Top 9 Most Haunted Places in Rochester, New York
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- The following is a list of 9 of the most haunted locations in Rochester, New York. To find even more haunted locations near you, check out my website, GhostQuest.net! New book - The Folklore & Haunted Locations Guide: New York, available now on Amazon!! ttps://amzn.to/3yz0v8Z
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0:00 - Introduction
0:18 - #1 - Durand Eastman Park: Spanning over 975 acres, Durand Eastman Park is said to be haunted by the mysterious spirit of a Woman In White, who searches the location for her missing daughter.
0:56 - #2 - George Eastman House Museum: The museum was constructed in 1905, and is said to be haunted by the spirit of the man who founded Kodak Company, George Eastman, who committed suicide in 1932.
1:54 - #3 - Holy Sepulchre Cemetery: Established in 1871, visitors report encountering a number of unidentified apparitions and shadow figures, especially in the old children's section.
2:37 - #4 - Rochester Broadway Theatre League's Auditorium Theater: Constructed in 1928 as a Masonic Temple, the old theater is said to be haunted by the spirit of an elderly man, and another man seen wearing a red jacket.
3:28 - #5 - Rochester Main Street Armory: Constructed in 1905 by the United States Army to process new soldiers, the Armory is said to be haunted by a number of unidentified shadow figures and apparitions.
4:29 - #6 - Rochester Psychiatric Center: Constructed in 1857 as the Monroe County Insane Asylum, the abandoned hospital is said to be haunted by the spirits of former mental patients who were abused and neglected by caretakers, and subjected to inhumane medical treatments.
5:44 - #7 - Rochester Public Library: The Rochester Public Library is rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a former security guard named Frank, as well as an unidentified woman who drowned in an aqueduct beneath the old building.
6:54 - #8 - The Aquinas Institute of Rochester: Established in 1902 as a Catholic high school, the Aquinas Institute is said to be haunted by the spirit of a former student who was killed in a car accident on the night of the school musical.
7:49 - #9 - University of Rochester: The Rush Reese Library is said to be haunted by the spirit of a former construction worker named Peter Nicosia, who was killed in 1929 after falling from the top of the library's tower.
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Who's watching this in Rochester??? Holy sepulchre is next to the street I lived on as a child. Winchester street. My grandfather is buried there
Thanks for commenting Julie, I'm curious how many viewers are from each city myself! Sorry to hear about your grandfather. :(
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV I shared this with my fellow family and friends all from Rochester. And thank you. He's been gone for 25 years. Wish I had more time with him.
@@Jewelkraftscookies That's awesome, thank you so much for sharing my video!! :)
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV thanks for featuring my home city!
Im also from Ra-cha-cha😅& ALOT of family buried there: great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents and sibling's. I knew they had deer there cuz saw those but never saw any 👻. Also heard stories of the ghosts of soldiers walk around.....🎶👻Oooo🎶😅😂
You've missed the #1 most haunted place in all of Rochester, Mount Hope Cemetery!
Yup! I’ve had many paranormal experiences there.
I was thinking the same thing. Plus he pronounced holy seplicar cemetary wrong
And strong museum numerous stories about the toy section being haunted where the old towels were in the little houses I know a few people who work there at night and say it’s very scary the national museum of play
@@anelablanchard7720 It's awful 😖 how place names get butchered.
Facts
You mean to tell me these are souls capable of traveling anywhere and yet they still choose to hang around this shit hole in the afterlife?
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV There is a hell!
The psychiatric center is definitely haunted. My friends told me stories about the place and it’s terrifying. I still want to check it out some day.
I agree it sounds very spooky! Thanks for commenting Arthur!!
Be careful. Some of the buildings/campus are being restored. LOTS of security around.
I don't know about the other places, but Durand is a bunch of bull lol. I go there all the time night or day. I know the history and where the story of, "The Lady in White" comes from. Too many people think they see her on the old stone wall that used to be a dining hall where park visitors would eat and drink. For some reason they think it's her old house lmao. The cemeteries in rochester are pretty cool though! I definitely believe a couple of those to be haunted and the main street armory. I love the armory I go to reptile expos there. :) I miss REXPO! Great video!
