{"id":1133,"date":"2023-11-04T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T23:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2023-11-04T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T23:38:52","slug":"two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
William E. Burton as “Aminadab Sleek”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Of course, I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits (exceptin\u2019 always \u201canimal spirits\u201d and \u201cardent spirits,\u201d both in moderation), and, of course, you don’t believe in \u2018em either, reader. I never yet met man, woman or child who believes in \u2018em, or owns up to believin\u2019. But somehow a good ghost story always gets a good many readers, and a \u201chaunted house\u201d sensation always takes first-class in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      I remember two big \u201chaunted house\u201d sensations in my time in New York, and both of \u2018em took like a camp-meetin\u2019, or a circus, or a caucus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The first one was about the house in Hudson street that Burton, the actor, lived in and died in. It was 174 Hudson street, between Vestry and Laight, on the north side, and is standin\u2019 in pretty good shape still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It stands right in the centre of the block, and has a history that is quite interestin\u2019. Burton, in his flush days built it to please himself, and as he was half British and half Yankee\u2013as he used to say, English by accident and American by necessity\u2013he built a house that on the outside was a very swell American brown-stone front and all that, but on the inside was all old English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      His neighbors on Hudson street didn’t like Burton’s buildin\u2019 a house in their vicinity a bit. Most of \u2018em were very old New Yorkers\u2013Knickerbockers of the very Knickerbockers, or Dutch of the very Dutch; they were all steady-goin\u2019 citizens. Some of \u2018em were of Quaker extraction, and wore broad brim hats. They went to their stores, their homes, and their churches, and nowhere else. They regarded the theatre as Aminadab Sleek said he did, \u201can abom-i-na-ti-on.\u201d They all had demure, steady-goin\u2019 wives and daughters. Just imagine Burton coming into the middle of them with his woman, and his play actin\u2019, and his drinkin\u2019, and his fandangoes generally. A bull in a china shop was nothin\u2019 to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
William E. Burton (1804-1860)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      But Burton had money, and money makes the mare go, and put up the house. So his neighbors had to look on, growl and submit, while Burton’s house became by far the finest in the neighborhood\u2013in fact, one of the finest in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The hall was tiled with marble slabs, the ceilin\u2019s were of ribbed and grained arches, frescoed splendidly. In the alcoves were statues of the muses and the graces. Shakespeare’s \u201cSeven Ages\u201d were worked in on the walls of the staircase. There was a fine parlor and a reception room, and a lyceum or library, where Burton studied and wrote, and a wine room where he and John Brougham and other chums reveled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There was a blue room, and a red room and a \u201cgreen room,\u201d where he attended to a good deal of theatrical business. The sleeping apartments were delightful; even the servants\u2019 rooms upstairs were neat, airy and pleasant. In point of elegance and comfort both, the only two things worth a fig in a house, there never was a better house to live in than Burton\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Burton thought so himself, and enjoyed himself immensely in it, not carin\u2019 a care what the neighbors thought. But one day he died suddenly, and then people began to shake their heads mysteriously\u2013said retribution had come at last, and that Burton, \u201cthe great but godless actor,\u201d as some minister styled him, had committed suicide. There were no particular facts to justify this idea, but he certainly died suddenly, and rumors never care much for facts anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Burton’s haunted house, 174 Hudson Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      After his death there was a wrangle between the women callin\u2019 \u2018emselves the wives of Burton over the property, and Colonel James Price, now connected with the Stuart estate, became agent for the Burton property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then James Fitzgerald, a real estate dealer, occupied the Burton house with his family a while\u2013only a while\u2013for he soon began to hear all sorts of sounds at night, and to see all sorts of queer things and shapes around the house, and his family saw \u2018em, too, and heard \u2018em, and altogether they came to the conclusion that the story that Burton had killed himself was true, and that his uneasy and guilty ghost was still hauntin\u2019 the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then the story leaked out over the neighborhood through the servants (who answer in a small way the same purposes as newspapers in a big way, and tell all that happens and sometimes more.) \u201cThe house Is haunted,\u201d the neighbors began to say, and at last a reporter, snookin\u2019 around, heard it, and made a five dollar bill by writin\u2019 a paragraph about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This, of course, made the matter ten times more troublesome, and pretty soon the Fitzgeralds left their \u201chaunted house,\u201d and it stood in all its glory, tenantless, for awhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then Howe, the lawyer, and Wetmore, then his law partner, took possession of the Burton mansion. But they, too, (so it is said) saw the queer sights, heard the strange noises, and gave the house up. The last fact is certain, though Howe has held his tongue pretty well about the \u201chaunted\u201d part of the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then other parties rented the mansion, which of course was let at a cheaper rent now that it would have been if it hadn’t got such a ghostly reputation, much to the disgust of its agent. But party after party heard, or claimed they heard, the strange noises, saw, or swore they saw, the odd sights, and moved away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The house became a local \u201cshow\u201d as the haunted house of Hudson street. People