Haunted Albany: Spirits of the Capital City, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
Albany is one of America’s oldest cities, but its history doesn’t just live in books—it lingers beneath the surface.
With centuries of stories layered into its streets, forgotten cemeteries and long-buried events have left behind more than just records. For Maeve McEneny-Johnson, that history has always felt close. Growing up alongside a local historian, she saw early on how much of the city’s past still echoes into the present.
From the unsettling legacy of Cherry Hill to the aftermath of the New York State Capitol fire of 1911, Albany’s history isn’t just preserved—it’s experienced. Stories of a Civil War veteran still standing watch, unexplained connections to Abraham Lincoln, and moments that don’t fully add up continue to surface.
So what happens when a city carries that much history? At what point does preservation become something else… something that refuses to stay buried?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about Haunted Albany Spirits of the Capitol City with Maeve McKenney Johnson. |
| 0:10.9 | So I was giving an outdoor tour last year, regular tour. I haven't been a capital tour guide in years. And somebody starts laughing. And they said, oh, they thought that was a bit on the tour. |
| 0:21.6 | Like it was a joke. |
| 0:22.4 | And I said, oh, that's so funny. |
| 0:23.8 | They were on my tour years ago. |
| 0:25.1 | And they went, no, no, they were just on a recent capital tour. |
| 0:28.2 | And the door opened behind that. |
| 0:30.1 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:30.6 | So it's happened more than once. |
| 0:34.3 | At least more than once. |
| 0:35.9 | But it's pretty notoriously known as a haunted location, isn't it? |
| 0:40.3 | It is. |
| 0:41.3 | It's a haunted location. |
| 0:42.3 | It's a beautiful. |
| 0:44.3 | The story goes, though, is that, as I mentioned, those stone carvers, is there a reason? |
| 0:50.3 | You know, we couldn't finish the building. |
| 0:52.3 | There's a secret demon that's no bigger than my thumbprint that local legend says maybe it was a stone carver who was fired and didn't think it was fair that he was fired. |
| 1:02.3 | But you need a tour guide with a flashlight to find it. |
| 1:06.5 | And actually, we tell that that we've been telling that story so long. |
| 1:09.3 | His nose is still black from when we used matches to highlight them. |
| 1:13.4 | Oh, so people would be like, look at this, way back in the day before flashlights. |
| 1:18.7 | Yep, yep. |
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