Haunted History - Haunted History New York

In October 1999, documentaries of places with ghostly manifestations aired on the History Channel. There were five segments on Haunted History New York.

  • The first segment involved the ghost of a woman named Gertrude Tredwell, who was born in 1840 and died in 1933. She closed herself from the rest of the world after her father, Seabury Tredwell, refused to let her marry her lover, Lewis Walton.
  • The spirit of George Sullivan haunted the USS The Sullivans
  • Beardslee Castle manifested with the ghosts of Guy Beardslee and some spirit once known for scaring out employees at night by making a shriek/growl noise.
  • A house on Staten Island known for the ghost of Christopher Billup.
  • The ghost of Lavender, a girl that went to a dance with two boys going stag.

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