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Who Killed...?

Haunted Staten Island: An interview with author Marianna Biazzo Randazzo

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In honor of "Spooky Season," here is an episode about Haunted Staten Island from the other show I produce for Evergreen Podcasts, Crime Capsule. Staten Island is known as the mystifying borough, and it is home to numerous ghosts and eerie tales. The Alice Austin House was once home to a pioneering photographer, but ghostly images of a different sort now appear among the beams. The Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp holds tales of supernatural echoes, while over at the Old Bermuda Inn, the specter of Martha Mersereau, waiting for the return of her dead husband, appears at candlelit windows each evening. On some of the island’s most desolate roads, a spectral hitchhiker appears, vanishing from the car mid-ride, leaving only an eerie chill. Countless travelers have encountered her, a haunting reminder of the thin line between the living and the dead. Local author Marianna Randazzo uncovers the secrets behind Staten Island’s haunted houses, spectral sightings and enduring legends. Purchase the BOOK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6

Welcome back to Crime Cepsel. I'm your host, Benjamin Morris.

1:16.6

New York, New York, it's a hell of a town, the Bronx is up, and the batteries down.

1:22.6

One of my favorite song lyrics echoed only by the love letters penned to the city by Frank Sinatra,

1:30.8

Billy Holliday, and of course the Beastie Boys and Jay-Z. There is nothing like a trip to the

1:38.2

greatest city in the world to get you curious about who lived and who died there, who set their ambitions on the skies,

1:47.0

and who still remains to haunt the earth.

1:50.0

Here at Crime Capsule, we make a point of visiting the Big Apple as often as possible for just that reason.

1:58.0

And today, we are thrilled to visit a part of the city that most folks know

2:03.5

more by name and by how you get there than by actual experience. And yet, the island is a part

2:12.4

of the city that is central to its history, as today's author shows.

2:18.3

Mariana Randazzo is the author of, yes, you guessed it,

2:23.3

Haunted Staten Island just published by the history press.

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