In a haunting new episode of the Gilded Gentlemen,

The Ghostly Obsessions of writers Edith Wharton and Henry James.

Edith Wharton's tradition was to spend all souls night,

just a few days following Halloween, recalling the souls that had

mattered most to her in her life, and now were in one form or another, ghosts.

In fact, her very last completed work was a ghost story.

Featuring special returning guest, author and scholar Emily Orlando.

James, he masters the art of psychological realism.

So we get the governance's point of view, it's her story,

but it's set up and it's framed by a gentleman,

and we're being asked to second guess whether or not she's mad or

are the ghosts real?

That's next week on the Gilded Gentleman podcast on Apple Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

There sits an old cemetery upon a lonely hill in Staten Island, within the neighborhood of Concord, a high

place called Emerson Hill, named for William Emerson.

If that name doesn't ring a bell, perhaps you've heard of his brother, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who lived with William and his family here in 1843.

The Emerson's

back in the year. Back in the year 1921 a trolley line ran by this burial site called Old Clove Cemetery, a place that was already so very old by this time.

The trolley motorman John Haynes guided his trolley by on its nightly journey through

Northeastern Staten Island. One night while passing through the neighborhood,

Haynes thought he saw some kind of apparition floating out of the cemetery.

The human-like specter was holding a tombstone in its hands.

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