Haunted Rochester

by Winfield, Mason

• ISBN13: 9781596294189
• ISBN10: 1596294183
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Avening specters, demon-tortured roads, holy miracles, weird psychic events, prehistoric power sites, ancient curses. Native American shamans, active battlefields, ghost ships, black dogs, haunted monuments and the phantoms of Rochester's famous-all are part of the legacy of Rochester and the lower Genesee.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction: Young Lion of the West	p. 9
Native Spirits
Old Genesee Ancestors	p. 14
Power Places	p. 16
The Legend of Long Pond	p. 18
The Deerhorn Cups	p. 19
The Wailing Spirit	p. 21
Two-Time Cain	p. 22
The Curse of the Bones	p. 25
The Ghosts of War
The Lore of War	p. 30
Ganondagan	p. 31
Patriot Hill	p. 33
Faded Coat of Blue	p. 38
Blood Knee Deep First!	p. 41
Ghost Ships	p. 44
The Valley Heavies
Ghostly Forms	p. 46
Hell's Herder	p. 48
Lady of the Lake	p. 50
The Demon Road	p. 52
The Dust Devil of Boughton Hill	p. 54
Jesus on the Thruway...and Friends	p. 55
One-Shot Wonders
Psychic Happenings	p. 58
A Head Start on Hell	p. 59
The Phantom and the Faustus	p. 61
The Gobin Slinger	p. 63
The Teddi Dance	p. 65
The Blue Mary	p. 67
Sweet Valley Sites
Haunted Buildings	p. 70
Rochester: Ghost of a Building	p. 72
Irondequoit: The Reunion Inn	p. 74
Rochester: The Powers That Be	p. 76
Greece: Mother of Sorrows	p. 78
Pittsford: Powder Mills Park	p. 81
Fairport: The Green Lantern	p. 83
Fishers: Valentown	p. 86
Rochester: House of Pain	p. 88
Rochester: The Dinosaur	p. 90
Rochester: Architect of the Occult	p. 92
Rochester: Of Owls and Architecture	p. 94
Rochester: The Rundel Memorial	p. 96
Rochester: Field of Spirits	p. 98
Phantoms of the Famous
The George Washington Effect	p. 102
Two Voices Falling	p. 103
To Drive Like Hell	p. 106
The Lady and the Tracks	p. 110
The Douglass House	p. 113
Flower City Suffragette	p. 115
He Does It Right	p. 118
Son of Rochester	p. 121
The Collector	p. 124
About the Authors	p. 127
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