There isn’t a lot of detail available about this alleged haunting. Just that certain apartment dwellers at Hazel Towers swear the place is haunted, and that the spirits inside aren’t good-intentioned.
Hazel Towers
Samuel Cleage House - Clegg House
The Samuel Cleage House dates back to around 1826. Local residents know it colloquially as “The Clegg House.”
Locals gave accounts of noises and voices that have caused the inability to hold tennants in the past. Now, the building is gutted and going thru possible restoration. Summary of events: Plenty of EVPs, Mist, Unexplained lights, heavy EMF readings and partial possessions. Multiple witnesses can attest to every claim.
Submitted by Gary N.
Snyder's Lake
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 bathrooms.
Brickyards
This area of Camillus is famous for its Onondaga Brick. One of the brick yards here is also infamous for being haunted – some say by a gargoyle. Locals, however, are a bit mystified by the stories. While they admit the brick yards can be a little creepy, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who’s actually seen something paranormal here.
Gulf Road
One of those genuinely “creepy” roads, Gulf Road is popular with bikers because of its steep hills and numerous twists and turns. Shadow figures of a woman have been sighted along the road, as well as burning crosses.
Hubbard Hall - Cazenovia College
Strange incidents seem to constantly occur for residents of the 3rd floor of Hubbard Hall. Doors open and close on their own, alarm clocks seem to trigger at odd hours of the day and night.
Delaware Road
Ask any local and they’ll tell you that something just ain’t right about Delaware Road. Many people claim to have seen the apparition of an old man carrying a lantern, walking down this road late at night. Sometimes he’s alone, other times he’s with a spectral little girl. Strange animals sometimes appear as well, looking like a mix between a horse and a dog.
West Main Street Cemetery Site
The first graveyard in Batavia dated back to 1806. It was known as the West Main Street Cemetery, and was located along the northern banks of the Tonawanda Creek. The town founders didn’t realize the extent to which the Tonawanda Creek regularly flooded, however, and in 1823 it was decided that a new cemetery would be established (Batavia Cemetery) farther east in Batavia. All bodies were moved from West Main Street Cemetery to Batavia, and eventually houses and businesses were built on what was once sacred ground.
Some believe the early settlers of Batavia may have left a few bodies behind, however. That would at least explain why a strange woman, dressed all in grey, is often seen walking along the north banks of the Tonawanda Creek, in exactly the spot where the original cemetery was located.
Fiddler's Bridge
This is one of the older ghost stories of the area, and one that may well be forgotten by all but the oldest local residents. An article in the Wilmington Sunday Star from October 4, 1953 tells the story, which was almost forgotten even then.
The legend went that there was a local slave who enjoyed playing the fiddle back in the mid-1800s. People knew about his virtuoso fiddle skills far and wide. But after he incurred a severe beating, he was never quite the same. He ran off and lived the rest of his life as a recluse in the woods around St Georges. Many nights he’d be seen playing mournful tunes on his fiddle on the bridge that spanned Scott’s Run. Eventually, one night, he drowned there.
Many years later locals stumbled onto the fact that if you threw a dime over the bridge at Scott’s Run, the ghostly sound of fiddle music would start emanating from the area. Everyone assumed it was the ghost of the virtuoso who died there.
The original bridge is long-gone (it was gone even by the time of the 1953 article), but the road eventually became US 13 (DuPont Parkway), and there is still a small bridge there that crosses Scott’s Run. No word on whether or not the dime trick still works today.
New York Institute of Technology
Several of the older buildings at the Old Westbury campus of NYIT are considered to be haunted. In particular the art center, where the specter of a long-dead woman has allegedly frightened night-time cleaning crews out of the building.
Hans Holzer, the legendary author and paranormal researcher, taught parapsychology at NYIT.
