Ghost Legends of 19th Century New York | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:02:21 Old Dutch Ghosts 00:09:42 The Spiritualist Tide 00:18:23 The Dead of the Five Points 00:24:41 The Merchants House Ghost 00:30:40 The Aaron Burr Ghost 00:35:16 Executed Ghosts of the Old City Hall Prison 00:40:26 The Cherry Hill Ghost 00:45:09 The Press and the Supernatural Marketplace 00:51:29 The Meaning of a Citys Haunting Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @asmr_historian   Support the channel on Patreon:   / asmrhistorian   Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819–20). Gilje, Paul A. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763–1834 (1987). University of North Carolina Press. Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (1928). Alfred A. Knopf. Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (1989). Beacon Press. Lehman, Amy. Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance: Mediums, Spiritualists and Mesmerists in Performance (2009). McFarland. Srebnick, Amy Gilman. The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York (1995). Oxford University Press. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City. 2nd ed. (2010). Yale University Press. Stuart, Nancy Rubin. The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox (2005). Harcourt. New York Sun. Various issues, 1880s–1890s. Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1999). Oxford University Press. Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.