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Specter Detector: Courting the Empire State Building's Prettiest Ghost

Kelly Conaboy · 09/25/15 01:40PM

“Have you ever seen a ghost up here?” I asked one of the men guarding the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. It was 1:30 a.m., the air was crisp, and the city’s lights were doing little to break the darkness—the perfect setting for a ghost story.

Specter Detector: Looking for Ghosts in New York's Most Haunted Building

Kelly Conaboy · 07/09/15 01:55PM

A figure caught my eye as I passed through one of the supposedly haunted rooms of the supposedly very haunted Merchant’s House Museum in NoHo last week. I gasped, a reflex that was embarrassing even though I was ostensibly alone. “Ah!,” I thought—“Was that a ghost?”