New York

High confidence

Shanley Hotel

Napanoch, New York

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

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Road

Mount Misery & Sweet Hollow Road

Huntington, New York

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

Restaurant

One If By Land, Two If By Sea

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

The Ansonia

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

Grand Central

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

Sailors’ Snug Harbor

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

Church

St. Paul’s Chapel

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

Cemetery

Trinity Churchyard

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

Cherry Lane Theatre

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

Tenement Museum

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

Former Institution

Rolling Hills Asylum

East Bethany, New York

Genesee County poorhouse turned paranormal-investigation venue.

Former Train Station

Buffalo Central Terminal

Buffalo, New York

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

Execution Rocks Lighthouse

New Rochelle, New York

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

New Amsterdam Theatre

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

Belasco Theatre

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

Prison

Sing Sing

Ossining, New York

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

Castle

Boldt Castle

Alexandria Bay, New York

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

Ship

General Slocum disaster site

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

Morris-Jumel Mansion

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

Merchant’s House Museum

The 1832 rowhouse preserved intact—the Tredwells’ ghost.

House of Death

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

Washington Square Park

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

The Dakota

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

Chelsea Hotel

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

Algonquin Hotel

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

Hart Island

Bronx, New York

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

Smallpox Hospital ruins

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

Conference House

The 1680 Billopp house—where the peace conference failed.

Kreischer Mansion

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

Old Stone House

Brooklyn, New York

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

Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

Brooklyn, New York

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

Church

St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery

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

McSorley’s Old Ale House

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

Chumley’s

The speakeasy that gave "86" to the language.

Landmark Tavern

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

One if by Land

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

The Players

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

Triangle Shirtwaist site

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

Doyers Street

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

The Jane Hotel

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

SS Central America

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

Amityville Horror House

Amityville, New York

112 Ocean Avenue—site of the DeFeo murders and a contested haunting.

Palace Theatre

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

Landmark Theatre

Syracuse, New York

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

Shea’s Performing Arts Center

Buffalo, New York

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

Fort Museum

Old Stone Fort Museum

Schoharie, New York

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

Courthouse

Montgomery County Old Courthouse

Fonda, New York

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

Knox Mansion

Johnstown, New York

Charles Knox’s residence, associated with guest reports and explicitly unconfirmed burial rumors.

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.

Ranch

Empty Pockets Ranch

Cobleskill, New York

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

Acoustic Site

Lake George Mystery Spot

Lake George, New York

Public-park acoustic curiosity with a tourism-circulated origin legend.

Bull's Head Inn

Inn research record.

Erie Canal Museum

Syracuse, New York

Museum research record.

Frederic Remington Art Museum

Ogdensburg, New York

Museum research record.

Farmhouse

Grapevine Farms

Cobleskill, New York

Farmhouse research record.

Paddock Mansion

Watertown, New York

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

Bed And Breakfast

Beekman House

Middleburgh, New York

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

Road

Widow Susan Road

Amsterdam, New York

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

Park

Thompson Park

Watertown, New York

City park with a circulating time-vortex legend, distinct from its documented landscape history.

Ruins

Pollepel Island, New York

Bannerman’s Island Arsenal

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

Church

Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow, New York

1685 church at the heart of the Headless Horseman legend.

Montauk Point Lighthouse

Montauk, New York

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

Fire Island Lighthouse

Fire Island, New York

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

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse

Cape Vincent, New York

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

Hospital

Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane

Ovid, New York

The Finger Lakes asylum whose 400 suitcase exhibit made institutional life famous.

Prison

Auburn Correctional Facility

Auburn, New York

The 1817 prison that invented the "Auburn system"—and the first electric chair death.

Prison

Clinton Correctional Facility

Dannemora, New York

"Little Siberia"—the 1845 prison inside the Adirondack cold.

Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn, New York

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

Bar

White Horse Tavern

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

Bar

Ear Inn

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

Restaurant

Fraunces Tavern

The 1762 tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers.

Bar

Pete’s Tavern

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

Restaurant

Bridge Café

The 1794 Seaport building—New York’s oldest bar building.

