The White House by Moonlight written by Walt Whitman Illustrated by James Ransome
Ghosts of Scary DC Blog 24 The White House by Moonlight written by Walt Whitman Illustrated by James Ransome © 2008 by National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
Senator Harry Truman on the Job on Capitol Hil
Senator Harry S Truman was such a hard worker that he set a demanding pace that few subordinates could match. Senator Truman arrived at the Capitol so early that the cleaning staff gave him own set of keys so he could get into the building. Secret Servicemen found it hard to keep up with his…
Read More »Theodosia Burr, Ghost of Two Cities
One of the most intriguing stories in Charleston, South Carolina is the mysterious disappearance of Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr. She was married to Governor Joseph Alston, one of the most wealthy and powerful men in South Carolina in his day. The deed in her name…
Read More »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…
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…
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,…
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…
