Historic haunted places in Rochester, NY. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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Haunted place
1342 Kings Highway North, Rochester, NY 14617
Open to the public (public park; free, daylight hours).
The White Lady of Durand Eastman Park is one of western New York's best-known legends. She is described as a woman in white wandering the park roads and lakeshore, searching for a …
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
Open to the public (museum; admission charged).
Employees and visitors have reported a male apparition, believed to be George Eastman, wandering his mansion in the early morning and in the archives. Others describe cold spots an…
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
115 South Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604
Open to the public (public library; free).
Reports at Rundel cluster in the closed stacks, which sit above a surviving stretch of the old Johnson & Seymour mill race. Staff describe shadowy figures in the aisles, doors movi…
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
755 Library Road, Rochester, NY 14627
Open to the public (university library during open hours).
As the University of Rochester tells it, mason's helper Pete Nicosia died while the library tower was being built in the late 1920s. In 1932 a student said a stranger in tattered o…
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
4565 Culver Road, Rochester, NY 14622
Open to the public (restaurant and bar).
This tavern sits on New York's Haunted History Trail, and its best-known ghost is a woman by the fireplace said to be Lavinia Bradstreet, who lived in the house from 1856. Other re…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.