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Ghosts of the Sea

When April comes, I begin to think of the Titanic. The tragic maritime disaster with its ghostly whiff of unfinished business, why, it just inflames my imagination, let me tell you. And living in New York City, we have something of a special claim to the story — along with Belfast, Southampton, and Halifax, New York is one of the …Continue reading →

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April 11, 2013 Thursday at 11:34 am

Ghosts of the Titanic

One hundred and one years ago this April 12, the royal mail ship Titanic made her ill-fated maiden voyage across the Atlantic. She was destined for New York City’s Pier 59. New York never saw the Titanic, but the city still harbored a fair share of its memories – and of its ghosts. On Jane Street in the West Village …Continue reading →

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April 2, 2013 Tuesday at 5:22 pm

Brooklyn Ghosts: Cobble Hill

Found this great post over at the Bowery Boys, telling a Brooklyn ghost story I’d never heard before. And it’s thoroughly awesome. According to Henry Reed Stiles’ 1869 history of Brooklyn, the following event transpired one night in the 1820s, in a rowdy little tavern on Red Hook Lane: “One evening at around 11 p.m., the men at the converted …Continue reading →

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March 22, 2013 Friday at 9:00 pm

Frightening Favorites

This is a decidedly non-New York post, but lately I’ve been thinking about some of my favorite (fictional) ghost stories, and I realized that some of them aren’t even ghost stories at all. They’re just strange, and eerie, and unsettling, and if you ever get a chance to hunt them do, by all means do. One of my particular favorites …Continue reading →

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March 12, 2013 Tuesday at 2:09 am

Haunted Hell’s Kitchen

  New Years’ Eve is almost upon us, so what better time to tell a few ghostly yarns involving bars? There are many reportedly haunted bars and taverns in New York City, and many of their stories are well-known by now: The White Horse Tavern, The Bridge Cafe, McSorley’s, and the Ear Inn all have their share of ghosts. But …Continue reading →

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December 30, 2012 Sunday at 5:29 pm

The Most Haunted House in Greenwich Village

14 West 10th Street, located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, on one of the Village’s most picturesque blocks. It is perhaps no wonder, then, that it is incredibly haunted. After all, it seems almost too good to be true… Mark Twain lived at this address from 1900 – 1901 and if you visit it you will see a small bronze …Continue reading →

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December 20, 2012 Thursday at 9:15 pm

The Ghost of An Idea, Pt. 2

In yesterday’s post, I talked about the connection between ghosts and Christmas. Here’s the exciting conclusion! Here’s where the ghosts come in and also where things get a little murky. Why ghosts? Did Dickens single-handedly invent this idea? Or was it yet another old tradition revived? It’s a bit hard to tell. Although Mummers plays and mystery plays had been …Continue reading →

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December 15, 2012 Saturday at 10:01 pm

The Ghost of An Idea

In my last post, I talked about the link between Christmas and ghosts, but to many people in the United States (where I live), the connection between yuletide jollity and the telling of frightening tales seems strange and incongruous. The only single connection that can even tenuously be made is A Christmas Carol; otherwise, the two things hardly seem to …Continue reading →

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December 14, 2012 Friday at 6:58 pm

Ghosts, Christmas and New York City

We in New York City are lucky enough to have had some jolly old Dutch forefathers, who brought the holiday with them. When the British took over the colony in the 1660s, their children envied the Dutch boys and girls who got presents every December 6th and begged their parents to follow suit. Then in 1823 Clement Clark Moore wrote …Continue reading →

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December 13, 2012 Thursday at 7:05 pm

Boroughs of the Dead

“Like the best of the pulps, the narratives are creepy, darkly comical and elegantly composed, with lovingly detailed descriptions of place and an ample whiff of lurid decay.” – FANGORIA                      Imbued with the chilling undertone that inhabits all of New York’s five boroughs, BOROUGHS OF THE DEAD is an entertaining, varied and infectious take on things that go bump …Continue reading →

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November 14, 2012 Wednesday at 9:00 pm

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Boroughs of the Dead

Boroughs of the Dead is a New York City walking tour company with a macabre bent. Our walks are based on the city’s ghastly histories and ghostly legends, which are surprisingly abundant in a metropolis often considered too busy, too modern, for ghosts. But look around, and listen. They’re still here.

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