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I live in Rochester also you sound like chills
I live and grew up in Rochester and i didn't know half these places
I live in Rochester as well. Just outside the city in Greece.
@@ArthurMorgan-pq4tr I live on the edge of Henrietta near Mendon
I’m from Rochester and never heard none of these stories or people say these things 🤷🏽♀️ interesting video though
It’s Pronounced Ah-quain-us
Holy Sep-Li-Ker***. That's how you say it.
No, it's sep' ool ker.
10-Mount Hope Cemetery-most people only see a fog when it's not a foggy day or a blistering hot midday. What they don't see is the multi-eyed deer that's the genus loci and will chase people down if at night they're clearly there for the wrong reasons-even off the cliffs in the back. Right across from Strong Memorial Hospital. Psychiatric Center-my father worked as a trashman until the night he went out on a full moon and watched fog roll out of one of the abandoned buildings, deer appear in it, then the fog get sucked right back in and the deer with it. What's more is a patient had warned him beforehand. Quit soon after that.
He's never taken drugs either
Cool video, but a couple of pronunciation's from a local... Holy Sepulchre is Holy Sep-ool-kur. Aquinas is uh-kwai-nuhs.
This is going to be my go to channel for haunted locations! I love how straight to the point you were and the video was top class!
Homeless guy at durand eastman park told me he does see her when he sleeps in the park.
You forgot Mt Hope cemetary
Thanks Bonnie, I added it to my list on my website to go back and research later!! I appreciate the info!! 👻
I slept off a night in Mt. Hope and I know I saw the ghost of Susan B. Anthony... or I was really hung over. I passed out over by her memorial and an old stren looking lady kicked me awake asked if I would make it. I grunted something, half thinking it was a cop, and when i looked up she was turning away and walking down the path into nothing. Who knows. I was a kid and drinking hard. Remember when drinking was the problem with kids...
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV you could make a video hours and hours long about the hauntings in Mt Hope Cemetery. Most of the cemetery is peaceful, but there are parts that are very creepy, even in the daytime.
Im not sure about you guys but I get strange vibes whenever I drive past riverside cemetery on Lake ave
I'm sure you do, Holy Seplicur (phonetically pronounced) is on the other side
@@elisaf.7220part of holy sepulcher is next to riverside
Gotta be some ghosts down in the old subway tunnels.
I would definitely believe it!! 👻
The ghost of copper past, lol
Possibly but it's hard to figure that out since there's always people down there.
I live in Rochester rn we just saw the white ladys castle
Sounds spooky! Thank you for commenting!!
I've lived in Rochester NY my whole life and The White Lady's Castle is a very popular, " (urban) Legend " . It freaked me out as a teenager when I first heard about it and of course, there's always more than one version of the story. No matter, it wasn't until I was in my 20's that I was brave enough to go check it out with some friends at night and I didn't see anything, but I most definitely felt a presence/energy all around the wall. That's what's left of the said castle that was once there. Took some pics and there were a lot of orbs and what looked like smoke, aaaaand nobody was smoking 😳 ... Fun times
Wow, sounds spooky!! And yes urban legend is the right term for a lot of these, but still interesting!! 👻
The castle use to be a resturant, you can find pictures online
I'm born and raised in Rochester. The white lady's castle story is BS. It's just an old wall from a beach house, not a castle. Every story here is overblown just to get attention. 🙄
Great Video! 💀💀💀
I live in Rochester I been to the george eastman's house 2 times it's so beautiful. There's alot of people be talking about the white lady all the time. I didn't know any other places were haunted.
Cant wait to cover these locations great vid
The armory actually does a haunted house in the basement every Halloween, prior to covid. I went once and that was plenty for my anxiety 😂 Fantastic haunt, and an incredible building. I personally didn’t experience anything paranormal, since the only time I was there was for the haunted house, but I would love to visit there sometime!
