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…

THE WALKING SACHEMS: Robert Bolton's History of the County of Westchester (1848) documented a Native American fort and burial ground near Croton Point. "The Walking Sachems of Teller's Point" were apparitions of deceased Indigenous people seen in the surrounding glens and woods. Charles M. Skinner's Myths & Legends of Our Own Land (1896) elaborated: Chief Croton fell into flames as his fort burned…

DEEP HOLE'S MYSTERIOUS VOICES: The Croton River below the old Nikko Inn — about 200 feet long, 75 feet wide and 50-80 feet deep, appearing to be a cave or fissure. A 1907 Croton Journal article reported: "people who have been obliged to pass the abutments state that they have heard voices of a man and woman, but only at the hour between 12 and one midnight." THE HARMON PLAYHOUSE GHOST: Built c. 1…