#114 Supernatural Stories of New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2010

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It's our fourth annual 'haunted' podcast, and we've got four bloodcurdling stories for the season. The first three are spooky ghost tales -- a haunted boardinghouse on 14th street with violent, vain spirits; a short history of New York's seance craze and a man tormented with the spirit of a dead painter; and a glamorous pair of lovers whose angry spats in their midtown Manhattan penthouse during the Jazz Age kepts up the neighbors, even beyond the grave. And finally, a tale with no ghosts at all, but a story with truly spine-tingling facts, featuring the eeriest island in New York, the final resting place for over 850,000 souls. Welcome to Hart Island. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 114, all aboard the subway of the supernatural.
0:09.0	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:10.0	Hey.
0:11.0	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
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0:24.0	Good evening and welcome to the Bowry Boys.
0:27.0	This is Greg Young.
0:28.0	And this is Tom Myers.
0:29.0	Welcome to our fourth annual Halloween podcast where we take traditional history that it's still the same New York City history,
0:38.0	mix it up with a little legend and of course our usual dosage of mad theatrics.
0:45.0	And just to heighten the drama, this year Greg has brought in some orange Halloween twinkle lights.
0:51.0	We have a little apple cider and some donuts.
0:54.0	I hope that you're listening to the show also in a moody somewhat somber atmosphere.
1:00.0	As we go through four new tales of New York, these are well known ghost stories, at least three of these four stories are ghost stories.
1:10.0	One of them is just it's flat out history.
1:13.0	There's nothing embellished about it, but this place is so creepy that just talking about it will send chills up your spine.
1:21.0	As we sit here and record this on this crisp cool October evening, we are very close to Halloween itself.
1:28.0	But of course you can listen to these spooky stories, to these haunted tales at any time of the year.
1:34.0	And we do have three other podcasts that do the same sort of thing with ghost themed stories about New York City history.
1:41.0	So you can look at those in our back catalog, but Tom, I think it's time to turn down the lights.
1:47.0	Hold on one second.
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