Latest Newyorkcityhistory Podcast Episodes
Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery: Part 2 (Hidden Cemeteries)
Buried Secrets Podcast - April 02, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutesA look at the remarkable Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery, which one woman's dream and grit turned into a beautiful site with a secret garden. Highlights include: • A unique second date • A collection of vintage ventriloquist dummies • Fun historic home renovation details Note: The...
Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery: Part 1 (Hidden Cemeteries)
Buried Secrets Podcast - March 26, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutesA look at the Lent-Riker-Smith Cemetery, a hidden family graveyard tucked away behind one of the oldest homes in New York City, which is still a private residence. This is part 1 of the history of the little-known Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery. This episode focuses on the history of ...
Lawrence Family Cemetery (Hidden Cemeteries)
Buried Secrets Podcast - March 19, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutesA look at a small family cemetery dating from the 1600s, tucked into a residential neighborhood in New York City. The Lawrences were an old family from Queens, New York, arriving in the area in the 1600s and buying land all over. Despite the destruction of many family cemeteries in NYC over th...
Mysterious Tombstones at Socrates Sculpture Park
Buried Secrets Podcast - March 12, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutesWhy are there tombstones around Socrates Sculpture Park? A look at a riverside New York City park surrounded by a wall of tombstones. It seems that very few people have asked this question, at least on the internet, and there are no obvious answers. There is, however, a fascinating history beh...
Hidden Cemeteries of Astoria
Buried Secrets Podcast - March 05, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutesTwo tiny, forgotten cemeteries sit near each other in old Astoria, Queens: one was a burying ground for the wealthy families who ran the town, and the other was for Irish immigrants who fled the famine. Here's a look at the history behind the graveyards, as well as a puzzling mystery about a n...
The Ghostbusters Ruling
Buried Secrets Podcast - February 26, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutesWhen a woman sells her home and doesn't disclose that friendly ghosts haunt it, the subsequent court case leads to the New York Supreme Court officially declaring the house haunted. In 1989, Helen Ackley sold the 18-room Victorian mansion that she'd lived in for 24 years. Located at 1 Laveta P...
The Exorcist in New York (Part 2)
Buried Secrets Podcast - February 19, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutesA deep dive into the darker side of The Exorcist's production, from the director's tendency to shot blanks from a gun at random on set to scare people, to evil deeds that two actors with bit parts went on to do after being in The Exorcist. Highlights include: • The erratic behavior of The Exo...
The Exorcist in New York (Part 1)
Buried Secrets Podcast - February 12, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutesA look at the Catholic rite of exorcism and the connections that the 1973 film The Exorcist has to New York City, in particular to Fordham University. New York City's Fordham University wasn't just a filming location for The Exorcist; it also was the home of two real priests who appeared in th...
Doomsday Cult from the 1690s: Johannes Kelpius and Occult Monks in Philly
Buried Secrets Podcast - February 05, 2021 23:10 - 36 minutesIn the 1690s, a Transylvania-born mystic, occultist, musician, and writer named Johannes Kelpius led a group of 40 Rosicrucian monks to colonial Philadelphia to wait for the end of the world. Though Kelpius and his group of highly-educated mystics were disappointed when the day of revelation d...
The Lost Crystal Palace of New York (Part 2)
Buried Secrets Podcast - January 29, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutesIt only took 15 minutes for the New York Crystal Palace, a beautiful building made of iron and glass, to burn to the ground. Financially insolvent and falling apart, New York City's Crystal Palace had seen better days. New management attempted to save the beautiful edifice, but its ruin was to...
The Lost Crystal Palace of New York (Part 1)
Buried Secrets Podcast - January 22, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutesA look at New York City's ill-fated Crystal Palace, a beautiful structure built on an abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of town. In the mid-19th century, a castle of glass stood in the wilds of what is now a bustling part of New York City. It was an answer to a similar Crystal Palace in Lond...
Haunted St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
Buried Secrets Podcast - January 15, 2021 00:48 - 33 minutesA look at the second-oldest church still standing in Manhattan, which is full of hauntings both legendary and questionable. Highlights include: • A wealthy man's remains being stolen and held for ransom • A very grumpy ghost • An heir who convened with his ancestor's ghost instead of marryi...
Haunted Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel, NYC
Buried Secrets Podcast - January 08, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutesA look at two of NYC's oldest and most haunted churches: Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel, two famous houses of worship in Manhattan's Financial District with cemeteries tucked into their churchyards. Check out the shownotes at buriedsecretspodcast.com to see pics of the cemeteries and chu...
The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, NYC
Buried Secrets Podcast - November 20, 2020 12:00 - 32 minutesOn a summer afternoon in 1904, the General Slocum, a supposedly unsinkable ship carrying about 1,300 people bound for a picnic, caught fire and sank in New York City's notorious Hell Gate. The General Slocum disaster was the second-worst maritime disaster in US history and the greatest loss of...
Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate
Buried Secrets Podcast - November 13, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutesLegend has it that beneath the churning waters of the notorious Hell Gate, a tidal strait in New York City, lies millions of dollars worth of sunken treasure. In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, a British frigate called the HMS Hussar struck a reef and sank to the bottom of the East River. ...
