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0The Mount Estate
Lenox, Massachusetts
9.6 miles from Alford, MA
Featured on TV's Ghost Hunters, the estate and museum of artifacts relating to novelist Edith Wharton is said to be home to the ghost of Wharton herself. Husband Teddy Wharton and a servant girl also have been seen, as well as an old-fashioned gentleman believed to be Wharton’s lover, who ...
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The Mount
Lenox, Massachusetts
9.6 miles from Alford, MA
The Mount, home of renowned writer Edith Wharton, was built in 1902 and is said to be haunted; in fact, ghost tours are offered here. The Whartons sold the house in 1911, after which it was used for the Foxhollow School for Girls and later as a theater. It was ...
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Ventfort Hall
Lenox, Massachusetts
10.6 miles from Alford, MA
The massive Ventfort Hall mansion is rumored to have a few ghosts under its roof, and witnesses say sometimes the spooks even touch people. One unsettling occurrence is a woman's face that hovers as it descends a staircase. A whispering voice, doors that open and close and screams also have ...
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0Thaddeus Clapp House
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
16.7 miles from Alford, MA
According to local legend, playwright Peter Bergman had a ghostly encounter while visiting here.
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0Bucksteep Manor
Washington, Massachusetts
16.8 miles from Alford, MA
TV's Ghost Hunters explored this manor, famous for its apparition of a monk who walks the grounds. Witnesses also describe hearing voices, feeling someone touch them, and finding objects moved during the night.
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Spook Rock Road
Hudson, New York
17.7 miles from Alford, MA
Spook Rock Road has a local legend about a beautiful Native-American princess who ran off with her beloved without the blessing of her father. When they stopped to rest on a boulder in Claverack Creek, the angered gods saw them and caused a flood, killing them both. Locals say the ...
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0Blackberry River Inn - Moseley House-Farm
Norfolk, Connecticut
18.2 miles from Alford, MA
At this 1763 colonial mansion, now a bed-and-breakfast inn, a ghostly White Lady is known to walk through the second floor of the main building and out to the empty house in the back.
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0The New Boston Inn
Sandisfield, Massachusetts
19.8 miles from Alford, MA
At this 1737 historic inn, Room 4 is said to be haunted. Folks have seen the ghost of a little girl who moves objects or "borrows" them and returns them later. Voices are also heard around the hotel. The game room is said to be the scene of an 1805 ...
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0Knox Trail Inn
Otis, Massachusetts
19.9 miles from Alford, MA
The restaurant here is said to be haunted by a soldier from the Revolutionary or Civil War. He is in his late teens or early 20s and is nicknamed Jake. His apparition may appear very briefly. He plays with the electrical systems and may tug on your shirt, but it ...
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Dutch's Spirits
Pine Plains, New York
21.4 miles from Alford, MA
Dutch’s Spirits was an underground complex that hid a distillery run by the mob during Prohibition. It was financed by gangster Dutch Schultz, and may be haunted by him, too. Visitors can book tours, and some have noticed an eerie feeling of being watched.
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Haunted Hudson Valley: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of New York's Sleepy Hollow Country
Cheri Farnsworth
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Dudleytown
Cornwall, Connecticut
27.3 miles from Alford, MA
This ghost town is referred to by some as the "Village of the Damned." It was a settlement that began in the 1740s, and is situated in the middle of a forest. No buildings remain, only foundations, but reports say many spirits linger here, some of whom have been captured ...
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Blithewood Mansion
Red Hook, New York
29.8 miles from Alford, MA
Blithewood Mansion was built by National Guard captain and real estate mogul Andrew C. Zabriskie, who commissioned four statues for his garden. Each statue would depict one of his four daughters. When tragedy struck and one of his daughters was killed falling out of a window of a New York ...
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Plunkett Hill Condominiums
Adams, Massachusetts
30.3 miles from Alford, MA
Plunkett Hill Condominiums was once the 1918 W.B. Plunkett Memorial Hospital, aka the Old Asylum. The hospital was closed and abandoned in 1973 and is now senior citizens' condominiums. Witnesses claim to have seen mutilated apparitions and heard screams of the patients who passed away there long ago.
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Wing's Castle
Millbrook, New York
30.5 miles from Alford, MA
Wing’s Castle was built by artists Peter and Toni Ann Wing and was featured on TV's Extreme Homes. The medieval-style castle is rumored to be haunted and is open for tours and overnight stays.
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Turn Hall
Adams, Massachusetts
31.4 miles from Alford, MA
Turn Hall is an apartment with a downstairs gym, bar and bowling alley. The rumor mill says the building is haunted by a former employee, a gymnastics coach, who committed suicide. She is said to be still watching over her former workplace.
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Clinton Community Library
Rhinebeck, New York
31.5 miles from Alford, MA
Those looking for a book to read at the Clinton Community Library may just find a ghost story. Ghosts are said to haunt the library day and night, whispering or knocking books down from the shelves. Their footsteps have been heard walking or climbing the stairs.
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Snyder's Lake
Wynantskill, New York
31.6 miles from Alford, MA
There are a number of run-of-the-mill "campfire stories" about Snyder's Lake. Like the one about the night watchman who was murdered nearby, and whose ghost now steals children from the lake campgrounds. Others claim the ghost of a long-dead caretaker can be seen still checking in on the ...
