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Haunted Places in Rochester, NY

Historic haunted places in Rochester, NY. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.

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An imposing gothic mansion lit with dramatic amber lanterns and eerie fog under an autumn moonIllustrated dispatch art — not a photoARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH // PARANORMAL SITE

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Durand Eastman Park

Haunted place

1342 Kings Highway North, Rochester, NY 14617

Open to the public (public park; free, daylight hours).

The White Lady of Durand Eastman Park is one of western New York's best-known legends. She is described as a woman in white wandering the park roads and lakeshore, searching for a …

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

An imposing gothic mansion lit with dramatic amber lanterns and eerie fog under an autumn moonIllustrated dispatch art — not a photoARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH // PARANORMAL SITE

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George Eastman Museum

Haunted place

900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607

Open to the public (museum; admission charged).

Employees and visitors have reported a male apparition, believed to be George Eastman, wandering his mansion in the early morning and in the archives. Others describe cold spots an…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

An imposing gothic mansion lit with dramatic amber lanterns and eerie fog under an autumn moonIllustrated dispatch art — not a photoARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH // PARANORMAL SITE

NEW YORK / HAUNTED PLACE

Rundel Memorial Library

Haunted place

115 South Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604

Open to the public (public library; free).

Reports at Rundel cluster in the closed stacks, which sit above a surviving stretch of the old Johnson & Seymour mill race. Staff describe shadowy figures in the aisles, doors movi…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

An imposing gothic mansion lit with dramatic amber lanterns and eerie fog under an autumn moonIllustrated dispatch art — not a photoARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH // PARANORMAL SITE

NEW YORK / HAUNTED PLACE

Rush Rhees Library

Haunted place

755 Library Road, Rochester, NY 14627

Open to the public (university library during open hours).

As the University of Rochester tells it, mason's helper Pete Nicosia died while the library tower was being built in the late 1920s. In 1932 a student said a stranger in tattered o…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

An imposing gothic mansion lit with dramatic amber lanterns and eerie fog under an autumn moonIllustrated dispatch art — not a photoARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH // PARANORMAL SITE

NEW YORK / HAUNTED PLACE

Union Tavern

Haunted place

4565 Culver Road, Rochester, NY 14622

Open to the public (restaurant and bar).

This tavern sits on New York's Haunted History Trail, and its best-known ghost is a woman by the fireplace said to be Lavinia Bradstreet, who lived in the house from 1856. Other re…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

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Durand Eastman Park1George Eastman Museum2Rundel Memorial Library3Rush Rhees Library4Union Tavern5

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