Wow, sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing Nick!!! 👻
I was in the National Guard and drilled at that armory. I loved it there so much. It was interesting. They had a bar upstairs and we would do some training in there. I didn't see anything strange or paranormal. I also don't rule out the possibilities. I have personally witnessed activity at a friend's house on Webster ave. That place was a haunt fest. My friend was a magnet. It's because she would dabble. I am staying in Rochester right now. I grew up on the East side!
Wow, that's so cool, and thank you for your service Amanda!! 👻🙏
If you are going to mention Holy Sepulchure Cemetery at least mention it is the burial place of Jack the Ripper.
i thought he was known in England?
@@zephiraford9548 He was, but it was believed he escaped to the US to avoid authorities. Francis Tumblety was a quack doctor who was a suspect in the murders. He is buried in Rochester, NY.
@@markwisniewski2227 Interesting information. learn something new every day. my friend is convinced he's jack, so he's in a mental hospital. dude needs to take his meds
@@zephiraford9548 Maybe in a previous life.
@@markwisniewski2227 He wouldn't hurt anyone. he walked infront of my exes car when he tried to hit me. i doubt it
Loved this Video
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV Lol u gonna charge me for sneak peek lol
Me who lives in Rochester: I'd rather stay home..
As an introvert myself, I find myself saying this a lot! 👻
I'm from Buffalo New York I know what you mean I rather stay
This makes me want to write stories of my city
GhostQuest USA 🤔🤔 I’d have to wait till morning. Too scared rn but, there’s definitely a current situation I can share. I saw another one of my comments and started writing a response to that lol
GhostQuest USA recently, my family has all heard running in the thouse. Running up the stairs and down the hall where our bedrooms are. Our home was rebuilt after a fire a few years ago, so you would think that the previous “haunting” experience would stop but, no. The running was heavy and sounded like it had purpose. I, not smartly checked all the rooms and even attic with a weapon, my brother and I heard it at the same time as I did and he and my husband were in the room. My mother was just getting home and can’t move fast let alone, climb stairs do to sickness. I even, not be sure, asked her if she was upstairs at all but she wasn’t. A few days later we were out of the house but my mother was home. She woke up to the sound of the same running I described but as it passed our rooms, our parakeet started flipping out.
GhostQuest USA I have a lot more and even more from when my husband and I lived near Union college in Schenectady. These homes are historic and many are apart of the historical GE plot.
GhostQuest USA no it was our house fire. But before the fire we’ve experienced paranormal activity as well. On several occasions I would feel a hand push me and I’d fall down the stairs. I’ve been attacked and so has everyone else isn’t the family when I was younger. And someone who didn’t know our circumstances yes later that was spiritual, saw demonic activity outside the house and warned me but I was like girl, I already knew. I just pray and rebuke now that I’m more spiritual because whenever someone gets more spiritual and living with people that aren’t and aren’t watching for things they consume (media, certain people that have or practice stuff etc) they attract it. I still have a long ways to go though 😭
GhostQuest USA oh wow. Yeah I think I can stop over there. Some of the stories may be a little dark though. Do you have a warning for things like that
Cool video.
My last day at Aquinas is in Monday and I did theatre so we talk a lot about Victoria. When I was in 7th grade, I was told to never say the name of a specific show that Victoria was going to be in, or you would be cursed for your next performance. I decided to say it and lost my voice and the whole cast was real sick during every performance for that show.
Victoria tends to mess around with stuff backstage and there is even a handprint of hers up in the toolshed. She comes out mostly during tech week and this year, she moved to the board and was messing with the lights a bit.
She’s not really mean but a little creepy if you hear her when it’s dark backstage. 🌚
That is definitely creepy! Thanks for sharing your story!
a lot of my family is buried in holy seplechure, it feels very off there and in the buildings I've heard footsteps when no one else was in the building.
