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The Overlook Mansion, also know as the Burrell Mansion was designed by noted archtect Archimedes Russel and built around 1889 for the industrialist and inventor David H. Burrell in Little Falls, NY. Mr. Burrell spent his life traveling abroad and developing new technologies for the dairy industry until 1885 when Little Falls was incorporated...

The CNY Paranormal Portal comes to 'life' in our new web-based series, the CNY Paranormal Show.

When we talk about ghosts, we are often discussing the forgotten people. Their names and identities have been erased, replaced with the translucent image of someone who was once alive.

Among the various ghost stories and urban legends, the story of the bride, the woman in white that haunts a particular roadway is a story that is so common that variations are found in every state and a multitude of countries around the globe. One such story is that of the Phantom Bride of 13 Curves in Marcellus, just southwest of Syracuse.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was traumatic for a nation just starting to heal from the Civil War.  But perhaps the most tramatuized that night at Ford's Theatre was the Upstate New York couple who where seated with the President and Mrs. Lincoln on that fateful night.  From the NY Shadowchasers, find out if President Lincoln's spirit ever visited a house near Albany.

In discussing the topic of haunted locations one of the most cliched and iconic spots for a haunting is that of a castle. The imagery of a European castle silhouetted against a stormy sky brings to mind classic horror stories from Dracula to Frankenstein and not without just cause. In Europe castles are some of the longest standing structures with a bloody history that lends to extensive accounts

When discussing the paranormal, often what is talked about are haunted locations, or haunted people. We talk about the places that ghosts haunt, or the people they are attached to, even after life. But what isn’t often talked about are haunted objects.

We believe that a haunting takes place around a certain geographic location, person or object.  But does the time of the year make a difference in higher spirit activity?  It might and it's called the Seasonality of the Supernatural.

One of the questions paranormal investigators ask themselves is regarding the location of haunted sites. Anecdotal evidence tells us that there are a lot of haunted buildings by rivers and other bodies of water.

In previous articles, we have discussed hauntings at the Capitol Theatre in Rome, and the Landmark Theater in Syracuse. Another local haunted theater is the Stanley Theatre in Utica.

The Hulbert House was built in 1812 in Boonville, NY. Since it was built, Hulbert House has been active as an inn, and was at one time one of the most well-known places to stay in the region. Their registration book holds the signatures of many historic figures- including Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States.

Over the last two years leading up to Halloween, we've teamed up with the NY Shadowchasers to host a series of paranormal investigations as fund-raising opportunities for historic sites in Central New York like Rome's Erie Canal Village and the Stone Meeting House in Remsen. During some of those investigations, local documentarian Geoff Storm was recording a short documentary he's called 'Chasing