Haunted Trails #3 Long Path, New York

The Travel channel did a feature about Haunted Trails, and this is the third installment 

Long Path, New York

It’s not the easiest to find, but follow the Long Path to Thiells in Rockland County and it will eventually pass Letchworth Village Cemetery, a sprawling plot with hundreds of T-shaped markers instead of tombstones. The markers bear numbers, not names, and serves as the final resting place for residents of Letchworth Village, a nearby mental institution built in 1911 for the “epileptic and feeble-minded.” The asylum housed mostly children, who lived in overcrowded conditions and were subjected to clinical drug trials—most notoriously an experimental polio vaccine. Patients were also victims of abuse and extreme neglect, which was documented by ABC News in the ‘70s.

AND THIS SITE ON THE SAME PATH

Letchworth shut down in 1996 and has since fallen into ruin, although many buildings, including the hospital wing, are still intact. Trespassing is illegal, but Ghost Adventures was able to film an episode here. The crew documented being pushed, spotting an unexplained shadow, and hearing threatening voices, among other eerie encounters.