Haunted Hudson Valley: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of New York's Sleepy Hollow [Paperback]

The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions, wrote Washington Irving in the 1820s. This part of New York, straddling the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, is still rife with stories of the paranormal, including a temperance reformer who haunts the Bull's Head Inn, a floating ball of fire at the College of Saint Rose, the ghost girl of the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, the spirits of West Point, UFOs at Indian Point 3 nuclear power plant, and the phantoms of Smalley's Inn in Carmel.Cheri Farnsworth lives in northern New York and is the author of several books on the unexplained.