Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a
spellbound region, and the ghosts that linger from more than four
hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition. In Hudson,
Maggie Houghtaling's ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she
was hanged 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 she threw herself into the water when her father
forbade her to be with the man she loved. In Greenport, Peter Hallenbeck
was murdered by his nephews in his home, where his spirit still lingers.
Discover these and other eerie tales of hauntings in the Catskill
Mountains.