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toddatteberry  > The Macabre > Haunted Houses
Places where things go bump in the night, and sometimes during the day.
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toddatteberry > Peace and Plenty Inn (Chichester Inn) ca. 1680 Mount Misery Melville, New York The Peace and Plenty Inn sits on Mt. Misery, Just down from the highest point on Long Island, Jayne's Hill, more or less as it has since 1680. It was built on a coaching route, and once had Walt Whitman who grew up just down the road as a guest. It was also one of Teddy Roosevelt's favorite watering holes. One of the curious features of the place is a hinged wall which could be opened for town meetings, and other occasions which wanted more room. The inn was in the Chichester family, whose name is attached to the road on which it sits. Supposedly the ghost of Asa Chichester still roams the building, now a private home. Asa was the family member who had to close down the Inn, when a new road to Huntington took away most of their business. Perhaps it's guilt over closing the family business which causes Asa to remain. Asa is probably a poltergeist, who makes his presence known through his actions rather than appearances. One can assume, that if all the reported ghosts of Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow get together, Asa is pulling the tap.
toddatteberry > Peace and Plenty Inn ca. 1680 Mount Misery Melville, New York The Peace and Plenty Inn sits on Mt. Misery, Just down from the highest point on Long Island, Jayne's Hill, more or less as it has since 1680. It was built on a coaching route, and once had Walt Whitman who grew up just down the road as a guest. It was also one of Teddy Roosevelt's favorite watering holes. One of the curious features of the place is a hinged wall which could be opened for town meetings, and other occasions which wanted more room. The inn was in the Chichester family, whose name is attached to the road on which it sits. Supposedly the ghost of Asa Chichester still roams the building, now a private home. Asa was the family member who had to close down the Inn, when a new road to Huntington took away most of their business. Perhaps it's guilt over closing the family business which causes Asa to remain. Asa is probably a poltergeist, who makes his presence known through his actions rather than appearances. One can assume, that if all the reported ghosts of Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow get together, Asa is pulling the tap.
toddatteberry > The Country House Restaurant Stony Brook, New York c. 1710 The Country House Restaurant in Stony Brook has been called the most romantic restaurant on Long Island. Annette Williamson has resided upstairs for the whole of the restaurant's existence and beyond. Annette has also been dead now for over 200 years. According to Karriann, Flannigan Brosky in Ghosts of Long Island, the story has her being murdered either for being thought a British sympathizer, or hung in her bedroom by the British themselves. And if you're interested in ghost stories, it's well worth the time and cost to give Mt. Brosky's book a read. There are mysterious lights, accounts of people hearing their name spoken behind them and turning to find no one there. The current owner was once telling the story to a friend who was expressing his disbelief, when a chair came hurtling through the air at them, just as they caught a glimpse of a white garment turning the corner from the room. And of course there is Annette herself. Typically in hauntings, no one sees an apparition, or it was seen in the distant past. But Annette has been seen by numerous people, often numerous times. She can be playful, stealing the owner's tietack and leaving it by the fireplace where she was supposedly hung. She can be helpful, opening stuck windows. Perhaps it helps the romance that by all accounts that she's very pretty - blonde hair, blue eyes and white dress. And though there are reports of other ghosts, it is Annette that has stayed longest and seems to have made a home which she enjoyed for a very short life, a home for eternity.
toddatteberry > The Coyler House ca. 1819 Mount Misery Road Melville, New York Built by Walt Whitman, Sr., the design of the structure is almost identical to that of the Whitman's birthplace. The house was originally part of a farm of 80 acres acquired by Richard Coyler from Tredwell Whitman and has been the subject of numerous sketches and paintings, including those of George Avery, Rudolph Ruzicka, and Hobart Nichols. At the time of the poet's visit to the house in 1850, it was occupied by Walt's Aunt Sarah and her daughter Hannah, the widow of Richard Coyler, "These three days, we have been on a visit (father and myself) to West Hills, the old native place. We went up in the L.I.R.R., and so in the stage to Woodbury--then on foot along the turnpike and 'across lots' to Colyer's, I plumped in the kitchen door. Aunt S. (Sarah), father's sister, was standing there." I've spoke recently to a fellow who was a teenager in the 1970s, and who remembered the legend that the house was haunted. According to the stories, the Army Corp of Engineers was brought in to investigate, the thought being that perhaps the incidents had a geological source. It was also about this time that this area of Mount Misery was closed to the public, following a rash of UFO sightings.
