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Apparitions filed in New York

New York files 58 dossiers under this claim — a visible figure, full or fleeting, reported by a witness. It is the most common shape a report takes in the archive, and the New York shelf runs the same range as the national one: nameless shapes in hallways, figures identified across decades of separate sightings. The dossiers note who reported it and when; what was seen is left where the record leaves it.

58 dossiers9 counties covered97% open to visitorsOne If By Land, Two If By Sea — deepest file
Restaurant
Medium

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→
Hotel
Medium

The Ansonia

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Site
Medium

Grand Central

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Site
Medium

Sailors’ Snug Harbor

Staten Island, New York

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Church
Medium

St. Paul’s Chapel

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Cemetery
Medium

Trinity Churchyard

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Theater
Medium

Cherry Lane Theatre

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Museum
Medium

Tenement Museum

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Lighthouse
Medium

Execution Rocks Lighthouse

New Rochelle, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Castle
Medium

Boldt Castle

Alexandria Bay, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Morris-Jumel Mansion

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Merchant’s House Museum

New York, New York

The 1832 rowhouse preserved intact—the Tredwells’ ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

House of Death

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Washington Square Park

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

The Dakota

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Chelsea Hotel

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Algonquin Hotel

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Hart Island

Bronx, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Smallpox Hospital ruins

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Conference House

Staten Island, New York

The 1680 Billopp house—where the peace conference failed.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Kreischer Mansion

Staten Island, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Old Stone House

Brooklyn, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

Brooklyn, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Church
Medium

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→
Site
Medium

McSorley’s Old Ale House

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Chumley’s

New York, New York

The speakeasy that gave "86" to the language.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Landmark Tavern

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

One if by Land

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

The Players

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Triangle Shirtwaist site

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Doyers Street

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

The Jane Hotel

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Fort Museum
Medium

Old Stone Fort Museum

Schoharie, New York

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

2 claims→
Courthouse
Medium

Montgomery County Old Courthouse

Fonda, New York

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

2 claims→
Site
Medium

Love Canal

Niagara Falls, New York

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

2 claims→
Museum
Medium

Erie Canal Museum

Syracuse, New York

Museum research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Museum
Medium

Frederic Remington Art Museum

Ogdensburg, New York

Museum research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Farmhouse
Medium

Grapevine Farms

Cobleskill, New York

Farmhouse research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Mansion Museum
Medium

Paddock Mansion

Watertown, New York

Historic house of Edwin and Olive Paddock, now a local-history museum with apparition stories.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Bed And Breakfast
Medium

Beekman House

Middleburgh, New York

Greek Revival home with a legend linking doors, whistling and an apparition to Duryea Beekman.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Road
Medium

Widow Susan Road

Amsterdam, New York

Public road and historical marker preserving a widow-searching-for-a-grave legend.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Lighthouse
Medium

Montauk Point Lighthouse

Montauk, New York

New York’s first lighthouse—1797, the end of the world’s eastern point.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Lighthouse
Medium

Fire Island Lighthouse

Fire Island, New York

The 1858 tower rebuilt after the first one was too short for the wrecks to stop.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Lighthouse
Medium

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse

Cape Vincent, New York

Where the St. Lawrence meets Ontario—the hostel light with a keeper’s ghost.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Cemetery
Medium

Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn’s 1838 rural cemetery—the Revolutionary War hill and the artist dead.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Bar
Medium

Ear Inn

New York, New York

The 1817 Hudson-side bar in the James Brown house.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Restaurant
Medium

Fraunces Tavern

New York, New York

The 1762 tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Bar
Medium

Pete’s Tavern

New York, New York

The 1864 Gramercy bar where O. Henry wrote "The Gift of the Magi."

1 claim · 1 legend→

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