#215 Ghosts of the Gilded Age

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For this year's 10th annual Bowery Boys Halloween special, we're highlighting haunted tales from the period just after the Civil War when New York City became one of the richest cities in the world -- rich in wealth and in ghosts! We go to four boroughs in this one (sorry Brooklyn!): -- In the Bronx we highlight a bizarre house that once stood in the area of Hunts Point, a mansion of malevolent and disturbing mysteries -- Then we turn to Manhattan to a rambunctious poltergeist on fashionable East 27th Street -- Over in Queens, a lonely farmhouse in the area of today's Calvary Cemetery is witness to not one, but two unsettling and confounding deaths -- Finally, in Staten Island, we take a visit to the glorious Vanderbilt Mausoleum, a historic landmark and a location with a few strange secrets of its own PLUS: Stay tuned until the end to hear the trailer for the new Bowery Boys podcast series -- The First: Stories of Inventions and their Consequences www.boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode Two 15
0:02.8	Ghosts of the Gilded Age
0:06.7	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys
0:09.7	Support for the Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners
0:13.2	Join us for as little as a dollar a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys
0:22.9	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young and good evening. This is Tom Myers with
0:28.6	the Bowry Boys annual Halloween special this time we're focusing on creepy places and spooky stories that zoom in on
0:38.8	New York during the Gilded Age
0:41.6	Now Greg this is probably our favorite show of the year
0:45.8	We have the most fun. We do and we will maybe it's because we get in the mood every year as regular
0:52.8	listeners know Greg usually goes a little bit overboard with decorations here in the studio
0:58.5	So what do we have today we've gone are are is that a new spring of lights a new stream yeah a new string of
1:05.5	like black lights and orange pumpkin lights in the back
1:10.0	We have candles all over and then most notably as a new addition. I believe this year
1:15.2	We have a black raven sitting right here on the on the counter. It will it's actually a crow in fact her name is Cheryl
1:22.7	Cheryl Crow and she's the first official Bowry bird to join the show. Oh my god
1:30.0	Look all I want to do is have some fun
1:32.6	Yeah
1:34.2	Tell some tell some spooky stories. I think you have too. Well, I have to yes as as per tradition
1:40.7	We only tell each other sort of the vague themes of the ghost stories we're about to share so we can elicit some surprise
1:47.2	And just to make sure that we haven't duplicated ourselves and stick around to the very end of this show because we have an
1:54.6	Exciting announcement. Yes, we do the first Barry boys podcast series spin-off is upon you
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