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SABIC Innovative Plastics
Selkirk, New York
32.8 miles from Alford, MA
SABIC Innovative Plastics, formerly GE Plastics, stands on what was once the Becker farm. The old farmhouse still stands, and was for a time used for offices. According to legend, Mr. Becker caught his wife having an affair with a slave there, so he pushed the slave down the stairs, ...
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0Cherry Hill
Albany, New York
32.9 miles from Alford, MA
This late-1700s historic manor house was the site of the famed Cherry Hill murder in 1827, in which Elsie Lansing, wife of businessman John Whipple, plotted with her lover drifter Jesse Strang to kill her husband. The controversial trial led to the hanging of Strang. Folks have seen an unidentified ...
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Delaware and Hudson Railroad Building
Albany, New York
33.3 miles from Alford, MA
The brownstone is said to be haunted by the ghost of an unknown woman in period clothing. Folks speculate that her death was connected to a hotel that stood here before the railroad building was constructed.
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Yankee Pedlar Inn
Torrington, Connecticut
33.5 miles from Alford, MA
The historic 1891 hotel is known for ghostly activity. Alice Conley, one of the original owners, is believed to haunt Room 353, the room in which she died. Ti West's 2011 horror film "The Innkeepers" is based on the story of this inn.
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Evergreen Cemetery
Wynantskill, New York
33.5 miles from Alford, MA
Rumor has it that the elusive ghost of a lady in a black dress has been seen at Evergreen Cemetery. She is said to hang out near the headstones on the top of the hill. But don't take your eyes off her or she'll disappear!
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0New York State Capitol
Albany, New York
33.7 miles from Alford, MA
At the Capitol building, some say ghosts walk at night. One of them is said to be artist William Morris Hunt, and another is a night watchman who perished in a fire in 1911.
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Lincoln Park Gully
Albany, New York
33.8 miles from Alford, MA
Lincoln Park Gully is believed to be haunted by the ghosts of Dutch soldiers and Mahican warriors who planned to attach the Mohawks, but were ambushed by the Mohawks instead. One grisly tale about the battle relates that a Dutch soldier was burned alive, and his leg and arm were ...
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New York State Education Department Building
Albany, New York
33.8 miles from Alford, MA
The legend told about this building involves the mysterious disappearance of an Italian worker during its construction. He is believed to have been inadvertently sealed in when the foundation was laid. Inside the building, objects are said to move on their own, perhaps the doings of a shadowy figure witnesses ...
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Legs Diamond House
Albany, New York
33.9 miles from Alford, MA
Jack "Legs" Diamond, aka Gentleman Jack, was an gangster during the Prohibition era. It was here that he was shot to death in 1931, in a small upstairs room. Subsequent residents have been awakened late at night to footsteps and voices on the stairs that lead up to the room.
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Tem Broeck Mansion
Albany, New York
33.9 miles from Alford, MA
The brownstone Ten Broeck Mansion, built in 1859, was first thought to be haunted in the mid-20th century when the children who lived there saw a strange, solemn soldier in 17th-century Dutch attire on the top floor. His connection to the mansion is unknown; some speculate that he was buried ...
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Sage College of Albany
Albany, New York
34.4 miles from Alford, MA
Some of the buildings at Sage College in Albany were once a part of the Albany Home for Children; rumor has it that shallow graves were found during some campus construction. The campus is said to be haunted by some of the home's orphans who died in a fire in ...
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Hoosac Tunnel
North Adams, Massachusetts
34.5 miles from Alford, MA
This nearly 5-mile-long tunnel was dug out of the mountains of western Massachusetts between 1851 and 1875. At the time it was the second-longest tunnel in the world, but there were many gruesome deaths and accidents associated with its construction. For more than 150 years people have regularly ...
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Bennett College Ruins
Millbrook, New York
35 miles from Alford, MA
Bennett College, founded in 1890, was a women's college that closed in 1978. Now an abandoned ruin, the spot is said to be haunted by students who committed suicide and are forever roaming the dorms in spirit.
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The College of Saint Rose
Albany, New York
35.1 miles from Alford, MA
The College of Saint Rose campus is rumored to have many haunted buildings. Students in the residence halls have reported apparitions, unexplained old-fashioned music, footsteps, electrical appliances that turn on or off by themselves, strange sounds, spirit orbs, and pinches on the rear end from an unseen hand.
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Forest Park Cemetery - Pinewoods Cemetery
Troy, New York
35.2 miles from Alford, MA
Forest Park Cemetery, aka Pinewoods Cemetery, is an 1897 graveyard known for its locally told ghost stories. It has been used for burials as recently as 2005, although it stood neglected for a period between 1975 and the 1990s. The cemetery is said to be extremely active with paranormal activity ...
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0Houghton Mansion
North Adams, Massachusetts
35.5 miles from Alford, MA
At this mansion where Mayor A.C. Houghton and his family lived, a ghostly chauffeur lingers. He reportedly committed suicide after getting in a car accident that claimed the lives of Mrs. Houghton and their only daughter. The site has been converted into a Masonic temple and has been featured on ...
