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It only took 15 minutes for the New York Crystal Palace, a beautiful building made of iron and glass, to be destroyed.

Financially insolvent and falling apart, the building had seen better days. New management attempted to save the beautiful edifice, but its ruin was too far gone. What had once been a glamorous tourist attraction became a decrepit mess.

New York City considered selling it for scraps, or moving the building to Philadelphia, but the screws that kept it together had rusted, making the Crystal Palace too expensive to even take apart. It was almost a blessing when a fire–which was blamed on arson but was more likely the rest of some cost-saving compromises on the gas lines–burned the building to the ground.

But, as the New York Tribune said: “We shall never have another Crystal palace. Its glorious dome . . . is no more; its galleries, its treasures, its magnificent expanses indispensable to the mass-gatherings of this great metropolis–its superb memories are all gone, and gone forever.”

Highlights include:
• PT Barnum’s attempts to save the Crystal Palace
• An elevator safety demonstration that involved repeatedly cutting the cord
• An exclusive gala organized by conmen and ending in a brawl between ultra-wealthy guests
• How a sensation like the Crystal Palace could have been forgotten

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Pictures of the New York Crystal Palace Destroyed

Souvenir coin (source: Museum of the City of New York)

(source: Museum of the City of New York)

Folded souvenir with views of New York buildings, including the Crystal Palace, 1857. (source: Museum of the City of New York)

Folded souvenir with views of New York buildings, 1857. (source: Museum of the City of New York)

Flyer for a sale of relics (source: Museum of the City of New York)

Sources consulted RE: the New York Crystal Palace Destroyed

Books

• The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace 1853-1858 by Edwin G. Burrows (2015)
• The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries by Carolee Inskeep (2000)
• How to See the New York Crystal Palace: Being a Concise Guide to the Principal Objects in the Exhibition as Remodeled, 1854 by the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
• A Day in the New York Crystal Palace and how to Make the Most of it: Being a Popular Companion to the “Official Catalogue,” and A Guide to All the Objects of Special Interest in the New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations by William Carey Richards
• Official Catalogue of the New-York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, 1853
• Art and Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in New York 1853 by Horace Greeley 
• Old New York yesterday & today by Henry Collins Brown, 1922
• New-York in a nutshell by Frederick Saunders
• Valentine’s manual of old New York by Henry Collins Brown, 1919
• New York Crystal Palace: Illustrated Description of the Building
• Fifteen Minutes Around New York by George G. Foster, 1854
• Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park, Volume 1 by Samuel Phillips

Articles

• A Mammoth Tree. NEW-YORK CITY. New York Daily Times (1851-1857); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]09 Aug 1855: 1

Websites

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace#The_Great_Exhibition_of_1851
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latting_Observatory
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Crystal_Palace
• http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/digital-publication/
• https://nypost.com/2018/02/03/nycs-first-architectural-wonder-went-down-in-flames/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Crystal_Palace
  bgc.bard.edu/gallery/exhibitions/3/new-york-crystal-palace-1853
• https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/03/the-crystal-palace-americas-first-worlds-fair-and-bizarre-treasures-of-the-19th-century.html
• https://books.google.com/books?id=XRNBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=crystal+palace+new+york+guide&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCcMVabVJ8elgwTkhoPABQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=crystal%20palace%20new%20york%20guide&f=false
  https://books.google.com/books?id=9ecZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=crystal+palace+new+york+guide&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCcMVabVJ8elgwTkhoPABQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=crystal%20palace%20new%20york%20guide&f=false
• https://lithub.com/the-question-of-homoeroticism-in-whitmans-poetry/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
• https://aleteia.org/2019/10/07/thorvaldsens-christus-was-once-considered-the-most-perfect-statue-of-christ-in-the-world/

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
•  

The New York Crystal Palace: A look at New York City’s ill-fated Crystal Palace, a beautiful structure built on an abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of town.

In the mid-19th century, a castle of glass stood in the wilds of what is now a bustling part of New York City. It was an answer to a similar Crystal Palace in London, which had hosted an exhibition a couple years before.

The Crystal Palace and the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was meant to represent American industry and ingenuity, but ended its days as a decrepit symbol of excess and mismanagement before going up in flames. Here’s part 1 of its story.

Highlights include:
• The story behind how NYC became a tourist destination
• Weird inventions like the “mechanical leech” and the “typeographer”
• The gardener-architect who built the world’s tallest fountain
• A sort of mini Eiffel Tower that sprouted up next to the Crystal Palace

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Pictures of the Crystal Palace

Birds Eye View of the New York Crystal Palace and Environs 1853 (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

Latting Observatory broadside ca. 1853 (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

Latting Observatory from Valentine’s manual of old New York

August Petermann and Karl Gildemeister, designers; August Petermann, lithographer. New York Exhibition Building, 1852. Lithograph. Museum of the City of New York

New York Crystal Palace Illustrated Description of the Building (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

The Crystal Palace Dome (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

New York, 1855. From the Latting Observatory. (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

From New-York in a nutshell by Frederick Saunders

The Crystal Palace Exterior View. Victor Prevost, photographer, New York. 1853–54. Salted paper photograph (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

The New York Crystal Palace and Latting Observatory 1853 (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

Present Appearance of the Crystal Palace (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

From Old New York yesterday & today by Henry Collins Brown, 1922

Birds Eye View of the New York Crystal Palace and Environs 1853 (from http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/)

Sources consulted

Books

• The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace 1853-1858 by Edwin G. Burrows (2015)
• The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries by Carolee Inskeep (2000)
• How to See the New York Crystal Palace: Being a Concise Guide to the Principal Objects in the Exhibition as Remodeled, 1854 by the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
• A Day in the New York Crystal Palace and how to Make the Most of it: Being a Popular Companion to the “Official Catalogue,” and A Guide to All the Objects of Special Interest in the New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations by William Carey Richards
• Official Catalogue of the New-York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, 1853
• Art and Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in New York 1853 by Horace Greeley 
• Old New York yesterday & today by Henry Collins Brown, 1922
• New-York in a nutshell by Frederick Saunders
• Valentine’s manual of old New York by Henry Collins Brown, 1919
• New York Crystal Palace: Illustrated Description of the Building
• Fifteen Minutes Around New York by George G. Foster, 1854
• Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park, Volume 1 by Samuel Phillips

