York, New York

Broadway’s oldest operating theater—and Olive Thomas’s ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Belasco Theatre

New York, New York

David Belasco’s own theater—his ghost and the actor’s lift.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Sing Sing

Ossining, New York

"Up the river"—the Hudson prison where the Rosenbergs and 613 others died.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Boldt Castle

Alexandria Bay, New York

The Thousand Islands castle abandoned for 73 years—love and loss.

2 claims · 1 legend→

General Slocum disaster site

New York, New York

The 1904 fire that killed 1,021—the city’s deadliest day before 9/11.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Morris-Jumel Mansion

New York, New York

Manhattan’s oldest house—1765, and the Jumel ghosts.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Merchant’s House Museum

New York, New York

The 1832 rowhouse preserved intact—the Tredwells’ ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→

House of Death

New York, New York

14 West 10th—"22 ghosts," Mark Twain, and the murders.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Washington Square Park

New York, New York

The potter’s field under the arch—20,000 burials below.

2 claims · 1 legend→

The Dakota

New York, New York

The 1884 fortress—Lennon’s murder and the ghost he reported.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Chelsea Hotel

New York, New York

The artists’ hotel—where Sid killed Nancy and the ghosts never checked out.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Algonquin Hotel

New York, New York

The Round Table’s hotel—Dorothy Parker’s seat is reportedly still warm.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hart Island

Bronx, New York

The potter’s field—a million buried, no headstones.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Smallpox Hospital ruins

New York, New York

The 1856 Gothic ruin on Roosevelt Island—the "Renwick ruin."

2 claims · 1 legend→

Conference House

Staten Island, New York

The 1680 Billopp house—where the peace conference failed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Kreischer Mansion

Staten Island, New York

The 1885 brick baron’s mansion—where the mob hit happened.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Old Stone House

Brooklyn, New York

The Vechte house—where the Maryland 400 held the line.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

Brooklyn, New York

The 1908 column over the prison-ship dead—11,000 martyrs.

2 claims · 1 legend→

St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery

New York, New York

The 1799 church on Stuyvesant’s farm—where the peg-legged ghost walks.

2 claims · 1 legend→

McSorley’s Old Ale House

New York, New York

The 1854 ale house—"we were here before you were born."

2 claims · 1 legend→

Chumley’s

New York, New York

The speakeasy that gave "86" to the language.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Landmark Tavern

New York, New York

The 1868 dockside tavern—where the drowned captain is seen.

2 claims · 1 legend→

One if by Land

New York, New York

Aaron Burr’s carriage house—the most haunted restaurant in New York.

2 claims · 1 legend→

The Players

New York, New York

Booth’s Gramercy club—where the actor’s ghost reportedly stays.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Triangle Shirtwaist site

New York, New York

March 25, 1911—the fire that changed labor law.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Doyers Street

New York, New York

The "Bloody Angle"—where the tongs fought their wars.

2 claims · 1 legend→

The Jane Hotel

New York, New York

The 1908 sailors’ hotel—where the Titanic survivors stayed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

SS Central America

New York, New York

September 12, 1857—the gold ship that sank the economy.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Palace Theatre

New York, New York

The vaudeville palace—Judy Garland’s door and a hundred phantom acts.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Landmark Theatre

Syracuse, New York

Loew’s movie palace—Clarissa, the electrician who fell.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Shea’s Performing Arts Center

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo’s 1926 Tiffany palace—Michael Shea still runs the house.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Old Stone Fort Museum

Schoharie, New York

Former church and Revolutionary War fort preserving rural history and documented haunting stories.

Montgomery County Old Courthouse

Fonda, New York

Nineteenth-century courthouse and archives with staff stories of voices, footsteps and a woman in blue.

Courthouse Jail Museum

Lake George Historical Association Museum

Lake George, New York

Former county courthouse and jail interpreting local history and hosting ghost tours.

Love Canal

Niagara Falls, New York

The canal that poisoned a neighborhood—1978, Superfund born.

Empty Pockets Ranch

Cobleskill, New York

Farm offering paranormal investigations, with reports concerning its woods, house and barn.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026