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Northeast — Named Ghost Legend filings

Named ghost legends filed in New York

New York files 48 hauntings with a name attached — a claimed identity, often a former owner, a patient, a soldier, kept alongside what the record can actually confirm about that person. Many named ghosts turn out to be real people; whether they stayed is the part nobody can file.

48 dossiers1 county covered98% open to visitorsShanley Hotel — deepest file
Hotel
High confidence

Shanley Hotel

Napanoch, New York

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

4 claims · 1 legend→
Road
Medium

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→
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→
Former Institution
Medium

Rolling Hills Asylum

East Bethany, New York

Genesee County poorhouse turned paranormal-investigation venue.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Former Train Station
Medium

Buffalo Central Terminal

Buffalo, New York

Art Deco rail terminal abandoned since 1979, wrapped in station-ghost lore.

2 claims · 1 legend→
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→
Theater
Medium

New Amsterdam Theatre

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Theater
Medium

Belasco Theatre

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Prison
Medium

Sing Sing

Ossining, New York

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

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→
Ship
Medium

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→
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→
Site
Medium

SS Central America

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Theater
Low

Palace Theatre

New York, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Theater
Low

Landmark Theatre

Syracuse, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Theater
Low

Shea’s Performing Arts Center

Buffalo, New York

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Ruins
Medium

Bannerman’s Island Arsenal

Pollepel Island, New York

Island castle built to store military surplus—exploded, burned, now touring ruins.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Bar
Medium

White Horse Tavern

New York, New York

The 1880 West Village bar where Dylan Thomas drank his last.

1 claim · 1 legend→
University
Medium

Wells College

Aurora, New York

The Cayuga Lake campus with the 1888 fire’s ghost.

1 claim · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Sunnyside

Tarrytown, New York

Washington Irving’s home—the man who gave us Sleepy Hollow.

1 claim · 1 legend→

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