The Ghosts of New York City | Documentary
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- When we think of the United States of America, what is the first image that pops into our minds? For some, it’s open countryside and rural villages dotting the various terrains across the country, a symbol of agriculture and fruitful endeavors. For others, it’s trekking across mountains and hillsides, scavenging the westward deserts on an adventure to pursue the ultimate dream. For many, however, America can best be symbolized by its most bustling and populated metropolis: New York City.
While the concrete jungle is void of green foliage or the natural landscapes seen across the United States, it still houses the dreamers who chase those same goals. NYC is the focal point for artists and engineers and workers across all sectors to come together to fight for their innermost desires, a place where creativity and commerce thrive in synchrony. It’s a haven for anyone looking to escape, while at the same time network and develop a relationship with not just other people, but with an entire city, as well. That’s the kind of open arms the Big Apple is known for.
New York’s history is as vast as its diverse population, as well. Originally a Dutch fur trading settlement known as New Amsterdam dating back to 1625, New York was eventually given to the English troops in 1664 before becoming the province of New York and one of the original 13 colonies to fight for their independence from monarch rule in 1775. By 1790, it held the highest population in all of America, a record that would go unchanging over the next 230+ years. Throughout the 19th century, New York City became an international icon, the hub for both national and international trading in the United States, as well as the hot spot for European immigration into America. These developments, combined with the booming economy entering and exiting its harbor every day, pushed New York City well on its way to defining the success of the USA by the 20th century and remains to be true to present day.
With roots dating back to colonial times, and a centuries-long pattern of hosting millions upon millions of people, New York City is not without its paranormal side, either. No city on Earth with a rich history like New York has functioned without a darker underbelly, with stories full of supernatural entities and creepy characters lurking in dark subway tunnels or shadows of a fog-filled alley near the port. They may not be what defines New York City, nor may they be the most documented aspect of its history, but one thing’s for sure; there’s more than one reason why they call it the City That Never Sleeps…
Let’s take a deeper dive into a few of the notable and a few of the lesser-known cases of the Ghosts of New York City.
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Starting off the CreepyMarathonMonth with a 44-minute documentary? You bet! BEST Month of the year! Happy 1st of October everyone! 👻🎃💀
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Yay....it's that time of the year again ! ❤️
Hail(loween), yeah
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You should talk about new York prohibition 20's and 30's gangland ghosts that would be cool
New York ghosts be like
"Ey, I'm floatin' ere!"
Another ghost "Fuhget about it!"
Same thing turds in the New York city sewers say.
(I'll see myself out)
Yuuuuuurrr
lmao
This should have a billion likes.
I’m in bed on a Friday night with no work tomorrow and a big plate of chili cheese fries while watching top5 new documentary. This is life.
Wow, am I ever jealous of you! Worked both jobs today 8am-3, 430-1030pm, tomorrow working 8-4 and on and on and on. I also envy your meal, haha! Enjoy the time off!
Well I'm just watching 5months later doing practical the same! 😃
That sounds grand!!
Sounds wonderful. I’m dead serious lol
What a day to be alive.
I know this has been out for a fairly long time and I'm watching it again and the likelihood of this comment going un-noticed is fairly high, I still want to say a heartfelt thanks Top5s for your consistently brilliant work. This was one of my first subs years ago and the time and effort you have put into this channel is obvious for all to see and quite staggering in it's quality. Thank-you so so much Top5 guys! You set the bar really high and it's only ever you who can get anywhere near it!
Dave out. x
Not going unnoticed haha ok I’m three days late but still saw it! I also am greatful for this channel
I completely agree.
I appreciate the straightforward video titles and thumbnails. They don't misrepresent the content of the video. The title of this could be like "This guy went into a New York City basement and then THIS happened" With the thumbnail being a fake ghost photo that never appears in the video. I hate that trash. Even some channels that have otherwise decent content do it that way (like Unexplained Mysteries).
Ditto ✌🏼
This channel is a gold mine of great content for me! Awesome research, great production and a killer narrator! It doesn't matter what type of topic they are discussing. I'll just tune in to one of his playlists and let it vibe. The videos are always banging! 👍🏻👍🏻
Not
Going unnoticed it’s actually the fourth comment Up top
The wait is finally over, because it is officially “Creepy Marathon Month”💀🎃
I love me some cmm
Lol right?? I swear like starting a week ago I started seeking out more creepy content than usual, and it’s just growing and growing!
Let the marathon begin.👍🏻🇬🇧
"what is the first image that pops into our mind"
expensive legal battles
Expensive Healthcare
Expensive
the nation with the most people incarcerated in the world!!
