THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Hollenbeck Cemetery is associated with reports of ghostly apparitions, unexplained lights, and shadow figures seen among the graves after dark. Visitors have also described hearing disembodied voices and experiencing sudden cold spots while walking through the cemetery. Local legends have made it one of western New York's haunted burial grounds.
Tiny Hollenbeck Cemetery, with about 25 graves, hasn’t been used since before the turn of the century. But legends abound about the place; folks have witnessed a headless horseman, a woman in white, ghostly babies crying, screams for help, knocking sounds, orbs, and tombstones that are said to have disappeared. A 1996 memorial placed by the Township of Ellicott in the center of the graveyard alludes to the fact that some of the stones were stolen in July 1995.