Every Halloween ghosts and goblins haunt the streets, parks and apartment buildings of Inwood–just as they have for hundreds of years.
It is a spooky place where the spirit of a long dead magician might bump into the specter of a headless Hessian, where a Dutch trumpeter fights with the devil himself and cries from disturbed graves are heard by the living.
This October, the most frightening month of the year, MyInwood presents several scary tales from the past.
Cemeteries of Yesteryear It’s hard to imagine an Inwood with mansions on the hill, a dirt road below, and just east of that cemeteries….yep….Cemeteries.
Hundreds of years of even sparse population generated numerous graves. In some lay the long forgotten members of once famous families. In other plots,the fallen dead of the Revolutionary War; even Indians.
Houdini’s Ghost Every Halloween, the anniversary of Harry Houdini’s death, his widow Bess held a seance.
This Halloween, listen to a recording of the final 1936 seance and discover The Houdini Inwood Connection. Would you believe Bess Houdini lived right here on Payson Avenue?
A Turn of the Century School for the Occult Occultism was all the rage near the turn of the century. Join us as we explore the fascinating and macabre world of Ernest Loomis and his Inwood School of Philosophy. It is a bone chilling ride into another dimension. His book, “Practical Occultism,” was published here in Inwood near the turn of the century.
The Inwood House of Mercy Finally, choose a cell in Inwood’s haunted old House of Mercy. The institution had a past so dark and scary that the ghosts of its former residents haunt Inwood Hill Park to this very day.