THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Blithewood Mansion, now part of Bard College, is a historic Hudson Valley estate surrounded by landscaped grounds overlooking the river. Students and visitors have reported unexplained activity within the mansion, including mysterious sounds and other experiences attributed to spirits connected to the property's long history.
Blithewood Mansion was built by National Guard captain and real estate mogul Andrew C. Zabriskie, who commissioned four statues for his garden. Each statue would depict one of his four daughters. When tragedy struck and one of his daughters was killed falling out of a window of a New York City apartment, her statue went missing. Rumor has it that her ghost wanders the property in place of the missing statue. In 1951, the mansion was given to Bard College.