The Ghostly Albany Library Patron
The Albany Free Library was founded in 1900 and became the Albany Public Library in 1922 following a merger with a publicly-fu8nded branch. It moved into its current main building in 1977, a former facility operated by the IRS. It serves to coordinate library resources for the capital region and upper Hudson River Valley area….
Read More »Did I See a Ghost?
I have been doing ghost walks since 2005 and started an all-year-round ghost company in 2006. In all these years, I remained a skeptic of the ghostly experience except on two occasions. In 2005, when I first started doing ghost walks and I still did them personally, I ended a tour at the cellar of…
Read More »Harry Houdini in NYC
NYC Walks Blog 17 Harry Houdini in NYC © 2018 by Philip Ernest Schoenberg, Ph. D. 
Introduction When his father’s rabbi gig ended in Appleton, Wisconsin, the family returned to Lower East Side of Manhattan. One of the many jobs that Harry did was working as…
Is Grant’s Tomb Haunted
Ghosts of New York Blog 16 Is Grant’s Tomb Haunted? © 2018 by Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg. Ghost with a Blog #ghosts 
Far to the south of Albany overlooking the Hudson River is haunted site in New York City. Ulysses S. Grant, the leading Union General, was…
Ghosts of New Haven Blog 14 Sergeant Stubby Standing Tall at the New Haven Green
Ghosts of New Haven Blog 14 Sergeant Stubby Gets His Own Animated Adventure © 2018 By Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg, Ghost with a Blog It is not often you get a local hero glorified and it a dog no less! Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero is a 2018 computer-animated adventure film centering on the real-life…
Read More »The Ghost Ship of the Hudson River
Ghosts of Albany Blog 12 The Ghost Ship of the Hudson River © 2018 by Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg, Ghost with a Blog #ghost 
It was noised about New Amsterdam, in the days of Governor Peter Stuyvesant of yore, that a round and bulky ship flying Dutch…
Charles Hoy Fort
Ghosts of Albany Blog 7 Charles Hoy Fort © 2017 by Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg, Ghost with a Blog #ghost 
Perhaps not coincidentally, Albany was the birthplace of Charles Hoy Fort, an American writer and researcher into “anomalous phenomena” – that is, the unexplained. Today, the…
The Haunted Ten Broeck Mansion
Among the many handsome old houses on Arbor Hill’s Ten Broeck Avenue is one tall brownstone that is the site of a very unusual haunting, the Ten Broeck Mansion.. The ghost that walks its uppermost floors seems to have no connection to the building itself. A gentleman named George Dawson built the house, with…
Read More »The Lincoln Funeral Train
Abraham Lincoln’s death train has been reported inside New York City’s limits, even inside Grand Central Station, though it did not exist at the time. Before there was a Grand Central, there were rail tracks on Fourth or Park Avenue. In April 1865, Abraham Lincoln’s body began a funeral journey from Washington, D.C., via New…
Read More »Samuel Abbott Still Keeps Watch Over the Capitol
In March 29, 1911, in the early morning hours, while the New York State Capitol building was empty, a great fire occurred. At this time the New York State library was housed in the building on the 4th and 5th floors where the fire occurred along with the assembly and it was decimated in…
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