came from far and near to look at it with mingled curiosity and tremblin\u2019, and finally Uncle Sam, seein\u2019 his chance, stepped in and rented the whole establishment for a mere song, as a barracks or recruiting office\u2013what it is to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The soldiers sleep every night in the library where Burton sat in state, surrounded by his costly and really valuable books, and in the parlor where he received with genuine hospitality his guests, the soldiers drill. And all because everyone said the house was haunted. I don’t know whether the house was haunted when it was occupied, but it is a fact that it was often haunted when it was not occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One night, for instance, two men, known in the neighborhood, happened to look at the \u201chaunted house,\u201d which was then without a tenant, and avoided by everybody. To the horror of one of \u2018em, and the astonishment of both of \u2018em, lights, or rather a light, was to be seen flitting to and fro, first from one window of the room where Burton had been found dead, and then from the front parlor, then disappear in total darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The men hurried away, but one of them was of an inquirin\u2019 turn of mind, and he went back again to the Burton mansion by himself, as soon as he could, and waited. He had to wait a pretty good while, and it was pretty cold, too, and there was snow on the ground. But he was rewarded for his Patience by seein\u2019 a black ghost\u2013at least a black man, a coal black man, who came shufflin\u2019 out of the front door, thinkin\u2019, of course, he wasn’t at all likely to be noticed. The light seen flittin\u2019 around just now had been due to this negro, who had been carryin\u2019 a candle about. He had been in the habit of makin\u2019 raids on the house every now and then, and stealin\u2019 whatever little thing he could, takin\u2019 advantage of the bad reputation the mansion had acquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This was one of the ghosts that \u201chaunted\u201d the house in Hudson Street. Whether there were any more of the same sort, or whether Billy Burton’s ghost real did really walk, I’m sure the reader knows as much as I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Another big haunted house sensation that occurred in New York took place about eighteen years ago, and made more stir than the Hudson street house affair, although there was less in it. In fact, there was nothing at all in this last affair, because it was nothin\u2019 at all but a very clever \u201csell\u201d or \u201choax\u201d by a tip-top reporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But then it was very smart, bold in its idea and clever in its carryin\u2019 out. It was really one of the smartest things ever done by its author, Rose, who is not yet forgotten by New York newspaper men, though he has been dead for years. An article appeared one Sunday in the Mercury<\/em>, givin\u2019 an account of a fearful ghost that had been seen in a fine house in Twenty-seventh street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Now, ghosts are generally very poetical bein\u2019s\u2013too poetical for this great practical world. They generally wear elaborate nightgowns, white and fresh from some celestial Chinese laundry, and they do all sorts of unearthly things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But this Twenty-seventh street ghost was a very common lookin\u2019 person indeed, a cartman or a truckman, or somebody of that sort, dressed in his ordinary workin\u2019 clothes, and the only way people could tell he was a ghost was by lookin\u2019 not at him but through him\u2013right through him\u2013in which case one could see whatever there might be on the other side of him, for the cartman or truckman was transparent. He would come mysteriously into the parlor of the house, on the second story, facin\u2019 Twenty-seventh street, and sit down by the fireplace, and you could then distinctly see the fireplace, and its fire shinin\u2019 and blazin\u2019 right through him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
A transparent ghost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      This was a very singular sort of a ghost indeed\u2013a regular novelty in the line of spirits\u2013and he made a hit from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The daily papers took it up, and some even went so far as to give the number of the haunted house, and of course the different papers gave different numbers. And, of course, also everybody whose house was thus mentioned came rushin\u2019 near mad to the office of the Mercury<\/em> which had first published the story, threatenin\u2019 libel suits or demandin\u2019 retraction, although the Mercury<\/em> hadn’t described any one house in particular, and hadn’t mentioned any number at all. As for the public generally, it took up the ghost story at once and \u201cfroze on\u201d to it. The ghost was nicknamed \u201cthe carter ghost,\u201d and everybody rushed up to Twenty-seventh street to look at the haunted neighborhood in general, and to see if they couldn’t discover the haunted house in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The day after the article was published, Twenty-seventh street from Fifth Avenue to Sixth, was pretty well \u201cblocked\u201d by ghost-hunters. City folks and country folks were seized with a fit of curiosity together. Shop girls, Broadway belles, counter-jumpers, men about town, and regular all-night-in-the-station-house bums, huddled together around this or that house, which was supposed for the moment to be the haunted house; and among the crowd movin\u2019 around, quietly enjoyin\u2019 the fun, was the clever reporter himself, who had got up the ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There was such a crowd that the police had to make a raid on it to clear the street; and a liquor store in the neighborhood cleared a hundred dollars a day extra, by the extra customers who called in, bent on \u201cspiritual\u201d refreshment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But the most comic feature of the whole thing was the way the \u201cphilosophers\u201d throughout the country took a hold of this Twenty-seventh street ghost to make capital out of it. One philosophical chap, a doctor, absolutely published what he claimed was his own personal interview with this carter ghost, and a mighty comical interview it was, showing how little is the difference between a first-class philosopher and an ordinary fool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then the \u201cforeign\u201d philosophers got hold of it, and especially the German philosophers. They \u201cexplained\u201d the ghost in words of from five to fifteen syllables each, which nobody but a ghost or a German could pronounce or understand, and altogether there was a tremendous time while it lasted, which was several weeks. After a while people began to see into the joke and the ghost, and the excitement dropped off as quickly as it had sprung up. But to this day there are some philosophers who don\u2019t believe in the Bible, but who do believe in the Twenty-seventh street ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: William Evans Burton’s literary career was equally, if not more notable than his stage career. He published The Gentleman’s Magazine<\/em>, a popular literary magazine, which later became Graham’s Magazine<\/em>. He employed Edgar Allen Poe as an editor, though the two grew to have a testy relationship. Burton penned what has been called of of the first detective stories, “The Secret Cell,” which predated Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burton had an exception library of theatrical and literary works, said to be in the tens of thousands of volumes. Burton’s mansion at 174 Hudson Street in Tribeca was replaced with another building, presumably un-haunted.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Of course, I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,43,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors","category-landmarks","category-writers-and-editors"],"yoast_head":"\nTwo Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881] - Harry Hill's Gotham<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881] - Harry Hill's Gotham\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"      Of course, I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Harry Hill's Gotham\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-04T23:37:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-04T23:38:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jpkntz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"jpkntz\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"11 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"jpkntz\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64\"},\"headline\":\"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881]\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-04T23:37:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-04T23:38:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":2353,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Actors\",\"Landmarks\",\"Writers and Editors\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/\",\"name\":\"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881] - Harry Hill's Gotham\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-04T23:37:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-04T23:38:52+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg?fit=211%2C412&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg?fit=211%2C412&ssl=1\",\"width\":211,\"height\":412},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881]\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/\",\"name\":\"Harry Hill's Gotham\",\"description\":\"Sketches of 19th Century New York City\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64\",\"name\":\"jpkntz\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/07\\\/index.php3_.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/07\\\/index.php3_.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/07\\\/index.php3_.jpg\",\"width\":542,\"height\":760,\"caption\":\"jpkntz\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/07\\\/index.php3_.jpg\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jerrykuntz.org\\\/harryhill\\\/author\\\/jpkntz\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881] - Harry Hill's Gotham","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881] - Harry Hill's Gotham","og_description":"      Of course, I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits","og_url":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/","og_site_name":"Harry Hill's Gotham","article_published_time":"2023-11-04T23:37:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-11-04T23:38:52+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"jpkntz","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"jpkntz","Est. reading time":"11 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/"},"author":{"name":"jpkntz","@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/#\/schema\/person\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64"},"headline":"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881]","datePublished":"2023-11-04T23:37:32+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-04T23:38:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/"},"wordCount":2353,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/#\/schema\/person\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg","articleSection":["Actors","Landmarks","Writers and Editors"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/","url":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/","name":"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881] - Harry Hill's Gotham","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg","datePublished":"2023-11-04T23:37:32+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-04T23:38:52+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg?fit=211%2C412&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/burtonasaminadabsleek.jpg?fit=211%2C412&ssl=1","width":211,"height":412},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/two-haunted-house-sensations-of-new-york-published-dec-11-1881\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Two Haunted House Sensations of New York [published Dec. 11, 1881]"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/#website","url":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/","name":"Harry Hill's Gotham","description":"Sketches of 19th Century New York City","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/#\/schema\/person\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/#\/schema\/person\/cd2f0dde5b4b02ea6b8aee0280832f64","name":"jpkntz","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/index.php3_.jpg","url":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/index.php3_.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/index.php3_.jpg","width":542,"height":760,"caption":"jpkntz"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/index.php3_.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/author\/jpkntz\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}