#91 Haunted Tales of New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2009

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's time for our third annual 'ghost stories' episode, our mix of historical facts and spooky legends from the annals of New York's past. For this round of scary tales, we visit a famous 19th century townhouse haunted by a lonely spinster, a West Village speakeasy with some guests who still haven't gone home, and the site of a former restaurant that might be possessed with the spirit of a famous folk singer. ALSO: we go back all the way to New Amsterdam for an old legend involving Peter Stuyvesant, a turbulent river, and the Devil himself! www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 91, haunted tales of New York.
0:07.0	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:10.0	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
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0:23.0	Hello there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:26.0	And this is Tom Meyer.
0:28.0	And we have arrived at our third annual Halloween episode.
0:33.0	We really struggled with the title for this one too.
0:36.0	What we've had spooky stories.
0:38.0	We've got ghost stories of New York was the first one.
0:41.0	Spooky stories, which is one of our most downloaded podcasts.
0:45.0	It was a very successful one. So this is the sequel, haunted tales of New York.
0:50.0	As with the prior episode, what we will actually do is tell you four stories about New York.
0:57.0	This will actually be real New York City history.
1:00.0	So if you don't believe in the supernatural, that's okay because we're going to embed it in actual facts and information.
1:07.0	However, if you do believe in the supernatural, paranormal, and you also love history,
1:13.0	we'll be telling stories that go back as far as New Amsterdam.
1:18.0	We'll be visiting gas-like New York with the tale of a haunted house.
1:22.0	And we'll go all the way up to 1980s Soho.
1:25.0	And I'd just like to mention, you know, just to set the mood a little.
1:28.0	Greg and I turned off the studio lights. We've got two candles lit.
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