Results tagged “haunted”

Another one to file under: "Just in time for Halloween." The Chelsea Hotel bloggers received a desperate cry for answers after a tourist spent three nights at the hotel, only to be menaced on her final evening by the ghost of Dylan Thomas! She was with her boyfriend, but he slept soundly through the sighting. She reports back from Room 114:

Yesterday there was a pink house for sale in Brooklyn that made headlines, and today there's a haunted house for sale in the West Village! Just in time for trick or treating, the Daily News reports on "the historic Gay St. property, on the corner of Waverly Place... rumored to be inhabited by a restless spirit who walks the creaking floorboards at night." Some believe the ghost to be that of former Mayor Jimmy Walker, who once owned the home.

When we heard the State's Office of General Services is offering "Capitol Hauntings" tours of the Capitol Building in Albany, we were hoping it would involve a room where the bodies were buried after the State Senate coup or maybe an echo chamber with Spitzer saying he's a "fucking steamroller." But, alas, it just involves things like "the legend of the 'Secret Demon' near the Great Western Staircase" and "which two Presidents of the United States are said to have visited the State Capitol after they died." (PDF with more info.)