There\u2019s a chill in the air. The floorboards in New York\u2019s historic houses seem to creak a little louder, while birds hidden among the trees of Central Park stare down from crooked branches. <\/p>\n
The lights atop the Empire State Building go dark, and the subway car you\u2019re riding suddenly stops in the middle of a shadowy tunnel.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s right it\u2019s an all-new \u2026 Bowery Boys Ghost Stories of Old New York podcast! <\/p>\n
Tom and Greg have been recording ghost story podcasts since 2007, and this year they have somehow managed to conjure up yet another batch of historical urban legends, taked from actual newspaper reports:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Stand Clear of the Closing Ghosts: An eerie encounter on the elevated train, from 1899, leaves one rider running for her doctor in fear<\/p>\n
\u2014 Severed from the Spirit World: In 1896, a Flatbush man finds a disturbing artifact buried in his cellar, awakening a wandering nighttime spirit who frightens his nosy neighbors<\/p>\n
\u2014 The Ghost That Slapped Back: A crowded Lower East Side schoolroom became a chamber of nightmares, sending the community to the streets in protest<\/p>\n
\u2014 Who Is The Ghost In the Window? It\u2019s street gangs vs strangely beautiful spirits in this 1902 tale of a deteriorating house on 42nd Street<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rosabelle, Believe! This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of Harry Houdini, the legendary escape artist with an unusual relationship with death. His mysterious grave site in Queens has become the site of spooky ceremonies. But will he soon be making a return up at his former Harlem brownstone?<\/p>\n
This show was edited and produced by Kieran Gannon.<\/p>\n
LISTEN NOW: SCARY STORIES OF OLD NEW YORK<\/p>\n
FURTHER LISTENING<\/p>\n
If you\u2019d like the non-scary histories of the events featured in this show, listen to these past Bowery Boys podcasts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a chill in the air. The floorboards in New York\u2019s historic houses seem to creak a little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136285,1873,136286,358,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-369070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-corcorans-roost","tag-flatbush","tag-harry-houdini","tag-lower-east-side","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}