Articles

• A Mammoth Tree. NEW-YORK CITY. New York Daily Times (1851-1857); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]09 Aug 1855: 1

Websites

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace#The_Great_Exhibition_of_1851
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latting_Observatory
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Crystal_Palace
• http://crystalpalace.visualizingnyc.org/digital-publication/
• https://nypost.com/2018/02/03/nycs-first-architectural-wonder-went-down-in-flames/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Crystal_Palace
  bgc.bard.edu/gallery/exhibitions/3/new-york-crystal-palace-1853
• https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/03/the-crystal-palace-americas-first-worlds-fair-and-bizarre-treasures-of-the-19th-century.html
• https://books.google.com/books?id=XRNBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=crystal+palace+new+york+guide&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCcMVabVJ8elgwTkhoPABQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=crystal%20palace%20new%20york%20guide&f=false
  https://books.google.com/books?id=9ecZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=crystal+palace+new+york+guide&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCcMVabVJ8elgwTkhoPABQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=crystal%20palace%20new%20york%20guide&f=false
• https://lithub.com/the-question-of-homoeroticism-in-whitmans-poetry/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
• https://aleteia.org/2019/10/07/thorvaldsens-christus-was-once-considered-the-most-perfect-statue-of-christ-in-the-world/

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery

A look at haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, the second-oldest church still standing in Manhattan, which is full of hauntings both legendary and questionable.

Highlights include:
• A wealthy man’s remains being stolen and held for ransom
• A very grumpy ghost
• An heir who convened with his ancestor’s ghost instead of marrying
• A mysteriously ringing church bell

You can listen to more audio on patreon ($3/month): https://www.patreon.com/buriedsecrets

Follow us on instagram @buriedsecretspodcast

E-mail us at buriedsecretspodcast@gmail.com. 

Pictures of Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery

St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery from Etchings of Old New York, 1875

St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery from Relics of Manhattan (1869) by Eliza Greatorex

Stuyvesant Bowery House from_Etchings of Old New York, 1875

Sources consulted RE: Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery

Books

• Real Hauntings by Hans Holzer (1995)
• This House is Haunted by Hans Holzer (1997)
• Walks in Our Churchyards: Old New York, Trinity Parish By John Flavel Mines · 1896
• Ghosts of Manhattan: Legendary Spirits and Notorious Haunts by Philip Ernest Schoenberg · 2009
• Etchings of Old New York, Illustrations from “Old New York: from the Battery to Bloomingdale” by Eliza Greatorex and M. Despard (1875)
• Relics of Manhattan [electronic resource] : a series of photographs, from pen and ink sketches taken on the spot (1869) by Eliza Greatorex

Websites

• https://www.businessinsider.com/the-haunted-history-of-lower-manhattan-2015-10
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wall-streets-slave-peddli_n_1147314
• https://www.nps.gov/afbg/learn/historyculture/enslavement.htm
• https://peoplesworld.org/article/slavery-in-new-york-uncovering-the-brutal-truth/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
• http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/history.htm
• http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/about_exhibit.htm
• https://www.nps.gov/afbg/learn/historyculture/enslavement.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_New_Netherland
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Kieft
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Amsterdam
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_(Manhattan)
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/06/09/the-top-10-secrets-of-nycs-st-pauls-chapel/?displayall=true
• https://didyouknowfacts.com/the-headless-ghost-of-st-pauls-chapel/
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archivists-mailbag/trees-inside-st-pauls-chapel
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/06/09/the-top-10-secrets-of-nycs-st-pauls-chapel/?displayall=true
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Chapel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark’s_Church_in-the-Bowery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York_(state)#Half-slavery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Blacks_(Manhattan)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_African_Methodist_Episcopal_Zion_Church
• Information about Little Africa and the history of Black people in Greenwich Village: https://greenwichvillage.nyc/blog/2020/02/10/look-black-history-village/
• https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/06/16/burial-remains-tell-the-story-of-new-yorks-little-africa/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/nyregion/in-their-footsteps.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples
• https://untappedcities.com/2015/02/25/today-in-nyc-history-a-1643-massacre-of-the-lenape-almost-dooms-new-amsterdam/
• https://www.ncai.org/resources/resolutions/national-american-indian-holocaust-museum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Burial_Ground_National_Monument
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/trinity-notes/ghosts-trinity
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_Cemetery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Walker_Park
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Burying_Ground
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archives/mummy-trinity-church
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74852371/mary-elizabeth-tisdall
• https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/mary-elizabeth-tisdall/
• https://keithyorkcity.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/st-johns-graveyard-little-leaguers-now-play-ball-above-10000-corpses/
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/st-johns-cemetery/
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/st-marks-in-the-bowery-churchyard-and-cemetery/
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/st-pauls-chapel-churchyard/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/544841964/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/75469677@N00/4420876543/in/set-72157623465293193/
• https://www.6sqft.com/10-offbeat-spots-that-reveal-new-york-citys-haunted-history/
• https://ny.curbed.com/maps/new-york-city-haunted-buildings-halloween
• https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/10/the-ghost-of-peter-stuyvesant-may-still-haunt-the-east-village.html
• https://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/02/02/where-st-johns-old-burying-ground
• https://nypost.com/2014/10/25/the-hidden-cemeteries-of-nyc/
• https://www.6sqft.com/what-lies-below-nycs-forgotten-and-hidden-graveyards/
• https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/05/burying-ground-below-ballfield-james.html
• https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2389220
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_Cemetery
• https://the-line-up.com/haunted-churches
• https://nyghosts.com/st-marks-church-in-the-bowery/
• http://www.weirdus.com/states/new_york/ghosts/st_marks_church/index.php
• https://nyghosts.com/st-marks-church/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2014/07/adam-allyn-comedian-trinity-church-cemetery/
• https://the-line-up.com/ghosts-st-marks-church-in-the-bowery
• https://the-line-up.com/the-headless-ghost-of-st-pauls-chapel
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/06/09/the-top-10-secrets-of-nycs-st-pauls-chapel/?displayall=true
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archivists-mailbag/church-wee-hours
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archivists-mailbag/trees-inside-st-pauls-chapel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark’s_Church_in-the-Bowery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Turney_Stewart
• https://gomadnomad.com/2011/10/25/new-york-city-haunted-cemeteries/
• http://www.liparanormalinvestigators.com/haunted-places-on-li/the-five-boroughs/trinity-church-cemetery/
• http://www.scoutingny.com/the-masked-lady-of-broadway/
  https://nyghosts.com/st-marks-church/
• https://keithyorkcity.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/st-johns-graveyard-little-leaguers-now-play-ball-above-10000-corpses/
• https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/05/burying-ground-below-ballfield-james.html

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City

A look at two of NYC’s oldest and most haunted churches: Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, two famous houses of worship in Manhattan’s Financial District with cemeteries tucked into their churchyards.

