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Letchworth Village
Thiells, New York
7.5 miles from Peekskill, NY
Letchworth Village is a former psychiatric hospital that is rumored to be haunted by the spirits of the patients who suffered here. Some reports say the full name of the place was Letchworth Village Institute for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic, and the establishment got into trouble with the law ...
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Bird and Bottle Inn
Garrison, New York
8.5 miles from Peekskill, NY
Reportedly haunted by the ghost of Emily Warren, the woman who lived there originally. People claim to see a hazy figure and reportedly hear her singing.
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Sparta Cemetery
Briarcliff Manor, New York
11 miles from Peekskill, NY
At Sparta Cemetery, visitors have described eerie mists over the graves, ghostly voices, and unexplained lights.
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Bannerman Castle
Beacon, New York
12 miles from Peekskill, NY
Bannerman Castle was built by Francis Bannerman, who had a military surplus business. In 1901 he began to build an arsenal on Pollepel Island because his storerooms couldn't hold all of his stock. When Bannerman died in 1918, construction on his castle stopped. Then, in 1920, some of his stock ...
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1 LaVeta Place
Nyack, New York
13.4 miles from Peekskill, NY
1 LaVeta Place is a private home that's said to have been haunted since at least the 1960s. It was owned by Helen and George Ackley, who at least once saw an apparition there and woke up every morning to a shaking bed. After getting used to and living peacefully ...
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The McGarrah Stagecoach Tavern Inn
Monroe, New York
14 miles from Peekskill, NY
Featured on several ghost-related TV shows, this historic inn from the late 1700s is one of the oldest buildings in town. Here you may see a ghost in a top hat and dark suit. The inn may no longer be in operation but may be offering private tours by appointment ...
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Spook Rock Road
Suffern, New York
14.9 miles from Peekskill, NY
The name of Spook Rock Road comes from the large rock formation thought to have been created by Lenape Tribes and rumored to have been used as a sacrificial stone. One legend tells of a Dutch woman and her Indian lover who met here and were murdered by other Dutch ...
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Marymount College - EF Academy
Tarrytown, New York
15.2 miles from Peekskill, NY
The former Marymount College merged with Fordham University, then was sold to EF Academy in 2007. It is said to be haunted by the ghosts of its founders, Father Gailhac and Mother Butler, on hand to protect the former woman's college's students. More sinister tales tell of ghosts who shake ...
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Newburgh Masonic Temple
Newburgh, New York
15.3 miles from Peekskill, NY
One night at Newburgh Masonic Temple, students experienced some strange and unexplained phenomena: A chair slid itself across the floor, a hinged door began to swing, and disembodied men's voices were heard throughout the building.
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Smalley's Inn and Restaurant
Carmel, New York
15.7 miles from Peekskill, NY
Smalley’s, originally opened in 1852 by James Smalley, was rebuilt in 1924 after a fire burned much of the city. It's now an Italian-American restaurant and is rumored to have been haunted for many years. When the tombstone of a little girl was recently found under the basement steps, it ...
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Ghosts of Manhattan (NY): Legendary Spirits and Notorious Haunts (Haunted America)
Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg
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Downing Park
Newburgh, New York
15.8 miles from Peekskill, NY
A little boy's ghost has been seen sitting by Downing Park's lake, crying. Locals say he drowned here long ago. He also has been known to make bubbles in the water and scream when a child gets too close to the water's edge.
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Oxford Depot Cemetery
Chester, New York
15.9 miles from Peekskill, NY
Among the many odd occurrences reported at Oxford Depot Cemetery are orbs of light, dark figures that may give chase, the sound of someone unseen whistling, and footsteps coming from behind visitors. Some orbs have shown up in photographs of the cemetery.
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Washington Irving's Sunnyside
Irvington, New York
17 miles from Peekskill, NY
Washington Irving's Sunnyside, historic home of the famed writer of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," is said to be haunted by Irving himself as well as his nieces, who used to take care of the home. Irving's ghost has a reputation for pinching women, and his ...