toddatteberry > Winfield Hall Gates Glen Cove, New York Winfield Hall is the quintessential haunted house. From rumors of the black arts being practiced there, to suicides, to the ghost of a young lady, this Glen Cove mansion seems designed to chill the blood. F.W. Woolworth built Winfield in 1916, designed by architect Charles P.H. Gilbert, at an estimated cost of $9,000,000. The 56 room Italian Renaissance marble home contains a staircase which was $2,000,000 to build at the time, and boasted a chandelier made of blue and 15-karat gold leaf. The whole house is outfitted in a manor fit for royalty, mahogany, bronze, sterling silver. Woolworth's bed was supposed to have originally belonged to Napoleon. Honeycombing the house is a network of secret passages, hidden chambers and deserted tunnels. Yet two years after completion, Woolworth was dead, from not seeking proper dental care. Woolworth's wife it was said was dotty and never left her room. One of his three daughters took her own life as his father gave a party downstairs. It's said a bolt of lightning caused the mantle of the room the party was in to crack that very night. Later the house was used as a school, and it was in the Marie Antoinette room, which is always kept locked, that there were at least thirty account of people who heard a woman crying in that room. It is rumored that this is the room which his daughter took her life after her father denied her request to be married. Others claimed to have seen a woman in a faded blue dress, walking in the garden. Compiled from The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast, by Monica Randall
toddatteberry > Winfield Hall Glen Cove, New York Winfield Hall is the quintessential haunted house. From rumors of the black arts being practiced there, to suicides, to the ghost of a young lady, this Glen Cove mansion seems designed to chill the blood. F.W. Woolworth built Winfield in 1916, designed by architect Charles P.H. Gilbert, at an estimated cost of $9,000,000. The 56 room Italian Renaissance marble home contains a staircase which was $2,000,000 to build at the time, and boasted a chandelier made of blue and 15-karat gold leaf. The whole house is outfitted in a manor fit for royalty, mahogany, bronze, sterling silver. Woolworth's bed was supposed to have originally belonged to Napoleon. Honeycombing the house is a network of secret passages, hidden chambers and deserted tunnels. Yet two years after completion, Woolworth was dead, from not seeking proper dental care. Woolworth's wife it was said was dotty and never left her room. One of his three daughters took her own life as his father gave a party downstairs. It's said a bolt of lightning caused the mantle of the room the party was in to crack that very night. Later the house was used as a school, and it was in the Marie Antoinette room, which is always kept locked, that there were at least thirty account of people who heard a woman crying in that room. It is rumored that this is the room which his daughter took her life after her father denied her request to be married. Others claimed to have seen a woman in a faded blue dress, walking in the garden. Compiled from The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast, by Monica Randall
toddatteberry > Winfield Hall Clock Tower Glen Cove, New York Winfield Hall is the quintessential haunted house. From rumors of the black arts being practiced there, to suicides, to the ghost of a young lady, this Glen Cove mansion seems designed to chill the blood. F.W. Woolworth built Winfield in 1916, designed by architect Charles P.H. Gilbert, at an estimated cost of $9,000,000. The 56 room Italian Renaissance marble home contains a staircase which was $2,000,000 to build at the time, and boasted a chandelier made of blue and 15-karat gold leaf. The whole house is outfitted in a manor fit for royalty, mahogany, bronze, sterling silver. Woolworth's bed was supposed to have originally belonged to Napoleon. Honeycombing the house is a network of secret passages, hidden chambers and deserted tunnels. Yet two years after completion, Woolworth was dead, from not seeking proper dental care. Woolworth's wife it was said was dotty and never left her room. One of his three daughters took her own life as his father gave a party downstairs. It's said a bolt of lightning caused the mantle of the room the party was in to crack that very night. Later the house was used as a school, and it was in the Marie Antoinette room, which is always kept locked, that there were at least thirty account of people who heard a woman crying in that room. It is rumored that this is the room which his daughter took her life after her father denied her request to be married. Others claimed to have seen a woman in a faded blue dress, walking in the garden. Compiled from The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast, by Monica Randall