A Victorian Lighthouse: The Blackwell Island Light, Roosevelt Island, NYC
Buried Secrets Podcast - November 06, 2020 12:00 - 48 minutesA look at the mysterious Gothic lighthouse that stands at the tip of New York City's Roosevelt Island. Did a lunatic named Thomas Maxey build the lighthouse? If so, why did a now-missing stone say that an unknown person named John McCarthy built it? Or was it designed by 19th century starchite...
A Victorian Lunatic's Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell's Island, NYC
Buried Secrets Podcast - October 30, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutesIn the mid-19th century, Thomas Maxey, a patient at the New York Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, built Fort Maxey, a strange structure complete with cannons, a garden of tall flowers, and mysterious carvings. The infamous New York Lunatic Asylum has its share of chilling stories. But one...
The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
Buried Secrets Podcast - October 23, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutesA look at the haunted side of the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, as well as some of the tragedies and violence that have happened in the area. This episode is focused on the haunted aspects of the hotel, including creepy things that have happened there and nearby, theories about why it m...
The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
Buried Secrets Podcast - October 16, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutesThe Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is one of the most iconic hotels on the strip—and supposedly one of the most haunted. Back in the 1990s, there were grand plans to make Vegas a new Disney-type destination, full of ornate themed resorts and fun activities for children. The Luxor Hotel an...
The Book of Thoth and the First Egyptologist
Buried Secrets Podcast - October 09, 2020 11:00 - 32 minutesA look at the legendary Book of Thoth and the historical figure who inspired Ancient Egypt's most famous fictional sorcerer and is considered the first Egyptologist. Setne Khamwas, aka Prince Khaemweset, was the son of Ramesses the Great, as well as a high priest of Ptah, and a historian with ...
Se-Osiris, Ancient Egyptian Wizard
Buried Secrets Podcast - October 02, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutesA look at the magic-filled legends of Se-Osiris, Ancient Egyptian Wizard, who, as a pre-teen, traveled to the underworld and later dueled with a reincarnated sorcerer. Setne II, an Ancient Egyptian story that's survived on papyrus, tells the tale of a Dante's inferno-like descent into the unde...
Ancient Egyptian Tomb Raider and Wizard Prince Setne
Buried Secrets Podcast - September 25, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutesA look at the magic-filled legends of Prince Setne, a character based on the son of Ramesses II, who goes on a tomb-raiding journey to acquire a magical book. And it's the prequel to the stories about his 12-year-old boy wizard son, Se-Osiris. Setne I, or Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah, is a ...
Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, NYC (Part 2)
Buried Secrets Podcast - September 18, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutesDagger John, New York City's most influential and vicious archbishop, had a huge impact, whether he was consecrating Calvary Cemetery and founding Fordham University, or peppering the mayor with threats to burn down the city. "Are you afraid," asked the mayor, "that some of your churches will ...
Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
Buried Secrets Podcast - September 18, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutesDagger John, New York City's most influential and vicious archbishop, had a huge impact, whether he was consecrating Calvary Cemetery and founding Fordham University, or peppering the mayor with threats to burn down the city. "Are you afraid," asked the mayor, "that some of your churches will ...
Calvary Cemetery, NYC (Part 1)
Buried Secrets Podcast - September 11, 2020 09:40 - 44 minutesMore people are buried at Calvary Cemetery, in Queens, New York, than in any other cemetery in the United States. This episode is focused on the history of the cemetery, what it's like to visit it nowadays, and some of the most interesting people buried there. Highlights include: • The Cem...
Calvary Cemetery, NYC: Part 1
Buried Secrets Podcast - September 11, 2020 09:40 - 44 minutesMore people are buried at Calvary Cemetery, in Queens, New York, than in any other cemetery in the United States. This episode is focused on the history of the cemetery, what it's like to visit it nowadays, and some of the most interesting people buried there. Highlights include: • The Cem...
Manhattan's Forgotten Cemeteries
Buried Secrets Podcast - September 04, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutesA look at the forgotten cemeteries and potter's fields that lie beneath the most famous parks in NYC. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, a number of potter's fields (cemeteries for paupers) were scattered around Manhattan. Some of NYC's most famous parks were built right on top of those forg...
Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
Buried Secrets Podcast - August 28, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutesA look at some popular ghost stories from haunted Asheville, North Carolina, along with a strange F. Scott Fitzgerald conspiracy theory. Highlights include: • Haunted bridges • Gruesome disinterments at a potter's field • A haunted high school • Two dead women named Helen • A bookseller's...
Ghosts of the Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
Buried Secrets Podcast - August 21, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutesA look at the strange history of the haunted Grove Park Inn, and the famous people (and ghost) who've stayed there. Built by a quinine medicine mogul based on plans drawn up by his son-in-law (who was not an architect), the Grove Park Inn is has hosted many famous guests. F. Scott Fitzgerald l...
The Cult of Santa Muerte, aka Saint Death
Buried Secrets Podcast - August 14, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutesA look at Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, a Mexican folk saint whose popularity has skyrocketed over the last 20 years. The Catholic Church has condemned Santa Muerte as "satanic," the Mexican military has destroyed shrines to her, the Mexican government refuses to acknowledge the veneration of ...
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