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Harbour House - 14 and Hudson
Piermont, New York
17.3 miles from Peekskill, NY
This building was formerly the Harbour House and before that Mama Maraglia's. As a former employee and patron of the Harbour House, I have seen some many things that would make even the hardest doubter shake their heads. It is said the Mama Maraglia walks around the second floor to ...
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Church of St. Barnabas
Irvington, New York
17.5 miles from Peekskill, NY
The church is allegedly haunted by two separate spirits, one is believed to be that of a former pastor and the other that of a former pastor's wife, who died somewhere in the early 1900's. She seems to be especially drawn to the children of pastors who live in ...
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Buckout Road
Harrison, New York
18.5 miles from Peekskill, NY
On Buckout Road, aka Head Road, rumors surround a house that has several Xs around it. Some say it is a place where witches were caught and put to death long ago. Others say a gang of cruel albinos lives here and attacks visitors. Legend has it that some school ...
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Ringwood Manor
Ringwood, New Jersey
20.3 miles from Peekskill, NY
Ringwood Manor began in 1740, built by the Ogden family, although it was expanded over the years. Witnesses say it is haunted, and report footsteps, locked doors that open on their own, chills, cold spots, and apparitions of former residents.
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SUNY Purchase
Purchase, New York
20.4 miles from Peekskill, NY
SUNY Purchase college is believed to be haunted in several spots, incuding its small cemetery, where strange noises and ghostly presences have been reported, and the house across from Starbucks, where resides, according to rumor, the ghost of an elderly man who hanged himself in the attic or the basement. ...
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Manhattanville College
Harrison, New York
20.9 miles from Peekskill, NY
The college has a beautiful and small campus, but what lies beneath the surface is chilling. Many have heard whispers and seen entities playing the back room of the library where the books and archives are located. The elevator has also taken its riders to their destination without the pushing ...
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Blauvelt Cemetery - Old Burying Ground
Harrington Park, New Jersey
21 miles from Peekskill, NY
Blauvelt Cemetery, or the Old Burying Ground, has been in use since 1722 and is rumored to be full of ghostly presences. Visitors have found strange shadows, orbs or mists in the photos they've taken here, and reports say there is also the unexplained sound of a clock ticking on ...
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Miss Fanny's Victorian Party House
Wappingers Falls, New York
22.1 miles from Peekskill, NY
The Victorian Party House structure, filled with Gothic antiques and horror-film paraphernalia including a coffin, is nearing 150 years old, and is said to be haunted by a menacing presence. The place was featured on several paranormal TV programs including Haunted Collector and My Ghost Story.
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Goshen Historic Track
Goshen, New York
22.1 miles from Peekskill, NY
Goshen Historic Track is said to be haunted by the spirit of a jockey and his horse, who both drowned in the nearby lake early 1900s. They've been seen riding along the lake or chasing visitors through the dirt-road trails; other witnesses say the clip-clopping of ghostly horse hooves has ...
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Heathcote Crossing
Scarsdale, New York
22.4 miles from Peekskill, NY
Built in 1924 to be a restaurant supporting the rail line that ran between New York and Boston it has had a storied history and a string of restaurants occupying the site. Said to have been a speakeasy in the 20's and a brothel in the 60's. There are no ...
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Demarest Building
Warwick, New York
22.9 miles from Peekskill, NY
The Demarest Building, once called the National Hotel, was constructed in 1863 and was used as an inn and a meeting place for the townspeople. In the mid-1900s, the building was turned into apartments and the Demarest Bar, which closed in the early 1990s. It is now a complex of ...
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Myers-Masker House - Van Iderstine House
Midland Park, New Jersey
23.2 miles from Peekskill, NY
This house dates back to 1795 and is known as either the "Myers-Masker House" or the "Van Iderstine House". It is commonly believed by locals that Hessian prisoners were held in this house during the Revolutionary War (which, confusingly, was won almost a decade before this home was built?) ...