toddatteberry > Winfield Hall Fountain Glen Cove, New York Winfield Hall is the quintessential haunted house. From rumors of the black arts being practiced there, to suicides, to the ghost of a young lady, this Glen Cove mansion seems designed to chill the blood. F.W. Woolworth built Winfield in 1916, designed by architect Charles P.H. Gilbert, at an estimated cost of $9,000,000. The 56 room Italian Renaissance marble home contains a staircase which was $2,000,000 to build at the time, and boasted a chandelier made of blue and 15-karat gold leaf. The whole house is outfitted in a manor fit for royalty, mahogany, bronze, sterling silver. Woolworth's bed was supposed to have originally belonged to Napoleon. Honeycombing the house is a network of secret passages, hidden chambers and deserted tunnels. Yet two years after completion, Woolworth was dead, from not seeking proper dental care. Woolworth's wife it was said was dotty and never left her room. One of his three daughters took her own life as his father gave a party downstairs. It's said a bolt of lightning caused the mantle of the room the party was in to crack that very night. Later the house was used as a school, and it was in the Marie Antoinette room, which is always kept locked, that there were at least thirty account of people who heard a woman crying in that room. It is rumored that this is the room which his daughter took her life after her father denied her request to be married. Others claimed to have seen a woman in a faded blue dress, walking in the garden. Compiled from The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast, by Monica Randall
toddatteberry > Harbor Entrance to Ferguson Castle Huntington Bay, New York Ferguson Castle was built like a medieval castle, with heavy walls some three feet thick, and details straight from the Mediterranean. The house was built in 1908 for Mrs. Juliana Armour Ferguson, the mother of seven children who used to push the furniture against the walls and used the great hall for a roller skating rink. In 1916, the house was used for the original silent version of Romeo and Juliet. A litany of furnishing proves breathtaking; a sixteenth century chariot made for the Emporer Maximilian of carved ivory and rubies, two seventeenth century marble lions from Verona, art treasures, some as old as the twelfth century decorating the walls, a fountain made of ancient Persian tiles, a fifteenth century French Gothic plaque with the Madonna and Child, as well as a piece of Egyptian era art. The house had forty rooms, six baths, fourteen fireplaces, a chapel, a servant's room and a gatehouse. The Great Hall measured 64 feet long, 47 feet wide and three stories tall. Perhaps the strangest though, Mrs. Ferguson collected the gravestones of children from all over Europe, all under five years old at the time of their death, all three hundred years old, then installed in the floors, halls, entranceways and gardens of the house. She died in 1921 and the house went through several owners, before being purchased by Suffolk County in 1964. In 1970, the house was pulled down. Rumors of the house being haunted and a hefty back taxes bill made it impossible to sell. Today all that is left is the foundations and lower entrance, as well as the gatehouse. In her book, The Ghost of Long Island, Kerriann Flanagan Brosky relates that Mrs. Ferguson never really left the house, also known as The Monastery. By all accounts, Mrs. Ferguson lived for her children. There was a room in the house with a long, medieval table, which was kept furnished at all time with food and treats for her children, attended to by two Japanese servants, for whom that was their only job. Her husband had died before they moved in the castle. By the beginning of World War I, things had changed. By then, all the children were grown and had moved away. Then one child died of influenza. Four days later another died in the trenches of the war. Another divorced under hints of scandals which ruined the family name. She couldn't accept the death of her son, and had a wax dummy made in his likeness. Each night she would dine with him then at the long table which once held the bounty for children. Following her death, she was still to be seen, coming down the stairs each night in her long, flowing white gown to dine with her dead son. While the house was in the process of being torn down, many people driving by at night saw a figure in white, floating among the ruins. From The Mansions of Long Islands Gold Coast, by Monica Randall
toddatteberry > Haunted Rocking Chair at Stony Brook Gristmill, Stony Brook, New York Read the story here
toddatteberry > Haunted Scales at Stony Brook Grist Mill, Stony Brook, New York Read the story here
