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0Tunic Road
Shaftsbury, Vermont
9.8 miles from Cambridge, NY
Ghost soldiers have been seen along Tunic Road, and some witnesses say phantom orbs have shown up in photographs taken here.
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0Jennings Hall - Bennington College
Bennington, Vermont
10.2 miles from Cambridge, NY
Jennings Hall is reported to be the inspration for horror author Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel "The Haunting of Hill House" and its 1963 movie adaptation. Jennings Hall is a gray stone mansion reportedly used by the college's music department.
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Saratoga National Historical Park
Stillwater, New York
13 miles from Cambridge, NY
At Saratoga National Historical Park, the ghost of a black man in a three-cornered hat and ragged militia uniform was said to appear and tell his story to a visitor. He told her he thought he was shot and killed by his own men. After he told her the tale, ...
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Southern Vermont College
Bennington, Vermont
13.8 miles from Cambridge, NY
Here at Bennington, many ghosts are said to roam and photographic images show mysterious figures. One of the many apparitions seen here is a person in a black hooded robe, and phantom smoke sometimes fills the halls. Witnesses have reported lights that turn on locked rooms, door and windows that ...
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Stillwater Union Cemetery
Stillwater, New York
13.9 miles from Cambridge, NY
Another cemetery where visitors swear they regularly see a green, glowing light hovering around certain gravestones.
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Glastenbury Mountain
Glastenbury, Vermont
16 miles from Cambridge, NY
Legends say that the Native Americans believed this place to be cursed and used it as a burial ground. There have been several unsolved disappearances on the mountain, and all the trails stop partway up the mountain as if forbidding hikers to go any further. The mountain is said to ...
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Long Trail
Glastenbury, Vermont
16.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
Built from 1912 to 1930, this 272-mile-long hiking trail is famous for its disappearances. Between 1945 and 1950, four people disappeared, and only one of their bodies was ever found. One of those who disappeared without a trace was Bennington College sophomore Paula Jean Welden, who set out on during ...
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The Equinox Golf Resort and Spa
Manchester, Vermont
18.4 miles from Cambridge, NY
This 1769 resort is said to be haunted by Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. She visited the hotel in 1865 and has been seen as a quickly vanishing apparition, along with one of her children.
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The Anvil Inn
Fort Edward, New York
19.3 miles from Cambridge, NY
The Anvil Inn, formerly an 1840s blacksmith shop, is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who turns the lights and the music on and off and drops bottles on the floor.
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Jane McCrea House
Fort Edward, New York
19.5 miles from Cambridge, NY
Jane McCrea was murdered by Native Americans during the American Revolution. At her former home, residents have reported footsteps in the attic and lights that mysteriously come on when no one is in the house.
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Supernatural Saratoga (NY): Haunted Places and Famous Ghosts of the Spa City (Haunted America)
Mason Winfield
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Jane McCrea House
Fort Edward, New York
19.5 miles from Cambridge, NY
Jane McCrea was murdered by Native Americans during the American Revolution. At her former home, residents have reported footsteps in the attic and lights that mysteriously come on when no one is in the house.
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Canfield Casino
Saratoga Springs, New York
20.6 miles from Cambridge, NY
Featured on TV's Ghost Hunters, the casino is rumored to be haunted. Since the 1990s, witnesses have experienced odd apparitions such as that of a woman in Victorian clothing, cold spots, hostile energies, and even slaps from something unseen. Tinkling sounds and moving objects, such as a levitating trash can ...
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Batcheller Mansion Inn
Saratoga Springs, New York
20.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
The 1873 Batcheller Mansion Inn was originally home to Civil War veteran and prominent political figure George Sherman Batcheller. Both staff and visitors have reported meeting up with ghosts in the mansion.
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0Adelphi Hotel
Saratoga Springs, New York
20.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
Haunted by a lady in Victorian era clothing wearing a blue dress, numerous guests of the hotel claim to have seen her walking through the hotel. *Closed for renovations as of Nov 2012.
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Cohoes Falls
Cohoes, New York
23.5 miles from Cambridge, NY
The Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River were discovered by the Mohawk tribe; its similar name in the native language means "Place of the Falling Canoe." According to legend, a Native American girl was boating one summer night when she fell to her death over the falls. Her ghost has ...
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Van Schaick Family Cemetery
Cohoes, New York
23.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Cohoes Music Hall
Cohoes, New York
23.8 miles from Cambridge, NY
The 1874 Cohoes Music Hall is believed to be haunted by Vaudeville actress Eva Tanguay, who died in 1947. Cohoes Music Hall was where she made her debut--and was booed offstage. Eva was known as the "I Don't Care" Girl because of her famous song. Many folks who work here ...
