He says he felt the rush of hot air from the engine and the gray-haired man vanished, leaving his black hat on the floor of the terminal.įrequented by the rich and famous and with its vibrant movie and theater scene it is no surprise that New York City has celebrity ghosts. Yet then, the agent said a steam whistle blew and a steam locomotive chugged along the electric tracks. The agent told the man there was no such train only the 11:58 PM from Croton-on-the Hudson and the 12:02 AM from New Haven. I have committed too many crimes against man and sins against heaven.” The door to the elevator is welded closed but it’s said that Roosevelt’s faithful hound Fala can be heard barking and that the ex-President himself is not far behind.Īnother story from the Manhattan landmark is that one night a gray-haired man in a black hat approached the on-duty station agent declaring, “the midnight train to hell is coming for me. Roosevelt’s private entry into the city where he could avoid the press. Along with these secrets are spooks and even the specter of an old locomotive.Īt Grand Central Station there is a platform with a secret entrance and an elevator that leads straight into the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There have also been ghosts reported nearby at No 17 and No 18.Ī popular destination for ghost walks, Grand Central Station is a maze of underground tracks and tunnels some of them very secret ones. A musician and photographer who has lived next door to the house for 20 years have had guests run out after seeing a lady in a gown…and a cat. Paranormal investigators and mediums confirm the presence of a lady in white, a young child, and the specter of a grey cat. The actress and author died just weeks after completing the manuscript for her book about the house and as per the New York Post felt the house had poisoned her. Bartell also writes of hauntings at 16 West 10th Street, when she lived in that house, next door. One resident, actress Jan Bryant Bartell, wrote of the paranormal goings-on in her 1974 book including her experience of a presence at the house she describes as a “monstrous moving shadow.” And, seven years of what she says was psychological and sometimes physical torment inflicted by the property’s otherworldly inhabitants. The brownstone home in Washington Square Park was built in the 1850s and transformed into 10 apartments in 1937. A mother and daughter reported having seen the author sitting in a chair in the 1930s, he spoke to them and then vanished. Some report having seen the ghost of Mark Twain himself, in his signature white suit, climbing the staircase in the building and on the first floor. Mark Twain lived at 14 West 10 th Street between 19 and said he had experienced supernatural goings-on at the house, over a century ago. It is also the location of murder-suicide. At 14 West 10 th Street six-year-old Lisa Steinberg was beaten to death by her reportedly illegally adoptive father, well-known attorney Joel Steinberg, in 1987. 14 West 10 th Street, Greenwich VillageĪ townhouse looking like many others in the area, but this one has plenty of gruesome history, it is often called “The House of Death.” It carries the title credited by some, as the “most haunted building in New York,” and could have as many as 22 ghosts.
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