Expert says this NYC borough is the most haunted of all, with wall-to- wall ghosts

Which borough is a hotbed for haunting?A paranormal expert tells The Post that Gotham’s “most maligned borough” is also the eeriest.Andrea Janes is the founder of Boroughs of the Dead, an independent, female-led tour operator that takes visitors on macabre history tours of NYC.She said that “if you’re really serious about ghosts and want to know where most of them are,” there’s only one place to boo out: Staten Island.“It’s wall-to-wall ghosts,” she underscored, noting that the home of Pete Davidson is also dotted with haunted mansions, asylums, forts and fields.Part of the ghostly lore comes from the borough’s history as a plague isolation unit: Janes notes that over the last several centuries, Staten Island has served, to varying degrees, as a quarantine colony.“If you ask me what is the most haunted place in Staten Island, I would say the entire island,” she said.In 1799, city officials decided to keep deadly diseases like yellow fever and smallpox farther afield from the city’s bustling ports.The resulting New York Marine Hospital, known ominously as “The Quarantine,” stayed open until 1858, when local opposition, fueled by fears of contagion, culminated in an attack that burned the complex to the ground.“Maybe that’s why the island is so haunted,” Janes theorized.

Even with the OG hospital reduced to ash, Staten Island couldn’t stay clear of the quarantine game.In 1905, the island’s second-highest point became a tuberculosis quarantine facility.

The resulting Sea View Hospital, opened in 1913, offered upper-class patients the prescribed treatment of fresh air, sunlight, and healthy food.Of course, no amount of fresh air or fiber could save the doomed patients.The hospital sites may be dismal, but Janes shared there’s one place on Staten Island that’s even worse — and so disturbing, she told The Post, that she never puts it on her haunted itinerary.

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