Highlights include:
• Disinterring corpses to free up space in the cemetery
• A body (and ghost?) with a missing head
• Edgar Allen Poe’s possible cemetery cottage
• 2:30 am church services
• A child’s Egyptian-style sarcophagus found during a playground’s construction
• A look at some of the forgotten evils that happened in Manhattan

You can listen to more audio on patreon ($3/month): https://www.patreon.com/buriedsecrets

Follow us on instagram @buriedsecretspodcast

E-mail us at buriedsecretspodcast@gmail.com. 

Pictures of Haunted Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel

Ruins of Trinity Church from Etchings of Old New York, Illustrations from “Old New York: from the Battery to Bloomingdale” by Eliza Greatorex and M. Despard (1875)

Trinity Church from Walks in Our Churchyards: Old New York, Trinity Parish By John Flavel Mines · 1896

St. John’s burying ground, from the New York Public Library’s collections

St. John’s burial ground from the New York Public Library’s collections

View of the churchyard of St. Paul’s Chapel from Etchings of Old New York, Illustrations from “Old New York: from the Battery to Bloomingdale” by Eliza Greatorex and M. Despard (1875)

St. Paul’s Chapel from Etchings of Old New York, Illustrations from “Old New York: from the Battery to Bloomingdale” by Eliza Greatorex and M. Despard (1875)

St. Paul’s seen from the south side; from Etchings of Old New York, Illustrations from “Old New York: from the Battery to Bloomingdale” by Eliza Greatorex and M. Despard (1875)

 

 

 

 

 

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Sources consulted RE: Haunted Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel

Books

• Real Hauntings by Hans Holzer (1995)
• This House is Haunted by Hans Holzer (1997)
• Walks in Our Churchyards: Old New York, Trinity Parish By John Flavel Mines · 1896
• Ghosts of Manhattan: Legendary Spirits and Notorious Haunts by Philip Ernest Schoenberg · 2009
• Etchings of Old New York, Illustrations from “Old New York: from the Battery to Bloomingdale” by Eliza Greatorex and M. Despard (1875)
• Relics of Manhattan [electronic resource] : a series of photographs, from pen and ink sketches taken on the spot (1869) by Eliza Greatorex

Websites

• https://www.businessinsider.com/the-haunted-history-of-lower-manhattan-2015-10
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wall-streets-slave-peddli_n_1147314
• https://www.nps.gov/afbg/learn/historyculture/enslavement.htm
• https://peoplesworld.org/article/slavery-in-new-york-uncovering-the-brutal-truth/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
• http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/history.htm
• http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/about_exhibit.htm
• https://www.nps.gov/afbg/learn/historyculture/enslavement.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_New_Netherland
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Kieft
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Amsterdam
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_(Manhattan)
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/06/09/the-top-10-secrets-of-nycs-st-pauls-chapel/?displayall=true
• https://didyouknowfacts.com/the-headless-ghost-of-st-pauls-chapel/
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archivists-mailbag/trees-inside-st-pauls-chapel
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/06/09/the-top-10-secrets-of-nycs-st-pauls-chapel/?displayall=true
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Chapel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark’s_Church_in-the-Bowery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York_(state)#Half-slavery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Blacks_(Manhattan)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_African_Methodist_Episcopal_Zion_Church
• Information about Little Africa and the history of Black people in Greenwich Village: https://greenwichvillage.nyc/blog/2020/02/10/look-black-history-village/
• https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/06/16/burial-remains-tell-the-story-of-new-yorks-little-africa/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/nyregion/in-their-footsteps.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples
• https://untappedcities.com/2015/02/25/today-in-nyc-history-a-1643-massacre-of-the-lenape-almost-dooms-new-amsterdam/
• https://www.ncai.org/resources/resolutions/national-american-indian-holocaust-museum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Burial_Ground_National_Monument
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/trinity-notes/ghosts-trinity
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_Cemetery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Walker_Park
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Burying_Ground
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archives/mummy-trinity-church
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74852371/mary-elizabeth-tisdall
• https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/mary-elizabeth-tisdall/
• https://keithyorkcity.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/st-johns-graveyard-little-leaguers-now-play-ball-above-10000-corpses/
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/st-johns-cemetery/
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/st-marks-in-the-bowery-churchyard-and-cemetery/
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/st-pauls-chapel-churchyard/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/544841964/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/75469677@N00/4420876543/in/set-72157623465293193/
• https://www.6sqft.com/10-offbeat-spots-that-reveal-new-york-citys-haunted-history/
• https://ny.curbed.com/maps/new-york-city-haunted-buildings-halloween
• https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/10/the-ghost-of-peter-stuyvesant-may-still-haunt-the-east-village.html
• https://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/02/02/where-st-johns-old-burying-ground
• https://nypost.com/2014/10/25/the-hidden-cemeteries-of-nyc/
• https://www.6sqft.com/what-lies-below-nycs-forgotten-and-hidden-graveyards/
• https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/05/burying-ground-below-ballfield-james.html
• https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2389220
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_Cemetery
• https://the-line-up.com/haunted-churches
• https://nyghosts.com/st-marks-church-in-the-bowery/
• http://www.weirdus.com/states/new_york/ghosts/st_marks_church/index.php
• https://nyghosts.com/st-marks-church/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2014/07/adam-allyn-comedian-trinity-church-cemetery/
• https://the-line-up.com/ghosts-st-marks-church-in-the-bowery
• https://the-line-up.com/the-headless-ghost-of-st-pauls-chapel
• https://untappedcities.com/2017/06/09/the-top-10-secrets-of-nycs-st-pauls-chapel/?displayall=true
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archivists-mailbag/church-wee-hours
• https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archivists-mailbag/trees-inside-st-pauls-chapel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark’s_Church_in-the-Bowery
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Turney_Stewart
• https://gomadnomad.com/2011/10/25/new-york-city-haunted-cemeteries/
• http://www.liparanormalinvestigators.com/haunted-places-on-li/the-five-boroughs/trinity-church-cemetery/
• http://www.scoutingny.com/the-masked-lady-of-broadway/
  https://nyghosts.com/st-marks-church/
• https://keithyorkcity.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/st-johns-graveyard-little-leaguers-now-play-ball-above-10000-corpses/
• https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/05/burying-ground-below-ballfield-james.html

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City

Paranormal stories about New York City’s Hell Gate abound, from stories about a serial killer living inside the Hell Gate Bridge, to a tale of an encounter with the devil and a possible EVP that Chris just found in a recording from April.

