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SUNDAY,OCT.28, 2018 |NORTH HEMPSTEAD-OYSTER BAY E13 N1 E4 AN LO YS RR BA E21 E4 COVERSTORY N1 LIFE LI Historical HAUNTS Locations acrossLI have their share of tales about paranormal sightings m co y. BY JIMMERRITT haunted places. “I try to get elseisaround.” da Special to Newsday people not to be afraid.” Unlikeinthe movie“Ghost- ws Broskyand Giaquinto, 61,a busters,” though,Broskyand ne oosebumps areall in anight’s work for freelanceweb designer and Giaquintodon’t bringaghost 8 self-described psychicmedium, trap.“I’m not reallya‘ghost- 01 Kerriann Flanagan BroskyofHuntington have used digitalrecording buster.’Iactually want them ,2 and JoeGiaquintoofWest Sayville. The 28 devices to pickupsubtler evi- [ghosts] to stay wheretheyare,” ER ghost hunting team has encountered dence of the supernatural in Broskysaid. OB Gplentyofspine-tingling phenomena in places as unlikelyasaHunting- Another team of ghost CT morethan adecade of Long Island paranormal in- tonpatisserie, aNorth Shore hunters,DianeHill of West ,O lighthouse and aHamptons Hempstead andJoseph Flam- AY vestigations —although neveranything as trickyor Italianrestaurant. mer of Brookhaven,say the UND ickyasthe “Amityville Horror” house’s RedRoom “Sometimes we getphenom- haunted shouldembrace the ,S ON THE COVER. Paranormal ena,such as knocking on the hauntingsthey’ve confirmed in AY or fireplacedemon. investigator Joe Giaquinto, left, walls,” Giaquintosaid. “Wesee about 100paranormal investiga- SD and authorKerriannFlanagan “It’s not blooddripping down HauntsofLong Island” things, we record voices, people tions. NEW Broskyinvestigateoutside walls,” said Brosky, 50,who (Haunted America, 2015), about have experiences of someone “It’s been our experiencethat Fiorello Dolce in Huntington. published abook, “Historic her findingsat30Long Island touching them when no one ahaunting is really aboutlove, E5 COVERSTORY newsday.com/lilife LI Author LIFE appearances Long Island’s ghost hunters N1 aremaking Halloween appearances at area libraries to discusstheir booksand paranormalinvestigations. GOODE BRIGID Joseph Flammer, paranormalinvestigator DIANE HILL AND JOSEPH FLAMMER Oct.29,7p.m., Port Jeffer- son Free Library, 631-473-0022; Oct. 30,7p.m. Copiague Library,631-691-1111; Oct.31,2p.m., Long Beach Public Library, 516-432-7201. KERRIANNFLANAGAN OSIER AR BROSKYAND JOE GIAQUINTO LIND Oct.29, 7p.m., Bayport- Gloria Blue Point Public Library, Rocchio, 203Blue Point Ave., Blue above, Point,631-363-6133 president of Nov. 4, 2p.m., Sayville the Ward Library,88Greene Ave., Melville 631-589-4440 Heritage Organization, in the tavern century shackled Colonial room of the prisonerstothe rocks at low Brewster tide,letting them die in aslow House in and agonizing drowning as the East murky waters rose. Some say PERLMAN Setauket. skeletons were leftthereto ILLIAM Thehouse, torturethe newlycondemned, left, wasbuilt othersthatscreams of the /W AY in 1665. dying could be heardamile SD away at Sands Point. NEW Another story is more n rooted in horrific fact. Acen- ew ExecutionRockslighthouse off tury ago, an American serial sda Sands Point is saidtohavebeen killer,CarlPanzram, admitted y. co asitewhere Colonial soldiers dumping some of his victims’ m were shackled at lowtide by SIER bodies in the waters 100feet RO Britishredcoats. offExecution Rocks. NEW DA N Ⅲ Video: newsday.com/lilife LI Thestories led paranormal SD investigators from the Travel AY when aloved one has passed graveyards where, they say, the haunted places as Raynham EXECUTION ROCKSLIGHT Channel series “Ghost Adven- ,S over,” said Hill, 67,aWest Hemp- spirits aregenerally willing. Hall in Oyster Bay, Country STATION, OFF SANDS POINT tures” to spend the night on UN steadHigh School registrar who “If aghost wants to make House RestaurantinStony Execution Rocks maybe the island adecade ago. They DA co-authored abook with Flam- contact, it will, and there’s no Brook, Katie’s BarinSmithtown Long Island’s most remote were told tales of sweet flower Y, mer called “Ghosts, Ghouls& mistaking it,” Flammer said. On and,ofcourse, the “Amityville haunted place. And if local lore fragrances lingering over the OC MonstersofLong Island” (Schif- one recent investigation at a Horror” house,the following is true,the lighthouse built in bare rock and aghostlymale TO BER ferPublishing, 2012). Ya phank cemetery,theysaida aresome of the Island’slesser- 1849 on arock pile in the Long presencepushing down on Hilland Flammer,62, who mysterious mistfollowedthem known haunted spaces — Island Sound deserves its workersatthe lighthouse. 