THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Vale Cemetery is associated with reports of ghostly apparitions, mysterious lights, and unexplained sounds. Visitors have described shadow figures and eerie encounters among the historic graves after dark.
The largest cemetery in Schenectady, Vale Cemetery opened in 1857 and is said to be a spooky place, indeed. Witnesses say some of the statuary cries out at night or bleeds from the eyes or the tops of their heads. Black and white ghostly figures are alleged to wander through the gravesites and sit in trees, and strange lights have been seen and singing has been heard within the old church on the grounds.