![]() In addition, their most sought-after tours last 2.5 hours and leave from Beacon. Tours are led in partnership between the Bannerman Island Trust and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.” The best part: you can actually visit Bannerman Island yourself. That somewhat make the impact of the castle, but it’s still an amazing place to see. Since our last visit there, stabilizing elements have been added. That video was recently released, reinforcing the group’s penchant for extremely dramatic soundtracks and stunning aerial shots of storied, abandoned places. This former munitions facility designed like a fairy-tale European castle looms over the Hudson River Valley. Don’t to be confused with Abandoned NYC, the website and book by Will Ellis, of North Brother Island.Īt the time, they told us their next video would be of Bannerman Island. “Recently, we shared a drone video by the crew Abandoned NY. See below what our friends from Untapped Cities said about it: We love the thrill of exploring mysterious locations, with some of the most incredible historical facts. “Then he changed his tune, ‘I do believe!’ ” recalled Connelly.This video is fantastic, right? The abandoned Bannerman Castle is definitely one of the spots we recommend visiting if you decide to head upstate. “It’s creepy.”Īnother time, a friend was over with his back toward the closet and blithely said, “Well, I don’t believe in ghosts” when the door suddenly popped open and hit him on the head. I feel cold whenever I’m down there,” he said. “The hair on my neck stands up, and I get freaked out. The carriage house, which Connelly said is older than the castle itself, revealed a “charged spot” in the basement that’s a constant trigger. “We all stepped back and asked each other, ‘Did you see that?’ ” recalled Connelly, who noted a few especially spooky spots around the property. I don’t think they have harm in mind - they just want to let us know they’re there.”Ī few months ago, while he was up in the attic with a small group taking pictures, a poof of dust appeared out of an old wicker baby carriage. “I thought the spirits were friendly to me. “The first thing they ask, ‘Is it haunted?’ ” said Connelly, who always answers in the affirmative. ![]() “Whether I’m at the diner or the pub, it’s always the same thing: ‘This is the guy who owns the castle!’ ” said 55-year-old Connelly, who told The Post he pretty much knows how the conversation will go. Bids are accepted online and from anywhere in the world up until “just before midnight” on Oct. But he has finally decided to put the fixer-upper on the market with broker Michael DeRosa. Owner Patrick Connelly has enjoyed being a local celebrity ever since he bought the castle at 45 Owasco St. “There’s something intelligent there - you don’t always get stuff like that.” “We asked, ‘Do you remember the cars?’ and a child responded, ‘Lots of cars,’ ” said DiBello. With psychic medium Suzanne Updyke, DiBello connected with spectral children in the garage, a former carriage house. Soon after, his health began failing, and within two years, he had died of Bright’s disease. Three years later, the Panic of 1893 decimated Laurie’s mill interests, and he was forced to sell the property. The couple had 10 children and only one son survived. In August 1890, she succumbed to a prolonged case of “the grippe,” an archaic term for influenza. But Laurie’s wife, Jeanie “Jane” McAllister, would tragically die in the building. In 1871, stockholders of an Auburn, NY, mill spent $7,000 to build the castle in a style reminiscent of a Scotch manor for mill manager and Scotsman Samuel Laurie. “We got everything from noises to figures on our SLS kinetic camera - a camera that can see what the human eye can’t see.” “There’s activity there, 100 percent,” paranormal investigator and founder of the ghost-hunter group Soul Searchers Shawn DiBello told The Post, pointing to ample audio and video evidence of supernatural occurrences. ![]() That sounds like a steal for an approximately 7,000-square-foot mansion in the Finger Lakes that features three stories (including an extremely spooky basement), four fireplaces, a separate carriage house, a turret, stained glass and so many bedrooms the listing simply advises aspiring nobility to “see floor plan.” But also included? Ghosts. 'Amityville Horror' home sells for $1.46 millionĪt the stroke of midnight on Halloween, the gavel will fall on a haunted castle in upstate New York. Would you buy this skeleton-filled Texas home for $125K? ![]() I own a 'haunted' pub - watch as this ghost shatters a pint glass Tommy Lee's hillside Calabasas mansion finally sells at a loss
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