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The city of dreams, the city that never sleeps, the city with streets paved with opportunities\\u2026 for many of us, New York represents a glittering place where absolutely anything is possible. Yet for all its glamour and sparkle, there are dark secrets lurking within its shadows, and history has done little to wash away the blood that once soaked New York\\u2019s prosperous streets.

They say the population of New York City reaches nearly 8.5 million people. Does that count the haunted souls whose ghosts still roam the streets?

Episode Highlights:

• Bloody history of the Empire State Building
• A Beautiful Suicide: Evelyn McHale
• Visiting the House of Death in Washington Square
• The Hangman\\u2019s Elm
• Walking with Edgar Allan Poe
• Charred bodies in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
• A beating heart in 14th West 10th Street
• The Bartell Experience
• Mediums and paranormal researchers
• The tragedy continues

Resources:

\\u201cBeautiful Suicide\\u201d photograph of Evelyn McHale

Haunted Greenwich Village: Bohemian Banshee, Spooky Sites and Gonzalez Ghost Walks by Tom Ogden, published by Globe Pequot Press, 2012

\\u201cGang of Ghosts Ready to Rumble\\u201d by William Grimes, New York Times article, published October 29, 1993

\\u201cTerror on 10th Street\\u201d by Tim Donnelly, New York Post article, October 28, 2012

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Spindrift: Spray from a Psychic Sea by Jan Bryant Bartell

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