Boroughs of the Dead is proud to announce that two of its guides are featured in the upcoming Morris-Jumel Mansion Anthology of Paranormal and Fantasy Fiction, published by Riverdale Books. The anthology features fourteen tales set in the Morris-Jumel Mansion,...
Depe Dene Manor is a haunted mansion in Lake George, NY. It was built in 1892, and its first owner was Captain Dennison. Rumor has it that the secret tunnels built into some of the bedrooms were built so Captain Dennison could spy on the maids because he was paranoid...
The following guest post comes to us courtesy of Boroughs of the Dead guide Marie Carter, who leads our “Haunting Histories and Legends of Astoria” tour. Marie is a resident of Queens and an avid explorer of the borough. Her next Astoria tour is August...
Periodically, we like to run profiles to showcase the hard work of New Yorkers who are dedicated to the history and archaeology of this city. Mary French runs the NYC Cemetery Project, an incredible blog that actually has real writing, and information, and images...
Sometimes at Boroughs of the Dead, we happen upon fellow New Yorkers whose interests are so in-tune with our own, we just have to get to know them. Will Ellis, founder of the blog Abandoned NYC and author of the book by the same name, was one such as these. We chatted...
I’ve been reading a lot about Titanic lately, as I do around this time every year, and one of my favorite surprising recent discoveries has been that the real “Unsinkable Molly Brown” is actually far, far more interesting than movies and TV...
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