New York's Ghosts

The Morris-Jumel Mansion

The Morris-Jumel Mansion is the oldest house in Manhattan. The spirits of three, if not more, people supposebly remain there:
Eliza Jumel - once the wife of Aaron Burr and past mistress of the home who aparrently wanders the site wearing a purple dress and tapping on walls and windows;
A young servant girl who is said to have jumped out of a window, roams the servant's quarters; and
A soldier who fought in the American Revolution who's painting rests on a wall in the house that, legend has it, returns to life at particular occasions.

Mark Twain House

Mark Twain House is situated at 14 West 10th Street (for those of you to whom that means anything). It is apparently haunted by the ghosts or spirits (see ghosts index for the difference between a ghost and a spirit) of at least 22 people that met their death there, in addition to that of Mark Twain himself (hence "Mark Twain House"). Although many of the other ghosts' specific areas of haunting overlap, Twain's is the only that roams the staircase. There is also a question mark over why his spirit actually haunts the house as he only lived there from 1900 to 1901.

Another possible haunting is that of Lisa Steinberg who, at the young age of six, was allegedly beaten to death by Joel Steinberg who lived there in 1987.