Many of the stories of the Hell Gate center around the grand Hell Gate Bridge, so this episode dives into the bridge’s history, as well as accounts of people sneaking up onto the bridge and exploring it. The episode closes out with a recording that Chris did on the shore alongside the Hell Gate back in April 2020, which Chris thought was just a normal recording, but which maybe actually contains a couple somewhat terrifying EVPs? (Listen to the end for that.)

Highlights include:
• The best place to hide from zombies in NYC
• Other Hell Gates
• The Nazi plot to destroy the Hell Gate bridge
• A funny flaw in the Hell Gate’s paint job

Note: This episode includes brief mentions of suicide.

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Pictures of the Hell Gate Bridge

The Hell Gate Bridge, April 2020

Beneath the Hell Gate Bridge, April 2020

The Hell Gate Bridge, April 2020

The Triboro Bridge (left) and Hell Gate Bridge (right)

The underside of the Hell Gate Bridge, with its red lights, April 2020

The Triboro Bridge with the Hell Gate bridge behind it, April 2020

The Hell Gate Bridge seen from Astoria Park, April 2020

Plaque commemorating the General Slocum Disaster, April 2020

Triboro Bridge seen from near the Hell Gate Bridge, April 2020

The bottom of the Hell Gate bridge, November 2020

Hell Gate mural beneath the Hell Gate bridge in Astoria Park, November 2020

The Hell Gate, with the RFK and Hell Gate Bridge in the distance, November 2020

The Hell Gate and Hell Gate Bridge seen from Astoria Park, November 2020

Sources consulted RE: The Haunted Hell Gate

For more sources consulted, check out The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City.

Websites consulted RE: The Haunted Hell Gate

• https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2010/06/inside-the-hell-gate-bridge/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2009/11/hells-arches-concrete-supports-of-the-hell-gate-bridge-approach/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2010/05/02/hungry-ghosts/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2020/03/03/starved-monsters/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/tag/hell-gate-bridge/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2016/07/11/half-smile/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2016/06/24/vacant-box/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2010/06/05/from-hells-gate-loosed-upon-the-world/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2010/11/30/shocking-coruscations/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2009/06/05/the-river-of-sound/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2009/09/23/the-bright-passage/
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2016/09/30/civic-spirit/
• http://wirednewyork.com/bridges/hell_gate_bridge/
• https://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/you-ain-t-afraid-of-no-ghost-we-ll-see-about-that/article_010ee09d-001f-5505-a643-147da790ecbf.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant
• https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/east-river-shipwrecks/
• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/south-carolina/haunted-oakwood-cemetery-sc/
• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kentucky/kasey-cemetery-ky/
• https://www.haunted-places-to-go.com/haunted-huntsville.html
• https://www.insider.com/urban-legends-us-2018-1#alabama-hells-gate-bridge-1
• http://theghostdiaries.com/places-around-the-world-known-as-the-gates-of-hell/
• https://gothamist.com/news/the-strange-history-of-nycs-mighty-hell-gate
• https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942.htm
• https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/earth-without-people
• https://www.timeout.com/newyork/attractions/hell-gate-bridge
• https://boroughsofthedead.com/hell-gate-bridge-a-great-survivor/
• https://thehauntedjournal.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/hell-gate-bridge/
• https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/earth-without-people
• https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge
• https://ltvsquad.com/2005/05/13/hell-gate-bridge/

Listen to the Ouija board series:

• Ouija Boards Part 1 – Planchette and Automatic Writing
• Helen Peters and Ouida / Invention (Ouija Boards Part 2)
• William Fuld (Ouija Boards Part 3)
• 19th Century Ouija Board Stories / Early Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 4)
• Victorian Egyptomania (Ouija Boards Part 5)
• Ouija after World War I (Ouija Boards Part 6)
• 1920s Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 7)
• More 1920s Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Boards Part 8)
• Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Boards Part 9)

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Playing the Ghost in 19th Century Australia 
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• Quinta da Regaleira Symbolism: The Occult Mysteries of a Portugese Palace and Garden
• Thomas Edison’s Spirit Telegraph
• The Cult of Santa Muerte, aka Saint Death
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• Ancient Egyptian Tomb Raider and Wizard Setne
• Se-Osiris, Ancient Egyptian Wizard
• The Book of Thoth and the First Egyptologist
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City

The General Slocum Disaster: On a summer afternoon in 1904, the General Slocum, a supposedly unsinkable ship carrying about 1,300 people bound for a picnic, caught fire and sank in New York City’s notorious Hell Gate.

The General Slocum disaster was the second-worst maritime disaster in US history and the greatest loss of life in NYC before 9/11. But it’s been largely forgotten. When a church group and their neighbors went on an ill-fated day trip to Long Island, they encountered a disaster of unfathomable proportions, bolstered by greed, incompetence, and cowardice. And they would pay for other people’s mistakes with their own lives.

Over 1,000 people, mostly women and children, died that day, decimating the population of Manhattan’s Little Germany and devastating family members who’d been left behind. While this is an upsetting story, it’s an important one when looking at the Hell Gate’s history, as well as stories of the paranormal in the area.

Note: This episode contains stories about many people–including children–drowning and dying in a fire.

