Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 5
1 Do the Dead Walk Among Us? A Look at Wraiths, Ghosts and Specters 7
2 The Show Must Go On: Syracuse Area Landmark Theatre: Syracuse 12
3 Still on Call: Fire Station 18 and Tyler Green: The Valley, Syracuse 18
4 The Bride's Wild Ride: The Thirteen Curves: Marcellus 22
5 The Emancipator's Last Trip: Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train: Jordan 26
6 The Blast Still Rocking the City: Split Rock Quarry: Onondaga 32
7 Wraiths Weigh In: The Erie Canal Museum: Syracuse 36
8 Does a Salt Baron Still Linger Here? The Park Avery House: Syracuse 40
9 Murder Most Foul: The Strange Tale of Albert Fyler: Onondaga 43
10 The Devil's Armchair: Oakwood Cemetery: Syracuse 47
11 Farmers and Fliers: The Commander's House, Hancock Field: Matiydale 51
12 Who Haunts Whiskey Hollow Road? Van Buren 55
13 A Table for Two: The Wayside Inn: Elbridge 59
14 Lights of Mystery: Oswego Bitter Cemetery: Camillus 62
15 All the Amenities: The Clay Hotel: Clay 66
16 Plying the Waterways: The Camillus Towpath: Camillus 71
17 Guns for a New Nation: The Onondaga Arsenal: The Valley, Syracuse 74
18 Restless Spirits: Jacksonville Cemetery: Baldwinsville 77
19 Rooms with a View: .Ancestor's Inn at the Basset House: Liverpool 81
20 Politics as (Un)usual: Syracuse City Hall: Syracuse 84
21 A Spectral Shooting Star: Skaneateles 88
22 A Haunting Hotel: Hotel Syracuse: Syracuse 92
23 Tough Room: Wise Guys Comedy Club: Syracuse 94
24 Woodlawn Cemetery's Spectral Stalker: Syracuse 97
25 Tavern Tragedy: Homicide and Haunting: Liverpool 100
26 Odd Fellows and Mohegan Manor: Baldwinsville 103
27 Are the Ethereal at Elmcrest? Syracuse 108
28 Gargoyles in the Brickyard: Warners 111
29 Swimming Specters? Jamesville Reservoir: Jamesville 114
30 School Days; Ghoul Days: Wellwood Middle School: Fayetteville 117
31 Doing Time with the Living Impaired: Jamesville Penitentiary: Jamesville 120
32 Hunting the Ethereal 124
33 What Do We Know? 128
Notes 135
About the Author 144