5 Places in Brooklyn That May or May Not Be Haunted
Bedford Avenue, between Winthrop and Clarkson
Melrose Hall
A little vaguer since there’s no longer a specific building you can poke around, but still may be worth a visit to the former site of Melrose Hall in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, a house the Daily Eagle once called “the quaintest and queerest old place one could imagine.” In its heyday the building’s architecture was creepy on its own, and the building was also was riddled with secret rooms and dungeons where, legend has it, the onetime owner held American soldiers prisoner during the revolution. Maybe the most well-known story is that of a former owner’s secret mistress, who starved to death in her hidden chambers when her lover was called away from the house unexpectedly. Brutal. Brownstoner’s got a full history of the place here, and if nothing else, it’ll make you pretty glad to live in a time where divorce is legal, and no one needs to lock themselves in a secret, deadly attic just to get laid.