Highlights include:
• Drunk anarchists from Paterson, NJ
• What happened to NYC’s lost neighborhood of Little Germany
• An unsinkable ship that sank 8 years before the Titanic
• Heroic rescue efforts by tugboat captains and hospital employees and patients
• Guilty parties getting away with, if not murder, then manslaughter
• A possibly cursed ship

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Sources consulted RE: The General Slocum Disaster

Websites consulted RE: The General Slocum Disaster

• https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/east-river-shipwrecks/
• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/south-carolina/haunted-oakwood-cemetery-sc/
• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kentucky/kasey-cemetery-ky/
• https://www.haunted-places-to-go.com/haunted-huntsville.html
• https://www.insider.com/urban-legends-us-2018-1#alabama-hells-gate-bridge-1
• http://theghostdiaries.com/places-around-the-world-known-as-the-gates-of-hell/
• https://gothamist.com/news/the-strange-history-of-nycs-mighty-hell-gate
• https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942.htm
• https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/earth-without-people
• https://www.timeout.com/newyork/attractions/hell-gate-bridge
• https://boroughsofthedead.com/hell-gate-bridge-a-great-survivor/
• https://www.stonehengenyc.com/blog/haunted-new-york
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_St._Mark
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Germany,_Manhattan
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Germany,_Manhattan
• https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/06/13/great-slocum-disaster-june-15-1904
• https://antiquephotographics.com/the-general-slocum-disaster-ny-harbor-1904/
• https://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2014/06/14/the-1904-general-slocum-disaster-had-survivors-that-lived-into-the-21st-century/
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-spectacle-of-horror-the-burning-of-the-general-slocum-104712974/
• http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/general-slocum-disaster-photos/
• https://history.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_General_Slocum_victims
• https://www.garemaritime.com/the-general-slocum/
• https://thehauntedjournal.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/hell-gate-bridge/
• https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/earth-without-people
• https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge
• https://ltvsquad.com/2005/05/13/hell-gate-bridge/

Articles RE: The General Slocum Disaster

• TALES OF HORROR TOLD BY SURVIVORS: Eye-Witness Stories of Swift and Awful Panic. FAMILY PARTIES WIPED OUT Mrny Brave Deeds on Board the Doomed Steamboat Amid Scenes of Wild Panic. New York Times (1857-1922); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]16 June 1904: 2.

• GRIEF-CRAZED CROWDS VIEW LINES OF DEAD: Scores Prevented from Throwing Themselves Into River. BOAT LOADS OF BODIES Immense Crowds Weeping and Struggling Seek to Identify Them. MANY PATHETIC INCIDENTS Measures Taken by Officials to Safeguard Interest of Relatives — Over $200,000 in Valuables Found on the Victims. New York Times (1857-1922); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]16 June 1904: 1.

• 1,000 LIVES MAY BE LOST IN BURNING OF THE EXCURSION BOAT GEN. SLOCUM: St. Mark’s Church Excursion Ends in Disaster in East River Close to Land and Safety. 693 BODIES FOUND — HUNDREDS MISSING OR INJURED Flames Following Explosion Drive Scores to Death in the Water. FIERCE STRUGGLES FOR ROTTEN LIFE PRESERVERS The Captain, Instead of Making for the Nearest Landing, Runs the Doomed Vessel Ashore on North Brother Island in Deep Water — Many Thrilling Rescues — Few Men on Board to Stem the Panic of Women and Children.
  New York Times (1857-1922); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]16 June 1904: 1.

Listen to the Ouija board series:

• Ouija Boards Part 1 – Planchette and Automatic Writing
• Helen Peters and Ouida / Invention (Ouija Boards Part 2)
• William Fuld (Ouija Boards Part 3)
• 19th Century Ouija Board Stories / Early Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 4)
• Victorian Egyptomania (Ouija Boards Part 5)
• Ouija after World War I (Ouija Boards Part 6)
• 1920s Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 7)
• More 1920s Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Boards Part 8)
• Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Boards Part 9)

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Playing the Ghost in 19th Century Australia 
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• Quinta da Regaleira Symbolism: The Occult Mysteries of a Portugese Palace and Garden
• Thomas Edison’s Spirit Telegraph
• The Cult of Santa Muerte, aka Saint Death
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• Ancient Egyptian Tomb Raider and Wizard Setne
• Se-Osiris, Ancient Egyptian Wizard
• The Book of Thoth and the First Egyptologist
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC

Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate, New York City: Legend has it that beneath the East River lies millions of dollars in gold.

In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, a British frigate called the HMS Hussar struck a reef and sank to the bottom of the East River. Many people believe that the ship carried an enormous amount of gold as payroll for British soldiers.

Despite its location in the most dangerous waters in the area, treasure hunters have searched for the Hussar in vain for years. One submarine inventor lost his entire fortune in the search for the treasure, while other salvagers have sunk millions into the search. If the treasure is there, it seems that it doesn’t want to be found . . .

Highlights include:
• A loaded cannon found in Central Park in 2013
• Shipworms, aka the “Termites of the Sea”
• Hidden treasure maps found at the New York Public Library
• The inventor of the modern submarine
• The largest explosion before the atomic bomb

Pictures of the Hell Gate

Hallet’s Point and the Hell Gate

The Hell Gate, with the RFK and Hell Gate Bridge in the distance

Hell Gate mural beneath the Hell Gate bridge in Astoria Park

The Hell Gate and Hell Gate Bridge seen from Astoria Park

The bottom of the Hell Gate bridge

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Sources consulted RE: Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate

Articles consulted RE: Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate

• “HUSSAR GOLD QUEST RESUMED BY INVENTOR: SIMON LAKE IN ‘BABY’ SUBMARINE TO INVESTIGATE 3 HULKS FOUND SUNK NEAR HELL GATE.” New York Times (1923-Current file), Aug 06 1935, p. 19. ProQuest. Web. 8 Nov. 2020 .

   

• LAKE’S SUBMARINE FAILS OF LAUNCHING: Mother Ship is Unable to Pull It … Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. New York Times (1923-Current file); Oct 7, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
  pg. 27

   

• LACK OF FUNDS HALTS LAKE’S TREASURE HUNT: His Submarine to Be Auctioned if He Fails to Get $394 to Pay Deckhand. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]21 June 1936: 23.

• HUNT PIECES OF EIGHT.: Lake’s Submarine Retrieves Pail and Clam Shell in East River. New York Times (1923-Current file); Sep 27, 1935;
  ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
  pg. 23

• LAKE THINKS HULK IS TREASURE SHIP: Inventor Believes He Has Found Wreck of Frigate Hussar in East River. CARRIED $1,800,000 GOLD Probing Reveals Hard Timbers in Indicated Position, and Treasury Is Notified. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]26 Sep 1936: 17.

