#192 Haunted Landmarks of New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Don't be frightened! It's the ninth annual Bowery Boys ghost stories podcast. We're here to guide you through the back alleys ... OF TERROR! In this installment, we take a look at the spectral lore behind some of New York City's most famous landmarks, buildings with great reputations as iconic architectural marvels and locations for great creativity. But they're also filled with ghost stories: Who are the mysterious sisters in colorful outerwear skating on the icy pond in Central Park? And why are there so many uninvited guests at the Dakota Apartments, one of the first and finest buildings on the Upper West Side? Meanwhile, at the Chelsea Hotel, all the intense creativity that is associated with this great and important location seems to have left an imprint of the afterworld upon its hallways. Over at Grand Central Terminal, the Campbell Apartment serves up some cocktails -- and a few unnatural encounters with Jazz Age spirits. Finally, on the Brooklyn Bridge, a tragedy during its construction has left its shadow upon the modern tourist attraction. Who's that up ahead on the pedestrian pathway? A little spooky fun -- mixed with a lot of interesting history -- and a few cheesy sound effects! www.boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 1
0:03.0	1.92 Haunted Landmarks of New York
0:09.0	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys!
0:11.0	Support for The Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:15.0	Join us for as little as a dollar a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
0:25.0	Good evening and welcome to the Bowry Boys 9th Annual Ghost Stories Podcast.
0:30.0	This is Greg Young.
0:31.0	And this is Tom Myers.
0:33.0	We've talked about dozens of ghosts since we started doing this back in 2007.
0:38.0	Probably hundreds if you would actually gather them all up into one room and let's not do that.
0:44.0	For our last two shows we visited colonial New York and of course ghost stories of Brooklyn.
0:50.0	For this one we are going big.
0:52.0	Really big.
0:53.0	We are visiting some of New York's biggest landmarks searching out their spooks.
0:59.0	We'll be presenting legends of hauntings and other bizarre macabre tales that are associated with the most famous buildings in New York City.
1:07.0	Yes indeed all of these sites that we're about to visit are places that tours frequent every day and probably have no idea of the supernatural tales looking within.
1:20.0	Now of course you don't have to believe in ghosts.
1:23.0	Oh no.
1:24.0	To listen to these tales.
1:25.0	These are stories legends lore that have been associated with these particular places.
1:31.0	Some of these stories are decades old.
1:33.0	A nice little way to experience the history of these places or perhaps to enter a portal into your nightmares.
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