Wow, that sounds spooky!
Which side of the street
THe old elevator in Rush Rees library in U of Rochester is very creepy and some movies must have been shot there. The Rundel DT library is noted for its magnificent glass celing that U show. Not only the aqueduct is located under Rundel, but the subway that was discontinued in the 1950s.
I worked as a security guard at the Eastman House in the 80s. I pulled evening shifts quite often and had to cover the entire property (from attic to basement- including among other places, Mr Eastman's bedroom, the breezeway, and the west & east gardens). As creepy as it way at night, I never experienced a single instance involving the paranormal. If it were truly haunted, I would surely have seen or heard something in all those rounds. So, the tales are either BS, or people's overactive imaginations. Sorry. (not shooting the messenger here, btw) :)
Hey there Joe, thank you for commenting and sharing your experience!! I also appreciate you not shooting the messenger, because as I often have to remind people on here, I'm not making any of these claims personally, these are all stories other people tell. I try and leave it up to whoever is watching to make up their own mind on whether or not they think a location is haunted. 👻
its horrifying because I used to live in rochester and i've gone to some of these places
Very spooky! Did you ever have any paranormal experiences there?
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV when I was a bit younger I do remember seeing shadowy figures in some places and getting weird vibes, I think the shadowy figures were just my imagination but the weird feelings I got while going into certain places are kinda weird. For example walking or driving by cemeterys will give me a feeling of some presence or driving by certain brick buildings will also give me a weird feeling.
I've been to the auditorium theater for a field trip in elementary school. It was kinda cool but I felt something was off in there
Same here
ITS PRONOUNCED A-Quine_is ----- Rochester NY Investigator, born and raised*
Thank you for the correction!
a-ka-wine-us if that helps more* say it fast
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV
I'm gonna go to the main Street armory
I pass it everyday
Spooky!!!
Ghost adventures ! Please come to Rochester!
You should ask them!! 👻😀
They did, i forgot what season but its the Rundell Library downtown
Those ain't the only places in Rochester that are haunted!
Check all the boarded up houses in the "Hood", they're haunted by "Crackheads '!😂
Loved the video!
Mt Hope Cemetery
I love Rochester, but it's the places like Rushville that I'll swear is haunted. The whole fucking village. There are entities under the bridges and things in the woods and everyone just pretends nothing is going on. I lived in both places.
Hey Erik, thanks for commenting, sounds spooky!! I'll look into it and see if there are any locations I can find to add to my website, or maybe do a future video about. Were there any particular locations you had in mind for me? Thanks again and sorry if this posts twice! 👻
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV in Rushville there is a house on Main Street right next to a cemetery and after to cross the first creek bridge. The house, cemetery, and the bridge are all paranormal hotspots, but most everything is out there. The house was once used as a hospital/hospice back in the time of Marcus Whitman (who was born across the street). It later became a nursing home and hospice, and now it is divided into four apartments, in which I once lived. In the basement there is a cement room that has no doors or windows and is accessible only through a hole in the concrete where pipes had once gone through the wall. Inside the room (as kid, when we widened the hole to access the room and my friend, who also lived there in another apartment, climbed in), there was little to see but stagnant water, but also there were gouges in the cement, like some strongly clawed creature tried clawing it's way out, but that's the conclusion of a kid who was in a state of terror, so who knows? I had almost consistent ghost activity in that house, as did many of the people that lived there that I knew over the years. Next door to there is a cemetery, guarded in the front by a large statue of Marcus Whitman. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were murdered by Natives out in Washington, where they are buried, and I think this may may be linked to some of the hauntings, but I have never heard of a direct apparition of either if the Whitmans.
