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Ghost hunters name NYC's most haunted neighborhoods and offer tours

A guide says visitors need not believe in the paranormal, and tours bring about fifteen people around the neighborhoods; the scariest thing is probably the real estate history.

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  1. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorGhost hunters are naming the most haunted neighborhoods in New York City, and some of them are nowhere near Manhattan. Be afraid.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe New York Post reports the outer boroughs feel left out. Manhattan gets all the boos, and the other boroughs want some.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the dead are competing for attention. I've seen the living do that at a buffet, Hank, and it ended badly.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGhosts have a marketing problem.

  5. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOn Staten Island there's a gabled mansion, built in eighteen eighty-five by a German brick magnate for his son, Edward. A son, Hank.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIn a mansion.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA man built his son a house. Edward got a mansion. We get a walking tour of it.

  8. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFifteen strangers walking through the dark at your own risk. Somebody always wanders off, and that's usually me.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou don't have to believe in the paranormal to join, says a guide. You just need shoes.

  10. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMildly worried. Eat a sandwich quickly. I'll be at the back of the group, where the ghosts can reach me first.

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