Ghosts of the Gilded Age

A special episode from the Bowery Boys Archives! Join Greg and Tom as they travel back in time to investigate a few personalities from the Gilded Age that, well, seem to have never left. 

In this truly spooky episode. Greg and Tom travel between Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island to delve into four tales of the unexplained, the perhaps unforgotten and definitely the unsettling. Our stories include a massive elegant mansion that once graced the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx. Built by merchant and trader Benjamin Whitlock in 1850 and later owned by Cuban sugar importer Inocencio Casanova, the mansion is the site of numerous still unexplained mysteries including an extensive system of vaults and secret rooms hidden well beneath the mansion’s main floors. 

A stop on Manhattan’s E. 27th St, near the Gilded Age’s fashionable Madison Square uncovers reports of a curious and very active poltergeist and a trip out to Queens explores two mysterious deaths at the location of a remote farmhouse, the site now part of Calvary Cemetery. Greg and Tom conclude their visits with a few of the ghosts of the Gilded Age with a stop at the Vanderbilt Mausoleum in Staten Island, the final resting place of the great Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt as well as his son William H. Vanderbilt and grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II. And as with any visit with the Vanderbilts, one discovers a few secrets may lurk beneath the surface.