The cemetery next door has been the site if congregations of dark robed entities that are assumed to not be human (given their ability to seemingly translocate, instill fear and, for those that have gotten close enough, the empty blackness under their deep dark hoods). I once saw them stand, glaring, in a large congregation and with your he's in the part of my side yard between the cemetery and the house. These entities are also associated with the bridges that dot the tendrils of small water ways in the area. Many people, myself included, have witnessed hooded entities under those bridges, though no one, as far as I know, has any idea why they frequent there. As for the cemetery, itself, it has lots of fucked up stuff going on with it. For example, the gravestones go into the woods beside it. I was once told the bodies of the people where the stones go into the woods were relocated into the cemetery proper, but theres no plots to be found for any such relocated bodies and the stones are still there. I have theories, but they are mostly speculative. I hope all this got has interested you. This is but the tip of the iceberg on the turtle's back and it's turtles all the way down. There has been efforts for revitalization and they have been quite nice, actually. That said, it was always a tight lipped community that was content with it's terrors in the night. There's "high strangeness", to quote Art Bell, everywhere out there, but I honestly recommend night ventures into the woods. I've never known anyone to not come out totally, but everyone, including myself, left something in there. Fuck, man. I'm sweating frozen bullets over here and I'm glossing over so much. Good luck.
Wow, that all sounds very spooky!! Thank you so much for all the detailed information!! I'll look into adding these locations to my site!! 👻
Rushville, NY? South of Route 5&20?
@@barbarareid7514 that would be it.
i live in rochester ny , in the city ! and ive been to most of these places in the video and ngl i never knew aquinas was haunted !!
Number one is specifically white lady’s castle and the surrounding Durand Eastman park.
I'm from Rochester NY
Spooky! 👻
Holy Sepulchre is where most of my mom's family is buried, including my grandfather and Grandmother Riley and all my Weber, Lucas and Riley ancestors. My mom's best friend was murdered in Rochester - and had recently been a patient at Rochester State Hospital. I am currently researching her life and murder - it is a cold case.
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's friend. I hope you are able to find some answers. 👻🙏
My grandma is buried and my fathers family is too.
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV Riley family member here in Rochester, what's the name of your mother's friend dear?
What about Mt. Hope cemetery????
You forgot to put in there the reunions Bar and Grill near Seabreeze. And on the corner of Mount Read Boulevard and Latta Road going east is a big church that's definitely got some activity going on and it is well
You mean the old Mother of Sorrows church, that became a town library in the '60's when they built the new church? Or you mean in the church graveyard next to the church and Mt. Read?
I go on nightwalks up to there in the warmer months, often there's a police car on watch in the church parking lot for some reason, but when there's not, I'll go into the cemetery and just walk around. Probably seems weird to most, but it's very peaceful.
This is so crazy I lived in New York and as a young man I worked at the holy sepulchre
I really did witness some very scary things working there early in the morning I actually quit because I got scared getting there to cut the grass at 5:00 a.m. and it was still dark weird things happen that's all I can say really weird things
That does sound very spooky, thank you for sharing your experience Bruce! 👻
The Dead Guy collected now that's creepy
You pronounced a lot of things wrong lol but good video
Hey, sorry about that and thank you. I'm trying to get better about that. 👻☹
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV its okay. Our state is stupid. We jusy try to be different. So we put the wrong emphAsis on the wrong syllAble
U forgot hojack trail bud
The Holy Sepulcher cemetery houses one of the suspects in the Jack the Ripper case.
Thought it was riverside
@@yvonnemiller4406Naw, it's Mt. Hope.
You forgot the spot Arthur Shawcross lived. I get chills driving by it.
Where is that?
@@narutoedits656 at the intersection of Park and Alexander.
@@narutoedits656 I would give you exact address and link but it would be blocked. If you srch Shawcross home Rochester you will see it. It's creepy looks like a castle with a dungeon
@@charlesbaldo I didn't know that he lived there. I thought he used to live in an apartment in what used to be the old East High School, on Alexander Street that had been converted into apartments after the new East High, corner of East Main St./Culver Rd./Atlantic Ave. was built. He used to ride a red bike downtown almost every day and hang out at the McDonald's and drink coffee with a group of people, one of which was me. I didn't know him well, but he gave me a ride in the little blue car once, let me off at the bus stop in front of where he worked on Main Street. We chit chatted about nothing in particular. He never hit on me, but then he knew the guy I was seeing back then. I was astounded when I found it he was the one killing those women.
