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Legends 5: Long Island Ghosts (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-07-10 04:01:01 +0000 UTCOur search for legends today takes us deep into the woods outside of Huntington, Long Island, to a place known forbiddingly as Mount Misery. Just be sure to bring a flashlight.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Harry Marks and research by GennaRose Nethercott.
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Further Reading
- Arnett, Andrew K. “Mount Misery: Part 13 — Jaye Paro.” Arnett Files. March 7, 2021. https://arnettfiles.com/2021/03/07/mount-misery-part-13-jaye-paro
- Atteberry, Todd. “The Ghosts of Fire Island Lighthouse.” The Witchery Arts. Accessed October 3, 2022. https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/gothic-travel/the-ghosts-of-fire-island-lighthouse
- Atteberry, Todd. “The Legends and Myths of Sweet Hollow and Mount Misery: Part One, On Mary Hatchet and Sweet Hollow Road.” The Witchery Arts. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/behind-urban-legends/the-legends-and-myths-of-mount-misery-and-sweet-hollow-road-part-iii-mary-takes-another-swing-with-her-bloody-hatchet-on-the-big-screen
- Atteberry, Todd. “The Legends and Myths of Sweet Hollow and Mount Misery: Part II, The Mothman and the Thunderbird of Native American Myths.” The Witchery Arts. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/gothic-travel/by-location/mid-atlantic/long-island/the-legends-and-myths-of-sweet-hollow-and-mount-misery-part-ii-the-mothman-and-the-thunderbird-of-native-american-myths
- Atteberry, Todd. “Tales From Head of the Harbor and St. James I: New Thoughts on Mary Hatchet and Mary’s Grave.” The Witchery Arts. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/behind-urban-legends/storys-from-head-of-the-harbor-and-st-james-i-new-thoughts-on-mary-hatchet-and-marys-grave
- Bellerjeau, Claire & Tiffany Yecke Brooks. “Did an Enslaved Woman Try to Warn the Americans of Benedict Arnold’s Treason?” Smithsonian Magazine. May 16, 2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-an-enslaved-woman-try-to-warn-the-americans-of-benedict-arnolds-treason-180980080
- Black, Bela. “Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road.” American Ghost Stories. October 16, 2018. https://americanghoststories.com/mid-atlantic-ghost-stories/mount-misery-sweet-hollow-road#google_vignette
- Brosky, Kerriann Flanagan. Historic Haunts of Long Island (The History Press, 2015).
- Brosky, Kerriann Flanagan. “Long Island's Legends and Myths: Mary's Grave.” Huntington, NY Patch. September 3, 2012. https://patch.com/new-york/huntington/bp--long-islands-legends-and-myths-marys-grave
- Carr, Julie. “Raynham Hall Museum.” HauntedHouses.com. Accessed October 1, 2022. http://hauntedhouses.com/new-york/raynham-hall-museum
- “Fire Island Lighthouse.” Lighthouse Friends. Accessed October 3, 2022. https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=390
- Gentile, John. “Find Slain Girl Was Raped First.” Daily News. June 10, 1976. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36846504/katherine-woods-murder
- Hanc, John. “A Long Island House Holds the Story of Washington’s Spy Ring.” New York Times. March 12, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/arts/raynham-hall-revolution-spies.html
- “History.” Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society. Accessed October 3, 2022. https://www.fireislandlighthouse.com/history
- “History.” Raynham Hall Museum. Accessed October 1, 2022. https://raynhamhallmuseum.org/1740-1776-before-the-revolution
- Keel, John A. The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings (Tom Doherty Associates, 2002).
- Keel, John A. The Mothman Prophecies (Tor, 2001).
- Lefebvre, Scott. Scary Stories To Tell In Long Island (CreateSpace, 2014).
