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Explore 60 haunted places in New York. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Cooperstown, New York · Historic house
Hyde Hall's haunting tradition often centers on builder George Clarke, who died in 1835 and is said to have remained at his mansion. The Trail describes footsteps, whispers, unexplained knocking and distant music, along with reports of full-bodied apparitions. Its ghost tours combine these older family stories with later visitor accounts.
Buffalo, New York · Other
A former Buffalo church and funeral home has become both a neighborhood museum and a destination for organized paranormal investigations.
Tarrytown, New York · Hotel
King House's legend identifies Sybil Harris King as a white-clad figure lingering near Room 293, where she is said to have died. Guests report pacing in the second-floor corridor, faint shadows and unexplained sounds. The Trail attributes these experiences to the former resident rather than establishing a verified identity for the apparition.
New York City, New York · Historic house
In Manhattan’s preserved Tredwell family home, museum stories center on Gertrude, the daughter who remained until 1933. Unexplained voices, smells and sightings accompany rooms still furnished with family possessions. Daytime museum admission and separately arranged ghost tours offer different ways to experience the house.
New York City, New York · Historic house
Manhattan’s oldest surviving residence has a ghost-story tradition strong enough that the museum hosts paranormal investigations inside its period rooms.
Lyons, New York · Prison
The former county jail's central ghost story concerns William Fee, executed there in 1860. The Trail's brochure suggests his presence may still linger along the cellblock, where original inmate drawings survive. The museum's present investigation programs also invite visitors to consider reported presences attributed more broadly to former prisoners, sheriffs and residents.
Albany, New York · Other
The Capitol's official haunting tours recount the deadly 1911 fire and the night watchman who died inside, along with unexplained-occurrence traditions surrounding the building. Another enduring tale concerns the carved 'Secret Demon' near the Great Western Staircase. The site's program treats these as folklore and architectural mysteries woven into a working seat of government.
Kingston, New York · Cemetery
Kingston's Old Dutch Church has a hobgoblin legend: a troublesome creature followed a minister's boat up the Hudson and became trapped in the church tower while retrieving its cap. VISITvortex reports that a former pastor acknowledged haunting traditions while noting the tale's architectural timing problem. This is church folklore, distinct from the cemetery's costumed living-history performances.
Fort Edward, New York · Other
Staff and other visitors report a Revolutionary War soldier on the Old Fort House's upper floor. The Trail also says visitors have captured images they interpret as spectral residents while touring the house. Its ghost programs explore these accounts among rooms used by successive generations of occupants since the eighteenth century.
Schoharie, New York · Other
At the former church fortified during the Revolution, visitors report a presence resisting their climb upstairs, a woman's scream from the tower and figures at the library doorway. Footsteps are heard on an empty second floor. The Trail also recounts a televised investigation during which the organ reportedly began to play on its own.
Lockport, New York · Other
Tenants, former workers and investigators tell of presences in the Western Block's canal-side buildings. The most specific recorded account on the Trail is a voice interpreted as warning investigators to leave because of fire, heard in areas connected with past blazes. The complex's ghost programs relate these reports to its industrial and canal-era occupants.
Binghamton, New York · Other
Apparitions in period clothing reportedly watch visiting groups from a distance in the Phelps Mansion. A clock is said to chime despite never being wound. Staff and visitors also describe moving objects, doors opening and closing and footsteps with nobody nearby; some interpret the experiences as Sherman Phelps still watching over his home.
Albion, New York · Theater
In the former veterans' meeting room, visitors describe a watchful presence guarding the hallway and stairs. The adjacent opera house has stories of figures near the ticket booth and coal stoves, and faint piano notes recalling past entertainers. The Trail presents these as impressions and accounts from investigators across the connected historic buildings.
Niagara Falls, New York · Hotel
Guests report jewelry moving across dressers, music in the night and footsteps or dancing overhead even in top-floor rooms. The Trail also repeats a tragic newlywed-ghost legend about a bride and groom who died on their wedding day. The identities and events behind that legend are not independently established in this research.
Binghamton, New York · Other
In a 2019 incident recounted by the Trail, a staff member and family decorating upstairs late at night heard a man clear his throat below after everyone else had gone. They interpreted it as the privacy-loving Alonzo Roberson signaling that it was time to leave. This story joins other staff and visitor encounters in the mansion's ghost tours.
East Bethany, New York · Hospital
At Rolling Hills Asylum, investigators book time in the old county-home corridors to pursue reports of shadows, voices and footsteps.
Saratoga Springs, New York · Other
Canfield Casino visitors tell of a woman in Victorian dress who speaks briefly before vanishing. Other accounts involve cigar smoke in smoke-free rooms, displaced objects and a garbage-can lid lifting by itself. The museum director told the Trail that activity increased after an exhibit of deceased residents’ clothing opened; staff share these experiences on ghost tours.
Batavia, New York · Other
Seymour Place's bar-area stories feature a tall man in nineteenth-century clothing, sometimes accompanied by a group of men. One visitor reported a seat indenting as if occupied and the smell of cigar smoke. Investigators interpret recordings as throat-clearing and short replies; upstairs, two witnesses separately described a white shadow crossing between rooms.
South Warwick, New York · Other
At this restaurant in an old mansion, staff and diners describe a little girl's apparition, doors opening unaided and objects disappearing. Investigators report voices on recordings and unexplained lights; rapidly wilting flowers also feature in the story. Table 24 is singled out in local accounts as a place where diners sometimes experience unusual activity.
Syracuse, New York · Other
At the ruined quarry and former munitions site, visitors report distant voices and footsteps. The most distinctive legend is the sound of the old Crusher's engine revving although the machinery is silent and derelict. The Trail links these stories with the deadly 1918 explosion, without establishing who or what caused the later sounds.
Mexico, New York · Other
Witnesses at Starr Clark's former tin shop report shadowy shapes, voices and the sensation of being touched. The Trail attributes investigation interest to the PIT Cru group. The preserved shop's Underground Railroad history provides context for the building, but the reported presences are not established as any particular people who sheltered there.
Cortland, New York · Other
Visitors and staff at Chester Wickwire's mansion report footsteps in an otherwise empty house, moving shadows, knocking and doors opening or shutting. Human silhouettes are said to appear at the windows. The Trail says these experiences are attributed to former occupants, though its account does not securely identify a particular figure behind each phenomenon.
Cazenovia, New York · Hotel
Guests at the Scottish-style inn have described a girl in a long blue dress offering to show them to their rooms. Other accounts place a man and woman walking through closets and lights drifting through canopy beds. The Trail presents these as the Brae Loch's recurring visitor stories rather than identifying the figures as verified former residents.
Newark, New York · Other
The Fox sisters' Hydesville cottage became famous in 1848 for raps allegedly answering the family's questions. In the story, the sounds identified a murdered peddler called Charles B. Rosna. The original house is gone, but the Trail says visitors still listen for knocks at its surviving foundation, now a memorial to the origins of Modern Spiritualism.