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Frear Park
Troy, New York
24.2 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Crandall House
Ballston Spa, New York
24.6 miles from Cambridge, NY
The Crandall House was built in the 1800s by unsuccessful stockbroker Sylvester Crandall for himself and his wife Julie. Legend has it that the two fought incessantly over money, and Sylvester was often seen by himself in the house's cupola. In 1887, Julia's mother, sister and stepsister came to take ...
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The Country Club Of Troy
Troy, New York
24.8 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Ghosts of Manhattan (NY): Legendary Spirits and Notorious Haunts (Haunted America)
Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg
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Forest Park Cemetery - Pinewoods Cemetery
Troy, New York
25 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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St Mary's Cemetery
Troy, New York
25.2 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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West Hall - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
25.6 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Guptills Woods
Latham, New York
26.3 miles from Cambridge, NY
Guptills Woods, and a certain nearby house off Pollock Road, are rumored to be haunted. Witnesses have seen floating orbs of light as well as strange eyes, with no face, in the dark. The sound of singing has accompanied some of these ghostly incidents.
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0Carney's Tavern
Ballston Lake, New York
26.3 miles from Cambridge, NY
Owners and staff have reported feeling someone tap them on the shoulder when the building is totally empty but for the person tapped. This historic site is next to the rail road tracks that carry passengers to and from New York City to the Adirondacks. Teddy Roosevelt was said ...
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Evergreen Cemetery
Wynantskill, New York
26.4 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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0Houghton Mansion
North Adams, Massachusetts
26.8 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Snyder's Lake
Wynantskill, New York
28.3 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Albany Rural Cemetery
Cambridge, New York
28.4 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Hoosac Tunnel
North Adams, Massachusetts
28.4 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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0The White House Inn
Wilmington, Vermont
29 miles from Cambridge, NY
Allegedly haunted by the former mistress of the house, Mrs. Brown. People have reported full body apparitions, cold spots, slamming doors and some claim that the ghost has actually appeared and spoken to them.
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0Averill Stand
Wilmington, Vermont
29.1 miles from Cambridge, NY
Allegedly haunted by the ghosts of former occupants, possibly a woman who died there in childbirth and another female ghost that is occasionally seen in the dining room.
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Loudon Cottage
Albany, New York
29.4 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary
Albany, New York
29.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Community Reformed Church of Colonie
Albany, New York
30.1 miles from Cambridge, NY
Shadow figures are often seen around this church at night, along with the sounds of children playing.
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Turn Hall
Adams, Massachusetts
30.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Jackson's Garden - Union College
Schenectady, New York
31.2 miles from Cambridge, NY
Jackson's Garden at Union College is said to be haunted by the ghost of Alice Van der Veer. According to legend, Alice fell in love with a man her father didn't approve of, so he killed his daughter's young lover. In retaliation, an angry mob captured Alice and her father ...
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Plunkett Hill Condominiums
Adams, Massachusetts
31.3 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Vale Cemetery
Schenectady, New York
31.6 miles from Cambridge, NY
The largest cemetery in Schenectady, Vale Cemetery opened in 1857 and is said to be a spooky place, indeed. Witnesses say some of the statuary cries out at night or bleeds from the eyes or the tops of their heads. Black and white ghostly figures are alleged to wander through ...
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Tem Broeck Mansion
Albany, New York
31.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Fort William Henry Museum
Lake George, New York
31.8 miles from Cambridge, NY
Fort William Henry Museum is rumored to be haunted by victims of the massacre of 1757. Reports say anywhere from 200 to 1500 people were killed. One ghost, with uneven footsteps, is nicknamed the Limper. His amputated skeleton was unearthed by archeologists in the 1950s. Another ghost, the Slammer, likes ...
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Front Street Park
Schenectady, New York
31.8 miles from Cambridge, NY
Remnants from a 1690 raid of French-Canadian and Indian invaders are said to haunt Front Street Park and the entire Stockade Historic District. Most of the town's residents, families of the Dutch merchants and fur traders who settled here in 1661, were massacred in the attack.
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Van Dyke Lounge
Schenectady, New York
32 miles from Cambridge, NY
The Van Dyck Lounge restaurant and brewery was once a jazz club that opened in 1947. Many big names played here, including Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. It is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a brothel worker who was killed in ...
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New York State Education Department Building
Albany, New York
32.1 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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0New York State Capitol
Albany, New York
32.2 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Delaware and Hudson Railroad Building
Albany, New York
32.2 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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Legs Diamond House
Albany, New York
32.4 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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The College of Saint Rose
Albany, New York
32.5 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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University at Albany SUNY
Albany, New York
32.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
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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0Saratoga County Homestead Sanitarium
Middle Grove, New York
32.7 miles from Cambridge, NY
Saratoga County Homestead (aka Homestead Sanitarium) opened in 1914 as a tuberculosis hospital. It is rumored to be haunted by patients who perished here, one of whom may be Mr. Horace Carpentier, buried at the nearby Barkersville Cemetery. The sanatarium is sometimes referred to as Bills Road Infirmary in Providence, ...
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