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toddatteberry > Haunted Houses photo
toddatteberry > (c. 1860), Old Bethpage Village, New York This was the home of Henry Williams, a farmer and carpenter, from New Hyde Park. Supposedly a seamstress named Esther resided in the house. There are some large trunks upstairs and they have been heard moving around and upon coming upstairs, are found moved, open, and their contents tossed around. The interpreters had quite a bit of trouble with one of the parlor windows. It was a hot day and two women were working in the house. They opened the window and turned back to the sewing table. The window slammed shut. They put a stick under the window to keep it open. The next time the window shut they came in to see the stick laying on the sewing table. Perplexed hey put the stick under again and walked away. The window shut once again and this time the stick was somehow way out by the garden. Another time two women were in the house cleaning up. They were across the house form each other and one woman picked up a small child size teacup toy. She heard a small voice saying, “Put my teacup down”, which of course she did and left the room very hastily. During preparations for Thanksgiving at the village, the door kept slamming shut. One woman used a fireplace instrument to prop open the door. She turned around and got back to work only to be hit in the head by the same thing she used to prop open the door.
toddatteberry > Conklin House, Restored to 1853, Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Old Bethpage, Nassau County, New York
toddatteberry > Carving the Turkey, Williams House, c. 1860 Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Old Bethpage, Nassau County, New York
toddatteberry > District No. 6 Manhasset School, Old Bethpage Village, Long Island, New York
toddatteberry > Philipsburg Manor, Sleepy Hollow, New York
toddatteberry > Sunken Meadow State Park, Long Island, New York. In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown. On he flew among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied gestures, now giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter as set all the echoes of the forest laughing like demons around him. The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man. Thus sped the demoniac on his course, until, quivering among the trees, he saw a red light before him, as when the felled trunks and branches of a clearing have been set on fire, and throw up their lurid blaze against the sky, at the hour of midnight. He paused, in a lull of the tempest that had driven him onward, and heard the swell of what seemed a hymn, rolling solemnly from a distance with the weight of many voices. He knew the tune; it was a familiar one in the choir of the village meeting-house. The verse died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus, not of human voices, but of all the sounds of the benighted wilderness pealing in awful harmony together. Goodman Brown cried out, and his cry was lost to his own ear by its unison with the cry of the desert. From "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathanial Hawthorne
toddatteberry > Detail, Hempstead House, Sands Point, New York
toddatteberry > Death, Hempstead House, Sands Point, New York
Haunted Houses photo
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