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Oakland Cemetery
Yonkers, New York
24.3 miles from Peekskill, NY
Oakland Cemetery, established around 1783 to bury Revolutionary War soldiers, was originally called St. John’s Burial Grounds. The name was changed to Oakland Cemetery in 1875. Rampant vandalism has led to the rumors of its being haunted; three ghostly women, coming from the hill towards the cemetery's center, are said ...
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Concordia College
Bronxville, New York
24.6 miles from Peekskill, NY
There are four halls at Concordia College that are rumored to be haunted. Bohm Hall is said to house the ghost of a girl who was raped years ago. Feth Hall is the home of namesake spirit Rev Dr. Henry Feth. Rippe Hall is haunted by the ghost of a ...
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Devil's Tower
Alpine, New Jersey
24.6 miles from Peekskill, NY
In the early 1900s, some say, plantation owner Manuel Rionda built this tower for his wife, so she could look out over the New York City skyline. Others say he built it as a mausoleum or for religious purposes. An underground tunnel connected the tower to his home. According to ...
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229 Rock Road
Glen Rock, New Jersey
25.1 miles from Peekskill, NY
I used to work in an office on the 2nd story of 229 Rock Road, Glen Rock, NJ. We were an eclectic group of scientists and used to play practical jokes on each other. We also had a ghost we called the Phantom. Our front door was at the bottom ...
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Silvio's Italian Villa Restaurant
Warwick, New York
25.7 miles from Peekskill, NY
Silvio's Italian Villa Restaurant is housed in a building that originally dates back to the 1700s, was originally inhabited by a Revolutionary War veteran Levi Ellis. After several owners it was purchased by the Vail family, when tragedy struck. In 1972, Roy Vail’s sister was found murdered in 1972, and ...
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Steuben House
River Edge, New Jersey
26.6 miles from Peekskill, NY
Steuben House is a historic Revolutionary landmark. George Washington was headquartered here for 16 days in 1780. But it's also known for a ghost who visited in 1951. Former resident Gen. F.W.A. Von Steuben, according to legend, paid a visit to his former home, sitting in a chair and having ...
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Easton Tower - Red Mill
Fair Lawn, New Jersey
26.7 miles from Peekskill, NY
Easton Tower is a stone and wood frame structure, once an irrigation pump, built in 1900 as part of a scenic park. It now abuts the Saddle River Bikeway. It was named after Edward D. Easton (1856-1915), founder and president of the Columbia Phonograph Company. It is sometimes mistakenly called ...
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Van Cortlandt Park
Peekskill, New York
27.2 miles from Peekskill, NY
Van Cortlandt Park is thought to be haunted. Witnesses say dolls walk, doors close, whispers come from nowhere, and apparitions abound here in the Bronx’s oldest building, Van Cortlandt House. The park, back in 1778, was the site of the Stockbridge Indian Massacre, when British soldiers hunted and killed nearly ...
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Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
Poughkeepsie, New York
27.3 miles from Peekskill, NY
Another cemetery with vague reports of hauntings, but very little in the way of detail is available.
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Reformed Dutch Church of Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie, New York
28 miles from Peekskill, NY
The historic Reformed Dutch Church of Poughkeepsie, built in 1921, is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former caretaker. Witnesses have heard the jingle of his keys and the tap of his fingers on his old office desk; his whistling has been heard in the gym and ...
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Christ Episcopal Church
Poughkeepsie, New York
28.2 miles from Peekskill, NY
Built in 1888, the Christ Episcopal Church is said to be haunted by apparitions and shadows that appear around the altar and elsewhere. One of the ghosts is an older female parishioner who appears in her Sunday clothes, sitting in a pew halfway back. Another is a happy man who ...
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Marist College - Sheahan Hall
Poughkeepsie, New York
29.7 miles from Peekskill, NY
Marist College's Sheahan Hall is said to be haunted by a student named Shelly Sperling, who was killed in 1975 by Louis Acedevo, her rejected suitor.