28, teaches developmentallydis- to their car. wherethingsmay go bump, morbid nameand grislyreputa- “I haven’t seen anyghosts, 20 abled adults, do most of their So whilemost Long Islanders well, justaboutany time of the tion. According to legend, the 18 ghost hunting in Long Island have heardaboutsuchfamously dayornight. British redcoats in the 18th See COVER STORYonE6 E6 COVERSTORY N1 LIFE LI Paranormal activityonLI COVER STORYfromE4 butIbelieve they’rethere,” said Craig Morrison, presi- dent of HistoricallySignifi- cant Structures Inc., whois raising fundstorestoreand preserve the Execution Rocks LightStation. Morrison, whohas himself spent manylonelynights on the island, said of the ghosts: “I don’tmind them, so they don’tbother me.” BREWSTER HOUSE AND OTHER WARD MELVILLE SITES It’s rare that evidencepracti- callyfalls at aghost hunters’ feet, butBroskyand Giaquinto said that’s what happened when theyexplored the William SidneyMount House in StonyBrook. They came with their recordersatthe behest of the Ward Melville HeritageOrganization. “Weweren’ttherefive minuteswhen thistwo-by- four plank came crashing down in front of me,” Brosky said.“It wasWilliam’s wayof telling me he wasthere,” AN Broskysaid, referring to LO Mount, the American genre YS RR painter (1807-1868) wholived BA in the houseand painted in the upstairsattic. Mount was From right, GerardFioravanti, owner of Fiorello DolceinHuntington, aspiritualistwho attended explains to Joe Giaquintoand Kerriann Flanagan Broskyhow aroll of seancesatnearby houses, she paper towels wasonceunraveled by an apparent ghostathis bakery. said. Broskyand Giaquintoalso Open to the public since and little ones,” Field said. trained their digital equip- 2015,Ketcham Inn “is based in “Thereare times when the ment and extrasensory percep- American history and the hair stands up on the back of tion abilities on Ward formation of America. Jeffer- my neck,” said Seides, who Melville’s BrewsterHouse,a son and Madison stopped here oncesaw what he thought was former familyhome,tavern in 1791,” Seides said, referenc- asilhouette of agirlinan and general storedating to ing the founding fathers and upstairsroom. 1665,and Thompson House,a futureU.S. presidents, Thomas Butneither Field nor Seides historic farmhouse. Jefferson and James Madison. fear their resident ghosts. “If “Theyall have afew Descendants of early own- yousee aghost in there, ghosts,” Broskysaid. In fact, erspassed down storiesof they’refriends,” Field said, m she added, “The whole area, paranormalactivityatthe inn, “theywon’thurt you.” co y. StonyBrook,Setauket, Seides said. Ascholarwho da StrongsNeck and St.James wasa1940s summer resident VILLA PAUL RESTAURANT, ws have alot of paranormal activ- reported hearing an attic door HAMPTON BAYS AN ne ityinparticular,probably LO slam and alatch move by Dependingonwhom you YS 8 sincesomuchofthe history itself.Amorerecent visitor talk to,the ghosts of awoman, RR 01 has beenpreserved.” BA “felt the presence”ofthe aman and adog haunt Villa ,2 28 Theghost hunters’ findings GerardFioravanti shows aghostly imagecapturedbysecuritycamera. ghostofanAmerican Indian Paul,anItalian and seafood ER intrigued Gloria Rocchio, man in the inn’s1693section, restaurant thatopenedin1960 OB president of the Ward THE KETCHAMINN, and haunted. and students conductingadig in abuilding that partlydates CT Melville HeritageOrganiza- CENTER MORICHES On arecent afternoon,the in the kitchen area suddenly to 1840. ,O tion. Forthe past three decades, twopreservationists talked “felt the temperaturechange,” James Patterson, 57,of AY “I’m askeptic,” Rocchio Mary Field,the Moriches Bay abouttheir experiencesafter Seides said. Hampton Bays,who hasman- UND said when asked whether she historian, and Bertram E. midnight in the office at the “The ghosts don’t go away,” aged the restaurant for36 ,S believes in ghosts. However, Seides, founder of the inn, which wasbuilt by black- Field,87, said, pointing her years, says he’s seenamiddle- AY she said, “I would be abe- Ketcham Inn Foundation, have smith Samuel Terrell in 1693 finger at awindowinacedar- aged male ghost wearinga SD lieverbasedonwhatshe been workingtogether to and wasunder private owner- shingle door behindwhich she sweater, and, occasionally, NEW [Brosky] showedmeinthe preservethe inn along with its ship fornearly threecenturies said spirits have been seen darkshadows traveling across one house.” traditions —both hallowed through 1989. lurking. “Thereare big ones walls. E7 COVERSTORY newsday.com/lilife LI LIFE N1 DDONA DA RANDEE James Patterson,managerand bartender at VillaPaulRestaurantin FIORELLODOLCE PATISSERIE, “If we’reherebyourselvesin iPad turned itself on and began Hampton Bays,has seen apparitions overthe years. Below, he HUNTINGTON the morning, sometimes we’ll blasting “Blue Monday,”bythe displays aphotohesaidshows aghostinthe farright corner. Thesupernatural phenom- hear banging, creaking or 1980s British band NewOrder, ena troubling Huntington’s thudding,”