Haunted Catskills

WashingtonIrving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a spellbound region, and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provideproof of Irving’s intuition. In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling’s ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she washanged in 1817 for murdering her child-a crime for which she was later cleared.The ghost of a young Native American girl haunts Claverack Creek, where shethrew herself into the water when her father forbade her to be with the man sheloved. In Greenport, Peter Hallenbeck was murdered by his nephews in his home,where his spirit still lingers. Discover these and other eerie tales ofhauntings in the Catskill Mountains.