- “Legends of Sweet Hollow Road.” New York Mystery Machine. October 4, 2021. https://anchor.fm/nymysterymachine/episodes/Episode-14-Legends-of-Sweet-Hollow-Road-e1894jn
- Leita, John & Laura Leita. Long Island Oddities: Curious Locales, Unusual Occurrences and Unlikely Urban Adventures (Arcadia Publishing, 2013).
- “List Melville Woman’s Death A Suicide.” Newsday (Suffolk Edition). March 15, 1949. https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/712381229
- Lucia. “Haunted Road Trip: Mount Misery Road and Sweet Hollow Road, Long Island, New York.” The Ghost In My Machine. May 4, 2015. https://theghostinmymachine.com/2015/05/04/haunted-road-trip-mount-misery-road-and-sweet-hollow-road-west-hills-huntington-long-island-new-york
- “Mary’s Grave — Long Island’s Most Legendary Final Resting Place.” Weird U.S. Accessed September 28, 2022. http://www.weirdus.com/states/new_york/cemetery_safari/marys_grave/index.php
- “Mary’s Grave — Real Haunt in St. James, NY.” Long Island Haunted Houses. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.lihauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/marys-grave.html
- Mates, Seth. “A father’s anguish at the Fire Island Lighthouse.” Newsday. Accessed October 3, 2022. https://projects.newsday.com/lifestyle/haunted-long-island-fire-island-lighthouse
- McCarthy, “America’s first Valentine in Oyster Bay?” Newsday. February 13, 2011. https://www.newsday.com/news/america-s-first-valentine-in-oyster-bay-o49087
- Mian, Rashed. “First Valentine In The Country Given On Long Island.” Long Island Press. February 14, 2017. https://www.longislandpress.com/2017/02/14/first-valentine-in-country-long-island-raynham-hall
- “Miscellaneous.” New York History 28(4), October 1947: 520-525. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23147954
- “Mount Misery — Melville NY Haunted Place.” Long Island Haunted Houses. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.lihauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/mount-misery.html
- O’Connor-Arena, Melissa. “Mount Misery.” Huntington, NY Patch. March 15, 2010. https://patch.com/new-york/huntington/a-new-view-mount-misery
- “An Old Tar.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle. August 6, 1878. https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/50423545
- Paro, Jaye. “Medium’s Insist This Spot Is Dominated By Evil Spirits.” Beyond. July 1969. http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=3715
- “Raynham Hall Museum.” Atlas Obscura. Accessed October 1, 2022. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/raynham-hall-museum
- Sclafani, Tony. “Father’s deadly gunshot startles Samaritans.” Courier News. August 8, 2000. https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/224427244
- Smitten, Susan. Ghost Stories of New York State (Ghost House Books, 2004).
- Stark, Ian J. “Haunted spots to explore on Long Island.” Newsday. October 1, 2021. https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/holidays/halloween/haunted-long-island-y7563
- Swancer, Brent. “Ghosts, UFOs, and High Strangeness at Mount Misery, New York.” Mysterious Universe. June 24, 2020. https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/07/ghosts-ufos-and-high-strangeness-at-mount-misery-new-york
- “Sweet Hollow Road.” Long Island Paranormal Investigators. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.liparanormalinvestigators.com/post/sweet-hollow-road
- “Sweet Hollow Road.” Scary for Kids. January 18, 2015. https://www.scaryforkids.com/sweet-hollow-road
- “Sweet Hollow Road — Real Huntington Haunt.” Long Island Haunted Houses. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.lihauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/sweet-hollow-road.html
- Walsh, Colleen. “Uncovering what Thoreau uncovered.” Harvard Gazette. July 31, 2015. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/07/uncovering-what-thoreau-uncovered
- “West Hills South: Mt. Misery Nature Preserve.” Town of Huntington. Accessed September 28, 2022. https://www.huntingtonny.gov/filestorage/13749/13843/15187/99828/153038/17956/Trails_Guide_Mt__Misery_Nature_Preserve.pdf
- Whitehouse, Jack. 13 Legends of Fire Island and the Great South Bay (iUniverse, 2008).