   

• SIMON LAKE AGAIN SUED: Inventor Seeking $4,000,000 Gold In $1,800 Foreclosure Action. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]11 Nov 1936: 2.

   

• Simon Lake’s Home Is Foreclosed. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]06 Mar 1937: 15.

   

• SIMON LAKE GETS RESPITE: Court Grants New Delay in Foreclosure Sale of Milford Home. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]18 Nov 1937: 18.

   

• LYONS OFFERS GOLD TO BOOM THE BRONX: It’s Not His Gold and He Isn’t Even Sure It’s There, but He Believes in Hunting It AT BOTTOM OF EAST RIVER Book Says Frigate Hussar, With $4,000,000 in Bullion Aboard, Sank There in 1780 New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]12 Feb 1940: 18.

• SIMON LAKE DEAD; INVENTOR WAS 78: Father of Modern Submarine Intended Craft Only for Use in Peaceful Pursuits HUNTED SUNKEN TREASURE Lost Fortune Attempting to Salvage Lusitania, Recover Millions in East River Built 100 Craft During the War Experimented in Baltimore Founded Bridgeport Concern Sought Lusitania Treasure Family of Welsh Origin. The New York Times, 1934.New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]24 June 1945: 22.

• Ship of Dreams: Ship of Dreams
  Vanderbilt, Tom.New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]17 Feb 2002: cy1.

Books consulted RE: Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate

• Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Ted Steinberg

• Roosevelt Island By Judith Berdy

Websites RE: Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate

• Devil places: https://spookygeology.com/devil-places/
• Devil places map: https://gizmodo.com/hail-satan-a-map-of-all-the-places-named-after-the-dev-1456016654
• https://gothamist.com/news/the-strange-history-of-nycs-mighty-hell-gate
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge
• https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/HellGateRooseveltIsland-uscs-1891
• Current nautical chart: https://charts.noaa.gov/BookletChart/12339_BookletChart.pdf
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/870743950/
• https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mill-rock-park/history
• 1886 map: https://picryl.com/media/blackwells-wards-and-randalls-islands-and-adjacent-shores-of-east-and-harlem-31f143?zoom=true
• https://vos.noaa.gov/MWL/aug_07/hellgate.shtml
• Hell gate charts:
  https://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/new_york_charts/hell_gate.html
• Removal of Hell Gate rocks:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Hell_Gate_rocks
• The conquest of Hell Gate:
  https://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Portals/37/docs/history/hellgate.pdf
  https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mill-rock-park/history
• https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mill-rock-park/
• Hell gate map 1700s:
  https://picryl.com/media/map-of-new-york-i-with-the-adjacent-rocks-and-other-remarkable-parts-of-hell-cc02a9
• Hell gate pics:
  https://picryl.com/search?q=hell%20gate
• Opening hell gate:
  https://picryl.com/media/opening-hell-gate-at-a-cost-of-dollar7000000-map-course-of-wider-hell-gate-ab9a7f
• Destruction of flood rock: https://picryl.com/media/destruction-of-flood-rock-at-hell-gate-2ef359
• Rev war map: https://picryl.com/media/a-plan-of-the-narrows-of-hells-gate-in-the-east-river-near-which-batteries
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_strait
• https://www.givemeastoria.com/2020/09/17/a-treasure-under-hell-gate/
• https://blogcritics.org/new-york-citys-hell-gate-bridges/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hussar_(1763)
• https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/26/nyregion/in-east-river-a-gold-frigate-and-high-hopes.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/29/weekinreview/the-region-raise-the-hms-hussar.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/nyregion/follow-up-on-the-news-about-that-gold-in-the-east-river.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/nyregion/finding-trash-and-worse-but-so-far-no-ship-with-treasure.html
• http://www.simonlake.com/html/explorer.html
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1934/10/13/hussar
• http://www.simonlake.com/html/explorer.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lake
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/nyregion/ny-harbor-wood-eating-shipworms.html
• https://nypost.com/2004/04/19/worm-warfare-borer-destroying-our-waterfronts/
• https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/07/nyregion/diver-to-explore-east-river-wreck-for-treasure.html
• https://mysteriouswritings.com/the-mystery-and-lost-treasure-of-the-h-m-s-hussar/
• https://numa.net/2019/08/is-hms-hussars-treasure-in-a-landfill/
• http://www.bronxmall.com/cult/film/page4.html
• http://thesimonlakestory.com/
• https://njscuba.net/sites/site_treasure.php

Listen to the Ouija board series:

• Ouija Boards Part 1 – Planchette and Automatic Writing
• Helen Peters and Ouida / Invention (Ouija Boards Part 2)
• William Fuld (Ouija Boards Part 3)
• 19th Century Ouija Board Stories / Early Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 4)
• Victorian Egyptomania (Ouija Boards Part 5)
• Ouija after World War I (Ouija Boards Part 6)
• 1920s Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 7)
• More 1920s Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Boards Part 8)
• Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Boards Part 9)

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Playing the Ghost in 19th Century Australia 
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• Quinta da Regaleira Symbolism: The Occult Mysteries of a Portugese Palace and Garden
• Thomas Edison’s Spirit Telegraph
• The Cult of Santa Muerte, aka Saint Death
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• Ancient Egyptian Tomb Raider and Wizard Setne
• Se-Osiris, Ancient Egyptian Wizard
• The Book of Thoth and the First Egyptologist
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC

A look at the mysterious Gothic lighthouse that stands at the tip of New York City’s Roosevelt Island.

Did a lunatic named Thomas Maxey build the lighthouse? If so, why did a now-missing stone say that an unknown person named John McCarthy built it? Or was it designed by 19th century starchitect, James Renwick, Jr, who was also responsible for St. Patrick’s Cathedral?

There isn’t a lot of good information about this online, but a deep dive into newspaper archives had helped get some answers. Chris shares some theories about the lighthouse, as well as more about the industrious “lunatic,” Thomas Maxey, who may have had a hand in its construction.

Highlights include:
• More about Fort Maxey
• James Renwick, Jr, architect of St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• Drama with the US Lighthouse Board
• Plenty of wild speculation

Pictures of The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse

Seen from the ferry, October 2020

Seen from the ferry, October 2020

Sign at the Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, May 2020

Bollard at the Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, May 2020

Doorway of the Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, May 2020

Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, May 2020

Foliate details, Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, May 2020

Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, May 2020

The lighthouse seen from Hallet’s Cove, Astoria, November 2020

An 1851 nautical chart showing what the northern tip of Blackwell’s Island looked like, overlaid on the island on Google Earth

What the northern end of Roosevelt Island looks like today

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Sources consulted RE: The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse

See the A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC, for additional sources for this episode.