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Fordham University
Peekskill, New York
29.7 miles from Peekskill, NY
Ghostly activity abounds at Fordham University. Sources say dozens of ghosts reside here, perhaps because it was built on the site of an old hospital. Among the eerie things reported here: In the Administration Building, the phantom smell of cigar smoke has been noted in the halls. At Collins Auditorium, ...
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Vernon Inn
Vernon Township, New Jersey
29.7 miles from Peekskill, NY
Vernon Inn was built around 1833 by John Vandegriff, and it is rumored to be haunted. Witnesses say lights come on and off, doors open and close, and apparitions and shadows have been seen. Ghost investigators turned up many orbs in photographs as well as EVPs of a child's voice.
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Bowne Hall - Dutchess Community College
Poughkeepsie, New York
30 miles from Peekskill, NY
Bowne Hall at Dutchess Community College was built around 1913 as the Nettie Bowne TB Hospital. It is rumored to be haunted by what staff and students have called "strange presences."
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Execution Rocks Light
Port Washington, New York
30 miles from Peekskill, NY
The rocks here were once a place where Revolutionary War criminals and other wrongdoers were executed. They were chained here at low tide and faced a slow, cruel drowning as the tide rose. The rocks were long a danger to ships, so the lighthouse was built in 1847. In the ...
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Clinton Road
West Milford, New Jersey
30.2 miles from Peekskill, NY
Clinton Road begins at Route 23 near Newfoundland and runs 10 miles to Upper Greenwood Lake. The area is said to be traversed by ghosts, odd creatures, devil worshippers, witches, and members of the Ku Klux Klan, and is known for being a spot where murderers choose to dispose of ...
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Hudson River State Hospital
Poughkeepsie, New York
30.4 miles from Peekskill, NY
Hudson River State Hospital was a psychiatric hospital complex from 1873 through the early 2000s. The historic High Victorian Gothic building was abandoned in 2003 and set afire by a lightning strike in 2007. It was purchased by a private owner in 2013. Rumor has it that former patients wander ...
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Dey Mansion
Totowa, New Jersey
30.6 miles from Peekskill, NY
Dey (pronounced "dye") Mansion, formerly known as Bloomsbury Manor, is an 18th-century building that served several times as George Washington's Headquarters during the American Revolution. Witnesses say it is haunted by strange shadows and lights, and often visitors become frightened for no reason at all, especially in the conference room.
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Hazel Towers
Peekskill, New York
31 miles from Peekskill, NY
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.
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Morris-Jumel Mansion
New York, New York
31.5 miles from Peekskill, NY
Morris-Jumel Mansion, some say, is haunted by the ghost of Eliza Jumel, by a grandfather clock that talks, and by a Hessian soldier that comes out of a painting a la the Harry Potter books. The mansion was built in 1765 by Roger Morris, a British Army colonel, and was ...
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Park Lane
Carlstadt, New Jersey
32.4 miles from Peekskill, NY
In the town of Calrstadt, NJ, a cobblestone road on Park Lane is believed to be a meeting place for Ku Klux Klan members a long time ago. A tunnel is buried between the trees and wells which led to the meeting spot of the members. This would be under ...
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Union Cemetery
Easton, Connecticut
32.4 miles from Peekskill, NY
Those who photograph the cemetery have found later that orbs, mists, light rods, and even apparitions have appeared in the photos. One ghost here is known as the White Lady, who is reported to have begun appearing in the late 1940s. Several people have videotaped and photographed her. Some passersby ...
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City College of New York
New York, New York
32.5 miles from Peekskill, NY
Many ghosts are said to have haunted the City College of New York. From as far back as the 1920s, witnesses have seen apparitions of former students and professors. Among those seen have been a student who died in 1918, apparitions wearing clothing from the 1960s or 1970s, and a ...
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Abandoned Factory on Herman Street
East Rutherford, New Jersey
32.6 miles from Peekskill, NY
Local legend has it that a ghost who haunts the abandoned factory will chase away curious passersby who peek into the factory's windows.
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