Welcome To Revolutionary Ghost Tours
New York’s capital has been a contested battleground for over four hundred years– a fight that the city’s dead are decisively winning. Through decades of turmoil, tragedy, and disaster, the specters of Albany’s nightmares remain. Venture with Albany Ghosts into this disturbing city for an unflinching look into Albany’s ghostly landscape.
The Midnight Train To Nowhere
Albany has been a gateway into other lands and darker worlds since the days of the Mohawks and the Mahicans, and the American Revolution sealed shadowy energies into it. Today, New York’s capital has become an ethereal unknown, one created as it was passed between nations through centuries of conflict. Consequently, Albany’s blood-soaked burden rears its ugly head in many ways.
Look closely while standing outside the old haunted Union Station, and you may catch a glimpse of a moment that defined a nation. Most famously, it helped bring Abraham Lincoln’s body back to Springfield after his assassination in 1865. Remnants of this fateful journey have flickered their way into our world, as his train still passes by with a cold, clammy, and grave-life atmosphere on the anniversary of his funeral ride.
Since the first report in 1879, many have seen the 16th President’s final train ride play out before them while walking near Union Station. This phenomenon has led dozens of paranormal investigators to wait underneath the moonlight every anniversary to glimpse this terrifying event. Will you join them with Albany Ghosts?
What Will I See?
Visit Albany’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:
- New York State Capitol—The New York State Capitol building has a history that goes back to 1806 and is filled with generations of fear-inducing tragedies and disasters. The hearts of unsuspecting visitors to the 1879 building skip a beat when they encounter one of the three deranged souls awaiting within: the heartbroken artist, the depressed vendor, or the burnt veteran. They all make their presence known through the jangle of keys or unseen whispers.
- The Olde English Pub and Pantry – Once known as “The Quackenbush House,” the Olde English Pub and Pantry is a portal to another world. Is it the Quackenbush family haunting the 1736 home or the spirits of the others who passed while the building served as anything from a boarding house to a drug store? The mirror over the fireplace acts as a conduit to the spirit world, creating more questions than answers with its presence.
- Hudson River—Known by the Algonquian as “ Great Waters Constantly In Motion,” the waters of the Hudson ran too quickly in 1852 when the ambitious and competitive steamboat the Henry Clay raced the Armenia to a deadly finish. The great race ended in black smoke, fire, and the death of 80 crewmembers. Phantom images of this fatal day often reappear in the faint trickles of light hitting the water.
A Trio Of Tragedies
Gather with Albany Ghosts to unveil the disparaging tale of the three ghosts in the New York State Capitol. All three lost their lives inside the 1879 structure in a state of depression and angst. Phantoms crying out at night, whispering in people’s ears, and chilling visitors to the bone are frequent occurrences here. Some even report feeling their organs squeezed by the sheer magnitude of their presence.
One man took his life after the building’s new ceiling covered the mural he had shaped so passionately. Another chose the fourth floor as his vessel for death, jumping out of it with no money or purpose in his life. They were later joined by a Civil War veteran who was burned alive in a blaze of glory. Were their deaths in this location a mere coincidence, or is something greater afoot?
Book a haunted Albany ghost tour with Albany Ghosts to discover the answers for yourself. Albany’s history stretches back four hundred years, making it a city well worth exploring for those curious about the haunted world of the dead.
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Educate yourself on Albany’s wicked past outside the first building to be used for education administration in the nation, the New York State Education Department. However, Albany’s most disturbing urban legend is tied to this glorious center designed for the betterment of humankind.
Trapped in the basement is the body of a stonemason who was never meant to leave this place. At least, according to his foreman, who feverishly instructed his coworkers to keep pouring after this man fell into a construction pit. While visiting “The Dungeon,” many report feeling like they are being watched. Lights flicker, and the room drops to unbearable temperatures.
Discover if the stonemason’s death was an act of revenge, a calculated and hate-filled murder, or a mere accident on a walking ghost tour of Albany with Albany Ghosts. Test your bravery on a ghost tour with Albany Ghosts and indulge in Albany’s most haunted stories. History and horror collide on this enthralling tour of New York’s most haunted city.
Why is Albany so Haunted?
The Schuyler Sister
Even high society in Albany has experienced the heartbreak and tension necessary to cast a dark and spooky shadow over the city. Despite their wealth and honor, they could not escape the icy grip of death, and their misgivings have trapped many of them here. Follow Albany Ghosts to the Major General Philip Schuyler Statue and peel back layers of historical grime that led to one of the city’s most scandalous discoveries.
Hear how fourteen skeletons were found in an unmarked grave underneath Major General Philip Schuyler’s mansion. While he may have been Alexander Hamilton’s father-in-law and a great leader in the Revolutionary War, he was also the largest plantation owner and enslaver in Albany. Today, his mansion is a well-known hunting ground for paranormal investigators and is occupied by the unusual and unknown.
Learn about the mournful spirit of Eliza Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton’s wife, who is said to haunt the parlor room of the mansion where her wedding likely took place. Her grief is too great to leave her childhood home. Who else may be trapped within the mansion? Some say the souls of the enslaved join Eliza within its shadowy recesses. Expose these truths and cursed history on a ghost tour with Albany Ghosts.
Hell Or High Water
We may never know the names of all those who perished in the Revolutionary War. Those who led them and the vessels that held them have carved their way into history’s past, but they still scream in agony for a mere slice of recognition.
Follow your experienced tour guide to Academy Park to learn about the 41,000 Revolutionary War soldiers who died during America’s fight for independence. Thousands of them died aboard the HMS Jersey, a floating prison in the East River, and their bodies were dumped along the future shores of Brooklyn. Are they why many have heard suffering voices and decaying apparitions in the East River?
Explore the gruesome story of a man who pulled one of these victims out of the water over two hundred years later. Meet Albany Ghosts, where the shore meets the barriers between life and death, and the disasters of the past reach out to grab you. This haunted ghost tour of Albany is the perfect chance to discover what lies beneath New York’s turbulent waters.
Albany’s Most Haunted
Walk with us to the James T. Foley Courthouse on a journey through crime and punishment in Albany and the men on the wrong side of the law. Although he died on December 18th, 1931, murdered in his sleep, it seems the old gangster still likes to cause havoc around town.
Listen to the scary epic of the cursed Irish Chalice at the Irish American Heritage Museum. Albany Ghosts exposes the gap between our modern times and the 15th-century lands where this chalice came from– along with whatever spirit is inhabiting it.
There is never a dull moment when you take the best ghost tour in Albany, whether standing in the shadows of the once grand Union Station, listening for the phantom screams of a coal-powered engine, or discussing the connections of Alexander Hamilton and the Revolutionary War.
Others like you are waiting on the edge of their seats to dig into Albany’s spooky and blood-curling haunted history. Don’t wait; book a spot on the scariest ghost tour in Albany now!
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
