#65 Spooky Stories of New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2008

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

By popular demand, we return to the creepier tales of New York City history, ghost tales and stories of murder and mayhem, all of them at some point involving great American icons -- Alexander Hamilton, P.T. Barnum, Dorothy Parker and Mark Twain.

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0:00.0	Episode 65 of The Bowery Boys. Spooky stories of Old New York.
0:05.9	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.
0:07.4	Hey.
0:08.4	The Bowery Boys is brought to you by UroChipo.com.
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0:23.0	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys.
0:24.6	My name is Greg Young.
0:25.6	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:27.1	Last year, one of our most popular podcasts was our Ghost Stories of New York.
0:31.6	So we are doing our little sequel this week.
0:34.1	This year, we're calling it Spooky Stories of New York.
0:36.8	Right, because there aren't always ghosts in these, but on this cool,
0:40.8	crisp October night, we're letting our minds wander off into spooky places in New York City.
0:47.2	The chills are running at my arm here.
0:49.1	We have the room decorated with candles and little pumpkins.
0:52.7	Yeah, Greg and Greg brought in a squash.
0:55.7	It's very, very festive and kind of spooky here on the recording table.
0:59.9	Obviously, something is conspiring to stop this show because we've had a breakdown in
1:04.9	one of our microphones and our mixing board.
1:07.7	We had no internet connection there for a while.
1:10.7	Really?
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