![]() Many of these explorers long to explore these places purely for the beauty and history that surrounds them. There’s a quote known widely around the community of urban explorers: “take only photographs, and leave only footprints”. These people – known widely as ‘urban explorers’ – are brave, adventurous, and very often photographers. While thousands of people go about their everyday life in New York City not giving one thought to the abandoned buildings that lie not too far away, others live for the thrill of jumping through the broken window of an abandoned hospital to find old x-rays lying on the ground, or crawling through old sewers in search of a long forgotten past. Whatever comes to mind, it probably isn’t the abandoned subways, homes, and hospitals that are hidden in the depths of the city. Or perhaps it’s the countless number of young millennials trying to find their place in the world. When you think of New York City, what do you see? Perhaps you see a couple sitting pleasantly on a bench in Central Park, or a businessman rushing down the street while taking a call. “Then he changed his tune, ‘I do believe!’ ” recalled Connelly.New York City is known for its skyscrapers, its population, and the general hustle and bustle of everyday life there. “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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