Lewisboro Ghosts:: Strange Tales and Scary Sightings

by Maureen Koehl

Overview

On the easternmost edge of Westchester County, among the quiet communities nestled against the Connecticut state line, memories of eerie incidents and haunted happenings flow through the generations like the currents of the nearby Hudson River. The old-timers of South Salem and Waccabuc still recall the legendary "Leather Man," an itinerant vagabond who rambled mysteriously through the region in the late 1800s. Over in Goldens Bridge they whisper of "the Christmas Soldier," an apparition of a Revolutionary-era Patriot who stalks the Highway 22 corridor. And beneath Long Pond Mountain the locals listen attentively for the "Wail of the Wind," the sorrowful moan attributed to two ghostly parents lamenting their son's drowning. Read Maureen Koehl's Lewisboro Ghosts to discover the spooky stories and supernatural sightings that linger in this tucked-away corner of the lower Hudson Valley.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596292550
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/15/2007
Series:	Haunted America
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Maureen Koehl has been the Lewisboro Town Historian for 20 years and has been collecting local ghost stories for most of that time. She is a primary school teacher, currently teaching third grade in Rye, NY, serves on the South Salem Library Board of Trustees, and is president of the Friends of Trailside Museum at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, a Westchester County Park. The author of Images of Lewisboro (Arcadia Publishing 1997), she also writes a history column and features for The Lewisboro Ledger.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     7
Introduction     9
South Salem     13
Goldens Bridge     33
Cross River     41
Lewisboro Hamlet     47
Three Lakes Area     53
North Salem     55
Mystery Mansions     71
Legends     79
A Selection of Lewisboro Epitaphs     109
Sources     127