Possible places to hunt ghosts.....

[BooIScaredYou]

Hello !! Since Im new here, Im not sure if these places have been checked out yet, nor do i know how easy it would be, but heres some food for thought.....

The USS Intrepid -
On Oct 30, 1944 during WW2, a kamikaze plane crashed into the guntub on The Intrepid while it was in The Philippines and killed 10 men. Then on Nov 25, 1944 they were hit again, killing 11 in total (6 officers and 5 Crewmen).

Miller Field
On Dec 16, 1960, 2 planes (TWA and United) crashed into eachother over Staten Island. The TWA plane crashed down onto Miller Field killing the entire crew and all passengers, while the United plane crashed down in Park Slope.

I have no idea how hard it would be to get permission to get on the Intrepid for an investigation, but it might be veeeeeeery cool if you could, and as for Miller field, its an outside location so I would assume it would be harder to get authentic sounds on EVP's due to all the surrounding noise, but again, an interesting place to try, plus, alot easier to get to (not needing permission and whatnot to get in)

Just food for thought......

[Lisa]

Angela, thanks for the suggestions! You're right about getting EVP's at miller feild, it is hard since we are outside....if we do go, it will probably be when it gets warmer out...lol...not just because we are a bunch of sissy's and it;s to cold for us, but also because of the air quality, we dont want to get a mist and have it be someones breath, but it is mostly because we are sissy's.

Thanks for the history on the ship, we'll look into it!

[michaelm]

You'll never get a good EVP cause of all the wind and also look up more oon miller field i know it was one of the fields were they sent B-17 and B-24 before going to europe so look it any of them crashed there.

[patty]

Hi, I live very close to Miller Field and I do remember the crash. I don't know if this is the same as you mention. I believe it was 1959. I was only about 6 or 7 but I remember. The planes collided and there was a terrible noise and everything shook. There were many people killed that day. I remember seeing many disturbing things without even trying.
Years later when Miller Field had closed and hadn't been used in many years, the Green Berets lived there and practiced their parachuting.
Years after that that Mafia guy Joe Vallachi was was kept there under the witness protection program. Although he was under arrest, they were afraid the bad guys would get him. So, he lived there for a while. Never heard of any hauntings there though.

[Lisa]

Hi Patty,

Thanks for the story...I love to hear what people have experinced....We haven't been there to investigate, but we have heard that it was haunted.....but you know how those things go...when some place has a history, "we" assume that it is haunted..

[Lisa]

Hi Michael....I agree about the wind...any place outside is hard to get an evp because to weather, traffic, people, animals and so on.....

[Amanda]

I think Richmondtown should definitely be investigated, as well as Fort Wadsworth and maybe Seaview. Another idea is the Old Bermuda Inn. I remember hearing stories about a woman haunting there looking for her love who went to sea and never returned or something like that. I have no idea if there is any truth to it. Also, The Tottenville branch of the public library and Sandy Ground in Livingston, where some of the homes were part of the underground railroad are all places I think would make interesting investigations.

[Amy]

Thanks for the suggestions! The library? Interesting!

[revmike]

Hi

I'm fairly new here too. It may have been discussed to death, but I've always been fascinated with the Old Seaview Sanitarium. I have heard that it is haunted by Jazz legend Charlie Christian. I would love the chance to get in there.

Also the ship graveyard in Rossville, however dangerous, must be loaded with spirits.

RevMike

[Amy]

We don't have permission to go to Seaview. One day, hopefully.

Why would you think the ship graveyard would have activity? I think it would be too dangerous to go there, anyway.

[revmike]

I'll bet there's plenty of activity in the Ship Graveyard.

In 1903, a tour boat called the General Slocum caught fire on the East River. Over 1000 people died in the fire, almost all of them passengers. Some burned, some drowned, some were actually beaten to death by the paddle wheel. 300 or so passengers and 30 (all but 2) crew members were rescued. The captain was one of the first to abandon ship. He later went to prison for doing so.

The Slocum was salvaged and later sank, but the rescue ship, Abram S. Hewitt, that was one of the first to arrive on the scene, sits rotting in the muck in Rossville to this day. I can't imagine that there aren't some spirits of panicked souls on the decks of that ship.

But yeah....way too dangerous.

[Bill]

miller field has had its fair share of trauma, but ive spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours there and ive never experience anything paranormal.

seaview is another story. are you aware of the old seaview buildings buried in the woods behind the new ones off of brielle? its all fenced off, but me and a few people went through a hole in the fence and checked the place out one day. its very cool, like an old forgotten town back there. we even had someone climb into one of the old buildings and pretend to be a ghost in the window. we took pictures, and they came out so authentic looking that everyone we showed believed it was really a ghost up there. this was in the middle of the day, i would imagine at night the place could be pretty freaky. too bad its off limits

[mjb]

My former career in law enforcement on Staten Island afforded me numerous opportunities to poke around the grounds of Seaview, which I took full advantage of! Day or night, that place was THE creepiest place I've ever been! The feeling of a presence watching you is chilling -- both in the buildings themselves and even out in the open spaces. There's a lot going on there! Too bad the Parks Department, or whoever oversees that area now, doesn't allow guided tours!

[bridgecop]

I have been told that the Masonic Temple on Bay Street is haunted by several spirits. One is of a little girl, another is an old Mason from the 1800's. I have also been told that a paranormal group went in to investigate back in the early 1990's and confirmed that the building did have spirits that inhabited the edifice.

[Amy]

Hmm. I don't even know where the Masonic Temple is, but it sounds interesting. I'll look into it. Thanks for sharing.