Videos of The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse

Thomas Edison’s 1903 video of Blackwell’s Island, including the lighthouse.

Articles consulted RE: The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse

• The Chicago Evening Mail (Chicago, Illinois) · Thu, Dec 29, 1870 · Page 3
• https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/668142082 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• The Meriden Daily Republican (Meriden, Connecticut) · Thu, Jul 23, 1874 · Page 3. https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/674763408 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• The St. Albans Weekly Messenger (Saint Albans, Vermont) · Fri, Jul 31, 1874 · Page 6 https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/443287342 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• “Facts and Fancies” The Milwaukee Sentinel: July 31, 1874. Page 3.
• Boston Post (Boston, Massachusetts) · Sat, Jul 25, 1874 · Page 4 https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/74392312 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• Wayne County Herald (Honesdale, Pennsylvania) · Thu, Aug 6, 1874 · Page 1
  https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/362447557 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• Fort Maxey, Wednesday, July 19, 1865, New Haven Palladium, 25 , Issue 179
• The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) · Wed, Jul 19, 1871 · Page 8 https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/167861583 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• Black River Gazette (Ludlow, Vermont) · Fri, Jan 13, 1871 · Page 1
  https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/355365618 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• The Times (Streator, Illinois) · Wed, Sep 11, 1889 · Page 1
  https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/543479332 Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
• FOR HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS: SACEESTIOUS AT A MEETING OT THE PILOT COMMISSIONERS
  New York Times (1857-1922); Dec 30, 1896; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 8
• A Blackwell’s Island Stampede. New York Herald. April 30, 1873
• Paid for Twice. The Evening World (New York, New York) · Wed, Apr 24, 1889 · Page 1 https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/78637510 Downloaded on Oct 30, 2020
• In the Court of Special . . . New York Tribune. August 8, 1870
  “On a flagstone in front of the lighthouse. . .” New York NY Press 1909 – 1257

Books consulted RE: The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse

• Annual Report of the Light-House Board of the United States to the Secretary … By United States. Light-House Board

• Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Ted Steinberg

• The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, Volumes 24-25: Practical Lessons in Bricklaying

• Roosevelt Island By Judith Berdy

• Buffalo Law Review Volume 43 Number 2 Article 3. 10-1-1995. Forbidden Spectacle: Executions, the Public and the Press in Nineteenth Century New York Michael Madow
  
  

Websites RE: The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard

• Dock Construction Guide

• Sticks & Stones – A Traditional Les Cheneaux Crib Dock Replacement Project

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090517003017/http://nyc10044.com/timeln/timeline.html

• The Lighthouse

• https://gothamist.com/news/the-strange-history-of-nycs-mighty-hell-gate

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge

• https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/HellGateRooseveltIsland-uscs-1891

• Current nautical chart: https://charts.noaa.gov/BookletChart/12339_BookletChart.pdf

• https://lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=75

• https://www.liboatingworld.com/single-post/2018/05/30/Exploring-NYs-East-River-Some-of-Its-Rich-History

• https://www.us-lighthouses.com/blackwell-island-lighthouse

• The Lighthouse

• https://rioc.ny.gov/179/The-Lighthouse

• Mysteries of Roosevelt Island: The Madman’s Lighthouse

• http://www.correctionhistory.org/rooseveltisland/

• http://www.correctionhistory.org/rooseveltisland/html/chapincards4.html#lite2

• http://www.correctionhistory.org/rooseveltisland/html/rooseveltislandtour_lighthouse.html

• https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/10/mysterious-blackwell-island-lighthouse.html

• The Lighthouses of NYC

• https://rihs.us/2020/09/

• https://www.stonehengenyc.com/blog/Roosevelt-Island-Day-Trip?_escaped_fragment_=#!

• Lighthouse Park Roosevelt Island 900 Main Street New York, NY 10044

• https://www.nps.gov/places/blackwell-s-island-new-york-city.htm

• Lighthouse pics: https://www.loc.gov/item/ny0953/

• Landmarks commission report: http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/LIGHTHOUSE-ROOSEVELT-IS.pdf

• https://rihs.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-August-Blackwells-Almanac.pdf

• Tuesday, September 1, 2020 -SOME WONDERFUL LIGHTHOUSES NEARBY

• The Lighthouse

• https://joebrunoonthemob.wordpress.com/tag/the-whyos/

• https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mill-rock-park/history

• https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/july17/nop08-historical-maps-charts.html

• 1903 pic of lighthouse and island:
  https://picryl.com/media/panorama-of-blackwells-island-ny

• 1886 map: https://picryl.com/media/blackwells-wards-and-randalls-islands-and-adjacent-shores-of-east-and-harlem-31f143?zoom=true

• http://www.correctionhistory.org/rooseveltisland/html/rooseveltislandtour_lighthouse.html

• http://americanyc.org/documents/10184/57129/AYC+2013+Spring+Cruising+Notes+Final.pdf/6594f92b-dc97-46ad-95fb-d6ee8c5a8b38?version=1.0

• https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/downloads/1z40kt09r?filename=Dissertation_final_Libra.pdf

• Report of the Welfare Island Planning and Development Committee : submitted to John V. Lindsay, Mayor, City of New York, February 1969. by Welfare Island Planning and Development Committee. https://archive.org/details/reportofwelfarei00welf/page/30/mode/2up?q=mccarthy

   

• https://rioc.ny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/56/New-York-1960s-Chap-8-PDF

• https://daniel-lanciana.medium.com/new-york-icons-harbor-islands-cdfe3097c66c

• To Be Sane Amongst the Insane

• http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Blackwell%27s_Island_Asylum

• CHARLES DICKENS VISIT • AN ISLAND IN THE MIST • ARTWORKS FOR SALE

• Nellie Bly: Charles Dickens’ Visit to Blackwell’s Island Asylum 1842 – Part 4

• https://www.melinadruga.com/blackwellsislandasylum/

• ROOSEVELT ISLAND 2005

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_Island_Light

• https://lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=753

• https://vos.noaa.gov/MWL/aug_07/hellgate.shtml

Listen to the Ouija board series:

