The kids allegedly play hide-and-seek, while another spirit likes to strike the same key on the parlor’s piano.ĭebbi J Woodroe, Woodroe Realty, 58 The Dakota | From $1.24 million Robert Miller During the renovations, house staffers - like caretaker Cora Goyette - and even McMurtrie himself reported sightings of ghostly children and a woman wearing white holding a parasol or lying in bed. Now the Victorian features six bedrooms, five gas fireplaces, numerous chandeliers, impressive woodwork, a library and a 3,000-square-foot ballroom. It took 11 years for owner Tony McMurtrie to restore the Pillars Estate near Rochester to its original grandeur. County House Road, Albion | $450,000 Cheryl Wirth Originally called The Parsonage, the rundown property is said to host 19th-century spirits.Ĭlaudia Andreassen, Andreassen Properties, 84 13800 W. In total, there are seven bedrooms over 4,000 square feet. The fixer-upper near Saugerties in the Catskills, built in 1893, is a bargain - considering the buyer gets two outbuildings and an apartment with a private entry that could be rented out.
Nancy Blake Weber, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, 91 1141 Main St., Malden on Hudson | $135,000 Matthew Cullen Subsequent residents like screenwriter Adam Brooks and singer Ingrid Michaelson, as well as current seller Jewish rapper Matisyahu, never reported supernatural sightings. The home was declared legally haunted in 1991 after a financier successfully brought Ackley to court to get out of his contract to buy the house because she didn’t disclose the paranormal activity. One-time owner Helen Ackley famously said she experienced inexplicable bed shaking and doors slamming during her 20 years in residence.
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This 4,628-square-foot house perched on the Hudson River has five bedrooms, stained glass windows and a saltwater pool.
General wisdom is that the family still roams the grounds.īarry Kukowski, Howard Hanna, 31 1 Laveta Place, Nyack | $1.9 million The Nyack Library Local History Image Collection The home, known as the Carleton Island Villa, was abandoned by 1927, leaving it the shell it is today. Sadly, just a month before moving in, Wyckoff’s wife died - then he died in his sleep during his first night in the home.Īfter the double tragedy, the family lost its fortune. Typewriter entrepreneur William Wyckoff built his dream summer house in 1895 on an island in the St. Carleton Island Villa, Cape Vincent | $495,000 Kim Lunman
Here are seven scary properties in New York state that are for sale right now. Millennials - and other lovers of the spooky and surreal - are in luck. The notoriously savings-strapped generation is willing to put up with a murder house or ghostly encounters to become homeowners.
On the other hand, the poll also found that millennials were 13 times more likely to buy a haunted house, and many would even pay a premium for one. In fact, people are more likely to purchase a house where pornography had been filmed than one that is reportedly haunted, according to a study from Clever Real Estate. Given the pop-culture pervasiveness of horrifying tales of paranormal properties like “The Amityville Horror” and “The Conjuring,” buyers tend to shy away from such purchases. But actually living in a real one is another story. Halloween is the time of year where you pay to get scared at a haunted house.
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