@@MalibuBon he might have at one time. Didn't seem like the person to buy a home and live in it his entire life. That place at park and Alexander was where he lived when he committed the crime. It's weird you mention new East High. My home as very young child was where the bleachers are now.
#2 & #6 bring Holy water in super soaker and/or Sage! shoot/smoke shadows and cold area's.. You'll be amazed speaking from experience and non believer! Sage was neat and caring, Holy water from online intensified encounters..
I had a friend who went to Aquinas
Cool! Did they ever have any spooky experiences, or hear any stories that it might be haunted? 👻
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV the priests would punish boys in the "jug" ; a 4 foot by 6 foot closet, no chair, nothing of comfort and had to recite catechism from memory. When wrong they were hit with a pointer from the blackboard across the palms of the hands. I'm sure a few priests molested some of the weaker students. When it was strictly a boys school. Some odd stuff was found in the surrounding wooded areas that are linked to black magic and witchcraft. From my childhood in the 60s/70s I was told to stay clear of these "woods".
I hear Troy ny is haunted too
My husband is a teacher at Aquinas!
Sounds spooky! Has he ever had any ghostly experiences there?
@GhostQuestUSA_TV he personally hasn't experienced anything but knows a few students who have according to him
i worked there i tell my kids what i felt at the entry way real sh t
I’ve been to the Easton house and park
Hey, cool! Do you think they might be haunted? 👻
@@GhostQuestUSA_TV The house yes but the park no
Rochester is ghostly!
🤔👏 Video fuzzy. 😬
Also what about the ghostly hitchhiker on Kings Highway that goes into Durand Eastman Park? You missed that one too
Freaky :)
No Powers Building??
I’ve been to all of these locations, and never experienced anything that couldn’t be explained.
But that’s my experience, everybody’s is different..
True, I try and encourage people to make up their own minds about whether or not they believe a location is haunted or not. Thanks for sharing your experience! 👻
How far away from upstate cerebral palsy.
Lol Rochester regional accent pronounce the name of 2 locations different than you: Holy Sep-lick-er and A..qua-i-nis. Weird, I know! Good report though. Knew about the one at Nazareth Academy but not about the one at Aquanis. What year did that one start?
I was actually coming on here to say the same thing. I was waiting for you to mention Charlotte (Shar-lot) because I could tell immediately by not saying "Sep-lick-er" that you weren't from Rochester (which we also call Rotten-chester and Rah-cha-cha haha.) And then when Ah-qui-ness was said wrong, I had to comment hahaha. Still, you did your research and you found out a lot of the ghost stories! You've also left out a lot of other ones but that's okay since you only picked 9.
EXACTLY!!!!
Bro never visited university or went to college lol!!!!!! Afraid of a University and declared it one of the most haunted places in Rochester. Well. Paranormal experts need to consider what is happening in URochester.
Is this a robot voice?
No that's just how I talk! 👻😅
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the armory as haunted is bs. i stayed the the building for a week in 1997. plus lived in rochester all my life from 1962 til 1999. none of them are haunted there was never even a mention that they might be. ive been to and inside very place you mentioned. you have a fup imagination for you surely made up every story you told. total BS
Why did u sleep there for a week?
when the military pulled out and the new owners had bought the building a they had somebody move in there to watch over the place and start doing some repairs. the person happened to be a friend of mine so i helped hime guard the place. do some repairs myself. they had an indoor rollar hockey rink there. i think it was for one of the boys clubs. can remember which ones actaully. but it did have a super great sound system that you could hear through most of the place. so i hung with a friend, made a few bucks and played a little rollar hockey while cranking thev sound system. we crashed in the left tower. it was great. but definitly no ghosts.
The Rochester Psychiatric Center was actually constructed in the 50’s