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The Country Club Of Troy
Troy, New York
35.7 miles from Alford, MA
The private Country Club of Troy was established in 1925 and is believed to be haunted by the ghost of a waitress who worked there in the 1970s. She drove off the nearby bridge in some icy conditions. Also, some folks maintain that her footsteps can bee seen in the ...
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Blaber House
Kingston, New York
36 miles from Alford, MA
According to ghostly legend, at Blaber House there is a spectral elderly woman who sits and reads in a chair, and walks around the yard at around midnight. When she is finished walking the perimeter of the yard, she heads for the roadway and vanishes.
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St Mary's Cemetery
Troy, New York
36.3 miles from Alford, MA
Some say there is a greenish, ghostly light that can be seen some nights in front of a certain gravestone in St. Mary's Cemetery in Troy, NY.
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Albany Rural Cemetery
Alford, New York
36.4 miles from Alford, MA
At Albany Rural Cemetery, locals say many ghosts walk. Some include a hitchhiker ghost in a prom gown, a phantom mad horse who died when from hitting its head on a monument while running away, and a sad apparition of a gray-haired woman whose body was found after dragging the ...
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Loudon Cottage
Albany, New York
36.7 miles from Alford, MA
When President Lincoln was shot, one of his guests at the theater was Sen. Ira Harris's daughter Clara. After the event, Clara's white dress was stained by Lincoln's blood, so upon returning home to this cottage, she had a special closet built for it, then had it sealed up. After ...
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West Hall - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
36.9 miles from Alford, MA
West Hall at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute currently houses the Arts Department, but was once the historic Old Troy Hospital. As legend has it, ghostly Nurse Betsy of the psych ward sometimes plays the piano, as she used to do to calm her patients. Her footsteps and her patients' screaming ...
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Montrepose Cemetery
Kingston, New York
37 miles from Alford, MA
A witness visiting Montrepose Cemetery described the apparition of a long-haired woman in a flowing dress, flitting between gravesites.
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Wiltwyck Cemetery
Kingston, New York
37.2 miles from Alford, MA
No real details on this available, except that a number of Internet sites list Wiltwyck Cemtery (often misspelled as Wiltwick) as being haunted.
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University at Albany SUNY
Albany, New York
37.3 miles from Alford, MA
At Mahican Hall on Indian Quad, the ghost of a young girl has been roaming the halls since 1994. And at Pierce Hall on Alumni Quad, the ghost of an unknown woman is said to appear in the halls.
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Frear Park
Troy, New York
37.7 miles from Alford, MA
Local lore has it that there is a "ghost beast" that lives at Frear Park. It is known to jump on cars, and is heavy enough to shake it as if a full-sized person were sitting on your trunk. Sometimes claw marks are left behind.
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Hoyt Mansion - The Point
Staatsburg, New York
37.8 miles from Alford, MA
Hoyt Mansion, also known as Hoyt House or The Point, was built in 1855. It was almost demolished to build a public swimming pool, but its historic status saved it. Despite that fact, no plans have materialized to use the building, and it is now abandoned. Reports say the belonged ...
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Old Ulster County Jail
Kingston, New York
38.1 miles from Alford, MA
At Old Ulster County Jail, constructed in 1971, the ghosts of murdered inmates are said to walk. Footsteps, voices and cell doors opening and closing are among the things that have been reported by witnesses. The site has been featured on an episode of TV’s Ghost Hunters.
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Green Lady Cemetery - Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery
Burlington, Connecticut
38.5 miles from Alford, MA
The 18th-century Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery is also known as the Green Lady Cemetery because of the many sightings of a ghost called the Green Lady. Some believe she is the spirit of Seventh Day Baptist Elisabeth Palmiter, who drowned in a swamp in 1800 while searching for her "missing" ...
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The Charlemont Inn
Charlemont, Massachusetts
38.6 miles from Alford, MA
At the 1787 inn many friendly ghosts are said to reside. You may see spirits of a Civil War soldier in the upstairs hall or a former innkeeper in the tavern. A ghost named Elizabeth likes to throw things, slam doors, and stomp in the halls. She has been known ...
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Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary
Albany, New York
39.1 miles from Alford, MA
Witnesses say Professor Java's is haunted by an apparition of a man in a suit. Laughter has come from the back and a barking dog has been heard on the main floor. Apparitions of a woman have shown up in a mirror.
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Olde Newgate Prison
East Granby, Connecticut
39.1 miles from Alford, MA
Once a 1705 copper mine, its tunnels were made into Connecticut’s first prison 1773-1827. The site is known to be a hot spot for paranormal happenings. Several apparitions and even a ghostly tour guide have been reported, screams have been heard, and guests have described being touched by something unseen.
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Van Schaick Family Cemetery
Cohoes, New York
39.4 miles from Alford, MA
Anthony Van Schaick, builder of a 1700s mansion, left in his will part of his property to be used as a cemetery. Now, the Van Schaick Family Cemetery contains more than 50 relatives are buried in the cemetery near the historic house. The cemetery was restored in 2010 by participants ...
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