Bowdoin Park/ old Haunted Mansion site

Bowdoin Park/ old Haunted Mansion site in Wappinger Falls, New York is listed in the Shadowlands Haunted Places dataset. Source-reported details: Believed to be haunted by Sigfried who was a prisoner of war in a war camp that was on that spot. He was put to work in the kitchen and killed himself by putting himself in the oven. There is also a tree just outside of the building that was used to hang Indians and you can feel them when you touch it. In the attic, which was used as a makeup room, people have seen a telescope floating as if someone is looking for ships. There are also other parts of the park that are haunted. This ODDKNOWN entry documents the report and does not verify a supernatural cause.

What ODDKNOWN records

Bowdoin Park/ old Haunted Mansion site in Wappinger Falls, New York is listed in the Shadowlands Haunted Places dataset. Source-reported details: Believed to be haunted by Sigfried who was a prisoner of war in a war camp that was on that spot. He was put to work in the kitchen and killed himself by putting himself in the oven. There is also a tree just outside of the building that was used to hang Indians and you can feel them when you touch it. In the attic, which was used as a makeup room, people have seen a telescope floating as if someone is looking for ships. There are also other parts of the park that are haunted. This ODDKNOWN entry documents the report and does not verify a supernatural cause.

Source classification: database · Status: reported.

Sources & references

1. https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/main/data/2023/2023-10-10