The Most Haunted Hotels In New York For Your Inner Paranormal Enthusiast

Lake George is usually known as a fun, little upstate New York vacation destination for those hot summer days, but things can take a turn for the spooky if you decide to stay at the Sagamore Resort. From an outside perspective, the Sagamore is a grand accommodation with a prime lakeside location and many years of interesting history. However, the hotel's current status as one of the most haunted hotels in the United States is even more interesting than its past (Via Lake George).

According to Times Union, The Sagamore is so overrun with spirits that it was voted as one of the top 10 most haunted hotels in the country. Haunted Rooms says that people have many different types of eerie experiences at The Sagamore, but most of the ghosts must be hungry because they tend to turn up in the resort's restaurants. In the hotel's fine dining restaurant called The Trillium, there are often ghost couples who pop in for dinner in the reception room before disappearing mysteriously into thin air. Another common spirit is a tall woman with blonde hair and a pure white dress. She prefers eating at the resort's other restaurant and even reportedly walked right through the kitchen's cook once (Via Haunted Rooms)! This haunted NY hotel is extravagant with a side of scary.

New York City is known for a lot of things, but who would have ever thought that one of its accolades would include having tons of haunted hotels? The Algonquin Hotel, located on the west side of NYC, is one of those places with a long history of paranormal activity and ghosts. It actually has a pretty crazy history in general, it was even the place where the famous New Yorker magazine was born (Via NY Daily News). Old places must have more ghosts because the Algonquin gets so many supernatural visitors that it was named as the #1 best-haunted hotel by NY Daily News in 2012.

The hotel was once a popular meeting spot for a group of high-profile creatives called the Round Table in the early 1900s, many of whom have decided to stick around (Via Haunted Rooms). Passed-on Round Table members are often seen walking around all over the building. Employees who have worked at The Algonquin over the years have also reported terrifying experiences in the hotel, like seeing footprints randomly appearing on the floor and apparitions floating by in the lobby (Via NY Ghosts).

Located in the tiny town of Napanoch, the Shanley Hotel is an unassuming building that makes a point of highlighting its ranking as one of the most haunted hotels in New York. The hotel even has a friendly ghost painted on its sign! With over 100 years of history under its belt, there are spirits from all different time periods here. The Shanley Hotel is so proud of its hauntings that they even have a whole page dedicated to creepy evidence that's been captured over the years.

According to The Haunted Shanley Hotel itself, they have video and audio evidence of crazy paranormal happenings like ghost cats, disembodied whistling, and even spirits arguing with each other from beyond the grave. Other guests have reported to Haunted History Trail that they heard out-of-place clock chimes and the smells of food when nobody is cooking. Yes, apparently the Shanley Hotel's ghosts can even affect your sense of smell! The paranormal activity in the Shanley Hotel has even attracted the curiosity of the popular tv shows "Ghost Lab" and "Ghost Hunters." As you can tell, this particular hotel really capitalized on its haunting, to the point where they even offer guests the chance to do their own ghost investigations overnight. At your own risk, of course.

For paranormal enthusiasts who want a touch of elegance and grandiosity with their ghost hunt, consider booking a room at the huge Belhurst Castle. This is one of New York's fancier haunted hotels located in the city of Geneva. It's also the type of place that you take one look at and immediately assume that it's probably haunted.

There are a few spirits who make frequent appearances at Belhurst Castle, including a criminal named William Henry Bucke who drowned while trying to frantically escape through the castle's underground tunnel system (Via Time Out). However, the most well-known ghost who haunts Belhurst Castle is a beautiful spirit named Isabella who was an Italian Opera Singer. Guests catch glimpses of Isabella blankly wandering from the hotel's lawn to the nearby Lake Seneca wearing a distinctive flowing white dress (Via Haunted History Castle). People also say they've heard a lullaby being sung off in the distance when they went to bed at night here or the much less comforting sounds of screams coming from other rooms (Via Haunted History Castle). These are the types of haunting experiences that will stick with you for years after you check out of Belhurst Castle.

This Staten Island hotel was converted from an 1800s house into a charming little bed and breakfast – just with a couple of extra ghosty friends! According to New York Haunted Houses, this historical property was built in 1832 by a woman named Martha Mesereau and her family. To this day, it seems as though Martha still has her claim on the house even though it's changed hands since then. Her ghost has been seen sadly staring out the window of the Historic Old Bermuda Inn, eternally looking for her husband who died in the Civil War.

Martha isn't the only spirit who resides in the Historic Old Bermuda Inn, though. Employees at the B&B said that they've heard unexplainable whispering voices saying the word "listen" and had the constant, gnawing feeling of being watched whenever they worked a shift at the hotel. (Via Haunted Rooms). It's clear that there are lots of ghosts unwilling to let go of the Old Bermuda Inn.

The history behind the Historic Hotel Broadalbin might be even scarier than its current hauntings. This hotel was converted from a hospital that once offered treatment to alcoholics that involved some pretty terrifying things at the hands of a mad doctor named Dr. Finch (Via Haunted History Trail). His treatments were extremely inhumane, including injecting the patients with toxic substances like ammonia and alcohol – this is the stuff that nightmares are made of.

As you can imagine, all of these disturbing things happening under one roof left the hotel's facilities plagued with some pretty uneasy spirits that watch over the guests. According to Haunted Houses, the ghosts of former patients who endured Dr. Finch's alcohol treatment are often witnessed swigging back drinks at the bar. His miracle treatment must not have been too effective. Other guests say that they saw soldiers who were once treated in the building walking around the hallways and staircases. One guest at the hotel even reported that the frigid fingertip of a spirit poked him right in the middle of his bare foot while he was snoozing. Its history and super active presences make Historic Hotel Broadalbin one of the scariest haunted hotels in the state.

Can you imagine being brought to your hotel room by the unearthly ghost of a girl in a long, blue dress? Well, if you spend a night at The Brae Loch Inn, this is actually a very likely possibility (Via Haunted History Trail). According to The Brae Loch Inn, this haunted NY hotel was established in an old farmhouse in the city of Borodino. Perhaps the woman in the blue dress once lived at the farm and decided she was going to take up a new job once it turned into a hotel. The girl in the blue dress also has some companions living with her at the Brae Loch Inn. Guests have said that they saw phantom men and women walking right on through walls and closets into nowhere and glowing spheres of energy floating above their beds (Via Haunted History Trail).

The craziest thing about this haunted hotel in New York is that one of its ghosts actually made its presence known right in the middle of a newscast. According to Local SYR, a newscaster was interviewing the co-owner of the hotel when suddenly in the middle of a sentence, both of them were silenced by the pervasive sound of glass shattering. When they went to check, they found broken glass at the bottom of the stairs and nobody around who could have done it. Just another ghost looking for its five minutes of fame.