University

Wells College

Aurora, New York

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

Lyndhurst

Tarrytown, New York

The Hudson Valley’s Gothic Revival masterpiece—where Dark Shadows filmed.

Estate

Olana

Hudson, New York

Frederic Church’s Persian-fantasy house above the Hudson.

Sunnyside

Tarrytown, New York

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

Estate

Pocantico Hills, New York

Kykuit

The Rockefeller estate—four generations on the Pocantico hill.

Estate

Sonnenberg Gardens

Canandaigua, New York

The Thompson estate—nine gardens and a Victorian mansion.

Road

13 Curves on Onondaga Hill

Syracuse, New York

Road research record.

Park

Durand Eastman Park

Rochester, New York

Park research record.

Belhurst Castle

Geneva, New York

Hotel research record.

Fort

Fort William Henry Museum

Lake George, New York

Fort research record.

Hamlet

Pine Bush

Pine Bush, New York

Hamlet research record.

Historic House Museum

Historic Bundy House

Former Bundy family home whose museum announced a 2026 temporary closure amid conflicting tour listings.

Former Hospital

Hudson River State Hospital

Poughkeepsie, New York

1871 Kirkbride asylum partially destroyed by fire and redevelopment.

Former Institution

Willowbrook State School

Site of Geraldo Rivera’s 1972 exposé and the "Cropsey" urban legend.

Historic House

Casey's Cottage

Mexico, New York

Historic house research record.

1867 Parkview Inn

Inn research record.

Barkeater Chocolates

North Creek, New York

Shop research record.

Dr. Best House & Medical Museum

Middleburgh, New York

Museum research record.

Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse & Veterans Park Museum

Dunkirk, New York

Lighthouse research record.

Fainting Goat Island Inn

Inn research record.

Fort Ontario State Historic Site

Oswego, New York

Fort research record.

Fulton County Historical Society Museum

Gloversville, New York

Museum research record.

Genesee Falls Inn

Portageville, New York

Inn research record.

Graestone Manor Bed and Breakfast

Gasport, New York

Mansion research record.

Historic Hotel Broadalbin

Broadalbin, New York

Hotel research record.

Hyde Hall

Cooperstown, New York

Mansion research record.

Historic House Museum

Old Fort House Museum

Fort Edward, New York

Wood-frame historic house with a reported Revolutionary soldier apparition.

Phelps Mansion Museum

Sherman Phelps’s residence, with period-clothed apparition and unwound-clock stories.

Roberson Mansion

Educational-center mansion with an attributed 2019 nighttime staff encounter.

Kilmer Mansion

Historic event venue where investigators report voices, touch sensations and moving objects.

1890 House Museum

Cortland, New York

Chester Wickwire’s house museum with visitor reports and authorized investigation programs.

Starr Clark Tin Shop and Underground Railroad Museum

Mexico, New York

Abolitionist-associated tin shop interpreting Underground Railroad history and reported encounters.

Industrial Ruins

Split Rock Quarry

Camillus, New York

Former munitions works and quarry with a documented 1918 disaster and later phantom-machinery stories.

Bed And Breakfast

Borland House

Montgomery, New York

Historic inn with staff and guest reports of footsteps, shadows and television anomalies.

Former Hospital

Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Kings Park, New York

111-year state hospital campus slowly being demolished.

Former Institution

Letchworth Village

Thiells, New York

"Village for the feeble-minded" with a polio-vaccine trial history and ruin lore.

Military Site

Camp Hero State Park

Montauk, New York

Radar base at the tip of Long Island wrapped in Montauk Project folklore.

Valley Region

Hudson Valley UFO corridor

Pine Bush, New York

The 1983–84 boomerang wave and the UFO town that embraced it.

Hospital

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center

Brentwood, New York

The largest hospital ever built—13,000 patients at its 1954 peak, now a ruin belt.

Community

Lily Dale Assembly

Lily Dale, New York

The 1879 spiritualist camp where mediums still practice.

African Burial Ground

The 17th-18th century burial ground under Lower Manhattan—found 1991.

Puck Building

The 1885 magazine building—where Puck’s statue watches Lafayette Street.

Historic Site