stories of their own.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\nThe spookiest spot in the state is Manhattan\u2019s storied Morris-Jumel Mansion, which was built in 1765 and is famous for being the borough\u2019s oldest house. <\/p>\n
The Washington Heights property at 65 Jumel Terrace, which is now a museum, has hosted historic legends from first US president George Washington and third vice president Aaron Burr to jazz music icon Duke Ellington along with, apparently, a few guests who never left.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paranormal Investigations NYC founder and director Dom Villella didn\u2019t see any spirits during an hours-long visit to the mansion in October 2009 \u2014 but he felt them, he told The Post. <\/p>\n
\u201cI felt very uneasy there. You know when you walk into a room and the room\u2019s just got a really heavy feeling to it, and the energy feels weird? That\u2019s the Morris-Jumel Mansion. You walk in there and you just feel very uncomfortable until you leave,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
First US president George Washington was among the historic legends who once occupied the Morris-Jumel Mansion. IMAGO\/piemags via Reuters Connec<\/p>\n
The Washington Heights landmark has frequently been cited in paranormal cycles and is rumored by spirit seekers to house five distinct ghosts, researchers noted. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my opinion, what you feel at the mansion is residual energy \u2014 it\u2019s not literally haunted, it\u2019s just replaying energy of people who were there over time. Structures, especially old buildings, will absorb the energies of people who spend a lot of time there, and if the conditions are perfect, it will replay it,\u201d explained Villella, who has investigated more than 1,000 buildings in Manhattan since 2003.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s probably why people see images or hear voices there. And especially because of all the artifacts that [the mansion] contains, it\u2019s more likely to have that residual energy replaying,\u201d he continued, and noting his electromagnetic field detectors got \u201chigh readings\u201d at the mansion.<\/p>\n
The landmark has frequently been cited in paranormal cycles and is rumored by spirit seekers to house five distinct ghosts, researchers noted.<\/p>\n
Texas ranked second for spirit sightings, with 77 encounters per 10,000 people, followed by Louisiana (74), California (72) and Utah (65).\u00a0 casino.ca<\/p>\n
Overall, nearly one in four Americans claim to have seen a ghost over the past century, with a bone-chilling 1.84 million encounters logged nationwide, or about 2,329 per 10,000 residents.<\/p>\n
Texas ranked second for spirit spottings, with 77 encounters per 10,000 people, followed by Louisiana (74), California (72) and Utah (65).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ghost run-ins were hauntingly less common north of the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yukon led Canada with 39 sightings per 10,000 residents, followed by British Columbia (34), Ontario (33) and Alberta (32).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a grave new ranking for New York. The Empire State is officially the most haunted state in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7400,245,881,232,75,6337,9,24,55,54,56,6639,7401],"class_list":["post-8418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ghosts","tag-halloween","tag-history","tag-lifestyle","tag-manhattan","tag-mansions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-paranormal-activity","tag-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418","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=8418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}