Partisan fighting.
The American Dream: sue, be sued, marry, divorce, leave tax debts & die.
One of the best things about October is the creepy marathon Top5s does. I'm blown away by the quality content they pump out.
To just add and correct your overall history--the Dutch picked the spot that Manhattan grew upon because it was already a major trading center for the Indigenous Munsee/Wappinger peoples. To this spot Indigenous traders from as far away as the Caribbean--the Taino--moving their way up the coast--were drawn due to the wealth of the Mohikinnituck (the Hudson River) and the Valley that one could travel all the way to the Adirondacks (for flint, copper, wampum shell and other goods). It was a place of commerce and dreams for them as well. The Dutch picked it because it offered both a port by which to enter the continent and a strategic lookout. The center of Manhattan island was a raised hunk of stone that offered a great view overlooking the surrounding ocean and countryside--but that was raized down to create the center of the City there now. Manhattan is a Munsee word that means "a thicket where wood can be found to make bows.” What was once heavily wooded is now a forest of buildings that are taller than the original stone peak. So the history and the haunting doesn't begin with the Dutch. And the island wasn't sold to the Dutch for trinkets. That is a legend told because the Dutch made a deal with the Munsee in which the Munsee granted the Dutch the right to trade on the island and sealed that deal with a wampum treaty-proclamation, in which the details of the treaty were coded on a belt. That the Dutch and later the English took advantage of that treaty are a matter of history. Haunted history indeed. Otherwise--great stories--NYC is full of them. I live there--it's a wild place.
When you have just learned to Copy & Paste ⬆️
@@stuartrobinson9653 you wish. I'm a history teacher and wrote this off the top of my head. Jealousy is unattractive.
Yeah mate 😆
@@myrkvith9 ☺️😆 ok
@@myrkvith9 Ha ha boom! 👍🏻
The history is more entertaining than the ghosts, honestly.
Yes…..for you. So? 🤣 I find BOTH are an awesome combo…..any ghost story accompanied by a rich history of the area/building etc……will be the best. 💀🖤
I wish other documentary makers would take a cue from this fascinating piece and realize that loud narration, over the top background music, and adding screams and sound effects don't make a piece on haunted anything more scary....it actually, in my opinion, takes away and cheapens the piece. The narrator of this doc is understated and has a soothing voice, which holds my attention and adds to the spooky atmosphere. A job very well done!!!
I love your no bullshit approach and that you actually do research.
Bravo!!!! 😁😁😁
Fascinating documentary! I visited NYC just before the plague and saw a few places as featured in this article. Certainly an amazing experience coming from the vast uninhabited regions of central Australia which is my home to walking around NYC and seeing all the landmarks and crowds. I even visited St Pauls Cathedral which was closed due to renovations but explored the cemetry and examined the old grave stones, sadly no headless Ghosts snooping around though. Love to go back one day, amazing City!
There are ghosts everywhere. Crime rate is extremely high. The Hudson and East River are full of bodies from gang violence since NY was colonized. The long Island sound as well. The long Island serial killer dumped his bodies there. The lighthouse in Yonkers was used to slowly drown POW during the revolutionary war and NY's first serial killer used that same lighthouse to murder his victims.
You could go to evergreen cemetery, during the month of October you could watch horror movies in the main mausoleum. A bit creepy for my tastes but some folks do pass by there and from what I’m told the proceeds go to upkeep
A city that you’d love to visit but will never live here.
"what is the first image that pops into our mind"
Poverty, corruption, ignorance
lol.
the nation with the most people incarcerated in the world!!
Isn't NY kinda 💩hole?
@@jackreacher5309 any city that's controlled by Democrats is a 3rd world 💩 hole.
@gumshoesoul over 65% are locked up over drug charges and the drug laws in most states are so draconian. Most of those in on drug cases shouldn't be there and the others in in drug charges are serving WAY MORE time than they should be. its ridiculous!
I love these videos, my battle with depression is a little easier, It calms my crazy head
Please don't ever refer to yoko Ono as an 'artist'. It's like referring to the guy that sprays lines on the roads as Michaelangelo
Lol. Thats a good comparison.
😂😂😂👏👏👏
she is an artist!! A CON artist. She conned John Lennon into leaving the Beatles
THANK YOU!
What if that's his name?
When I went to New York I could almost feel in the air the spirit of all the people that have come and gone through there. It was so surreal to experience something like that. NYC is truely a remarkable peice of history
My husband's family farm was where "ground zero" is today...it was known as the Ryerson farm...his family was one of the first 5 families in New York City
It’s that time again! Time for some quality spooky content.
