Paranormal Long Island
Nassau County, NY
You read about UFO sightings in newspapers, or haunted houses and strange activity that’s randomly scattered throughout the world. You’d never think it could happen where you live. Long Island is a place filled with rich history from the Gold Coast to Orient Point. But it’s stories like the Amityville Horror that grip us and leave us on edge wanting answers. Do you believe in Ghosts? Haunted Houses? Haunted Cemeteries? UFO’s? Secret Government Experiments?
Raynham Hall
Oyster Bay, NY
This Long Island house has a long history that goes back to the 1700′s. The Townsend family originally owned the home during the Revolutionary War. At the time, the home was used as a British base for soldiers. One British soldier in particular named John Andre stayed at the home often. It is said that the daughter Sally Townsend overheard him making arrangements to pay Benedict Arnold for his betrayal. The Townsends sent the message to George Washington, leader of the American troops. Although Arnold got away before Washington could catch him, Andre did not. John Andre was captured by the American troops and hung. His ghost made it’s first reported appearance in the 1930s. His ghost was seen on horseback outside of the home.
Another British soldier, John Simcoe, had a relationship with the Townsend daughter, Sally. The bedroom that was hers is said to be cold year round. Those who have visited have confirmed this and so have people who have worked there. They say that even in the summer, one could wear a wool sweater in her room.
Another ghost has been seen in and around the house. In 1999, a volunteer was working outside when a man, dressed in a wool jacket with brass buttons came out of the building. The volunteer claims the doors were locked and the alarms were on so to exit the building would have been impossible. That same ghost appeared to another person inside the building only a few months later. It is said to be the ghost of and Irish immigrant worker from the 1800′s named Michael Conlin.
There are more than those three. It is said that the servants quarters are also haunted by a woman who was once seen walking into the kitchen. The smell of roses, apple pie, and apple cinnamon have been taken as a sign of welcome from the ghosts, as well.
Overall, Raynham Hall is definitely not empty, even after the museum doors have locked.
UFO Sighting on the Long Island Expressway
Roslyn Heights, NY
In November 2008, a driver was approaching Exit 39 on the Long Island Expressway for Glen Cove Road. He was stuck in traffic and moving slowly when he looked south and observed a cone shaped white light that was stationary. At this time, the drive had said, the FAA had changed flight patterns due to the events of September 11, and the results had been that most flights were located by or along the LIE. This object in the sky was not close by, but far to the south. The driver assumed it must have been some kind of plane or aircraft and did not see it the following night.
The following Monday, the light had returned. This time, the driver said that the light was almost wobbly at the pointed end closest to the ground. He described it as the way a top looks just before it falls. The way the light moved convinced the drive that it was not a helicopter because the spotlight from the helicopter cannot move in the way it was moving.
Two days later the light returned again. This time, the driver pulled over to look at it. After about five minutes of observation, the light did something that no aircraft known to us can to. It zipped up and away at an uncharted speed. It was so fast that the light almost seemed to vanish.
On another occasion the driver saw three individual lights moving in odd directions that normal aircrafts can’t do. The lights made 90 degree angle turns and barrel roles. After the three lights began to fly away, they quickly changed direction and went out of sight. The white cone followed seconds later.
Each time the driver saw the light from the LIE, it was between 6:30 and 7:30 during rush hour traffic.
Winfield Hall
Glen Cove, NY
Winfield Hall is an estate that once belonged to F.W. Woolworth, an operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents. He had the giant estate built in 1916. Winfield Hall was built for approximately 9 million dollars. It has a marble staircase and a chandelier made of blue and 15-karat gold. The home is luxurious and was fit for royalty during its time.
Woolworth lived in the estate with his wife and three daughters. His daughter, Edna Winfield, was upset during a party her father was giving because he refused her request to get married. She went upstairs to the Marie Antoinette room and committed suicide. It is said that the night Edna killed herself, the family’s coat of arms cracked across the spot in which her face was etched into it.
Woolworth lived there for just two years before he passed away from an infection that began in his teeth, but because of his fear of the dentist he refused to get it fixed and instead he died.Woolworth was said to have practiced the black arts in the mansion using a black mirror for rituals in his master bedroom.
People believe the house is haunted by Edna’s spirit. There have been accounts of white mists floating from room to room and ghostly organ music playing in the hallways. While the house was used as a school some years later, the Marie Antoinette room was kept locked. There are over thirty accounts of people hearing a woman crying in that locked room. Other accounts of haunts include people seeing a woman in the garden. The woman was always wearing a faded blue dress. Although Edna Winfield took her life years ago, it appears that she has never truly left home.
