{"id":559,"slug":"widow-susan-road-amsterdam-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Widow Susan is the misplaced — the 'Green Hill' that's the burial wrong, the 'family plot ruined' that's the reason given. The 'searching' is the paced — the 'white dress crying' that's the ghost's walk, the 'husband's grave' that's the never found. The 'say three times' is the summoned — the 'name called' that's the ritual tried, the 'apparition appears' that's the witnesses' claim.","The 'four cemeteries' is the lined — the 'St. Michael's, Casimir's, Nicholas's' that's the road's dead, the 'where she's seen' that's the most often. The 'historical marker' is the stood — the 'Pomeroy granted' that's the '18 erected, the 'legend verified' that's the town's word. Widow Susan is the lost — the 'wrong cemetery' that's the confusion eternal, the 'still searching' that's the road's name.","The file keeps Widow Susan: the wrong burial, the searching ghost, the three-times call, and the marker's text.","Widow Susan is the archive's New York file — the wife buried away from her husband."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Widow Susan is the archive's New York file — the ghost looking for her husband's grave.","A road keeps its widow — the file's suggestion being that Susan's hold is the misplaced: the 'Green Hill' that's the wrong rest, the 'four cemeteries' that's the search's field, and the 'three times' that's the summon's price."]}],"name":"Widow Susan Road","aliases":[],"type":"ROAD","type_label":"Road","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","roads"],"desc":"Public road and historical marker preserving a widow-searching-for-a-grave legend.","full_desc":"Widow Susan Road is a road in Amsterdam, New York. Public road and historical marker preserving a widow-searching-for-a-grave legend. Tourism identifies Susan Thomas DeGraff as a nineteenth-century Amsterdam resident who died in 1892 and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery. Local lore holds that Local legend describes Susan DeGraff’s crying apparition in a white dress searching along the road for her husband’s grave.","address":"Widow Susan Road","city":"Amsterdam","county":"Montgomery","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.941628,"lon":-74.190566,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Public road; adjacent cemeteries and land have separate access conditions. Do not obstruct traffic.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality. Listing uses 179 Widow Susan Road as a contact point, not the full legend boundary; street number intentionally omitted. Marker transcription and cemetery records remain to verify.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":61.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":417,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Local legend describes Susan DeGraff’s crying apparition in a white dress searching along the road for her husband’s grave. Witnesses name it Widow Susan; the name travels further than the proof. The crossing keeps its reports the way roads keep their warnings — repeated, local, and hard to fully dismiss. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Widow Susan Road'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Widow Susan","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Widow Susan Road","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/widow-susan-road","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Tourism identifies Susan Thomas DeGraff as a nineteenth-century Amsterdam resident who died in 1892 and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery. Widow Susan Road's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the roadside lore. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Widow Susan Road' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Widow Susan Road","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/widow-susan-road","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Local legend describes Susan DeGraff’s crying apparition in a white dress searching along the road for her husband’s grave. Widow Susan Road's legend rides the corridor itself: a stretch of New York ground where drivers have told the same story for years. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Widow Susan Road","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/widow-susan-road","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Widow Susan","claimed_identity":"Widow Susan","verified":null,"summary":"Local legend describes Susan DeGraff’s crying apparition in a white dress searching along the road for her husband’s grave. The presence goes by Widow Susan. Roadside lore attaches to crossings, and Widow Susan Road in Amsterdam, New York is exactly the kind of crossing that collects it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Widow Susan Road'. The lore has a face now: Widow Susan.","behavior":"Local legend describes Susan DeGraff’s crying apparition in a white dress searching along the road for her husband’s grave.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Widow Susan Road","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/widow-susan-road","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Widow Susan Road","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/widow-susan-road","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}