Halloween Challenge - Part I
Oct. 21st, 2002 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickAre you in the mood for Halloween yet?
Well, in case you aren't, I have the following two challenges to help you get into the mood.
Challenge one is easy: Find out about "famous" haunted places in your neighborhood. Then post either here or in your livejournal. :)
So I'll start.
There are really only two 'well-known' hauntings in the Western New York area.
1) Our most well known haunted place is, of all places, a relatively new Holiday Inn on Grand Island (between Buffalo and Niagara Falls). The Hotel was built over an old house where Tanya, a little girl, was burned to death. When the Holiday Inn was built, Tanya came out to play. She is a playful ghost, jumping on the beds, running down the halls, swimming in the pool after all and, apparently, sometimes playing with other children's toys.
2) Fort Niagara - Like all sorts of other older buildings, Fort Niagara is a building with a past. The hauntings apparently originally in September of 1763 when British troops carrying supplies there were massacred by the Seneca Indians. Additional violent deaths have occured in the area, but this location is mostly known for it's colonial past. Two famous ghosts of this area are the headless ghost of the well, a french officer who lost his head over the love of an indian girl and an unknown ghostly-looking british soldier who seems to be in odd places of the Fort itself.
Some lesser known hauntings that I found while looking on google
3) The Dock of The Bay - A restaurant in Blasdell, NY, just south of Buffalo where, apparently, a few ghosts haunt the place. Though they seem benign, they are, apparently, fairly active.
I've never heard of the third, but I'll put it out anyways.
So, are you up to the challenge?
Think you can find some cool ghost stories near you?
Good Luck!
Well, in case you aren't, I have the following two challenges to help you get into the mood.
Challenge one is easy: Find out about "famous" haunted places in your neighborhood. Then post either here or in your livejournal. :)
So I'll start.
There are really only two 'well-known' hauntings in the Western New York area.
1) Our most well known haunted place is, of all places, a relatively new Holiday Inn on Grand Island (between Buffalo and Niagara Falls). The Hotel was built over an old house where Tanya, a little girl, was burned to death. When the Holiday Inn was built, Tanya came out to play. She is a playful ghost, jumping on the beds, running down the halls, swimming in the pool after all and, apparently, sometimes playing with other children's toys.
2) Fort Niagara - Like all sorts of other older buildings, Fort Niagara is a building with a past. The hauntings apparently originally in September of 1763 when British troops carrying supplies there were massacred by the Seneca Indians. Additional violent deaths have occured in the area, but this location is mostly known for it's colonial past. Two famous ghosts of this area are the headless ghost of the well, a french officer who lost his head over the love of an indian girl and an unknown ghostly-looking british soldier who seems to be in odd places of the Fort itself.
Some lesser known hauntings that I found while looking on google
3) The Dock of The Bay - A restaurant in Blasdell, NY, just south of Buffalo where, apparently, a few ghosts haunt the place. Though they seem benign, they are, apparently, fairly active.
I've never heard of the third, but I'll put it out anyways.
So, are you up to the challenge?
Think you can find some cool ghost stories near you?
Good Luck!
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Date: 2002-10-21 11:42 am (UTC)I imagine I could find some Boston ghost stories without too much trouble, what with the Revolutionary War history and all. Most of the Alabama ghost stories dated from the Civil War era.