#157 Early Ghost Stories of Old New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This is the Bowery Boys 7th annual Halloween podcast, with four new scary stories to chill your bones and keep you up at night, generally doused with strange and fascinating facts about New York City. For this episode, we've decided to go truly old-school, reaching back to old legends and tales from the years of the Revolutionary War and early 19th century. These ghosts have two things in common -- George Washington (directly or indirectly) and ghosts! Although no ghosts of George Washington. We venture to the haunted woods of Van Cortlandt Park for the tale of an Indian massacre and a forlorn servant girl, looking for her master's silver. From there, we head to the early days of Greenwich Village and a tormented vice president waiting for his daughter's return. Meanwhile, over in Brooklyn, the ruins of an old Revolutionary War fort provide the setting for a horrific tale of a late-night booze run gone wrong. And, finally, no Bowery Boys Halloween podcast would be complete without the ghost of a dramatic actor -- in this case, one without his head! www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boy's Episode 157, Go stories of old New York.
0:07.6	Hey it's the Bowry Boy's!
0:10.1	The Bowry Boy's is brought to you by EuroChapot.com.
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0:24.4	Hello there hello.
0:27.4	Hello, welcome to the Barry boys. This is Greg Young, and this is Tom Myers with our seventh annual
0:34.0	Halloween ghost stories podcast. So this show is inspired by a book that I found at a used bookstore
0:41.4	according to the inside of the book. It's from the Clarksville Arkansas Junior High Library
0:46.0	It even has this little envelope where you put the library card. The book is called The Ghost of Pegleg Peter and
0:52.2	other folk tales of Old New York by Emma Jagendorf.
0:56.2	Because Peter Stuyveson is huge in Clarksville Arkansas.
1:00.1	Well, I mean, they obviously got rid of the book. Unfortunately, but it's in our little hands.
1:04.8	You know, it's a book of folk tales and they're broadly drawn. We've told the Peter Stuyveson story
1:10.4	in a previous show, but it got my mind thinking about the older ghost stories that are associated
1:15.2	with this region. Of course, one of the earliest stories of American literature, the Legend of
1:20.3	Sleepy Hollow, is about the area of Westchester written by Washington Irving. There are a great
1:25.3	number of other tales that are at least 200 years old. So this is the era that you and I are
1:30.4	going to be focusing on tonight. The era of Revolutionary War early 1800s Old New York.
1:37.3	We will be going even back to the Native Americans who originally lived in the New York area.
1:41.8	But you know the weird thing about the show Greg, even though they're all gone by the time 1830
1:47.2	rolls around, these characters have a way of sticking around and some of their names live on
1:52.9	as well as the names of streets and neighborhoods. So sit back and enjoy these four frightening
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