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Dead Air Valley
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- Oct 20, 2026 · 16:57 · Season 1 · Episode 17
Dead Air Valley: "The Hamlet That Put Its Ghosts, and Its Saucers, on Main Street"
This week on Dead Air Valley, Silas Van Wyck visits Pine Bush, a farming hamlet of 1,659 people in the Town of Crawford, Orange County, billed by the Haunted History Trail of New…
- Oct 19, 2026 · 17:57 · Season 1 · Episode 16
Dead Air Valley: "The 'Accidental' Deaths in the Tavern Basement"
In Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, the county historian is taking a roomful of diners into the basement of Foster's Coach House Tavern to read the official record of how their…
- Oct 19, 2026 · 20:09 · Season 1 · Episode 15
Dead Air Valley: "The Eight-Sided House and the Lady in White"
In Irvington, Westchester County, the eight-sided Armour-Stiner Octagon House at 45 West Clinton Avenue is staging its own ghost story. Author Carl Carmer lived in the house from…
- Oct 17, 2026 · 19:00 · Season 1 · Episode 14
Dead Air Valley: "The Society That Has Caught No One in 230 Years"
In Red Hook, Dutchess County, a society formed on October 10, 1796 to catch horse thieves is still meeting 230 years later. About 100 riders pay $5 a year and gather on the first…
- Oct 16, 2026 · 19:54 · Season 1 · Episode 13
Dead Air Valley: "Kingston Burned"
On October 16, 1777, British troops under General John Vaughan burned more than 300 buildings in Kingston, New York, then the newly established capital of New York State, in a…
- Oct 15, 2026 · 20:45 · Season 1 · Episode 12
Dead Air Valley: "The General Came Back"
A bronze statue of George Washington at Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site in Newburgh was taken down in March 2020 for a scabbard repair that was finished by May…
- Oct 14, 2026 · 20:25 · Season 1 · Episode 11
Dead Air Valley: "The Curse List at Ballston Spa"
Double M Haunted Hayrides in Ballston Spa has been frightening people on purpose since 1991. This October, the attraction says a guest pushed past one of its actresses, took a…
- Oct 13, 2026 · 21:39 · Season 1 · Episode 10
Dead Air Valley: "The Haunted House That Is Just a House for Sale"
A Kingston mansion built in 1773 is for sale the ordinary way, with a listing, a local real estate agent, and a price a buyer learns at the end of the tour. It is also the latest…
- Oct 12, 2026 · 18:08 · Season 1 · Episode 9
Dead Air Valley: "The Castle That Was a Warehouse"
Every commuter on the Metro-North Hudson Line knows the castle in the middle of the river. Almost none of them know it was never a castle. Francis Bannerman, the surplus king of…
- Oct 11, 2026 · 18:55 · Season 1 · Episode 8
Dead Air Valley: "The Spaghetti Eating Contest"
October 11, 2026. The Ulster County Italian Festival returned to the Kingston waterfront, at T.R. Gallo Park on the Strand, in the drizzle: the 1:25 spaghetti eating contest…
- Oct 10, 2026 · 21:31 · Season 1 · Episode 7
Dead Air Valley: "The World's Smallest Pumpkin Patch"
October 10, 2026. LEGOLAND New York's Brick-or-Treat Monster Party in Goshen: the build-your-own pumpkin patch that claims to be the world's smallest, zombie cheerleader tryouts…
- Oct 9, 2026 · 16:52 · Season 1 · Episode 6
Dead Air Valley: "The Backyard Mastodon"
October 9, 2026. SUNY Orange students keep digging up a mastodon in an Orange County backyard. Ribs, vertebrae, foot bones, and a growing list of students who can say they helped…
- Oct 8, 2026 · 16:44 · Season 1 · Episode 5
Dead Air Valley: "The Ghost of Newburgh Brewing"
October 8, 2026. The old brewery on the Newburgh waterfront keeps its own hours. Staff hear footsteps after close, a figure by the kettles, and the security camera caught…
- Oct 7, 2026 · 22:18 · Season 1 · Episode 4
The Fire Contract: Rhinebeck Votes on Who Shows Up
Rhinebeck's fire contract heads to a public hearing on October 13. What a fire contract is, why a town votes on it, and what's at stake when the people who show up at your worst…
- Oct 7, 2026 · 18:49 · Season 1 · Episode 3
The Witches of Kingsland Point
Dead Air Valley. The seventh annual SUP Witches Festival takes over Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow on Saturday, October 10, from noon to 5 PM, rain date October 11…
- Oct 7, 2026 · 23:31 · Season 1 · Episode 2
The Schoolhouse That Learned to Be Quiet: Bulls Head-Oswego
Dead Air Valley. On Bulls Head Road in Clinton Corners, a one-room schoolhouse that sat empty for years was picked up and moved about a quarter mile in 1957 and became the Bulls…
- Oct 4, 2026 · 24:13 · Season 1 · Episode 1
The Horseman Was Real Enough: Sleepy Hollow's True Story
Silas Van Wyck sorts the paperwork in Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving invented the Headless Horseman. But the war underneath the story was real: a Hessian decapitation reported…