Croton Ghost Stories — by Marc Cheshire, Village Historian (October 31, 2024)

Source: https://www.crotonhistoricalsociety.org/blog/2024/10/31/croton-ghost-stories

MONEY ISLAND AND HAUNTED HOLLOW: Money Island (also Money Hill) stood near today's Croton Point Park entrance. Named on maps since at least 1867. Some claimed Captain Kidd buried treasure there; others believed it was a Native American funeral mound. In 1924, all 55,000 cubic yards were leveled for landfill by the Westchester County Park Commission. Frank H. Pierson, journalist from Ossining, documented ghost stories in an illustrated manuscript "Tales from Crawbucky Point," now held by the Westchester County Historical Society. Shad fishermen working from shanties on Crawbucky Beach shared tales while waiting for tides. "The Bewitched Mill" recounted an old woman from Sparta accused of witchcraft, said to ride a broom to Money Hill for meetings of witches. "Uncle Ben and the Pot of Gold" tells of Uncle Ben discovering what appeared to be gold coins near Money Island but finding nothing when he returned.