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
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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
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- 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/
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark’s_Church_in-the-Bowery
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Turney_Stewart
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- 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
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