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Haunted Road

Dead Man's Hand Clutched Fast to Whiskey Bottle

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Rolling Hills Asylum in East Bethany, NY has had many incarnations. From poorhouse to asylum to nursing home to shopping mall...now, it's exclusive purpose is to provide a home for countless restless spirits.

Special Guest: Sharon Coyle

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0:00.0

Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of IHeart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky.

0:07.1

Listener discretion is advised.

0:14.6

August 17, 1885.

0:18.4

The Leroy Times draws a sad picture of the Genesee County Almshouse. It says 62 poppers are huddled together

0:26.6

on the third floor, which is only high enough directly in the center for a man to stand erect.

0:32.5

There is little ventilation, and the air is foul and sickening, reminding one of the black hole of Calcutta.

0:40.5

April 15, 1890, Albert Henson, the tramp, whose pitiable condition was told in yesterday's times,

0:48.5

is now at the Genesee County Almshouse. His socks were removed for the first time since his feet were frozen. Large

0:56.3

portions of both feet came off. Today, remaining portions will be amputated. December 4, 1896, James

1:06.1

Driscoll, an inmate of the Genesee County almshouse at Bethany cut his throat with a pocket knife and died in a few hours.

1:14.5

He was 97 years old and was despondent because of failing eyesight.

1:20.7

March 31st, 1915.

1:23.4

Dead man's hand clutched fast to whiskey bottle.

1:27.1

John Oshman fell into a ditch and froze to death on his way to the Genesee County almshouse.

1:33.6

It was evident from the condition of the man's body that he had frozen to death during the night.

1:38.9

In one of his hands, he had a quart bottle about half filled with whiskey.

1:43.2

Oshman left the county home Monday afternoon,

1:46.3

without permission. It took me all of 30 minutes of research to find these articles referencing

1:53.4

the dark history at this location, a location now known as Rolling Hills Asylum, a place I have yet to visit.

2:02.5

So let's discover it and all of its hauntings together.

2:07.2

I'm Amy Bruny, and this is Haunted Road.

2:13.5

In East Bethany, New York, an ominous two-and-a-half-story building looms over Bethany Center Road.

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