• Ouija Boards Part 1 – Planchette and Automatic Writing
• Helen Peters and Ouida / Invention (Ouija Boards Part 2)
• William Fuld (Ouija Boards Part 3)
• 19th Century Ouija Board Stories / Early Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 4)
• Victorian Egyptomania (Ouija Boards Part 5)
• Ouija after World War I (Ouija Boards Part 6)
• 1920s Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 7)
• More 1920s Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Boards Part 8)
• Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Boards Part 9)

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Playing the Ghost in 19th Century Australia 
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• Quinta da Regaleira Symbolism: The Occult Mysteries of a Portugese Palace and Garden
• Thomas Edison’s Spirit Telegraph
• The Cult of Santa Muerte, aka Saint Death
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• Ancient Egyptian Tomb Raider and Wizard Setne
• Se-Osiris, Ancient Egyptian Wizard
• The Book of Thoth and the First Egyptologist
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC

In the mid-19th century, Thomas Maxey, a patient at the New York Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, built Fort Maxey, a strange structure complete with cannons, a garden of tall flowers, and mysterious carvings.

The infamous New York Lunatic Asylum has its share of chilling stories. But one odd, forgotten story is the tale of a mysterious man who took it upon himself to build a bizarre, hobbit-hole like “fort,” which included a bridge, a bizarre stone gateway, and a toll for curious visitors.

Thomas Maxey, the “lunatic” who built the structure single-handedly, believed that the government would one day realize how valuable the fort was and purchase it from him. But in the meantime, he lived in the fort himself, surrounding himself with hollyhocks and broken weapons, donning pretty hats, and regaling his guests with stories about mythology and the ancients.

Highlights include:
• An infamous lunatic asylum
• An “insane” man who seems smarter than most sane people
• People being committed to the asylum for no reason
• Nellie Bly’s gutsy investigative reporting
• Some follow-up on the Luxor, and magical triangles

“At the farthest extremity of the Island the ground on which [Fort Maxey] stands has been rescued from the grasp of Neptune by the . . . endeavors only of its proprietor, whose name is given to the structure—Thomas Maxey, Esq., architect, mason, carpenter, civil engineer, philosopher, and philanthropist.”
-from an article in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, from February 1866

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Pictures of Fort Maxey

Within Fort Maxey-Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Volume 126 December 1865 to May 1866

Grand Entrance to Fort Maxey, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. March 24, 1866

Gateway To Fort Maxey, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Volume 126 December 1865 to May 1866

Unwanted Visitors-Fort Maxey. Frank Leslie’s llustrated_Newspaper. March 24, 1866

Sources consulted RE: Fort Maxey Blackwell’s Island

Books consulted RE: Fort Maxey Blackwell’s Island

• Damnation Island : Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horne

• Ten days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly (1887): https://archive.org/details/3304680.med.yale.edu

• American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/675/675-h/675-h.htm

• Architecture of Madness: https://ia601204.us.archive.org/21/items/ArchitectureOfMadness/ArchitectureOfMadness.pdf

• The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York by Junius Henri Browne, 1869: https://archive.org/details/greatmetropolism00browuoft/page/8/mode/2up?q=blackwell%27s

Websites RE: Fort Maxey Blackwell’s Island

• Great pics of the asylum: https://www.theruin.org/blog/2016/10/12/the-new-york-city-lunatic-asylum-a-history
• https://quiverquotes.com/2017/05/03/to-be-sane-amongst-the-insane/
• http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Blackwell%27s_Island_Asylum
• https://rihs.us/2020/03/30/charles-dickens-visit-%E2%80%A2-an-island-in-the-mist-%E2%80%A2-artworks-for-sale/
• https://lisawallerrogers.com/2009/01/03/charles-dickens-visit-to-blackwells-island-asylum-1842/
• https://www.melinadruga.com/blackwellsislandasylum/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2005/10/roosevelt-island-2005/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_Island_Light
• https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/dancing-at-the-lunatics-ball-on-blackwells-island/
• http://www.hauntingdarkness.com/2012/01/ghosts-of-roosevelt-island.html
• “BLACKWELL’S ISLAND LUNATIC ASYLUM.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Feb1866, Vol. 32 Issue 189, preceding p274-294. 22p. 20 Illustrations:
  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Volume 126 December 1865 to May 1866: https://archive.org/details/harpersnew32various/page/290/mode/2up?q=fort+maxey
• Article page 184: https://archive.org/details/harpersweekly00bonn/page/184/mode/2up?q=blackwell%27s
• Article page 91: https://archive.org/details/harpersweeklyv13bonn/page/91/mode/2up?q=blackwell%27s
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/roosevelt-island-lighthouse
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/rooseveltisland/html/rooseveltislandtour_lighthouse.html
• https://rihs.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-August-Blackwells-Almanac.pdf
• https://www.loc.gov/item/ny0949/
• https://www.loc.gov/item/ny0953/
• https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2007/10/mysteries-of-roosevelt-island-madmans.html
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2005/10/roosevelt-island-2005/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_Island_Light
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/islands-of-the
• undesirables-roosevelt-island-blackwell-s-island
• https://lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=753
• https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/an-afternoon-at-blackwells-light
• Harper’s Weekly Archives: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=harpersweekly
• HARPER’S WEEKLY. A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. / Volume IX, Issue 466:
  https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/h/harpersweekly/harpersweekly-idx?coll=harpersweekly;type=HTML;rgn=DIV1;id=;byte=10925913

Listen to the Ouija board series:

• Ouija Boards Part 1 – Planchette and Automatic Writing
• Helen Peters and Ouida / Invention (Ouija Boards Part 2)
• William Fuld (Ouija Boards Part 3)
• 19th Century Ouija Board Stories / Early Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 4)
• Victorian Egyptomania (Ouija Boards Part 5)
• Ouija after World War I (Ouija Boards Part 6)
• 1920s Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 7)
• More 1920s Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Boards Part 8)
• Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Boards Part 9)

Don’t miss our past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Playing the Ghost in 19th Century Australia 
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• Quinta da Regaleira Symbolism: The Occult Mysteries of a Portugese Palace and Garden
• Thomas Edison’s Spirit Telegraph
• The Cult of Santa Muerte, aka Saint Death
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• Ancient Egyptian Tomb Raider and Wizard Setne
• Se-Osiris, Ancient Egyptian Wizard
• The Book of Thoth and the First Egyptologist
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2