Yay!! Top5s spooky month!! I want to say thank you for the extensive research done and the attention to detail you do for every video, not just October's daily videos. I thoroughly enjoy each video made.
Thank you for saying New York City, as a Western New Yorker I get so mad when people refer to NYC as NY and think it's the whole state. When there is over 14,000 sq mi of the state that is not city and most is not near any city.
One of my earliest ancestors is partly responsible for NYC becoming what it is. He was one of the first 500 settlers in New Amsterdam and was part of the trading company until the English took over.
Yeah, it's either long Island, the city, or upstate
Yeah because American's never generalise the rest of the world or anything 🙄 Most of you act like the rest of the world doesn't even exist.
Colonizers/settlers getting upset over generalization? Where are the Natives again? How many times must the rest the American CONTINENT state that the U.S isn't the only country IN America? 🤨
@@Mandaxx25 I hope you understand the irony in your statement...
@@roguex9469 wait, you mean to tell me that there's other places on this planet than just America? Are you sure? Can you cite your sources please?
A 44 minute documentary! A fantastic start to October! So excited
Great video, it's really cool how you save up the very best of your creepy stuff for October for all of us1! Thoroughly enjoyed that documentary, well done!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, it’s finally spooky season, and I couldn’t be more excited for all the scary videos to come out!!! 💀👻🎃🖤🤍☠️
@SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE REGIMENT what?
most wonderful time for the wicked, evil and demonic. congrats, we know u r one of them
It's very interesting to learn about the ghosts and history of NYC, keep it up top 5s great way to start off spooktober 👻 Much love
Originally from there and yes, it's the city that Never Sleeps. Cool stories. Thanx
I’ve been waiting for the beginning of this month so I can watch the best of top5s videos for the year! I’m so glad it has begun :)
Love all the history that’s in the first case in the video!
love the picturesque photos of Old New York
I really appreciate the backstory INTRO 👍
I liked all of these spooky stories.
Thank you for starting our October month this way! Good job! 🤜🤛
This channel is among the best on TH-cam when it pumps out this sort of content.
Hi, I'm watching your channel since day 1. It is amazing to see you and your channel grow soo much. Keep up the good work. Much love from a very small town in India
Fantastic video - being a native New Yorker I really apperciate all your research. Much thanks.
Rabbit-rabbit!!
Be vawy vawy quiet.
Awesome video! I’ve lived in NYC my whole life and definitely did not know some of these stories. I will be visiting these locations during spooky season.
I recommend every human on earth visit NYC at some point. It's magical. To me, it's the center of the earth. I live about 2 hours away, but it's magical.
My favorite channel during October!
Thank you so much for the awesome upload 🧡👻🎃
Top 5s and Mr.Ballen are my favorite youtube channels in October 🕸️🕷️
My goodness I Really I Mean REALLY REALLY LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!
Good one I was born and raised in New York and I’m still here and I love it
Nice a 44 min documentary on the place I was born and raised! Keep up the excellent work Top5 love the content
I would love to see a video about ghost stories of the city of Prague in Czech Republic. 💜✨
Aww mann your voice relaxes me soo much its hard to concentrate 😫❤❤❤
Excellent coverage of these places. Would love to see and heat more like this. Thanks for your research & compilation of these haunted places. 👻 😢
WHO LOVES OCTOBER AND ALL THINGS HALLOWEEN?!?!👿👺🎃👻🧙♀️🦇
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Me too, this documentary was very interesting... I love American horror story too!!!!
The music never fails to creep the hell out of me... Never fails.
This is such a great channel
Love the background music at the beginning. Always makes me remember a story you told of a boy who's screaming spirit was captured right after an accident (it was a jeep)
The first things that come to my mind regarding the U.S.A. are its military presence and activities around the globe.
Just like the first thing comes to mind when you say Muslim is terrorists and terrible human rights to populations and especially women in there country’s
Vegas is the true city that never sleeps.
The way I heard that saying is "It's the city that never sleeps, and looks like it ." lol
Awesome video!!! I hope theres a video on spontaneous combustion, been wanting to hear your thoughts
14:23 I live across the street from that mansion in Manhattan and I love that the grounds are open to walk. I go once a week to walk around and have lunch. I always see strange things in the back garden. They did before pandemic, every Halloween audio haunted nights after dark. Sometimes the window curtains sway even on a windless day.
Fabulous documentary to kick off spooky season! 👌
Nice profile pic ❤️
I grew up in Washington heights. A couple of blocks away from the mansion. It was a spooky area, I was just thinking about that area of edgecomb Ave. But sometimes, it felt like it wasn't there at all. A pocket dimension.