toddatteberry > Ballygally Castle Hotel, at the head of Ballygally Bay, on the Antrim coast, Northern Ireland It is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a Madame Nixon who lived there in the 18th century. After she died it was said that she haunted the castle, wandering the passages at night dressed in a silk dress and amusing herself by knocking on the doors of different rooms. Her fleeting appearances have recently been confined to a room in a corner turret. Another of the stories attached to Ballygally is: Two elderly guests booked in for several days over the Christmas season. On arrival they were intrigued to discover the staff were preparing for a fancy dress ball. That night there was a knock at the bedroom door and there stood one of the waiters clad in medieval costume. He had arrived to invite them to the ball. They went. And had a lovely evening surrounded by staff and other guests all bedecked in wonderful attire. The next morning at breakfast they enthused to the Manageress about what a wonderful evening it had been. Which came as a bit of a shock to the lady, for the ball had not taken place yet and was not due to take place for another two days. Needless to say the elderly guests booked out. James Shaw, of Scotland, came to the area and rented the land from the Earl of Antrim for 24 pounds a year. He built the castle in 1625, in the style of a French chateau with high walls, steep roof, dormer windows and corner turrets. The walls are five feet thick with loopholes for muskets. An open stream ran through the outer hall to provide water in case of siege. The castle came under attack, from the Irish garrison at Glenarm, several times during the rebellion of 1641 but each assault was unsuccessful. The castle was owned by the Shaw family until it passed into the hands of William Shaw in 1799. He sold the estate for £15,400. In the 1950's the castle was bought by the carpet tycoon Cyril Lord and was extended and renovated. It is now owned and run by the Hastings H, Ballygally Castle Hotel, at the head of Ballygally Bay, on the Antrim coast, Northern Ireland It is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a Madame Nixon who lived there in the 18th century. After she died it was said that she haunted the castle, wandering the passages at night dressed in a silk dress and amusing herself by knocking on the doors of different rooms. Her fleeting appearances have recently been confined to a room in a corner turret. I stayed at the castle in 2000, in the first room down from this turret. I was awakened during the night to a loud banging, which went on for a minute or so. Groggily I woke up my ex, who was sleeping and we listened to the noise together as it crossed above us and then the furnace kicked on ... fooled by the ancient furnace. One strange event that I can't explain though took place in the turret room itself. I was filming the steps leading to the room, and when I went inside the camera shut off, with a dead battery alert. Once back outside the room, the camera worked again. This took place twice more before I gave up on the idea. Another of the stories attached to Ballygally is: Two elderly guests booked in for several days over the Christmas season. On arrival they were intrigued to discover the staff were preparing for a fancy dress ball. That night there was a knock at the bedroom door and there stood one of the waiters clad in medieval costume. He had arrived to invite them to the ball. They went. And had a lovely evening surrounded by staff and other guests all bedecked in wonderful attire. The next morning at breakfast they enthused to the Manageress about what a wonderful evening it had been. Which came as a bit of a shock to the lady, for the ball had not taken place yet and was not due to take place for another two days. Needless to say the elderly guests booked out. James Shaw, of Scotland, came to the area and rented the land from the Earl of Antrim for 24 pounds a year. He built the castle in 1625, in the style of a French chateau with high walls, steep roof, dormer windows and corner turrets. The walls are five feet thick with loopholes for muskets. An open stream ran through the outer hall to provide water in case of siege. The castle came under attack, from the Irish garrison at Glenarm, several times during the rebellion of 1641 but each assault was unsuccessful. The castle was owned by the Shaw family until it passed into the hands of William Shaw in 1799. He sold the estate for £15,400. In the 1950's the castle was bought by the carpet tycoon Cyril Lord and was extended and renovated. It is now owned and run by the Hastings H
Pratt Manor House,
Glen Cove Manor Hotel and Conference Center
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