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The Strand is an iconic part of history in Old Forge. Community members are coming together to keep that legacy up and running.

In this episode Phil guides the explorers to the castle-like Overlook Mansion situated high on a hill in Little Falls to explore the forgotten history of D.H. Burrell and the legend of him haunting the home through its restoration.

In this episode Phil guides the explorers to a remote cemetery north of New Berlin near West Edmeston and the Unadilla River to explore the legend of Eunice Welsh, an undead ghoul said to reside in the tomb often driving adventurous visitors away in terror.

In this episode Phil guides the explorers to the downtown Oneida to explore a grand mansion of the 1800’s, a that has become renowned for history and its haunting activity that echoes of through every day.

Steeped in history and legends, New York is filled with stories of the forgotten, eerie and the weird that influence us everyday. While exploring the Mohawk River Trail in Rome, we learned of a long-abandoned amphitheater that once graced the banks of the river.

Steeped in history and legends, New York is filled with stories of the forgotten, eerie and the weird that influence us everyday. While exploring the Rutger Park Mansion #3 in Utica, we learned an intriguing rumor about a tunnel used by escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad connecting Rutger Park mansions with a church on South Street.

Steeped in history and legends, New York is filled with stories of the forgotten, eerie and the weird that influence us everyday. While exploring the Rutger Park Mansion #3 in Utica, we found out some incredible facts about the dining room wallpaper.

Historic newsreel footage from 1951 shows Utica in the midst of a mock atomic bomb attack.

Steeped in history and legends, New York is filled with stories of the forgotten, eerie and the weird that influence us everyday. Tucked away on the back roads of of northern Oneida County is a sign of a global legend.

In this episode Phil guides the explorers to the downtown Utica at Rutger Park to explore Utica's grandest mansion of the 1800's, a place where Senators, Civil War Generals and even the President of the United States came to visit and helped shape the nation. A place that still experiences the haunting echoes of that past today.

Steeped in history and legends, New York is filled with stories of the forgotten, eerie and the weird that influence us everyday. The towns of Herkimer and German Flatts border each other on either side of the Mohawk River. But there's something odd about the towns. They're wrong. Herkimer is German Flatts and German Flatts is Herkimer.

In this episode Phil guides the explorers to the town of Steuben in northern Oneida County near Remsen to uncover the legend of the Witch Doctor of Steuben and the Starr Hill ghost that is believed to be the legendary doctor who died in the early 1800's and still attempts to help strangers along the road today.