Grew up on 167 Morris Jumel is still creepy 😳 peace
@@joseperez-bw6vm all of edgecombe past stitt, and down to that park, 😆
@@bdh.1766 yep back in the day off edgecom their was someplace called Frankenstein cave you ever hear of.?
@@joseperez-bw6vm something like that, down by the water. That was a no from me to go exploring. Leave that shit for the Lost boys. Not the corner boys. 😂😂😂
@@joseperez-bw6vm is there a house there?
I’m excited!!! Get the spookeathon going!!!!
Well told, love the voice its very relaxing.
I’ve grew up in nyc and what I can tell you is that every street has a story but a ghost story can be found in every block. I’ve seen blue lights new Woodlawn cemetery and screams on dead end streets to even schools with the lights on even though it’s 2 in the morning.
Creepy month starting with a banger!!!
Very fun video, thanks bud!!!
Mmm! I like what I see! ❤️
I have walked right beside The Dakota in January 2020 when it was under construction, before this and another video you did about it. Strangely when I walked there, somehow I was just looking at the building, staring for quite a bit, like a tractor beam. After the videos I was quiet shocked to know the details that happened there.
You have the most calming voice!
Wonderful! I have friends who are related to Aaron Burr, so I can't wait to tell them about this. Also, I just downloaded Nelly Bly's book. So thank you!
A perfect vid for the 1st of Oct.
Man this is your best one in a long time 👍👍👍🧟♂️👻👺👹☠️👻
Really nice documentary!
Creepy marathon month should be very interesting indeed.
Interesting. It's October again. My favorite month on this channel. 😁
Hands down my favorite narrator on TH-cam.
Headed to upstate NY on Tuesdaaaay!! 😍
Someone needs to call up the "Ghostbusters"
I love good ghost stories!
I've been there twice and would love to go back again and soak up some ambience and culture 🧫
I legitimately , 100% saw beyond reasonable doubt , something that was probably a ghost last night ! I was also born in NYC !
🤔 "100% beyond reasonable doubt that was PROBABLY a ghost"🤔 that is very contradictory and confusing
Im from nyc! Love thiss!! 😊😊
Excellent!!
I'm addicted to your voice.
Best time of the year. Let's go!
Great content Happy Halloween
Hopefully there is a documentary for Upstate, Central and Western NY.
Thank you top5
I love your voice! ❤️
Psychic impressions die out as energy disburses. The equal energy law covers that. That's why all real poltergeist activity eventually stops and usually starts after a renovation. It's energy changing form after a disturbance
It's been ages since I was there.... twice but I'd love to see it again
Love this channel, very interesting, but sometimes wonder how difficult to believe in history when it’s difficult to believe in the “present”
It's called HIS Story for a reason... it's all BS, obviously. So many things left out and the parts we are taught in school is just a narrative that some rich guy made up. His story is written by the Victors! We've been indoctrinated into a system that truly doesnt exist, convinced when we are young that we are free human beings but in reality we're slaves owned and divided by the rich psychopaths who call themselves politicians. Most people will never even realize the truth of who they're and what this place really is...
Top5s: Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodosia.
Me: 🎵Dear Theodosia, what to say to you...🎵
I had the reprise in my head 🥲
Spooky Time is here!! 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻🖤
I wonder if ground zero is haunted
Hell yes!!! They deliver!
😝🎃👻👻👻🎃🤡
Cheers heaps Top5s! 🤘🏽✌🏽
Fabulous thumbnail!
Having been born and raised in NYC, and still living in the Great apple. This was a truly awesome video. I've been to the merchant house. It's truly amazing.
Remember going to Jumel Mansion in the 6th grade. Interesting back story. Lived about 4 city streets from it. Nice history, they sure didn’t tell us all of this history with the mansion.
About to pass out listening to this thanks nud
3:22 - Burr as in Hamilton & Burr?
And yes, you said the famous duel lol!!
i like this guys voice, very asmr sounding.
What a beautiful intro...
My absolute Favorite time of year just got much better🎃👻🎃
I live in NYC, my whole life and didn’t know about any of this!
Just saw a pumpkin with the top 5 logo in it at around 16 mins. Never notice these things usually. 🎃
15:52 Lol that easter egg on the far left.
What is easter egg ?
@@zillandrian2329 look to the left when the camera pans leftward in the dining room. It’s the pumpkin with the number 5 on it in the doorway to the kitchen on the floor to the left of the cupboard.
A Burger was the first that popped in to mine. Best restaurants around.
The crazy thing watching this video 1 W. 72nd St I used to deliver to the building doing Amazon never knew the history of the building I’m just glad they got a mailbox room