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Historic sites in New York

36 New York dossiers sit on ground the record itself recognizes — registered, marked or preserved sites carrying a second file under the plaque. The history is the strong suit here: what the marker says, what the sources confirm and what the legend added afterward. Claims are reported, not endorsed.

36 dossiers11 counties covered81% open to visitorsMount Misery & Sweet Hollow Road — deepest file

Also filed historic site:California49 Pennsylvania34 Florida29 Alaska25 Michigan18 Texas18 Arizona18 U.S. Virgin Islands15

Other New York shelves:standing files105 demolished files4

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→

Former Institution

Rolling Hills Asylum

East Bethany, New York

Genesee County poorhouse turned paranormal-investigation venue.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Former Train Station

Buffalo Central Terminal

Buffalo, New York

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

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→

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→

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.

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.

Paddock Mansion

Watertown, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bannerman’s Island Arsenal

Pollepel Island, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow, New York

1685 church at the heart of the Headless Horseman legend.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Montauk Point Lighthouse

Montauk, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

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→

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→

Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Auburn Correctional Facility

Auburn, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Clinton Correctional Facility

Dannemora, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Lyndhurst

Tarrytown, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Olana

Hudson, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Sunnyside

Tarrytown, New York

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

1 claim · 1 legend→

Kykuit

Pocantico Hills, New York

The Rockefeller estate—four generations on the Pocantico hill.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Sonnenberg Gardens

Canandaigua, New York

The Thompson estate—nine gardens and a Victorian mansion.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse & Veterans Park Museum

Dunkirk, New York

Lighthouse research record.

Fort Ontario State Historic Site

Oswego, New York

Fort 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

Binghamton, New York

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

Roberson Mansion

Binghamton, New York

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

Kilmer Mansion

Binghamton, New York

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.

Camp Hero State Park

Montauk, New York

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

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center

Brentwood, New York

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

Full New York record → state index· Every historic site filing → status shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive